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The Girl Who Chased the moon by Sarah Addison Allen Synopsis: Emily Benedict has come to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew, she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor, Julia Winterson, bakes hope in the form of cakes, not only wishing to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also dreaming of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily’s backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in. Review: This is such a little gem. Magically delightful and it makes you smile. It reminded me a bit about the movie Big Fish, not story wise but just this quirky kind of magic that surrounds the people of Mullaby. The only negative things I can say is that it ended when I wanted to know more and that some of the great mysteries felt a bit weak.

Thank you! :-) I should add that one to my wish list! I have Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and I'll probably bump that higher up on my TBR list. However it wasn't that long ago that I bought it and I'm trying to read a lot of my older books since I've put them off for so long. In my crazy head I feel that they might get sad if I wait to long to read them....:-P

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Synopsis: A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager - he will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic 1872 novel, which remains unsurpassed in sheer story-telling entertainment and pure adventure. Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Jean Passepartout, embark on a fantastic journey into a world filled with danger and beauty - from the exotic shores of India, where the heroic travelers rescue a beautiful Raja's wife from ritual sacrifice, to the rugged American frontier, where their train is ambushed by an angry Sioux tribe. Fogg's mission is complicated by an incredible case of mistaken identity that sends a Scotland Yard detective in hot pursuit. At once a riveting race against time and an action-packed odyssey into the unknown, Around the World in Eighty Days is a masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imaginations of generations of readers - and continues to enthrall us today. Thoughts: I read a classic and I liked it! It's pretty fast paced and an exciting read. You learn a lot and the characters and likable. I think I might have seen the movie but I didn't remember much so it wasn't a spoiler. I must say I liked pretty much everything abut this book and I wasn't expecting too. Phileas Fogg is a great name and I love how he stayed so calm and collected during the entire book while Passepartout was going through and emotional roller coaster and getting them into trouble. 4/5

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Synopsis: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. My thoughts: If you order a book in the summer and get's it in January it better be good. This book was hyped up, it even has it's own blog on tumblr where people holds it up showing they got it. Why? Well for one John Green signed every pre-orderd copy, that would 150 000, and two it's a book by John Green. So did it live up to the hype? For me, yes, it was a beautiful book. John writes beuatiful, thoughtful, realistic book that you can easily related to. He teaches you things as you read and he makes you look at the world just a little bit different. I loved this book and think it*s his best since Looking for Alaska. The main character Hazel it believably written and so are the rest of them, although Peter van Houten is a little bit...out there. I did struggle with some of his words since English is not my first language. It's a great, honest and sad tale about young people. John Green at his best! 6/5 :-)

Across the Universe by Beth Revis Synopsis: Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed. She expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, Amy's cryo chamber is unplugged, and she is nearly killed. Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader, and Elder, his rebellious and brilliant teenage heir. Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she? All she knows is that she must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again. Review: I don't read a lot of sci-fi but I did enjoy this book. You follow the two characters Amy and Elder as they deal with the strange things happening on the ship. Some of it was pretty disturbing to me considering this is YA book. You get their point of view from every other chapter, Amy who has just woken up to this strange new world and Elder who starts to see that what he has grown up with as normal may actually be really wrong. It was a quick read, good characters and an exciting story. I'll probably pick up the sequel. 3/5

Best early valentines ever! We we out shopping today and my boyfriend let me go into the bookstore and pick whatever I wanted as my valentines gift! I got three books, yay: A game of thrones by Geroge RR Martin Wordsworth Libaraby Collection: The Little Prince and Other Stories Stolen by Leslie Pearse

I haven't read Quidditch through the ages but I definitely must get it this year! I remember reading Black Beauty when I was a kid and loving it, but I'm not sure if it was an unabridged version or not. How long was your book? Because I remember it as being pretty short.

Great review! I've been wanting to read The Forrest of Hands and Theeth forever. Putting this and the series on my wish list!

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Synopsis: In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation. Review: Does anyone else ever feel like a bad reader for not liking a classic? I really did not like this book very much and all the characters were very easy to dislike. I did not enjoy Heatcliff or Cathrines story, and I felt that overall it was pretty dull. Does it make me crappy reader? I'm sure I missed a lot of themes and important stuff and the translation into Swedish did nothing for this book. I did like Cathy a lot more for some reason and found her story more interesting then her mothers but as I said overall this was such a dark book I never felt that I got into it. 2/5

I love the books and remember being very scared of the fox and the fake hen in the book above as a child.

It's here! I'm so frickin excited! I ordered John Greens The Fault in Our Stars in June last year and it finally came out on January 10th. If you don't know he signed all pre-ordered copies or around 150 000 books. Mine had a red J scibble. Love it! Pictures on my tumblr! Can't wait to read it!

How did you like Gullivers Travles? I read it last year and thought it was a fun read. I had seen so many movie version it was nice to get the original story.

Thank you! Yeah it's getting a bit to long, but can you really have to many books? My goal is to try and read some of the ones that has been there the longest. Hopefully it will be shorter by the end of the year! :-D

That sounds really good, adding to wish list! You have a great TBR list, happy reading this year!

That looks really nice and I love the panda! What a good way to stack books on your desk, I might have to steal that idea ;-)

In defense of food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan This is a re-read, but in this case I chose to listen to it while driving to and from work. I love this book and I needed a reminder to get in to a healthy state of mind about food again. It's a well-written, thought provoking manifesto over what well seem to forget about food. How it once was natural and that adding things to make it look like something it's not was very much against the law. Now however it's almost mandatory. It also discusses the way it's so easy to put health claims on everything and Pollan states that they day Coca cola gets to put a health claim on it's bottle will surely be a dark day but we all know its coming. It's a great book if you have an interest in food and what we really eat. It will however make you daily trip to the super market much harder as you will find there is a lot of edible products but almost no food to buy. 5/5

I've already started Wuthering Height so that will be my first read of 2012!

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Leviathan Synopsis: One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, and culminating in epic turns-of-heart and the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage. Told in alternating voices from two YA superstars, this collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart and humor that have won them both legions of fans. Review: I can't help but to love everything John Green writes. Although people have said that his writing is to simple and to much of the same thing all over again I have to dissagree. I would say it's simply beautiful and the people ha create and always deep and intricate. The same goes for his Will Garyson who has problems, normal problems that readers can relate and all the things Will feels I'm sure most of us has felt a some part of our lives. Then there is the other Will Grayson, written by David Leviathan. I had not read any of his other books, but I'm gonna add most of them to my wish list. This Will I just wanted to hug because he reminded me so much of a friend I have, minus the gay part. David has so well portrayed what it's like to be feeling better but being so far from being okay. Will is struggling with depression and mental health issues. I have not had to deal with depression personally so I can never truly understand how you feels but Levithan does an amazing job of putting the reader in his head and you get a sens of the helplessness he feels and the anger. What did annoy me a bit is the fact that Leviathans chapters are all written with lower case letters. It too a while to get used to reading like that. But then again I read that the reason for it was that his Will Grayson always felt like this, lower case....and to me that made sense. Although dealing with a lot of dark and heavy subjects this is a funny, hilarious book. The character Tiny Cooper brightens up pages after page and you just want him to step out of the book and be your friend too. That being said he is by no means a simple character and is as well written as the rest of them It also has a musical in it, and who can complain about that? 5/5

So I got four books for Christmas and I'm excited about all of them. The Girl Who Chased the moon by Sarah Addison Allen Beautiful looking book and I love the title. One of out Thursdays are missing by Jasper Fforde Looks compleatly crazy and brilliant. The Secret of Happy Ever After by Lucy Dillon It's about a girl who owns a book store and old childrens tales, could it be more perfect! Du gamla du fria by Liza Marklund Another one in the series about Annica Bengtzon, they are always an exciting read Couldn't be happier since I had not wished for any of them :-) My friends know me to well!

BBC The Big Read I've had this one printed out at home for a while so thought I might as well put it here too. :-) 15 read 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Wish list I'll update his one later..... 1. Lola and the boy next door by Stepanie Perkins 2. The Fault in our Stars by John Green (already have my signed copy pre-ordered!) 3. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell 4. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson 5. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman series by Pamela Aiden 6. The Forrest of Hands and Theeth series by Carrie Ryan 7.The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

I've decided to do the short version of Rorys book list this year. Rorys Book list 1.The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 2. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander 3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 4. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 5. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 7. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 8. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 9.The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 10. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff 11. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn 12. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 13. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. My Life in Orange by Tim Guest 16.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 17. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Tror jag. 18. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 19. Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman 20. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 21. Songbook by Nick Hornby 22. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 23. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzel 24. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 25. Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen 26. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 27. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 28. Extravagance by Gary Krist 29. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 30. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 31. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 32. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 33. Small Island by Andrea Levy 34. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 35. A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars 36. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 37. Property by Valerie Martin 38. Quattrocento by James McKean 39. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Hurra! 40 The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 41. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 42. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 43. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 44. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett 45. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult 46. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 47. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 48. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 49. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 50. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 51. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris 52. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 53. Unless by Carol Shields Darling, darling! 54. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 55. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan 56. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 57. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 58. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 59. Old School by Tobias Wolff 60. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 61. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 62. Emma by Jane Austen 63. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 64. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac 65. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 66. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 67. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 68. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos 69. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 70. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 71. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 72. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 73. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 74. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 75. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 76. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner 77. Time and Again by Jack Finney 78. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 79. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 80. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 81. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 82. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 83. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 84. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 85. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 86. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 87. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 88. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 89. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 90. On The Road by Jack Kerouac 91. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey 92. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 93. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 94. The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 95. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 96. Beloved by Toni Morrison 97. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 98. 1984 by George Orwell 99. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 100. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 101. Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 102. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 103. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 104. Sybil by Flora Schreiber 105. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 106. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 107. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 108. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 109. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Snyftare från min barndom. 110. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 111. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 112. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 113. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 114. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 115. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 116. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 117. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 118. Night by Elie Wiesel 119. The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 120. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

Reading plan...sort of January Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Across the Universe by Beth Revis Febuary The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Angels and Deamons by Dan Brown March April May June July August September November December

TBR list 2012 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Flowers in the Rain by Rosmund Pilscher Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Populärmusik från vittula by Mikael Nemi Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 1984 by George Orwell Vägen till Jerusalem by Jan Gulliou Riket vid vägens slut by Jan Gulliou Walden by Henry David Therou Dubliners by james Joyce Catch 22 by Joeseph Heller The grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne Sofies Värld by Jostein Gaarder The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams Stuffed and starved by Raj Patel Sidetracked by Henning Mankell Before the frost by Henning Mankell Pyramiden by Henning Mankell The two towers by J.R.R Toliken Selected short stories Oscar Wilde complete collection Anna Karenina part 1 and 2 by Leo Tolstoy His dark materials series: The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman His dark materials series: The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman Mr Darcy takes a wife by Lisa Berdoll Royal assassin by Robin Hobb The Valley of Horses by J M. Auel Heavens Net is Wide by Lian Hern Pigs Have Wings by P.G Woodhouse Gösta Berlings Saga by Selma Lagerlöf Hemsöborna by August Strindberg Tom Sawyers adventures by Mark Twain Wicked by Gregory Maguire Du gamla Du Fria by Liza Marklund The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michale Chabon Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Naturally Thin by Bethenny Frankel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Ulysses by James Joyce To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Ireland’s Master Storyteller- The Collected stories of Eamon Kelly Norweigen Wood by Haruki Murakami The Naked and the Dead by Norman Maile Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Across the Universe by Beth Revis Irish Ghost stories The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. About a boy by Nick Hornby Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain. Roots by Alex Haley Hamlet by Shakespeare. The Girl Who Chased the moon by Sarah Addison Allen One of out Thursdays are missing by Jasper Fforde The Secret of Happy Ever After by Lucy Dillon A wizard of Earthsea by Ursela LeGuin Svavelvinter by Erik Granström The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach Let it Snow by John Green etc Generation A by Douglas Coupland Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss Noveller för Världens Barn 2010 A game of thrones by Geroge RR Martin Stolen by Leslie Pearse Wordsworth Libaraby Collection: The Little Prince and Other Stories