October is over soon, so I only have two months left to finish the fifty fifty challenge. (For everyone who has never heard of this: the goal for 2013 is to read 50 for you new books and watch 50 films you have never seen before.) The movie part is done - yaaay - but I still have to read six more books to finish this challenge. Here's a list of all the books and movies I read/watched so far:
44/50 books
- Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
- Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Brooks, Max - World War Z
- Brown, Dan - Inferno
- Butcher, Jim - Storm Front
- Butcher, Jim - Fool Moon
- Butcher, Jim - Grave Peril
- Butcher, Jim - Summer Knight
- Butcher, Jim - Death Masks
- Butcher, Jim - Blood Rites
- Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
- Clarke, Stephen - A Year In The Merde
- Cline, Ernest - Ready Player One
- Colfer, Eoin - And Another Thing...
- Corby, Gary - Sacred Games
- Crichton, Michael - Jurassic Park
- Doyle, Arthur - A Study in Scarlet
- Fforde, Jasper - Something Rotten
- Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl
- Gier, Kerstin - Rubinrot
- Gier, Kerstin - Saphirblau
- Gier, Kerstin - Smaragdgrün
- Gier, Kerstin - Silber
- Harris, Charlaine - Dead Ever After
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Hobb, Robin - Assassin's Apprentice
- Lynch, Scott - The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Marion, Isaac - Warm Bodies
- Meyer, Kai - Dschinnland
- Meyer, Kai - Wunschkrieg
- Meyer, Kai - Glutsand
- Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood
- Neill, Chloe - House Rules
- Perplies, Bernd - Für die Krone
- Perplies, Bernd - Gegen die Zeit
- Perplies, Bernd - In den Abgrund
- Pratchett, Terry - Small Gods
- Pratchett, Terry - Reaper Man
- Roth, Veronica - Allegiant
- Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Scalzi, John - Redshirts
- Suter, Martin - Auf der dunklen Seite des Mondes
- Vincent, Rachel - Soul Screamers
- Westerfeld, Scott - Leviathan
50/50 movies
- Australia (2008)
- Bachelorette (2012)
- Cloud Atlas (2012)
- Coraline (2009)
- Death on the Nile (1978)
- Django Unchained (2012)
- Dr. Strangelove [...] (1964)
- Epic (2013)
- Es geschah am helllichten Tag (1958)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- Frankenweenie (2012)
- Gangster Squad (2013)
- High Anxiety (1977)
- Hit and Run (2012)
- Hotel Transylvania (2012)
- Jack Reacher (2012)
- Les Misérables (2012)
- Looper (2012)
- Mad Max (1979)
- Oz The Great And Powerful (2012)
- Pacific Rim (2013)
- Planet Terror (2007)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- Repo Men (2010)
- Rise of the Guardians (2012)
- Seven Psychopaths (2012)
- Sherlock – A Study in Pink (2010)
- Sherlock – The Blind Banker (2010)
- Sherlock – The Great Game (2010)
- Sherlock – A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)
- Sherlock – The Hounds of Baskerville (2012)
- Sherlock – The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
- Skyfall (2012)
- Spies Like Us (1985)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (2012)
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
- The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
- The Lovely Bones (2009)
- The Ghost Writer (2010)
- The Last Stand (2013)
- The Three Amigos (1986)
- Top Secret (1984)
- Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 1 - Eine andere Zeit (2013)
- Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 2 - Ein anderer Krieg (2013)
- Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter 3 - Ein anderes Land (2013)
- Wreck it Ralph (2012)
... ( I just listed the first 50 films - but I've seen more than 60 so far)
I wanted to not only pick easy and short books but also read a few classics. So far that didn't work out as planned. I read way to little longer books - and that's ONLY because of this challenge, because normally I read a lot of 700+ books. But this year I always thought about the amount of books I have to read and therefore prefered shorter ones. Another reason is Ulysses by James Joyce. I have this book at home and wanted to read it for a while. This challenge, I thought, would be a great motivation. I started it a few months ago and am only about half way through and have no motivation at all to finish it. Don't understand me wrong, I think it's a great book - at least the story is - but it's sooo exhaustig to read. And now the motivation to read any classics at all is quite low. But there is always next year :) but without this challenge. It was fun so far but I think I'm not going to participate next year again. Especially since I want to reread a few books (e.g. the Otherland and Memory Sorrow and Thorn series by Tad Williams) and those don't count. But I'm definitely going to start a reading challenge here on booklikes.
Do you participate in any challenges this year and how are doing so far?