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2012 Reading Challenge Wrap Up

Posted on 5 January 2013 by

The challenge was to read 52 books in 52 weeks – and I decided that to actually make it challenging I should triple that. Therefore,  I was aiming for a total of 156 books for 2012. In the last month of the … Continue reading →

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November’s reading challenge books

Posted on 6 December 2012 by

Now we’re getting to the sticky end – 2 months to go, 27 titles to meet my challenge of 3 x 52 books in 52 weeks. So here are the books I read in November: #130 Clemency Pogue Fairy Killer … Continue reading →

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52 books in 52 weeks – November

Posted on 3 December 2012 by

103: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson One of the few books I can say I enjoyed reading, but couldn’t recommend widely to others. Essentially, this is a novel and its sequel, intercut with each other and pretending to be a single … Continue reading →

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Reading challenge books for October

Posted on 13 November 2012 by

As usual, Timothy’s challenge update has prompted me to get my books reviewed and posted. I spent most of October finishing up titles that I’ve been dragging around for a while, which was a relief. Also, because I was knocked … Continue reading →

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Three quarters of my reading challenge – September 2012

Posted on 11 October 2012 by

The end of September always catches me out – I’m amazed as ever to realise that we are three quarters of the way through the year. I had an unsettled month of reading again – I  somehow managed to accumulate … Continue reading →

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52 books – 52 weeks: September

Posted on 4 October 2012 by

Still making slow and heavy work of the reading challenge this month.  I’ll get to 104 books by the end of the year, but Loupie’s dramatic attempt at 156 is perhaps beyond me. Two books in a month?  Too much … Continue reading →

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Books for August – reading challenge

Posted on 20 September 2012 by

OK, so I’m aiming for 52×3=156 books for 2012. Here’s what happened reading-wise in August: #94 Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute by Maggie Groff (Read 2/08/2012) It took me a while to get into this book … Continue reading →

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52 books in 52 weeks – August

Posted on 30 August 2012 by

This month has been a bit of a dead loss in the reading challenge stakes. A few new children’s books aside, this is the first month where I have not read anything at all.  Part of it is that I’m now … Continue reading →

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Reading challenge – July books

Posted on 24 August 2012 by

I’ve been cracking along with my reading, if not with writing up my reviews, averaging three books a week, and staying on track for meeting my reading challenge of 52×3=156 books for 2012. Here, finally, are my reviews of the … Continue reading →

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52 books in 52 weeks – July

Posted on 9 August 2012 by

79-82: The Hippopotamus Pool, Seeing a Large Cat, The Falcon in the Portal and He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters I’ve expressed misgivings about this series in previous monthly updates. Now that Rameses has grown up, though, this is a far … Continue reading →

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