100 Books in 2012

Clue is in the title - challenge of reading at least 100 books in 2012. Play along if you like.

All posts will be tracked with 100Books and/or 100BooksIn2012.

Only rule is that it must be 100 pages long. If the book is 50-100 pages long, it can be paired with another of similar length to take up 1 spot on the list,

Hopefully reviews will be left for each - feel free to ask/give me recommendations in the ask box.
Over a year later…still true.

Over a year later…still true.

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Asker unclarified Asks:
The Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls. It's a memoir, and really interesting :)
100booksin2012 100booksin2012 Said:
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Asker unclarified Asks:
Oh, and "Room"- Emma Donoghue. It's about a woman who is kidnapped and kept in a shed for 7 years, but the book is told from her 5 year old son's perspective.
100booksin2012 100booksin2012 Said:
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#9 of 100 Books in 2012 - Flour Babies

#9 of 100 Books in 2012 - Flour Babies

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So, that’s me…

I’m 8 books into the 100 and not regretting starting. I don’t know if it’s being made easier by every other book being an Adrian Mole book.

However, my main concern, is that I can’t think of what books I want to read next so any suggestions are welcome! 

After getting slightly ahead of the schedule,I’ve reduced the reading need from 1.9 a week to 1.8. LE SIGH.

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#8 of 100 Wednesday August 13th Here I am again - in my old bedroom. Older, wiser, but with less hair, unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line. Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked (‘the sausage on my plate could have been a turd’ - AA Gill) and celebrated (will he be the nation’s first celebrity offal chef?). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch - one of ‘Blair’s Babes’. He is frustrated, disappointed and undersexed. But a letter from Adrian’s past is about to change everything …

#8 of 100

Wednesday August 13th

Here I am again - in my old bedroom. Older, wiser, but with less hair, unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line.

Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked (‘the sausage on my plate could have been a turd’ - AA Gill) and celebrated (will he be the nation’s first celebrity offal chef?). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch - one of ‘Blair’s Babes’. He is frustrated, disappointed and undersexed.

But a letter from Adrian’s past is about to change everything …

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#7 of 100 I remember this being on the syllabus in school, and thought I’d revisit it to see if it was as good as I remembered. Terrifyingly the only none Penguin on the list so far.  Recommend it to anyone that enjoys sci-fi/dystopia novels. 

#7 of 100

I remember this being on the syllabus in school, and thought I’d revisit it to see if it was as good as I remembered. Terrifyingly the only none Penguin on the list so far. 

Recommend it to anyone that enjoys sci-fi/dystopia novels. 

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#6 of 100 Thursday January 3rd I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped. But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness …

#6 of 100

Thursday January 3rd

I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person.

Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped.

But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness …

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#5 of 100 Great book, going to the launch of this next week. You’ll either love it or hate it. Synopsis: Eliot Lamb has dreaded this occasion for the past three years of his life - the last night of university. Gathered with his mates in the King’s Arms for one final, historic night on the lash, he begins the ultimate descent: Pub, Bar, Club. As he stares into the foam of his debut pint, he knows that before the night reaches its climactic conclusion on the sweaty dance-floor of Filth he must solve the dilemma of his knotty love-life, risk his closest friendship, face up to a tragic secret, and deal with the fact that he hasn’t a clue what to do with the rest of his life. Noughties raises a glass to all the youthful confusion, fierce ambition and helpless yearning that characterises student life. Eliot may know a lot about Renaissance poetry, the post-modern novel, French literary theory and how to get hammered at a highly competitive rate, but he is fast realising that adult life beckons, and it’s going to be asking a lot more of him than that.

#5 of 100

Great book, going to the launch of this next week. You’ll either love it or hate it. Synopsis:

Eliot Lamb has dreaded this occasion for the past three years of his life - the last night of university. Gathered with his mates in the King’s Arms for one final, historic night on the lash, he begins the ultimate descent: Pub, Bar, Club. As he stares into the foam of his debut pint, he knows that before the night reaches its climactic conclusion on the sweaty dance-floor of Filth he must solve the dilemma of his knotty love-life, risk his closest friendship, face up to a tragic secret, and deal with the fact that he hasn’t a clue what to do with the rest of his life.

Noughties raises a glass to all the youthful confusion, fierce ambition and helpless yearning that characterises student life. Eliot may know a lot about Renaissance poetry, the post-modern novel, French literary theory and how to get hammered at a highly competitive rate, but he is fast realising that adult life beckons, and it’s going to be asking a lot more of him than that.

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Book #4 of 100 This was…alright. Nowhere near as good as the first in the series, but okay for a YA read.

Book #4 of 100

This was…alright. Nowhere near as good as the first in the series, but okay for a YA read.

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