Renniemist Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Now that I have more time I have decided to try this blog in order to remember what I have read and what I still have to read. The following are on my shelf TBR. The Woman in White byWilkie Collins Jamaica Inn by Daphne duMaurier Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy On Beauty by Zadie Smith The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell Exodus by Leon Uris The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon Africa Diary by Bill Bryson Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Baudilino by Umberto Eco Boy by Lindsey Colleen Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie Derailed by James Siegel Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Misery by Stephen King Perfume by Patrick Suskind Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehrain Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Russka by Edward Rutherfurd Shindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Gavin Bell The Accidental by Ali Smith The Covenant by James Michener The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Falls by Ian Rankin The Haj by Leon Uris The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw The Palace of Heavenly Pleasures by Adam Williams The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood The Peoples Act of Love by James Meek The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Sea by John Banvile The Sicilian by Mario Puzo The Suspect by Michael Robotham Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre What the body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 So far this year I have read: December 64 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (reading) 63 Blindness by Jose Saramago 6/10 62 Prodigal Summer 8/10 61 The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 7/10 November 60 The Secret River by Kate Atkinson 7/10 59 Black swan Green by David Mitchell 10/10 58 Never Far from Nowhere by Andrea Levy 7/10 57 Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 8/10 56 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 8/10 55 The Shining by Stephen King 6/10 54 Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell 6/10 53 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruis Zafon 8/10 October 52 March by Geraldine Brooks 6/10 51 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 6/10 50 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 9/10 49 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 7/10 48 Sharpes Tiger by Bernard Cornwell 6/10 47 The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam 6/10 September 46 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 7/10 45 The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe 6/10 44 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 8/10 43 The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre 7/10 42 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 8/10 August 41 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 8/10 40 The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy 7/10 39 The World According to Garp by John Irving 8/10 38High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 6/10 37 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 9/10 36 Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 8/10 July 35 Out by Natsuo Kirino 7/10 34 The Good Earth by Pearl Buck 9/10 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova unfinished 33 Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 8/10 June Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke unfinished 32 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 5/10 31 the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 9/10 30 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 7/10 May 29 Old Filth by Jane Gardam 6/10 28 A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro 6/10 27 The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood 6/10 26 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster 7/10 25 The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates 7/10 24 Baghdad Burning by Girl Blog from Iraq 7/10 April 23 When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 6/10 22 White Teeth by Zadie Smith 8/10 21 The Van by Roddy Doyle 8/10 20 My Forbidden Face by Latifa 6/10 19 Disgrace by J M Coetzee 6/10 18 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 9/10 17 The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad 6/10 March 16 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 10/10 15 Purple Hibiscus by Chimananda Ngozi Adichi 9/10 14 The Secret History by Donna Tartt 6/10 13 I Claudius by Robert Graves 8/10 12 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 7/10 February 11 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 9/10 10 The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan 6/10 9 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 9/10 8 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 10/10 7 Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 8/10 6 Vanishing Acts by Jodie Picoult 6/10 January 5 Small Island by Andrea Levy 9/10 4 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenger 6/10 3 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon 6/10 2 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory 5/10 1 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 7, 2006 Author Share Posted September 7, 2006 Part of my Amazon order arrived today. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Exodus by Leon Uris The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka I have now finished Jane Eyre. I had thought I had read it years ago, but it turns out that I had not. Anyway I enjoyed it very much. I am now going to start on my September challenge and read The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Jane Eyre is one of my all-time favourites. I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 I have been to Border Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I have been to Border Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 I like to try something new. I have never read any Bernard Cornwell books and thought that I would start with Sharpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 I have now finished The Sacred Art of Stealing. It was very good. I will definitely read more by this author. I have started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It say on the inside cover that it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted September 21, 2006 Author Share Posted September 21, 2006 I finished Cloud Atlas yesterday. I enjoyed it very much. I am now starting The Rotters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 9, 2006 Author Share Posted October 9, 2006 I finished The Rotters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 Well I have been to the library and had some success. I brought home Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, March by Geraldine Brooks and Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. I also asked about Blindness by Jose Saramago, and the lady said she would buy it in for me. It will probably not arrive in time for me to read in the October Read, but I hope to get around to it shortly after that. I was feeling quite pleased with myself until I got home discovered that I had forgotten to get Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. This is not a good way to start the October Book of the Month. It will be next month before I get anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 I have now finished reading Sharpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 I have finished Daughter of Fortune and found it very good if a little slow to start with. I thought that after that it was excellent and I felt that the descriptions were vivid. I have now started reading Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilywhite Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Oooh, I have this one waiting to be read. I loved Tipping the Velvet. I hope this one livesa up to that for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 Thanks. I am really enjoying it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 22, 2006 Author Share Posted October 22, 2006 I have now finished Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. I think it is amongst my favourite books this year so far. Set in Victorian times it has some wonderful twists in it that made my head spin at times. I will now start on Frankenstein for the BOTM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Finished Frankenstein last night so I have now started on March by Geraldine Brooks From Louisa May Alcott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Right putting Fingersmith to the top of the pile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Hope you enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Should mention that top of the pile is still 4 down after done books of the months!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 I have finished reading March now, and so I am starting on The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahrob Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Oh I loved that one - hope you like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted November 5, 2006 Author Share Posted November 5, 2006 I have now finished The Shadow of the Wind. I thought it was very good. It was a little slow in the middle, but for the last 100 pages or so I just had to keep reading. I am now starting on Sharpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I am now starting on Sharpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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