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Jan 04, 2013 12:16AM
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![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
Daaang, gettin' dissed by a bookworm! :)
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
You're gonna hit a hundred at this rate."
I needed to get some lightweights under my belt, because I plan on tackling War & Peace before the year's out.
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
Read a few picture books and you'll be back on top! :)
![Tatuu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1551871408p1/7460806.jpg)
Please suggest to me ALL the shortest books you have read. LOL!!
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
Please suggest to me ALL the shortest books you have read. LOL!!"
It's all about the kids books, lol! I've got a niece and we read together sometimes when she comes for a visit, and then I add those books to me "read" list. It's shameless of me, I know...
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
I'm just happy to have finished that 100th book, Middlemarch, which sadly turned out to be a dud for me.
![Jim](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1668721790p1/1237540.jpg)
I can't as yet comment on Elmore in the Crime Fiction genre, but heartily recommend (again) Lee Child's Reacher novels.
Jack Reacher is an eccentric. An ex-military-policeman (Army) with superior detective skills.
If Sherlock Holmes had a US Marine for a dad, was 6-6, 250-pounds, fought dirty, with world-class skills with rifles and pistols, he'd BE Reacher - though he'd still lose a fight vs. Reacher and might not first solve the crime.
I've read 16.7 of his 18 novels and have not yet detected a "formula". All of them have a mystery aspect - which may slow you down if you're wont to solve them (I'm not).
Anyway, you might consider a clump of them for the next Challenge. I especially liked:
Killing Floor (his first, which has a tie-in with his only sibling)
Tripwire (which develops a long-standing forbidden love-interest and Reacher's non-conventional lifstyle wrapped up with a particularly nasty villain)
One Shot (the first to be adapted for film – a tricky mystery)
The Enemy (develops Reacher’s back story as a still-active-duty MP)
The Affair (the earliest with Reacher as an adult)
The Affair has a bonus short story (in the pocket paper version) – Second Son with Reacher at age 13 with his Marine dad and Madame Reacher his French mother. This latter is a low-cost (time and money) way to get the flavor of Child’s style.
Of course I’d be fascinated to see some of your reviews of any of these.
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
I will undoubtedly dive into Lee Child's work at some point next year. Thanks for the suggestions!
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
It's a good'un!
![Stephen](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1292973527p1/990463.jpg)
![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
Well, quite a few were lightweight: kids' books I read with my niece and a few Choose Your Own Adventures I read for old time's sake. But thank you nonetheless!
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![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
Lol, I was definitely juicing this year! My stats will probably get thrown out of the record books. But in my defense, my original challenge this year was 52 books. I kept upping it, especially once I started reading the CYOAs and the kids' books with my niece.
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![Jason Koivu](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/users/1560521450p1/1742824.jpg)
Reading is pretty much all she wants to do whenever she comes over now, if I'm not willing/able to push her around in the plastic bin at top speed going "VaaaROOM-ROOOOM!!!," that is.
I probably wouldn't have bothered including some of the kids books as "read", except that I've reviewed them with my niece, so they automatically appear in my yearly total.