lauraloves Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Rosie's War - Rosemary Say (Thanks Laura) I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did I need to do some serious reading to catch up with all these great books, maybe I could ask the schools if they'll cancel the school holidays... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I need to do some serious reading to catch up with all these great books, maybe I could ask the schools if they'll cancel the school holidays... I know what you mean about reading time, I need to see if I can get paid to read while at work or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I know what you mean about reading time, I need to see if I can get paid to read while at work or something Unless we a really busy I can normally manage a few hours at work a day, I feel very lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 Unless we a really busy I can normally manage a few hours at work a day, I feel very lucky. You are very lucky! I don't work so really should make more time to read when the kids are at school but by the time the dogs are walked, housework and garden done it's time to pick them up again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Unless we a really busy I can normally manage a few hours at work a day, I feel very lucky. wow I'm jelous! I can sometimes read if I'm the only person in the office, but thats once every blue moon these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 (edited) I just think I'm really picky, and even fantastic reads don't always get a top rating from me. A book has to be something special that gets under my skin and lodges in my brain and refuses to leave before I give it top marks. That makes a lot of sense to be honest, I think I'd be the same if I rated out of ten. It'd only be the really special ones that'd get 10/10. I agree with Claire - the top level has to be something special. Rather than going for marking out of ten, which I think would give far too narrow bands which would lead to some inconsistency, I prefer to simply have a 6 star system, with the top level reserved for my all-time favourites. These currently number just over a hundred books, 80 or so fiction and 25 or so non-fiction. Just one book of the 26 read so far this year has achieved six stars: Pure by Andrew Miller I do seem to have a higher proportion of five star awards than usual: Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Tom-All-Alone's - Lynn Shepherd Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert The Waves - Virginia Woolf Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch No five star plus non-fiction reads yet, but the current one (Dambusters by James Holland) looks promising. BTW, I have been known to revise a five star award up if after a while I find that it has got 'under my skin' as Claire says. Equally, 6-star books have been downgraded if I realise that it isn't quite so memorable as I initially thought. I think Pure might stay as six stars at the moment! Edited July 8, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 (edited) Great thread chalie .. I do love a list These are my faves so far. I've read at least one (to my mind anyway) brilliant book a month .. I'm pleased with that The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt Dracula - Bram Stoker Night - Elie Wiesel Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey Tom-All-Alone's - Lynn Shepherd Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel Watership Down - Richard Adams I've made them gold to match their golden status Edited October 25, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 BTW, I have been known to revise a five star award up if after a while I find that it has got 'under my skin' as Claire says. Equally, 6-star books have been downgraded if I realise that it isn't quite so memorable as I initially thought. I think Pure might stay as six stars at the moment! I do the same. I often go through the 5 star books and reassess if I feel they have still warranted that rating, especially when I compare the new 5 star books to the old ones and see if they match up to each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Probably these books have been my top reads so far. 'Still Alice' by Lisa Genova 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins I have read more but these are the ones worthy of mentioning here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey I've made them gold to match their golden status I think I'm on my way to agreeing with you on this one, but now paying lots of attentions to how Garrett talks after your post on another thread!! I do the same. I often go through the 5 star books and reassess if I feel they have still warranted that rating, especially when I compare the new 5 star books to the old ones and see if they match up to each other. I'm thinking of changing all my previous reviews to include ratings out of 10, sometimes 5 just doesn't seem enough!! Probably these books have been my top reads so far. 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins Can definitely agree with you on these two, especially Birdsong, what a fantastic read!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I've read quite a few books, but my favourites this year so far are: 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' by Garth Stein 'We Bought a Zoo' by Benjamin Mee 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte (which I only gave 3 stars on my book list, I must have been feeling mean that day!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 No five star plus non-fiction reads yet, but the current one (Dambusters by James Holland) looks promising. More than just promising: my second six-star book this year now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola Booth Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 One Day David Nicholls Before I Go To Sleep S J Watson Water For Elephants Sara Gruen My Cousin Rachel Daphne Du Maurier The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Breakfast at Darcy's Ali McNamara From Notting Hill with Love Actually Ali McNamara Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday The Legacy Katherine Webb Minding Frankie Maeve Binchy Ghost Heart R. J. Ellory Matilda Roald Dahl Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Jeffrey Archer Those Faraday Girls Monica McInerney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argon9 Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Well I thought I had read some brilliant books this year but my list seems a little small True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling (re-read enjoyed it so much more second time around) Murder is Easy - Agatha Christie THe Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend The Fry Chronicals - Stephen Fry Wait wait wait, Murder is Easy is a book?! There is a miss Marple episode with the same name. *does a swift google search* Miss Maple is a book series by the same writer? Ohhh this goes on my TBR list right away. How dare they, making good tv shows without telling me there are also books to be read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Ken Grimwood's Replay is far and away my favourite read so far this year. I think I've only given three 10's: Replay by Ken Grimwood Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 (edited) After my last read, I am amending my list to include it My best books of the year are: Gene Kelly: A Biography, by Clive Hirschhorn Shakespeare On Toast: Getting a Taste For the Bard, by Ben Crystal The Legend of Colton H Bryant, by Alexandra Fuller Starmaker, by Jay Bernstein The Six Wives of Henry VIII, by Alison Weir Paul Newman: A Life, by Shawn Levy I notice that all of my best reads are non-fiction (The Legend of Colton H Bryant is a fictionalised account of a real story), which I find quite interesting, because until about two years ago, I hardly ever read non-fiction. Edited July 27, 2012 by Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoi Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 My top 5 Books - The Art of Fielding: A Novel - Chad Harbach What It Is Like to Go to War - Karl Marlantes Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson Bossypants - Tina Fey In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 The Wind Through The Keyhole (A Dark Tower Novel) by Stephen King The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I'm Starved for You by Margaret Atwood (kindle short) 22.11.63 by Stephen King Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) So far this year: Dark World by Zak Bagans The Art of Racing in the Rain hmm, there is another I can't remember right now, so I will come back when I think of it. Edited September 1, 2012 by Devi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Ken Grimwood's Replay is far and away my favourite read so far this year. I think I've only given three 10's: Replay by Ken Grimwood Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Adding: The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 So far this year: Dark World by Zak Bagans The Art of Racing in the Rain Ooooo! So you've finished The Art of Racing in the Rain, and by the looks of it, you really loved it?! I'm sooo pleased! Adding: The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells Your Stevie Tenners decrease in value day by day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander the Great Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 It took a while for me to read the first really good book I'd read in 2012. This is my list: The Interpration of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld Mailman by J. Robert Lennon Silence of the Lambs by Robert Harris The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar Room by Emma Donoghue That's 7 books out of 33. I have to admit that 2012 is a bit of a slow year when it comes to reading good books. Especially in the first few months, I felt that most of the books I read were average at best. I've definitely had better years, but I also feel like it's picked up since June. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankwasalreadytaken Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 The best book i have read from january till now is: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinA Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 My favorite books are (Children's book category) Yesterday I Played in the Rain The Pile Up Treasure Island Matilda Spot I just feel there is something about children's books that brings back memories and those memories last forever and get passed on through the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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