Shame on me!! It has been 6 months since I started this challenge via the GoodReads The Book Vipers group I belong to so having just completed another book from the list I thought it best to share my progress!  And to hopefully keep it fresh in my mind to keep on track as there are still some weighty books left to get through!

The BookBuster challenge itself is based on the fab TV gameshow BlockBusters where you answer questions based on the alphabet on a board!  For the purpose of this challenge many are using the alphabet A-Z to read a book where the author, or title if you so wish!, corresponds to that letter!

So here is another look at my list – still deciding if I might change some along the way but at the moment I’ll be sticking to this little lot…..

A – Lyrebird by Cecilia Ahern
B – 2am at the Cats Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
C – Call of the Undertow by Linda Cracknell
D – Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan
E – Doorways by Robert Enright
F – The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
G – Little Girl Lost by Janet Gover
H – Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
I – The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
J – 183 times a year by Eva Jordan
K – Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
L – The Original Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
M – The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
N – Uprooted by Naomi Novak
O – Wesley the remarkable owl by Stacey O’Brien
P – The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
Q – Exercises in Style by Raymond Queaneau
R – The bookshop on the corner by Rebecca Raisin
S – The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
T – The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle
U – The Witchfinders Sister by Beth Underdown
V – Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
W – Girl Reading by Katie Ward
X – The Good Women of China by Xinran
Y – A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Z – Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 

As of today, 11th June 2017, I have now read 10 of these – doing better than I thought lol –  and discovered some amazing books along the way so am very grateful to this challenge for that at least!  Here’s a peek at what I’ve already read and if you click on the title it will take you to my GoodReads review page if you so wish to see what I thought of each book!

1. –  Lyrebird by Cecilia Ahern   – 4 stars

2. 2 A.M at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino   – 4 stars

3. Call of the Undertow by Linda Cracknell  – 4 stars

4. Little Girl Lost by Janet Gover   – 5 stars

 

5.  Reasons to stay alive by Matt Haig   –   4 stars

6.  The Breakdown by B.A. Paris  –  5 stars

7.  The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy   –  5 stars

8.  Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau   –  4 stars

9.  The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery  –  5 stars

10.  The Good Women of China by Xinran   –  5 stars

Not doing too bad am I?!  Is anyone else taking part in this challenge?! Any on my list that I shouldn’t put off reading any longer?!  Was planning on going for Girl, Reading next – one of those books I was drawn to in a bookshop based on the cover – and the blurb didn’t sound too bad either!

HAPPY READING!!

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Reading Challenge 2017 – BookBuster!

Another year flies by! And thankfully in this years’ case as it all seems to have been doom and gloom from week to week!  Praise be for books to transport us to different worlds to escape the often grim goings on in the real world – there’s a topic for another day…. which book world would you like to go and live in?! I know I can think of a few!!

It has been a very successful reading year for me and I think my venture into blogging and reviewing had a major impact on that!  According to GoodReads I’ve completed 206 books this past year and I find that amazing – I’m sure they’ve miscalculated haha!!  If only that number had helped clear my shelves and decreased my TBR pile!! Seems to have just made it worse!  But I have found that the more that I read, the quicker I get at reading – not sure if others find this?!  And I do find myself staring at some rather large books still sitting on my shelves that I’ve maybe avoided this year so maybe I’ll read less in 2017 and just tackle those epic books we all have on our shelves that often scare us off!

One of the challenges I will  be taking part is from the GoodReads group The Book Vipers who are running a BookBuster challenge for next year.  Just like the TV show you can choose to read books from authors’ whose names start with the letters across the board or, like I’m going to do, complete the A-Z authors challenge. Any genre counts so I am using this a great opportunity to get reading books that have been on my shelves – in real and ebook form! – for quite a while and get me reading a few different genres.

My A-Z list

A – Lyrebird by Cecilia Ahern

B – 2am at the Cats Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

C – Call of the Undertow by Linda Cracknell

D – Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan

E – Doorways by Robert Enright

F – The Somnambulist by Essie Fox

G – Little Girl Lost by Janet Gover

H – Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

I – The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

J – 183 times a year by Eva Jordan

K – Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

L – The Original Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig

M – The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy

N – Uprooted by Naomi Novak

O – Wesley the remarkable owl by Stacey O’Brien

P – The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

Q – Exercises in Style by Raymond Queaneau

R – The bookshop on the corner by Rebecca Raisin

S – The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

T – The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle

U – The Witchfinders Sister by Beth Underdown

V – Sex Object by Jessica Valenti

W – Girl Reading by Katie Ward

X – The Good Women of China by Xinran

Y – A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Z – Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

So these are the books I’m hoping to get through, although I may switch a few over the year but will see how the mood grabs me!!  Is anybody else taking part in this challenge or have they found other challenges to take part in? Would love to hear from you and if you are – good luck!!  Let’s hope we all succeed!!

Happy Reading!!