Will has issued a challenge to read fifty books in fifty days with a fifty-word review for each read. Insanity doesn’t even describe it, but that’s Will for you.
After an unquiet discussion, we agreed to divide fifty books into 25 stories (any length) and 25 novels to make it easy for me to handle the challenge while dealing with my full-time job and a house move. That’s right, a house move. It won’t be too bad because most stuff are already boxed. We plan to hire a removal company to do the slave work job.
I will use my Sony Reader to read the chosen books (listed below) to maximise the reading time, e.g. commuting on week days, but I still want to do the Experiment. Half of the list still are on my shelves. Why buy ebook version when I already have them on my bookshelves?
Will didn’t like my idea of using the Challenge to do the Experiment because he felt re-reading was cheating. After yet another squabble, he agreed to five re-reads. Tightfisted bastard. And I’m suspecting he secretly has OCD because he seems obsessed with the number five.
We haven’t decided when the Challenge should start, but Will is thinking 5 May would be good. 5th of 5th month, 50 books, 50 days.
Books I will read for the Challenge:
- The Blue Zone – Andrew Gross (free with Sony Reader)
- English Lord, Ordinary Lady – Fiona Harper (M&B) (free with Sony Reader)
- The Wicked Earl – Margaret McPhee (M&B) (free with Sony Reader)
- Poison Study – Maria V. Synder (MIRA) (free with Sony Reader)
- Eve’s Diary – Mark Twain
- Audition – Ryu Murakami (ARC)
- Lost in the Future – John Peterson
- You Suck: A Love Story - Christopher Moore
- Whitechapel Gods - S.M. Peters (steampunk novel)
- A Bid for Fortune: Dr. Nikola’s Vendetta - Guy Newell Boothby
- Go La La - Alexandra Potter (Re-read | The Experiment)
- Fangs for the Memories - Kathy Love (ARC)
- Slow Hands – Leslie Kelly (Blaze) (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Irresistible Forces - Brenda Jackson (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Price of Passion – Susan Napier (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch - B.J. Daniels (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Kiss Me Deadly – Michelle Hauf (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Once A Cowboy – Linda Warren (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Dancing in the Moonlight – Raeanne Thayne (Harlequin’s 16 ebook offer)
- Loving Jenny – Theresa Weir (Re-read | The Experiment)
- Bottomless Belly Button – Dash Shaw (ARC | graphic novel)
- The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia – Allan Arnold
- Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist – Harlan Page Halsey
- The Corpse That Walked – Octavus Roy Cohen
- Perdido Street Station – China Miéville (Re-read)
- Carnacki, The Ghost Finder – William Hope Hodgson
- In Sinful Harmony – Marilyn Pappano (Re-read | The Experiment)
- I’m taking a break for lunch. Will finish the list later today. Will look around to buy ebooks.
Suggestions welcome. Would like more romance novels; SF lite or futuristic romances; puzzle- or adventure-driven historical novels, and cyberpunk/steampunk novels. Shorter stories are, the better.
And no stories about fairies, thanks. Where I come from, fairies were either messengers of death or vampires. Fairies in those local stories were cruel, canny and cannibalistic. The adult me knows it’s not real, but the child me is still convinced that it is.
A mere glance at the list makes me want to divorce Will.