aromaannie

Mine is currently standing at 20. I'm not reading as much at the mo.

I'm pretty sure there is an option somewhere as I have used it in the past. Will check another day for you when I'm not on my 3rd glass of wine

I'm loving the new look Green Met. What are other peoples thoughts on it's updates.

I thought Phil ws unlucky last night - Gary was simply dreadful it reminded me of 'dad dancing'

Totallky agree with you especially the witty part and I think that's why I enjoy the Mylon series so much

I also rea this at school and remember being pleasently suprised that I enjoyed it. I then reread it later as an adult as I just wanted to read the book and enjoy it rather than have to analyse it.

This is probably going to be unpopular but I want Darnell to win or me next choice is Rex

I use an excel spreadsheet and record author,title, mark out of 10, date finished and total number read that year. I find it really helpful to be able to sort it by author when I want to check if I have already read a particular book

Gregg & Gina Hill - On the Run NON FICTION On the Run is a harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback. Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. On his way to prison, lifelong gangster Henry is given two options: sleep with the fishes, or enter the FBI's Witness Protection Programme. Gregg and Gina are dragged along for the ride. Like nomads, they're forced to wander from state to state, constantly inventing new names and finding new friends, only to abandon them at a moments notice. Living in fear of being found and killed. But Henry, the rock Gregg and Gina so desperately need is a heavy cocaine user and knows only the criminal life. He is soon up to his old tricks and consistently putting their identities in jeopardy. And so, it continues until the kids, now almost grown, can no longer ignore that the Mob might be less of a threat to them than remaining under the roof of their increasingly unbalanced father. Goodfellas is one of my favourite films so I was very interested in reading what life was like for Henry Hill's kids once their family were in the witness protection program. To be honest I can't understand how they stayed alive as Henry didn't seem to understand how to behave once in the program to stay unnoticed by the Mafia. He was also an abusive father to both of his children and at times this is a very sad read. 8/10 Books read this year = 65 Blind Faith - Ben Elton Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion. Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home? I normally really enjoy BE's books but was a bit releaved when I got to the end of this one. At times it is very funny but the humour can be a bit repetitive and towards the end of the book you start to feel you have read it all before. Worth reading but definately not up to his usual standard. 7/10 Books read this year = 66

There's no pattern to when I read but I do have to have silence

Glad it's not just me

Cat - Freya North Catriona McCabe, 28, only ever known at Cat, is trying to improve her career as a sports journalist and get over a failed relationship. What better way to do both than to spend the summer following the Tour de France? Plunged into a male press corps, Cat has to fight for space and for stories. From Provence to Paris, up the Pyranees and over the Alps, Cat and her entourage of podium girls, anxious wives, autocratic team directors and seasoned hacks pursue the boys on bikes. With sex, drugs, large bulges and larger egos, the soap opera that is the Tour de France unfolds, with Cat's life frequently mirroring the peaks and perils of the race. Take a ride on the wild side... OMG did I struggle with this. I started it last summer and as I refuse to give up on a book I have been treating it a bit like medicine and forcing mysef to read a few pages evry now & then. I have no interest in cycling at all so the subject matter didn't help but I do feel if it was a good chick lit book then I wouldn't hve found the subject boring. I hated the fact that every now & then sentences kept popping up in French, a language I don't know, so had not idea what was being said. I didn't warm to Cat and quite frankly couldn't have cared less if she got the job/man etc. This is dfinately the first & last Freya North book I'll ever pick up. 3/10 Books read this year = 63 The Sleeping Doll - Jeffrey Deaver California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But she's up against Daniel Pell, a master of control who mesmerises, seduces and exploits people for his own murderous ends. A convicted killer who is known as The Son of Manson for the chilling parallels between him and the notorious ritual murderer.To track down Pell before he destroys yet more lives, Kathyn Dance must enlist the help of four people from the killer's past. The three women who lived under his sadistic sway in the cult he once headed. And the young girl known as the Sleeping Doll, the only survivor of her family's slaughter at Pell's hands ... I was a bit disappointed with this book. After reading JD's last novel during which the character Kathyn Dance was first introduced to the reader and enjoying it I was really looking forward to this book. I can't really put my finger on what was missing in this book as it's not a bad read at all, I just think I was expecting more. 7/10 Books read this year = 64

Deadline by Simon Kernick 'We've got your daughter.' It's evening, you're back late from work - and the house is in darkness. You step inside, and the phone rings. You answer it - and your world turns upside down. Your fourteen-year-old daughter's been taken, and her kidnappers demand half a million pounds in cash. They give you 48 hours to raise the money, and warn you that if you call the police, she'll die. Trying desperately to remain calm, you realise that your husband - the man you married only two years previously - is also missing. But he can't be involved in your daughter's abduction. Or can he? As your nightmare begins, you can be certain of only two things: that you will do anything to get your daughter back alive - and that time is running out ... Another extremely fast paced gritty crime novel by SK and possibly his best so far. This again features the characater DI Bolt and personally I enjoy characters that reappear in books as you start to feel that you are getting to know them more & more. Since reading my first SK novel I have worked my way through all his previous releases andlook forward to any new bboks he writes. 8.5/10 Books read this year = 61 The Quickie - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiralling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now, she's paralyzed by a deadly secret that could tear her life apart. With her job and marriage on the line, Lauren's desire for retribution becomes a lethal inferno as she fights to save her livelihood - and her life I tend to think that JP's novels are a bit like Marmite. Personally I am of the love them opinion. As always expect short fast paced chapters & twists & turns. Perhaps my only critiscism is that you don't always get a chance to really understand the main characters as the books don't go into a huge amount of detail. 7.5/10 Books read this year = 62

LOl we seem to keep posting at the same time

No problem at all but if people could bear in mind for the future that would be great That actually brings up another point that if it wasn't mentioned at the end of the show does that mean people were still being allowed to vote on her line?

Just thinking about what I wrote above and wondering if this was actually said at the end of tonight's show when they were giving out the numbers as I tend not to watch that part. Please feel free to put me straight on my last post if this was the case

Could things like this be put in spoilers please as I do like to wait for the show to find things out? Hope that's ok with people.

I've just read Murder Most Fab by Julian Cleary and found that pretty amusing

Mine is down to 14 but that's more to do with a lack of funds rather than being good.

Geri Halliwell - If Only NON FICTION This book details Geri's life up until just after she left the Spice Girls. I was pleasantly suprised with this book and found it far more intersting than I thought I would. I particularly enjoyed reading about all the different auditions etc she went on before the Spice Girls were formed to try and find fame - boy was she desperate for it! I'm not sure that I believe everything in the book but an enjoyable read all the same. 8.5/10 Books read this year = 60

Penguin are giving away 500 holiday reads to anybody who promises to review it within 6 weeks. I got Playback by Raymond Chandler http://www.blogaholidayread.co.uk/site/baMain.php5

Sorry no reviews on these as I have some major upheavals going on in my personal life at the mo. Hopefully my next batch will have reviews for you. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult 8/10 Whatever Mother Says by Wensley Clarkson 7/10 Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen 9/10 Murder Most Fab by Julian Cleary 9/10 A Good Day to Die by Simon Kernick 7.5/10 Morality For Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith 8/10 Books read this year = 59

I always read any books that I have bought which are new releases first, this gives me a better chance of selling them on Greenmet. Apart from that I just pick what I fancy and once a month I read a book that has been on my TBR pile for more than 12 months.