The 50 Book Challenge!

The 50 Book Challenge!
I completely stole this entire post off of my friend's website. I have been looking for a great new year's resolution and I think this will be it. My life is SOOOO different than it was two years ago. Two years ago, I was a part of two book clubs and read all the time. Now the only reading I do is informational type reading for school or lame magazine reading for "vegging"! So, I am going to take this 50 book challenge and see how far I get! This information is available on the Shelfari website.
When asked about the new Amazon Kindle product, Steve Jobs CEO of Apple computer had this to say: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Basically .... the challenge is to read 50 books in one year. Or...establish a goal for yourself it's up to you.

The books the Shelfari staff loved in 2007:
1. Harry Potter the final - 15 votes 2. The Kite Runner - 12 votes 3. A Thousand Splendid Suns - 11 votes 4. Twilight - 5 votes 4. The Thirteenth Tale - 5 votes

With 4 votes each:Water For Elephants, The Road, The Red Tent, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Middlesex, Eat, Pray, Love

With 3 votes each:Eclipse, My Sister's Keeper, Suite Francaise, Shadow of the Wind, The Lovely Bones, Jane Eyre, His Dark Materials (plus 3 honorable mentions), The Glass Castle, Girl With the Pearl Earring, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

With 2 votes each:19 Minutes, Black Swan Green, Dogs of Babel, Heart-Shaped Box, In the Woods, Into the Wild, Kafka on the Shore, On Chesil Beach, The Book Thief, The Memory Keepers Daughter, The Stolen Child, No Country for Old Men, Marley and Me, New Moon

This will SERIOUSLY be a challenge for me, but I am up for it! Happy Reading!!!