Posts Tagged ‘book list’

  • Books of 2010

    Date: 2011.01.01 | Category: News | Response: 3

    I was aiming to read 50 books this year, which may or may not sound like a lot to you, but alas I didn’t make it. I did manage to read 45 (or to be completely honest, am 3/4  way through book no 45*) but will most likely be finished by tomorrow  so I’m counting it in.

    I failed miserably at doing any of the challenges that I planned to, I only managed to read one book from the GLBT challenge and I still have other books on my list which are sitting in my bookshelf awaiting my eyes to peruse them.

    What I did learn about myself, is that I am not a List reader. I need to go searching for something which tickles my fancy at a particular time and then read it, which doesn’t work so well for challenges, but I may aim to try it again sometime. Another thing which I have learnt over the last year reading wise, is that sometimes I am just not in the mood to read, whoever would of thought I would utter such words, but it’s true. Between work and toddler play, life gets busy and  at bedtime, I can barely keep my eyes open to read a page, never mind a chapter but my holiday has rectified that for  now at least.

    So, without further ado, I give to you my list of books I read this year. Not all of them have reviews.

    1. We be reading  – Sue Gee
    2. Northern Lights – Phillip Pullman
    3. The Angels game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    4. The Subtle Knife – Phillip Pullman
    5. Micheal Tolliver lives – Armistead Maupin
    6. The Marriage Bureau for rich people – Farahad Zama
    7. Where Rainbows end – Cecilia Ahern
    8. The Elegance of the hedgehog -  Muriel Burbery
    9. Rumour has it – Jill Mansell
    10. Indigo Children – Lee Carroll, Jan Tober
    11. The Mother Daughter Dance – Harriet Lerner Ph.D
    12. The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova
    13. Natural Flights of the Human Mind – Clare Morrall
    14. A Million Miles from Normal – Paige Nick
    15. The eye of the world – Robert Jordan
    16. The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan
    17. Sparkles – Louise Bagshaw
    18. Blankets – Craig Thompson
    19. The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
    20. Mushy peas on toast -Laurian Clemence
    21. Pippi long stocking – Astrid Lindgren
    22. One fifth Avenue – Candace Bushnell
    23. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
    24. Our Tragic Universe – Scarlett Thomas
    25. The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs – Jack Gantos
    26. A pyschic in new york
    27. The Host – Stephanie Meyer
    28. Tom Bedlam – George Hagen
    29. Slam – Nick Hornby
    30. Tea Time for the traditionally built – Alexander McCall Smith
    31. I don’t like chocolate – Jesse Breytenbach
    32. The Childrens book – A.S Byatt
    33. Penny Vincenzi- the other woman
    34. Louise Bagshawe – Passion
    35. The pillars of the earth – Ken Follet
    36. The last Dragonslayer – Jasper Fforde
    37. The love verb – Jane Green
    38. How to raise happy healthy children – Sally Ann Creed and Andalene Salvesen
    39. Haroun and the sea of stories -Salmon Rushdie
    40. Room – Emma Donahue
    41. Ladies who lunch – Linda Francis Lee
    42. Toby Alone- Timothee de Fombelle
    43. A book of a  thousand days- Shannon Hale
    44. Aphrodite – Erica Jong
    45. Helen of Troy – Margaret George *

    Hmm, looking at this lists, I realise, I will need to do more reviews on my reading!

    Here’s to a great book year, leave a comment, and let me know where you book at, love checking out new book blogs:-)

  • What are you reading this week?

    Date: 2010.03.07 | Category: News | Response: 8

    Apologies for lack of posting here, I had decided I needed a little ‘time out’ from the computer. You know when it drains your energy rather than compliments it? Well, that was how it was this past week.  But, here we are, back in the land of the living with lots of reading going on.

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    I am currently reading my Jasper Fforde book – Shades of Grey but before that I had a spate of other books including:

    * finishing the Northern Lights series by Phillip Pullman – I will be putting up a review, but have to honest and say it may take some time as it had a fair amount of stuff in it, which needs to perculate before penning

    * We be reading – Sue Gee, a lovely book about two life long friends and their ups and downs in life.  Simple, easy reading.

    * Rumour has it – Jill Mansell, another light hearted chick lit book, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

    * The Elegance of the hedgehog – Beautiful beautiful book, keep your eyes peeled for the review from a million miles from normal who won the ‘feel the love‘ book for valentines day.

    * And the usual  5 books read to my daughter before bed!

    We are always looking for reviews, so if you have read something so good or so bad that you want to shout it from the window tops, please send them in! and go on, spill the beans, what are you reading this week?