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Books I read in 2009

 

1. Sophie Kinsella: Remember Me? 4/5

2. Kathy Reichs: Fatal Voyage 4/5

3. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life 1/5

4. Sofi Oksanen: Baby Jane 3/5

5. Kathy Reichs: Grave Secrets 2/5

6. Kathy Reics: Bare Bones 3/5

7. Sofi Oksanen: Stalinin lehmät 4/5

8. Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis 2/5

9. Jacqueline Sheehan: Lost & Found 3/5

10. Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 5/5

11. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 3/5

12. William Golding: The Lord of the Flies 2/5

13. Franz Kafka: The Trial 2/5

14. Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 5/5

15. Bram Stoker: Dracula 4/5

16. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange 4/5

17. Stephen King: Gerald's Game 2/5

18. Terry Pratchett: Going Postal 1/5

19. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho 2/5

20. Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book 2/5

21. Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire 4/5

22. Terry Pratchett: Thud! 1/5

23. Greg Kincaid: A Dog Named Christmas 3/5

24. Märta Tikkanen: Miestä ei voi raiskata 4/5

25. Lois Lowry: The Giver 5/5

26. Sofi Oksanen: Puhdistus 5/5

27. Juhani Aho: Rautatie 4/5

28. Toivo Pekkanen: Tehtaan varjossa 2/5

29. James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia 4/5

30. Frank L. Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2/5

31. John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 5/5

32. Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory 1/5

33. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 4/5

34. Louisa May Alcott: Good Wives 3/5

35. Katherine Applegate: Summer Can't Choose 4/5

36. Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven 3/5

37. Vikas Swarup: Q&A 5/5

38. Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club 2/5

39. Alice Hoffman: Blue Diary 2/5

40. Jeffery Deaver: Bone Collector 4/5

41. Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie 3/5

42. L. M. Montgomery: Emily of New Moon 4/5

43. Jeffery Deaver: The Coffin Dancer 5/5

44. Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist 2/5

45. Katherine Applegate: Seth Want More 4/5

46. Katherine Applegate: Diana Fights Back 4/5

47. Katherine Applegate: Marquez Breaks Free 4/5

48. Katherine Applegate: Summer's Last Chance 4/5

49. Katherine Applegate: Diana Makes a Move 4/5

50. Katherine Applegate: Looking for Diver 4/5

51. Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter 4/5

52. Jeff Lindsay: Dearly Devoted Dexter 4/5

53. Tuija Lehtinen: Joka kimma sen tietää 4/5

54. Chelsea Cain: Heartsick 4/5

55. Aino Kontula: Rexi on homo ja opettajat hullui! 3/5

56. Chelsea Cain: Sweetheart 4/5

57. Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant 2/5

58. Derek Landy: Playing with Fire 2/5

59. Jennifer Weiner: Goodnight Nobody 3/5

60. Paulo Coelho: Veronica Decides to Die 3/5

61. Lynda La Plante: Trial & Retribution 1. 3/5

62. Ann Rule: Stranger Beside me 5/5

63. Marja-Leena Tiainen: Suoraa sarkaa ja samettia 3/5

64. Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency 3/5

65. Robert Bloch: Psycho 4/5

66. Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart 3/5

67. Gavriil Troyepolsky: White Bim Black Ear 5/5

68. Seth Grahame-Smith: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: 2/5

69. Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries 3/5

70. Chris Niles: Hell's Kitchen 3/5

71. Toby Clements: The No. 2 Global Detective 2/5

72. Meg Cabot: Princess in the Spotlight 3/5

73. Ian Rankin: Knots and Crosses 4/5

74. John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men 4/5

75. Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark 4/5

76. Graham Greene: Travels with My Aunt 3/5

77. Lee Goldberg: Mr Monk Goes to the Firehouse 4/5

78. Michel Faber: Under the Skin 5/5

79. Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas 5/5

80. Charlaine Harris: Club Dead 5/5

81. Candice F. Ransom: My Sister the Meanie 3/5

82. Candice F. Ransom: My Sister the Creep 4/5

83. Candice F. Ransom: My Sister the Traitor 4/5

84. Meg Cabot: Princess in Love 4/5

85. Meg Cabot: Pincess in Waiting 2/5

86. Charlaine Harris: Dead to the World 4/5

87. Charlaine Harris: Dead as a Doornail 5/5

88. Charlaine Harris: Definitely Dead 3/5

89. Marianne Käcko: Tapa minut, äiti! 3/5

90. Charlaine Harris: All Together Dead 3/5

91. Charlaine Harris: From Dead to Worse 3/5

92. Charlaine Harris: Dead and Gone 5/5

93. Joyce Carol Oates: Rape - A Love Story 4/5

94. Chelsea Cain: Evil at Heart 4/5

95. Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain 5/5

96. Erica Spindler: In Silence 3/5

97. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 3/5

98. Einar Mar Gudmundsson: Kaikkeuden Enkelit 3/5

99. Tuija Lehtinen: Siskokullat 2/5

100. Ken Bruen: Priest 4/5

101. Karin Slaughter: Blindsighted 5/5

102. Mark Billingham: Sleepyhead 3/5

103. Jean- Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell and the Humming Bird 1/5

104. Karin Slaughter: Kisscut 4/5

105. Karin Slaughter: A Faint Cold Fear 4/5

106. Karin Slaughter: Indelible 5/5

107. Karin Slaughter: Faithless 4/5

108. Karin Slaughter: Triptych 5/5

109. Karin Slaughter: Beyond Reach 3/5

110. Sophie Kinsella: Twenties Girl 5/5

111. Jeff Lindsay: Dexter in the Dark 2/5

112. Heikki Turunen: Seitsemän kurvin suora 4/5

113. Väinö Linna: Tuntematon sotilas 4/5

114. Kira Poutanen: Ihana meri 1/5

115. Janet Evanovich: One for the Money 3/5

116. Anu Jaantila: Jenkkivuosi 3/5

117. Anu Jaantila: Dear Sanna 5/5

118. Anu Jaantila: Sanna ja Sam - Forever? 5/5

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Books I've bought/gotten in 2009

 

1) Minette Walters: The Echo

2) Kathy Reichs: Monday Mourning

3) Tess Gerritsen: Body Double

4) David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars

5) Helen Keller: The Story of My Life READ

6) Gavriil Trojepolski: Bim Mustakorva READ

7) Lois Lowry: Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst

8) Tess Gerritsen: The Surgeon

9) Jacqueline Sheehan: Lost & Found READ

10) Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford

John Grogan: Marley & Me READ

Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Terry Pratchett: Pyramids

Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn

Robert Bloch: Psycho READ

Ian Rankin: Knots & Crosses

George Eliot: Silas Marner

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind

20) Lois Lowry: The Giver READ

Tess Gerritsen: Vanish

Trudi Canavan: The Magicians' Guild

Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy

Richard Bachman: The Regulators

Robin Hobb: Assassin's Apprentice

Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka

Mihail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

30) Iris Murdoch: The Sea, The Sea

Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World

Jeff Lindsay: Dexter in the Dark

Richard Montanari: The Rosary Girls

Ken Follett: World Without End

Trudi Canavan: The High Lord

Ib Michael: Letter to the Moon

Mo Hayder: Birdman

Charlaine Harris: Grave Sight

Greg Kincaid: A Dog Named Christmas READ

40) John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things

Philip Roth: I Married a Communist

Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark

Alice Hoffman: Blue Diary READ

Anne Rice: The Vampire Lestat

Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Jeff Lindsay: Dexter By Design

Jeff Lindsay: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Jeffery Deaver: The Blue Nowhere

Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby

50) Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Jeffery Deaver: A Maiden's Grave

Sarah Waters: Fingersmith

Gaile Parkin: Baking Cakes in Kigali

Iain Banks: The Crow Road

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: When Elephants Weep - The Emotional Lives of Animals

Karen Blixen: Out of Africa

Harlan Coben: Tell No One

Stephen King: Cell

Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife

60) John Ajvide Lindqvist: Let The Right One In

Karen Robards: Superstition

Ken Bruen: Priest

Joseph Finder: Killer Instinct

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess

Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde

Trudi Canavan: The Novice

Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera

Kelley Armstrong: Exit Strategy

70) Kelley Armstrong: Haunted

Jeffery Deaver: The Empty Chair

Jeffery Deaver: The Stone Monkey

Jeffery Deaver: The Vanished Man

Peter Robinson: Aftermath

Toby Clements: The No. 2 Global Detective READ

Marja-Leena Tiainen: Suoraa saumaa ja siksakkia READ

Rhonda Byrne: The Secret

Alex Haley: Roots

Alexander McCall Smith: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency READ

80) Jeffery Deaver: The Bone Collector

Jean Estoril: Ballet for Drina

Jean Estoril: Drina Dances in Italy

Jean Estoril: Drina Dances Again

P. G. Wodehouse: Bill the Conqueror

P. G. Wodehouse: Barmy in Wonderland

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Glad to see your enjoying Kathy Reichs Frankie, I haven't been let down by her books yet :D

 

Edit: You do realise though, if you keep adding more than you read, your TBR pile will be bursting out of your apartment!!! :D

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Glad to see your enjoying Kathy Reichs Frankie, I haven't been let down by her books yet :)

 

Edit: You do realise though, if you keep adding more than you read, your TBR pile will be bursting out of your apartment!!! :D

 

Yes... ;) ... But I'm done with my adding now, from here on out it's just reading, reading, reading!

 

Which brings me to my point: Just finished Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs. This is so far my least favorite from Brennan books, I just couldn't really get into the story. Which is really surprising, because Reichs has the ability to make things that seem dull to me very interesting. For example I was a bit bored already in advance when I found out that Deadly Decisions involved motorbikes and Fatal Voyage was about a plain crash. And yet I really enjoyed these books.

Well, maybe the next one turns out to be better. I'm off to bed with Bare Bones :D

 

Post 8th January 2009, 12:47:

Since last post I've finished

- Sophie Kinsella: Remember me? (Good for giggles, much appreciated!)

- Kathy Reichs: Fatal Voyage (Turned out to be a real exciting read. There was a twist towards the end of it which I at first disliked a lot but then it made sense and really turned the story aroung. Excellent!)

- Helen Keller: Story of My Life (Boring! Had such high expectations)

 

Post 8th January 2009, 21:44

Just finished Baby Jane by Sofi Oksanen. I was surprised at how quick a read it was. I'd give it 8/10.

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OH OH OH ! I know!! :) Read 'The Surgeon' by Tess Gerritsen. I can nearly GUARANTEE you'll love it! ;)

 

I did think about reading it, but I'm fearing that I've read too many Kathy Reichs's books in a row to read any more thrillers (although I do like them). I'm a bit irritated at the fact that Tempe Brennan always

gets herself in trouble, why can't she just solve a case without being in danger herself for once

.

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I did think about reading it, but I'm fearing that I've read too many Kathy Reichs's books in a row to read any more thrillers (although I do like them). I'm a bit irritated at the fact that Tempe Brennan always

gets herself in trouble, why can't she just solve a case without being in danger herself for once

.

 

:lol: You're right , she does! I'm reading Devil Bones and am just waiting for the same to happen :)

 

If you're fed up with thrillers then don't read 'The Surgeon' just yet as I dont want your frame of mind to spoil it for you (although it is a bit different to Tempe :lol:), but do read it the next time you're going for a thiller!! ;)

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:lol: You're right , she does! I'm reading Devil Bones and am just waiting for the same to happen :lol:

 

If you're fed up with thrillers then don't read 'The Surgeon' just yet as I dont want your frame of mind to spoil it for you (although it is a bit different to Tempe :tong:), but do read it the next time you're going for a thiller!! :)

 

Thanks Charm for your advise ;) I really think I'll have to postpone reading any thrillers but next time I'm in the mood for them I'll definitely consider The Surgeon ;)

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Frankie, did you like Metamorphosis? I have never read Kafka- what was it like?

 

I've never read Kafka either before now. I decided to read Metamorphosis because it's on Rory's books list (Rory from Gilmore Girls) and because it was quite short, around 90 pages so picking it up wasn't intimidating. I knew beforehand that it's not a straighforward story but there are metaphors and what not literary thingies. It was an okay read but I didn't get that much out of it, and didn't feel like going too deep into it. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't difficult to read it, but I guess there should have been more to the story than I managed to get out of it.

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I've never tried to read it, but I sense it's the sort of book you need to read whilst reading "A Handy Guide To Kafka" alongside it!

 

Not a bad suggestion. After I had read it I kept thinking that I need to google for other people's comments on the book and see if there are people who can decipher Kafka.

Didn't put me off reading more Kafka though, I still want to read The Trial someday.

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Finished reading The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Now this is a classic but I really didn't know much about it beforehand so it was a fresh read. And surprisingly short. A bit too short, me thinks. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed it, even more than I thought I would. It was creepy! Feel like reading more horror stories. And classics. Hmmm, horror classics...

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I read Metamorphosis a couple of years ago, not knowing what to expect. Needless to say, I was surprised from the first sentence.

 

I've also read The Trial, which is even weirder, but a pretty good story. It was made into quite a good movie too.

 

I have The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on my TBR pile and am looking forward to reading it very soon.

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I read Metamorphosis a couple of years ago, not knowing what to expect. Needless to say, I was surprised from the first sentence.

 

I've also read The Trial, which is even weirder, but a pretty good story. It was made into quite a good movie too.

 

I have The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on my TBR pile and am looking forward to reading it very soon.

 

Yep, Metamorphosis is unique that way. To me the surprising element was that

he still thought he could manage to get to work and function as usual, no matter how hard it seemed physically to do it.

 

The Trial is even weirder?? Oh shucks. Well I'm going to read it anyway. Very determined to do so. :roll:

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I started reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald last night and I almost made it to then end when I drifted to sleep. Finished it just now. I think that this book was on my friend's literature course and I wondered why it wasn't in ours. Anyway, I liked it eventhough I couldn't really relate to any of the characters or even like them. To me they all seemed selfish, stubborn and miserable. Exept for Nick Carraway, but he was only along for the ride.

 

I'm having problems deciding what to read next. On one hand I'd like to read something off the 1001 Books - and Rory's Books -lists, and on the other hand I feel like reading something light and something that I've been wanting to read for a long time. Don't know what that would be, though. Hmph! :roll:

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Finally was able to finish William Golding's Lord of the Flies. I've tried reading this book a couple of times before and never managed further than 30 pages or so. This time I was determined to finish it and I did. For the first half of the book I found it really boring, then it started to pick up the pace. Then it became really distressing. Quite awful.

I'm not saying that the book was badly written, it's more like the subject matter was so disturbing that it kind of made me hate the book.

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