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Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2021) » The Summer Book – Tove Jansson (9)
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 1 replies
Once in a blue moon, one picks up a book, reads the first few pages and knows two things for certain: 1) this is going to be a special book and 2) it's going to be over all too soon. There is only one solution: slow r…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Bookguide’s 1001 in 2020: 8 of 12 (goal 12; lifetime total 187)
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
[[Thanks, Bookguide. Please confirm: did you finish the book last year or this year?]] Not to worry. I got my answer from your post in the 2021 edition of the challenge. I've updated your stats for 2020 to show a life l…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Bookguide’s 1001 in 2020: 8 of 12 (goal 12; lifetime total 187)
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 1 replies
Thanks, Bookguide. Please confirm: did you finish the book last year or this year?
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2021) » RE: Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2021)
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 2 replies
Thanks for hosting this year's challenge, engelsman! My target for the year is a modest total of 6. In later years, I've reduced the target a bit to allow me more scope to read other material as well. My life list …
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Conclusion of 2020 challenge
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
Many thanks for continuing the tradition, engelsman! I will certainly join the new edition of the challenge.
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » Conclusion of 2020 challenge
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 2 replies
Well, that concludes last year's challenge. Again, congratulations to all of you! As advised earlier, I will not be in a position to coordinate another edition of the challenge this year. I hope that one of you will s…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Oh dear
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
I didn't get confirmation from blackwidow1971 about her total tally but a quick check seems to confirm that none of her reads for the year was a reread. It is therefore safe to assume a life list total of 414 for her.
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Oh dear
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 1 replies
Well, you're still way ahead of the rest of us. :) So your tally at the end of the year comes to 414?
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » Life list totals as at the end of 2020
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 1 replies
Time to wrap up this year's totals. I have started a third list in the anchor forum entry, showing the life list totals as at the end of the year. The plan is to update the list as readers complete their challenges for t…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » 2020
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 2 replies
I won't finish any more 1001 List books this year, so that concludes my challenge for 2020. My goal was 6 books, and I managed 7. Well done to all of you, whatever your targets were! Thanks for taking part in the chal…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: What does running this challenge actually involve?
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
Hi engelsman [[I presume that whoever volunteers to run this challenge has to kick off the 2021 discussion as they will be the only one able to edit the totals during the year?]] Correct. [[You've picked up on mismatc…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: 1001 List Challenge | Into the future
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
I have since had feedback from katrinat that she will not be able to take over the administration of this challenge again. Any other volunteers?
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » 1001 List Challenge | Into the future
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 2 replies
Hi all For the past 5 years, I have been coordinating this fine challenge that was originally conceived by katrinat. Unfortunately, I cannot commit to continue doing so beyond the end of the year. Katrinat would obvio…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Three more books read
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 1 replies
Thanks, Boekentrol. It looks as if we missed #42.
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2019) » RE: hmmmm
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
[[I'm struck by how many of these books I have read, but there are so many that I don't think are that important / interesting as world literature. But some are great. I do have a few of these in my library, so maybe …
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 3 replies
7. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (8) Being another fat book (529 pages) and with a heavy topic, I expected this to be a bit of a struggle. Not at all: the author engages the reader from page 1 and there is never a tho…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 4 replies
6. Foucault's Pendulum – Umberto Eco (7) Having just read a thick book, why not tackle another? At 641 pages, this one was even thicker. It started off well. I enjoyed the mental gymnastics Umberto Eco loves to subje…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 5 replies
5. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro (8) Not without reason, the critics describe Ishiguro as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the …
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: #486 - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago
Thanks, engelsman. > I had already read 175 of the 1001 books to read before you die before I read Doctor Zhivago, so that makes 176 :-) I figured that one out. :) My query was what your tally was at the end of las…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: #486 - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 2 replies
Welcome to this thread, engelsman! And thanks for your review of Doctor Zhivago. It's a book I still have to read. I've known the name since early childhood, when my parents went to see the movie one evening and we had t…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Stoepbrak 3 yrs ago | 6 replies
4. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (8) The author described this book as "his largest canvas". One can see why. The scope is enormous, yet somehow he manages to portray numerous layers and timelines to a reader who is patien…
Book Talk » Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 List (2020) » RE: Newcomers to the challenge
Stoepbrak 4 yrs ago
Of course, the challenge never closes, so if anyone wants to join now or later, they are more than welcome.

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