75 Books...More or Less! discussion

Time to start a new challenge. Hopefully this year I'll reach the goal.




January

1. Paolo Giordano: The Solitude of Prime Numbers
2. Milla Paloniemi: En vaan osaa ***
3. Milla Paloniemi: En vaan osaa 2 ***
4. Nic & Cauvin: Spirou et Fantasio - The great cold ring
5. Nic & Cauvin: Spirou et Fantasio - The Black Box
6. Meg Gardiner: The Memory Collector
7. Paavo Haavikko: Puut, kaikki heidän vihreytensä
8. Nic & Cauvin: Spirou et Fantasio - The silence makers
9. Tome & Janry: Spirou et Fantasio - Spirou et Fantasio - The Comet's Watchmaker
10. Tome & Janry: Spirou et Fantasio - Awakening of the Z
11. Morvan & Munuera: Spirou et Fantasio - Paris-under-Seine
12. Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter
13. Morvan & Munuera: Spirou et Fantasio - The Man Who Didn't Want to Die
14. Päivi Alasalmi: Valkoinen nainen
15. J. R. Ward: Lover Awekened
16. Jean Roba & André Franquin: Tembo Tabou
17. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus
18. Marjane Satrapi: Chicken with Plums
19. Morvan & Munuera: Spirou et Fantasio - Tokio
20. Anni Nykänen: Mummo
21. Émile Bravo: Le journal d'un ingénu (Une aventure de Spirou et Fantasio)
22. Paula Noronen & Annukka Leppänen: Pirjo ja kaveri
23. Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones

February:

24. Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie: Aya of Yop City
25. Tome & Janry: Spirou et Fantasio - Virus
26. Alison Bechdel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
27. Karin Slaughter: Fractured
28. Markus Nummi: Karkkipäivä
29. Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
30. Neil Gaiman: Sandman - The Dream Hunters
31. Minna Canth: Anna Liisa
32. Kishwar Desai: Witness the Night

March:

33. John Verdon: Think of a Number
34. Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return
35. Geert Kimpen: De Kabbalist
36. Kristina Ohlsson: Askungar
37. Muriel Barbery: The Gourmet Rhapsody
38. Niccolò Ammaniti: I'm Not Scared

April:

39. Päivi Alasalmi: Koirapäinen pyöveli
40. Maarit Verronen: Osallisuuden tunto
41. Morvan & Munuera: Spirou et Fantasio - The Origins of the Z
42. Shaun Tan: the Arrival
43. Harlan Coben: Caught
44. Kathryn Stocket: The Help
45. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
46. Riikka Pulkkinen: Raja

May:
47. Tuomas Kyrö: Mielensäpahoittaja
48. Johan Theorin: The Darkest Room
49. Jodi Picoult: Plain Truth
50. J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

June:

51. Riikka Stewen: Niin kauan kuin rakastat
52. Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players
53. Jude Deveraux: Wild Orchids
54. Karin Alvtegen: Betrayal
55. Päivi Alasalmi: Tuo tumma nainen
56. Audrey Niffenegger: Her Fearful Symmetry
57. Patricia Cornwell: THe Scarpetta Factor
58. Kirsti Ellilä: Pappia kyydissä

July:

59. Mirkka Rekola: vedessä palaa
60. Alice Munro: Too Much Happiness
61. Mirkka Rekola: Minä rakastan sinua, minä kerron sen kaikille
62. Aila Meriluoto: Lasimaalaus
63. Anu Silfverberg: Luonto pakastimessa
64. Kirsti Ellilä: Pelastusrenkaita
65. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Little Prince
66. Tess Gerritsen: Under the Knife
67. Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
68. Jane Johnson: Salt Road
69. Claude Gallay: L'amour est une île
70. Tove Jansson: Moominland Midwinter
71. Susan Fletcher: Corrag

August:

72. Marko Kilpi: Jäätyneitä ruusuja
73. J. R. Ward: Lover Revealed
74. Joel Haahtela: Elena
75. Stephen King: Salem's Lot
76. Simon Lelic: Rupture
77. Marko Kilpi: Kadotetut
78. Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
79. Henna Helmi Heinonen: Veljen vaimo
80. Jorge Ibargüengoitia: The Dead Girls
81. Leighton Gage: Buried Strangers
82. Kirsti Ellilä: Ristiaallokkoa

September:

83. Sappho: Iltatähti, häälaulu
84. Simon Beckett: The Chemistry of Death
85. Cecelia Ahern: If You Could See Me Now

1. ****

To be honest this was a bit depressing book, but not bad.

I decided to read more comics this year, because I have always liked them but for some reason I didn't really read them that much last year.

2. Milla Paloniemi: En vaan osaa ***
3. Milla Paloniemi: En vaan osaa 2 ***
4. ***
5. ***
Spirou and Fantasio is one of my favourite comic book series.

6. **½

I really liked the first book of this series, but somehow this wasn't that good in my opinion. I don't know why I just didn't like this very much.

Looks like you are off to a great start so far!

Yes, though it may be because of the fact that I've read so many comics. ;)

7. ***

I love poetry! This was the first book by this poet I've read and though it was obviously good it didn't really impress me that much.

8. ***

9. ***

10. ***

11. **

12. *****

Amazing book! And with this and Rape: A Lovestory Joyce Carol Oates has become one of my favourite authors!

I love JCO too! She reminds me of Stephen King in some ways. Everything seems normal and then she goes to this really dark place and it works.

Yeah, you are right! I so need to read more from her!

13. **

14. ****

This was surprisingly good Finnish story that partly took place in Tanzania.

15. ****

I'm totally hooked on this series.

Kuutar wrote: "15. ****

I'm totally hooked on this series."

Another series to add to the TBR. Sigh, I'll never shorten the TBR this way. Oh well, at least I'll have some good reading. :)

I know, my TBR grows faster I can read too. :)

16. ***

17. ****

I've been reading lately a lot of books that areplaced on Africa. This one was from Nigeria.

Kuutar, this one looks interesting! I love the title too :) I'm a sucker for a good title and cover art!

I really liked the book. It's author's debut, her second book Half of a Yellow Sun is more popular I think. I've not yet read that, but I definitely will!

And the good title and especially cover art is always a plus! :)

18. Chicken with Plums ****

This is the first one I've read from Marjane Satrapi, but I intend to read her other graphic-novels too. I'm especially interested in Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return which are her memoir.

19. ***

20. ****

21. ***

22. ***

And comics again...

Wow, what a great month!!! Are the comics like books that you read and follow the illustrations? I'm not sure if I would enjoy reading like that but I like to try all kinds of books.

Well it's because I decided to start read comic books again. ;) And yes, they are illustrated books where the story is told with speech bubbles. Some of them could be called graphic novels I think and some of them are cartoons. I really enjoy reading them but I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. :)

23. ****

I really liked this book, it's idea of heaven was interesting.

Kuutar, I loved the Lovely Bones too! I also think that you should read only what you like, bubbles and all!

Andrea, that's so true! :)

24. ***

Graphic novel about young women in Ivory Coast in the late 1970s.

25. ***

26. ****

Autobiographical graphic novel. I really liked this one.

27. ****

What can I say, Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite crime writers and Will Trent is interesting character.

28. ****

This book was The Finlandia Prize nominee 2010, but it didn't win the prize. I haven't read the winner yet, but this was really good.

29. ****

30. ****

Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors and I love his Sandman comics.

31. ***

This play is definitely the classics of Finnish literature.

you may have to increase your goal if you keep reading at this pace :)

That's true. Though it seem that my spring may be a bit busy school wise so my reading pace might be slower then. But we'll see. :)

32. ****

The book is set in small town in India where a young girl is suspected to have murdered 13 members of her family. Social worker Simran seems to be the only one who isn't convinced about her being guilty. The book deals with the heavy issue: The reality where female offspring is not wanted and families try to get rid of them before or after they are born. This was well written and quite sad book though the ending was somewhat hopeful.

33. ****

This was the kind of crime novel I really like. It was mysterious and it held me in its grip until the very last page.

34. ****

Second part of Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novels.

35. ****

Fictional book about the kabbalist Rabbi Hayyim Vital.

I just realized that I have Persepolis in one of my piles! I think one of the doctors I work with gave it to me. I'll have to check it out.

Tell me what you thought of it! :)

36. ***½

Swedish crime novel about missing children. Quite good.

37. ***½

I tried to read The Elegance of the Hedgehog some time ago, but I gave up on reading it pretty quick. Somehow it just didn't really appeal to me then. Regardless I decided to try this one which is her first book. I'm not sure what to think of this. It wasn't bad and it was well written, but still it didn't make that big impact.

38. ****

This was well written book with quite dark theme. I really liked this and want to read more from the author.

Holy cow! Your just chugging along...great job!

Thank you! :)

39. ****

Finnish author's collection of short stories.

40. ****

Another great Finnish author. This was actually the first book I've read from her but I'm definitely going to read more.

41. **½

42. ****

43. ****

Harlan Coben is one of my favourite crime writers. He sure knows how to write a book that manages to surprise you in the en.

Kuutar, I have to agree with you about Coben!

44. *****

This was wonderful book! I absolutely loved it!

45. ***

I wasn't really that impressed by this book. I know this is classic, but maybe not my cup of tea...

46. ***

Praised début from a Finnish author. I wasn't that impressed about this, it was just okay.

Kuutar wrote: "46. ***

Praised début from a Finnish author. I wasn't that impressed about this, it was just okay."

Kuutar, it's so disappointing to read a highly acclaimed book that just falls flat. Do you think you'll every read this author again?

Yes, I know what you mean. I think I will eventually read her second book, but this time I just have to lower my expectations.

47. ****

48. ****

49. ****

50. ***½

Harry Potter is one of my favourite series and I've started to reread it.

I feel like I need to start back at book one since I started the series so long ago and now I'm way behind.