1. A Test To Destruction - Henry Williamson
2. My Spin on Cricket - Richie Benaud
3. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
4. Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian

1. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
2. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult

Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian

uh oh - some one's toast....O'Brian is VERY addictive....

Macdoc wrote:

Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian

uh oh - some one's toast....O'Brian is VERY addictive....

He is indeed.

I read Master and Commander last year and have read about one a month since then. Great stuff, proper literature too, which is most unusual for genre fiction.

Anyway

1. A Test To Destruction - Henry Williamson
2. My Spin on Cricket - Richie Benaud
3. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
4. Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian
5. The Most Beautiful Woman In Town and Other Stories - Charles Bukowski

getting public transport to work = lots of reading time.

Back in the car next week, I think.

I predict that you've won this one already. I've decided to pick a weighty tome for my third, so I could be some time.

I have some hefty volumes on the to-read pile, so I'll be slowing down before long too.

It's a marathon, not a sprint!

1. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
2. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
3. I Lock My Door Upon Myself - Joyce Carol Oates

Wow, The Hanging Monkey, you are in your way

I also have some heavy tomes awaiting in the to-read pile, coupled with the necessity of studying hard for exams, I predict I will not reach the goal.

I will try anyway, it gives me extra motivation to read instead of watching mindless tv shows

For now:

1- O Pajem Formidável dos Índicios ( The Formidable Page of the Evidences)-Alberto de Lacerda (Poetry)

2- Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Líttin- Gabriel García Marquez

3-Gaia- A new look at life on Earth- James Lovelock

#2 Orphaned Planets by Michael Cobley. Getting on with vol2 of 1Q84 by Murakakmi

1. A Test To Destruction - Henry Williamson
2. My Spin on Cricket - Richie Benaud
3. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
4. Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian
5. The Most Beautiful Woman In Town and Other Stories - Charles Bukowski
6. Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare - Imogen Evans et al

Read the latest one at work over the course of the last month or so, read about half of it in 2011 and finished in 2012, so in it goes.

The Hanging Monkey wrote:5. The Most Beautiful Woman In Town and Other Stories - Charles Bukowski

That's a rollicking good read.

It is indeed, very funny, although I prefer his longer stuff. But then I prefer novels to short stories anyway.

1- O Pajem Formidável dos Índicios ( The Formidable Page of the Evidences)-Alberto de Lacerda (Poetry)
2- Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Líttin- Gabriel García Marquez
3-Gaia- A new look at life on Earth- James Lovelock
4-Catálogo de Sombras (Catalogue of Shadows)- José Eduardo Agualusa (Collection of Short Stories)

Do collections of short stories count? The book I've read (the last one) has 150 pages, but the short stories were...well, short, but interesting, well written and a very addictive reading, so it was a fast reading. . I highly recommend Jose Eduardo Agualusa , he is an Angolan writer who divides it's time between Angola, Brazil and Portugal. Although he writes in Portuguese, he has some works translated into English , Italian and French, among other languages.

I did not resist to put here thelink to his wikipedia article :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Eduardo_Agualusa

Yeah as long as it's more than 50 pages there's no problem.

I read Master and Commander last year and have read about one a month since then. Great stuff, proper literature too, which is most unusual for genre fiction.

Reading the whole series in order is a treat - he truly is a scholar of the era and the British Navy and the character development is superb over time. I learned a lot and enjoyed them all immensely - did NOT want the series to end.
Here is the list for people that might be interested - they are cheap on Kindle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey–Maturin_series

The Ramage series is another enjoyable set in the same era tho not up to O'Brian still enjoyable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Ramage

Sure gets your book count up as they are fast reads

1. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
2. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
3. I Lock My Door Upon Myself - Joyce Carol Oates
4. Sexy - Joyce Carol Oates