You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

¥ = currently reading
€ = completed

1-6 Slick's a possibility
British authors
Completed

€ 1. The Secret Speech 416 pages €
and Agent 6 469 pages €
both by Tom Rob Smith
Total p885

€ 2. NOWHERE MAN p312 €
and The Final Countdown p320 €
both by Sheila Quigley
Total p632

€ 3. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes p480 €
and Three Little Ships by Lilian Harry p358 €
Total p838

€ 4. A Class Apart 202 pages €
and What Happened in Witches Wood 378 pages €
both by Stephen Henning
Total p580

€ 5. The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett 320 pages €
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo 208 pages €
Total 528 pages

€ 6. Motherland by William Nicholson 560 pages €

7-12 Mickey Maybe

One word titles
Previous: Motherland

7. Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell 453 pages €
and Clifton by Catherine E. Chapman 120 pages ¥
Total 573 pages

8. Possession by A.S. Byatt 511 pages ¥

9. Taken by Niamh O'Connor 318 pages €
And Persuasion by Jane Austen 249 pages ¥
Total 567 pages

Burned by Thomas Enger 399 pages

Dodger by James Benmore 416 pages

Dodger by Terry Pratchett 360 pages


Dracula 488 pages
Papillon
Eragon
Legacy
Dominion
Labyrinth
Wideacre 656 pages

13-18 This will be a miracle

Things that fly

To Hear A Nightingale by Charlotte Bingham
734

Of Moths and Butterflies
Papillon
Eragon
Jackdaws + The Magpies
Hornet Flight
The Thorn Birds
The Hummingbird's Daughter
The Swan Thieves
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Nine Dragons + The Wild Duck
The Faces Of Angels
Birds of Prey
The White Raven Portfolio + Egrets to the Flames
Mai Tai Butterfly + Black Dragon, Black Cat
Bird of Passage
Raven's Bride

Nigel Bird

19-24 Hahahaha I doubt it very much

25+ in your dreams love

I have some scribblings for possible links, but I'm going to see how I feel come 1st January (or when is suitable to start with other reads). I'm not good if I plan too much I tend to rebel and not finish. I was the same at school - me and project work didn't mix as I felt too restricted and time pressured.

That sounds so familiar, Suzie. I'm looking at all of these fantastic lists, but I know if I put one together I'd have abandoned it by February!

How I worked with assignments was ignore it until the day it was due, then pull some sort of miracle and write and submit it within a 4 hour time window. I don't really do planning...

So, I have started but will see how far I get - there were too many other books that I wanted to read that came up in monthly reads/challenges and just because so my alphabet was unfinished but I'm happy with what I read, but hopefully I can tie my just becauses in. If not, I'll just read what I want when I want. With new baby anything more than Slick could be a miracle anyway!

Not yet it's still being cooked :-) due June

Finding better links!!

Is "secret agent man" a link? If so - good one!

All books for slicks section were written by British authors.
But that would have been cool. I've managed to fit in all the books I want to read :-) happy happy

I was just thinking. Does that mean we will have Big, Small and Tiny?

If it's a pink baby it could be mini :-) . My sister and her girls get called Doris, Dot and Dolly by me. Their names are not the above. I am clearly weird.

Snoozie Suzie wrote: "If it's a pink baby it could be mini :-) . My sister and her girls get called Doris, Dot and Dolly by me. Their names are not the above. I am clearly weird."

I love it!!!

I'm doing better than I thought. But, the actual chunkies are still being ignored as I'm reading the smaller ones that add up to +500 pages. As expected!!

Each book in your combos are just under 500 pages, so you're reading 800+ pages for each combo. That's a feat in itself!

:-) I'm rather pleased

Possible themes

Things that fly
Family ties
Numbers
Weather

Snoozie Suzie wrote: ":-) I'm rather pleased"

I am doing kind of the same thing too, Suzie, although I do have some longer books on my list. My goal was to get books read, be they chunksters or not. If we read two 400 page books for 800 pages, it is still getting them off of our list. :0)

Exactly Cherie. I've just changed my list taking three 400+ paged books out of slick and putting two shorter books and a 700 pager. At least one is a true doorstopper. I think the thought of reading three thickies in a trilogy to get two slicks done was bogging me down so they are going back to the library unread. I may or may not decide to add them in again but I'm enjoy my choices now.

Yep, I thought mixing the longer ones with shorter ones would give me more incentive to get the longer ones done, since it did not matter what order we had to read them in. My goal was/is not to kill myself with books that I feel like I HAVE to read to get to the next one. So far the only struggle was the very first chunkster that I decided to read. It took a while to get through it.

Except for the other monthly challenges and a book for the group read, I have tried not to read books that are not on my list, but it is hard to keep to it.

I lost my mind last night and started listening to 1984, knowing that I was going to start reading
One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Very hard to stick to that Cherie!!

I'm glad you're finding the challenge a little more flexible this year.

Yes I am, thank you Janice

I agree. More fun this year tho not because I'm any further ahead. Just more fun because I enjoy playing with the linking.

So, I finished slugging about, and have already made a dent into my march with Mickey.

Hey Suzie, do you have another "challenge" arriving soon? I was just thinking about you the other day. Hope all is well. Grats on Slicks*!!

*Edit: oops sorry I misread!

Congrats on finishing Slick's Slugs!

The baby challenge shouldn't be starting for another 7 weeks. Although I feel like I've been pregnant forever!!

Great job on finishing Slick. Did you bawl reading Me Before You? I did!

It did bring a tear to my eye

Mo Hayder
'birdman' 398
(The treatment 479)
Ritual 415
Skin 459
gone 416