1) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini  (R) 3/5
2) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 3/5
3) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman - Stefan Zweig 3.5/5
4) Maigret and the Gangsters - Georges Simenon 3/5
5) Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands - Fred Vargas 3.5/5
6) The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney 4.5/5
7) An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd 4/5
8) The Fruit of the Lemon - Andrea Levy 3/5
9) A Bridge to the Stars - Henning Mankell 2.5/5
10) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (R) 5/5
11) The Darkness of Wallis Simpson - Rose Tremain 4/5
12) Blindsight - Maurice Gee 3.5/5
13) The White Darkness - Geraldine McCaughrean 5/5
14) The Bone People - Keri Hulme 4/5
15) The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde 3/5
16) The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen (R) 4/5
17) The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield 3/5
18) Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3.5/5
19) Lanark - Alaistair Gray 4/5
20) Any Human Heart - William Boyd 4/5
21) Over - Margaret Forster 4/5
22) The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 2/5
23) Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie 2/5
24) Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann 4/5
25) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 5/5 

50 book challenge

25 / 50 (50.0%)

15000 pages

8,872 / 15,000 (59.1%)

I started these in 2000 on an excel spreadsheet.  Years 2000 - 2004 were transferred to a memory stick and printed out for safe keeping.  The original computer had a disk crash, my son misplaced the memory stick and I now can't find the "disaster recovery" hard copies.  As they say, the best laid plans of mice and men!

I do, however, have my lists for 2005 and 2006.  I picked up a few speed reading techniques here and there sometime in 2005.  Basic ones, for after all, I don't want to lose the pleasure of reading.  Yet even the basic techniques have made a difference for my average for 2005 and 2006 are way above that of previous years ..... even so I still find myself bemoaning thus "So many books, so little time" .....