lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Read in 2010 - 56 Books Target for 2011 - 75 Books TBR Pile Frank L. Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Belle De Jour - The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl Enid Blyton - Five Have Plenty of Fun Enid Blyton - Five on Kirrin Island Again Enid Blyton - Five on a Secret Trail Jeremy Clarkson - I Know you got Soul Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Helen Dunne - Trixie Trader Gemma Fox - Caught in the Act Linda Gillard - Emotional Geology Niamh Green - Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife Joanne Harris - Chocolat Torey Hayden - One Child William Hussey - Witchfinder Dawn of the Demontide Sophie Kinsella - Shoppaholic and Baby Julia Llewellyn - The Love Trainer Yann Martel - Life of Pi Carole Mathews - Its a Kind of Magic Carole Mathews - The Chocolate Lovers Club Carole Mathews - The Difference a Day Makes Stephanie Mayer - Twilight Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind Mary Nalus - The Dresskeeper Elizabeth Noble - Things I Want my Daughters to Know Mary Norton - The Borrowers Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afield Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afloat Mary Norton - The Borrowers Aloft Mary Norton - The Borrowers Avenged Jodi Picoult - Change of Heart Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith Jodi Picoult - The Tenth Circle Chris Ryan - Strike Back Zadie Smith - White Teeth Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada TBR added in 2011 Frank W. Abagnale - Catch Me if You Can Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Monica Ali - Brick Lane Derek Allsop - Formula One Uncovered Jefferey Archer - Kane and Abel Ros Asquith - I was a Teenage Worrier Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey Jane Austen - Sense and Sensiblity Colin Bateman - Murphy's Law David Beckham - My Side Meave Binchy - Tara Road Maeve Binchy - This Year it Will Be Different Judy Blundell - What I Saw and How I Lied Sam Bourne - The Rightious Men James Bradley - The Ressurrectionist Simon Brett - Murder in the Museum Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Candice Bushell - Sex and the City Meg Cabot - Size 12 is not Fat Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries John Le Carre - The Tailor From Panama J.L. Carrell - The Shakespeare Curse Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland Lucy Canendish - Samantha Symthes Modern Family Journal Tom Clancy - Breaking Point Tom Clancy - Executive Orders Tom Clancy - Point of Impact Jeremey Clarkson - Don't Stop me Now James Clavell - King Rat Harlan Coben - Just One Look Eoin Colfer - Plugged Jenny Colgan - The Good, The Bad and The Dumped Timothy Collins - The Piranha Club Joseph Conrad - Heart of darkness Sam Christie - The Stonehenge Legacy Andrew Davison - The Gargoyle Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves Grace Dent - LBD: It's a girl Thing Colin Dexter - The Dead of Jehrico Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Emma Donoghue - Room Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles Imogen Edwards Jones - Beach Babylon Imogen Edwards Jones - Hotel Babylon Kim Edwards - The Memory Keepers Daughter Bret Easton Ellis - American Physco Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong Ellen Feldman - The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank Glee: Summer Break Geri Halliwell - If Only Christine Dwyer Hickey - Tatty Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing Wendy Holden - Marrying Up Ken Follett - A Dangerous Fortune Colin Forbes - Double Jepardy Colin Forbes - the Heights of Zevos Fredrick Forsythe - Day of the Jackel Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austin Book Club Dick Francis - Dead Cert Dorothy Koomson - The Ice Cream Girls Simon Kuper - Football Against the Enemy Jane Gardam - Old Faith Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Alex Garland - The Beach Paul Garrison - The Ripple Effect David Gibbins - The Mask of Troy Andre Gide - The Vatican Cellers Julia Glass - Three Julias Robert Goddard - Never Go Back Robert Goddard - Sight Unseen William Goldman - The Princess Bride Linda Grant - The Clothes Off Their Backs Jane Green - Second Chance Phillipa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl John Gribben - In Search of the Edge of Time John Grisham - The Chamber John Grogan - Marley and Me Izzy Hammond - Someone to Watch Over Me Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark Robert Harris - Enigma Kate Harrison - Old School Ties John Harwood - The Ghost Writer Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal James Herbert - 48 Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf Mary Higgins Clark - Second Time Around Peter Hoeg - Miss Smillas Sense of Snow Anthony Horowitz - Skeleton Key C C Humphries - Absolute Honour Charmain Hussey - Valley of the Secrets Conn Igulddon - The Wolf of the Plains Greg Iles - 24 Hours Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Christian Jacq - The Battle of Kadesh Lisa Jewell - The Truth of Melody Brown Natascha Kampusch - 3096 Days Marian Keyes - This Charming Man Marian Keyes - Under the Duvet Raymond Khory - The Sign Stephen King - Christine Stephen King - Firestarter Stephen King - IT Stephen King - Misery Stephen King - The Dark Tower Stephen King - The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King - The Gunslinger Sophie Kinsella - Shoppaholic Takes Manhatten Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Steig Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire Richard Laymon - The Travelling Vampire Show Andrea Levy - Small Island Jack London - The Call of the Wind/Wild Fang Pittacus Lore - I am Number Four Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island Harry Ludlum - True Ghost Stories Robert Ludlum - The Ambler Warning Catherine Macphail - Roxy's Baby Norman Mailer - The Castle in the Forest Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Oracle Madonna: An Intimate Biography Scott Mariani - The Shadow Project Howard Marks - Mr Nice Ian Marshall - On The Road With Blue Sharon Marshall - Tabloid Girl George R R Martin - Fevre Dream Mark Mason - What Men Think About Sex Stephanie Mayer - The Host Stephanie Mayer - Eclipse Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes Ian McEwen - Atonement John McGahern - Then They Might Face The Rising Sea Carol McGiffin - Oh Carol! Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman - Long Way Round Andy McNab - Seven Troop Malie Maloy - Liars and Saints SGT Dan Mills - Sniper One Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees John Morton - Diana: Her True Story Kate Mosse - Labyrinth Jo Nesbo - The Snowman Lindsay Nicolson - Living on the Seabed Coleen Nolan - Mum to Mum Coleen Nolan - Upfront and Personal Sharon Osbourne - Survivor Adele Parks - Men I've Loved Before James Patterson - Beach Road Ellis Peters - City of Gold and Shadows Elizabeth Peters - The Curse of the Pharoahs Jodi Picoult - Picture Perfect Rosamunde Pilcher - WInter Solstice Bella Pollen - Hunting Unicorns Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Gordon Ramsey - Humble Pie Shane Richie - Rags to Richie Michael Ridpath - The Market Maker Elvi Rhodes - Cara's Land Rosie Rushton - Poppy Jean-Paul Satre - Nausea William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Bob Shepherd - The Infidel Anita Shreve - Fortune Rocks Ali Smith - The Accidental Carol Smith - Without Warning Tom Rob Smith - Child 44 Wilbur Smith - The Seventh Scroll Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Reptile Room (Book 2) Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy (book 5) Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Vile Village (book 7) Penny Sparke - As Long as It's Pink, The Sexual Politics of Taste Nicolas Sparks - Dear John Nicolas Sparks - The Choice Nicolas Sparks - The Last Song Nicolas Sparks - The Notebook R.L. Stein - Goosebumps Johnatan Swift - Guillivers Travels Scarlett Thomas - Popco Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole - The Capuccino Years Antony Trew - Bannisters Chart Jackie Trevane - Invisable Women Thomas Trofimuk - Waiting for Columbus Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn Various - Great Ghost Stories Various - The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance Louis Walsh - Fast Track To Fame Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger E. B. White - Charlotte's Web Laura Weiss - Leftovers Madeline Wickham - A Desirable Residence Elie Wiesel - Night Jacquline Wilson - Lola Rose Edited December 28, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Wishlist 2010 all the things we didnt say - sara shepard never let me go - kazuo ishiguro flyaway - lucy christopher The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend of mice and men - john steinbeck time travellers wife - Audrey Niffenegger austinland - shannon hale before we say goodbye louise candish william walkers first year of marriage - mary rudd wuthering heights - emily bronte the crimson petal and the white - micheal faber the polysyllabic spree - nick hornby Plan B - Jonathan Tropper about a boy - nick hornby cranberry queen - kathleen demarco the cronicles of narnia C.S. Lewis micheal mcintyre live and laughing Cheryl cole - through my eyes someone elses son - sam hayes getting over mr right - chrissie manby shopaholic takes Manhattan/Shoppaholic Abroad - Sophie Kinsella confessions of a fallen angel ronan o brien the one I love - anna mcpartlin the thirteenth tale diane setterfield life on the refridgerator door - alice kuipers lovely green eyes - arnost lustig the separation - christopher priest how I live now - meg rosoff 1984 - george orwell the first casualty - ben elton anne of green gables - L. Montgomery couples - john updike vanity fair - william makepeice thackeray What Was Lost’ by Catherine O’Flynn The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Book Thief by Markus Zusak One Day by David Nicholls do you remember the first time - jenny colgan The Secret Five and the Stunt Nun Legacy by John Lawrence the death and life of charlie st cloud ben sherwood les miserables - victor hugo SE Hinton's The Outsiders how I paid for college - marc acito six reasons to stay a virgin - louise harwood Jane Moore - perfect match The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares meg cabot - vanished war on the margins - libby cone the thirteenth tale - diane setterfield the shining - Stephen King Forever by Judy Blume Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton. Between Shades of Gray By Ruta Sepetys the little book of loose women jodi picoult - house rules lord of the flies - william golding When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr Quiddich Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them little women - louisa may alcott Edited December 20, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Wishlist 2011 Matched – Ally Condie The news Where you are - Catherine O Flynn Fallen - Lauren Kate My Blood Approves - Amanda Hocking The Bell Jar ~ Sylvia Plath Safe Haven - Nicolas Sparks Jarhead - Anthony Swofford What you see is what you get - Alan Sugar Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead Snobbery With Violence by M. C. Beaton Watchmen - Alan Moore and David Gibbons Moab Is My Washpot. – Stephen Fry. Hunger Games Trilogy. Prom and prejudice - elizabeth eulberg The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker Anna & the French Kiss - stephanie Perkins Slam - Nick Hornby The Night Watch - Sarah Waters the year of magical thinking - joan didion if I stay - gayle forman some girls are - courtney summers the book of lost things - john connolly unwind - neal shusterman the girl in the lighthouse - roxanne tepher sanford catch 22 - Joseph Heller the holy blood and the holy grail - Michael Belgent Pompeii - Robert Harris Surviving Hitler - Andrea Warren Hurlers Canary - Sandi Toksvig The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier Dating Hamlet - Lisa Fiedler Jennings Series - Anthony Bukeridge Geisha - Liza Dalby A Separate Peace - John Knowles friends like these - danny wallace Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater Denise Welsh Autobiography Hollyoaks - girl talk The Giver - Lois Lowry Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain's Elite Bomb Disposal Unit - Sean Rayment Hitler's Canary - Sandi Toksvig bad blood - lorna sage never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro bridge to terabithia - Katherine Paterson shades of grey - jasper fforde heart of darkness - joseph conrad The Summoning - Darkest Powers Bk. 1 Kelley Armstrong Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding Restless - William Boyd elidor - Alan Garner Anna Karenina - Leon Tolstoy Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky The Great Blue Yonder - Alex Shearer Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin Listen - rene gutteridge Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian I am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime *On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan* anita blake A Home at the End of the world by Michael Cunningham : A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Private Peaceful - Micheal Murpurgo house of night series My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin seven spiders spinning rebecca - daphne du murier The Last Family in England by Matt Haig It Started With a Dare by Lindsay Faith Rech Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot denial - coleen nolan Uglies by Scott Westerfeld The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs rangers apprentice series moby dick - herman mervill summer and the city - candice bushell Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Picture of Dorian Gray as Oscar Wilde Someone Else's Son by Sam Hayes the nolans survivors The Checkout Girl - Tazeen Ahmad five run away together enid blyton The Pact - Jodi Picoult The End of Everything by Megan Abbott The Declaration (The Declaration Trilogy~Book 1) by Gemma Malley The Returners by Gemma Malley game of thrones - rr martin Eragon The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry thursday next series Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens The Morland Dynasty Love In The Time Of Cholera. - Gabriel Garciá Márquez. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 kym marsh book Abandon by Meg Cabot Blackout / All Clear - Connie Willis Farseer trilogy his dark materials kelley armstrong Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier the colour of magic - terry pratchett The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley Divergent ~ Veronica Roth war of the worlds hatchet - gary paulson Jurrasic Park dracula - bram stoker Jan Lars Jensen: Nervous System Secret Lives” by Gabriella Poole ‘The Girls’ by Lori Lansens Across The Universe by Beth Revis Susan Hill (Howard's End is on the Landing) confessions of a gp - benjamin daniels Cop Hater by Ed McBain Jack Vance's Llyonesse trilogy Edited July 26, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Books Read January 2011 1)Carole Mathews - More to Life than This 2)Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care 3)Lisa Jewell - 31 dream Street 4)Jill Mansell - Falling for You 5)Shelia o Flanagan - Isobels Wedding 6)Fiona Walker - Four Play 7)Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon Books Read February 2011 8)Jonathon Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated 9)Jill Mansell - Staying at Daisys 10)Jenny Colgan - Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend 11)Mark Mason - The C Words 12)Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones Books Read March 2011 13)C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters 14)Jenny Colgan - Operation Sunshine 15)John Boyne - The Boy in Striped Pyjamas 16)Gregory Maguire - Wicked Books Read April 2011 17)JLS: Just Between Us: Our Private Diary 18)Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol 19)Coleen Nolan - Envy 20)Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult 21)Candice Bushell - The Carrie Diaries Books Read May 2011 22)Jo Carnegie - Country Persuits 23)Ceclia Ahern - P.S. I Love You 24)Kate Long - The Bad Mother's Handbook 25)Mary McCarthy - The Group 26)Enid Blyton - Five on Finniston Farm 27)Jodi Picoult - Perfect Match 28)Jane Sigaloff - Confessions of an Agony Aunt 29)Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book Books Read June 2011 30)JRR Tolkein - The Hobbit 31)Lawrence Rees - The Nazis 32)Francis Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden 33)Greg Behrendt - He's Just Not That Into You 34)JRR Tolkein - The Fellowship of the Ring 35)JRR Tolkein - The Two Towers 36)JRR Tolkein - The Return of the King Edited June 29, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Books Read July 2011 37)John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids 38)Anna Maxted - Being Committed 39)Victoria Routledge - Constance and Faith 40)Wendy Holden - Filthy Rich 41)Adele Parks - The Other Womans Shoes 42)Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran Books Read August 2011 43)Katie Fforde - Practically Perfect 44)Penny Vincenzi - Forbidden Places 45)Lee Carroll - Black Swan Rising 46)Erica James - Airs and Graces 47)Kevin Williams - Get me a Murder a Day 48)Adele Parks - Young Wives Tales 49)Carmen Reid - Up All Night Books Read September 2011 50)Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 51)Douglas Jackson - Caligula 52)Clare Dowling - My Fabulous Divorce 53)Jack Sheffield - Teacher, Teacher! 54)Maeve Binchy - Victoria Line, Central Line 55)Zoe Strimple - What the hell is he Thinking? 56)Kathy Lette - How to Kill Your Husband Books Read October 2011 57)J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone 58)James Holland - The Odin Mission 59)John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany 60)Henry James - The Ambassadors 61)Ceclia Ahern - Where Rainbows End 62)Dorothy Koomson - Marshmallows for Breakfast Books Read November 2011 63)Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 64)Dorothy Koomson - My Best Friends Girl 65)Sophie Kinsella - Remember Me 66)Carole Matthews - The Sweetest Taboo 67)Julia Crouch - Cuckoo 68)Alexandra Potter - Be Careful What you Wish for 69)J.K. Rowling - Hsrry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Books Read December 2011 70)Sophie Kinsella - Confessions of a Shoppaholic 71)Zoe Barnes - Just Married 72)Lorelei Mathias - Step on it Cupid 73)Linda Green - 10 Reasons not to Fall in love 74)Ceclia Ahern - Thanks for the Memories 75)Alexandra Potter - Me and Mr Darcy 76)Broadmoor Revealed - Mark Stevens Edited January 2, 2012 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge On TBR Pile 1 - Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell 2 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 3 - Life of Pi - Yann Martel 4 - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 5 - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt 6 - Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 7 - Christine - Stephen King 8 - Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 9 - Charlotte's Web - E.B. White 10 - One Hundred years of SOlitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 11 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein 12 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 13 - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 14 - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 15 - Brick Lane - Monica Ali 16 - The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 17 - Tara Road - Maeve Binchy 18 - Small Island - Andrea Levy 19 - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Read in 2011 1 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 2 - Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer 3 - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 4 - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 5 - The Group - Mary McCarthy 6 - The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Ring – Book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien 7 - The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings – Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien 8 - Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi 9 - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers Edited September 28, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) BBC Top 200 Books Reading Challenge On TBR Pile 1- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 2- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 3- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 4- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 5- Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 6- Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White 7- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 8- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 9- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 10- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 11- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 12- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 13- The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot 14- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 15- Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson 16- Atonement - Ian McEwan Read in 2011 1- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 2- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 3- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein 4- The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 5- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Edited October 26, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) 1001 Books You Must Read On TBR Pile 1- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 2- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 3- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 4- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 5- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 6- Guilliver's Travels - Johnatan Swift 7- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 8- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 9- The Hound of the baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 10- One Hundred Years of Solitude 11- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 12- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 13- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro 14- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 15- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 16- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Read in 2011 1- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 2- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer 3- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 4- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 5- The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 6- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 7- The Ambassadors - Henry James 8- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie Edited November 8, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 (edited) 1001 Childrens Books You Must Read on TBR Pile 1- Twilight===Stephenie Meyer 2- The Borrowers - Mary Nalus 3- Guilliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift 4- Charlottes Web - E.B. White 5- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 6- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 7- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 8- The Ruby in the Smoke - Phillip Pullman Read in 2011 1- The boy in the striped pyjamas - John Boyne 2- The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 3- The hobbit—J.R. Tolkein 4- The Fellowship of the ring-J.R.R. Tolkein Edited August 26, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 (edited) Reading Challenges Wishlists Rory Gilmore Challenge 1)1984 - George Orwell 2)Night - Elie Wiesel 3)Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 4)The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 5)The Crimson Petal and the White - Micheal Faber 6)The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton 7)The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky 8)The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby 9)The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 10)Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery 11)Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 12)Lord of the Flies - William golding 13)Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 14)The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 15)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 16)Anna Karenina - Leon Tolstoy 17)Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 18)The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 100 Books Challenge 1)Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 2)The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 3)Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 4)Lord of the Flies - William golding 5)Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 6)Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 7)Anna Karenina - Leon Tolstoy 8)Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 1001 Books You Must Read 1)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 2)The Shining - Stephen King 3)The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 4)1984 - George Orwell 5)Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 6)Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 7)Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8)Lord of the Flies - William golding 9)Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 10)Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons 11)Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 13)never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro 14)A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham 15)Anna Karenina - Leon Tolstoy 16)A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines 17)Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 18)the picture of dorian grey - oscar wilde 1001 Children's Books to Read 1)Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery 2)The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 3)The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton 4)The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend 5)Lord of the Flies - William golding 6)Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 7)When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr 8)The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier 9)The Giver - Lois Lowry 10)Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson 11)Elidor - Alan Garner 12)The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time-Mark Haddon 13)A Kestrel for a knave-Barry Hines 14)Private Peaceful-Michael Morpurgo The Ultimate Teen Book Guide 1)About a Boy - Nick Hornby 2)The Bell Jar ~ Sylvia Plath 3)Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 4)Lord The Flies – William Golding 5)Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 6)Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck 7)Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imagination – Helen Fielding 8)The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton 9)The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Towsend 10)Vanity Fair – William M. Thackeray 11)Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 12)Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 13)A Separete Peace - John Knowles 14)Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson 15)The Curious Incident of the dog in the the Night-Time 16)Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 17)Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin 18)The Great Blue Yonder - Alex Shearer 19)Private Peaceful===Michael Morpurgo 20)The picture of dorian grey - oscar wilde 501 Must Read Books 1)Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 2)The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 3)The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis 4)Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery 5)Wuthering Heights – Emil Brontë 6)Les Misérables (The Wretched) – Victor Hugo 7)Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thakeray 8)Lord of the Flies – William Golding 9)Couples – John Updike 10)Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 11)Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 12)picture of dorian grey - oscar wilde Edited May 9, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 (edited) Instead of me trying to buy every book on my reading challenges, I'm going to concentrate on just a few books from each list this year. Thats not to say I wont get any of the others, but these are the ones that I would like to read the most. Rory Gilmore Challenge 1)Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 2)Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White 3)Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 4)Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 5)Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 6)Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence 7)Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 8)Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9)The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 10)Babe by Dick King-Smith 100 Books Challenge 1)Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 2)Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 3)Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 4)The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 5)The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 6)Matilda, Roald Dahl 7)The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 8)Catch-22, Joseph Heller 9)Watership Down, Richard Adams 10)The Twits, Roald Dahl 1001 Books you Must Read 1)Atonement – Ian McEwan 2)Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons 3)The Color Purple – Alice Walker 4)City Primeval – Elmore Leonard 5)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 6)Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence 7)The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 8)Dracula – Bram Stoker 9)Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 10)Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 1001 Childrens Books To Read 1)Grimms’ Fairy Tales—Jacob Grimm 2)Velveteen Rabbit–Margery Williams 3)Pippi Longstocking—Astrid Lindgren 4)Captain Pugwash—John Ryan 5)The Worst Witch===Jill Murphy 6)The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch=—Ronda Armitage 7)Jumanji—Chris Van Allsburg 8)Horrid Henry—Francesca Simon 9)Aesop’s Fables ===Aesop 10)The Swiss Family Robinson====Johann Wyss The Ultimate Teen Book Guide 1)Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 2)Holes by Louis Sachar 3)The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Ann Brashares 4)The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 5)Troy – Adele Geras 6)Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 7)Bridge to Terebithia ~ Katherine Paterson 8)Black Hawk Down ~ Jack Bowden 9)LBD: It’s A Girl Thing – Grace Dent 10)Watership Down – Richard Adams 501 Must Read Books 1)Five Children and It – E. Nesbit 2)Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 3)Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives – Alan Bullock 4)Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl 5)Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Jorge Amado 6)I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 7)Hamlet, Revenge! – Michael Innes 8)Travels – Ibn Battuta 9)The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 10)Histories – Herodotus Edited September 24, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 (edited) The Ultimate Teen Book Guide Challenge On TBR Pile 1)Chocolat ~ Joanne Harris 2)Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 3)Life Of Pi – Yann Martel 4)The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 5)Twilight – Stephanie Meyer 6)White Teeth – Zadie Smith 7)Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller 8)A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy (book 5) Lemony Snicket 9)A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Vile Village (book 7) Lemony Snicket 10)Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 11)Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 12)Christine - Stephen King 13)A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Reptile Room (book 2) Lemony Snicket 14)The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillippa Gregory 15)LBD: Its a Girl Thing - Grace Dent 16)Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 17)Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18)Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 19)One Hundred Years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 20)The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot 21)The Ruby In the Smoke - Phillip Pullman 22)Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Read in 2011 1 - The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 2 - The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis 3 - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ~ John Boyne 4 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 5 - The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy- J.R.R Tolkien 6 - Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham 7 - A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 8 - Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella Edited December 6, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 (edited) 501 Must Read Books On TBR Pile 1)The Wonderful World of Oz – L. Frank Baum 2)Life of Pi – Yann Martel 3)The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 4)Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 5)Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 6)Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift 7)The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 8)Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 9)Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 10)One Hundred Years of Solitude 11)Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 12)Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Read in 2011 1)The Group - Mary McCarthy 2)The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien 3)Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham 4)Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi 5)The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie Edited November 8, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 (edited) Books Brought 2011 The Ultimate Teen Guide Book Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal Scott Mariani - The Shadow Project Stephanie Mayer - The Host Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy (book 5) Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Vile Village (book 7) The screwtape letters - CS Lewis the castle in the forest - norman mailer Dear John - Nicolas Sparks Marley and Me - John Grogan Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Stonehenge Legacy - Sam Christie As long as its Pink - Penny Sparke Angelas Ashes - Frank McCourt Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Christine - Stephen King A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket Room - Emma Donoghue JLS our private diary the truth about melody brown - lisa jewell the ghost writer - john harwood Upfront and Personal The Autobiography - Coleen Nolan Tatty - Christine Dwyer Hickey The Group - Mary mcCarthy the graveyard book - neil gaiman the other boleyn girl - phillipa gregory the shakespeare curse - j.l. carroll Northanger Abbey - jane Austen Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris the seventh scroll - wilbur smith gullivers travels - jonathan swift charlottes web - e b white alice in wonderland - lewis carroll lbd its a girl thing - grace dent treasure island - robert louis stevenson seven troop - andy mcnab various - great ghost stories Night - elie Wiesel mum to mum - coleen nolan Tabloid girl - sharon marshall day of the triffids - john wyndham the girl with the dragon tattoo - steig larrson I am number four - pittacus lore eclipse - stephanie mayer the hound of the baskervilles - sir arthur conan doyle birdsong - sebastian faulks frankenstein - mary shelley one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez eoin colfer - plugged marrying up - wendy holden men I've loved before - adele parks glee: summer break the notebook - nicolas sparks the last song - nicolas sparks sex and the city - candice bushell the good, the bad and the dumped - jenny colgan the ice cream girls - dorothy koomson Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi Size 12 is not fat - Meg Cabot sniper one - sgt dan mills the mask of troy - david gibbins never let me go - kazuo ishiguro the mammoth book of paranormal romance Black Swan Rising - Lee Carroll the memory keepers daughter - kim edwards the jane austen book club - karen joy fowler the princess diaries - meg cabot the ruby in the smoke - phillip pullman jane eyre - charlotte bronte oliver twist - charles dickens a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers the infidel - bob shepherd the girl who loved tom gordon - stephen king the choice - nicholas sparks Oh carol - carol mcgiffin Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult Caligula - Douglas Jackson Popco - Scarlett Thomas Teacher, Teacher - Jack Sheffield The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank - Ellen Feldman Samantha Smythes modern family journal - lucy cavendish The Odin Mission - James Holland a prayer for owen meany - john irving second chance - jane green the ambassadors - henry james 3096 days - natascha kampusch The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie What I saw and how I lied - judy blundell old school ties - kate harrison the girl who played with fire - stieg larsson Edited December 20, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 (edited) 100 Modern Classic Books On TBR Pile 1 - Angelas Ashes - Frank McCourt Read in 2011 1)The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 2)A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers 3)A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Edited October 19, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 (edited) Wishlist 2011 - Continued The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafron Tomorrow Girls #1: Behind the Gates Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai Little Gypsy - Roxy Freeman Between by Jessica Warman This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman One Day - David Nicolls frankie boyle autobiography the help - katheryn Stockett Literary Trivia - Over 300 Curious Lists for Bookworms Falling For Hamlet ~ Michelle Ray The Ausländer by Paul Dowswell The Watchtower - Lee Carroll Stardust 3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov carrie - stephen king After - amy efaw The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood The To-Do List by Mike Gayle carmen reid ya series emma - jane austen Dark Souls - Paula Morris the legacy - katherine webb bess crawford series Domestic Violets, by Matthew Norman, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay douglas jackson book in search of the rose notes Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist the postmistress - sarah blake dear teacher - jack sheffield the unseen - katherine webb a year without autumn - liz kessler 2030 - albert brooks The Iliad by Homer Oink by Matt Whyman The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths without remorce - tom clancy shogan - james clavell crocodile on the sandbank - elizabeth peters the drawing of three - stephen king stormbreaker - alex rider the body on the beach - simon brett fallen into a pit - ellis peters net force - tom clancy jack absolute - cc humphries last bus to woodstock - colin dexter into the blue - robert goddard the son of light - christian jacq mortal fear - greg iles Fatherland by Robert Harris When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern one perfect day - lauraine snelling the night strangers - chris bohjahlian The Grief of Others ~ Leah Hager Cohen The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion darkest hour - James holland mary poppins - P L Travers The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The world according to garp - john irving This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff Drinking Closer to Home Jessica Anya Blau Love Times Three by Joe, Alina, Valerie, and Vicki Darger. A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard a place called here - cecelia ahern A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano The Green Mile by Stephen King Cuckoo by Julia Crouch The Twits by Roald Dahl ‘Before I Go To Sleep’ by S. J. Watson larger family life the duggars Tuesdays at the Castle - Jessica Day George 11/22/63 by Stephen King Melissa Anelli – Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies you are my only - beth kephart Far To Go - Alison Pick life as we knew it - susan beth pfeffer Found, Free, and Flea: Creating Collections from Vintage Treasures by Tereasa Surratt[; Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages by Michael Popek shopaholic ties the knot - sophie kinsella Jemima J - Jane Green Does my Bum Look Big in This? - Arabella Weir Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz Debs at war – Anne De Courcy Edited December 23, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Yay 1st reveiw of the year More to Life Than This - Carole Matthews Synopsis - Kate Lewis is thirty-five and feeling restless. Her husband Jeffrey is keen on gardening and golf; her children are obsessed with well-balanced diets; and Kate’s main worry is when to do the ironing. There must be more to life than this! Enrolling on a T'ai Chi course at Northwood Priory with her best friend Sonia - and arranging for an au pair to look after Jeffrey and the children while she’s away - Kate is off to find herself. But, as things turn out, finding herself isn’t easy to do, particularly when Ben Mahler is on her course... My Thoughts - This book was a lovely little quick read. It's 'chick-lit' so it wasnt a taxing read, but lovely for reading over the bank holiday when I didnt feel like doing much. The Story centres around Kate and Jeffery Lewis who seem to have everything but are both really quite unhappy. So Kate goes away for the week and all manner of things happen. I like how the narrative switched between four of the main characters. It flowed very easily and wasnt at all complicated to follow. I did find the ending a little odd. The fact that they seemed to live happily ever after. This was the second Carole Matthews book that I have read and I enjoyed this one too. Will definitaly be looking out for more of her books in the future. Rating - 7/10 Edited January 7, 2011 by lauraloves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Great review Laura, I do enjoy books by Carole Matthews, definitely a title to watch out for. Have you read The Chocolate Lovers' Club and 'The Chocolate Lovers' Diet', they are great reads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 Thanks I've got The Chocolate Lovers Club on my TBR pile, havent got round to reading it yet! might have to move that one up the pile! I hadnt hadnt heard of The Chocolate Lovers Diet, is it a follow on from the 1st? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult Synopsis - Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obstetrician for wrongful birth - for not having diagnosed Willow's condition early enough in the pregnancy to be able to abort the child. The payout could secure Willow's future. But to get it would mean Charlotte suing her best friend. And standing up in court to declare that she would have prefered that Willow had never been born... My Thoughts - This is the second Jodi Picoult book that I have read, in quite quick succession, the first was My Sisters Keeper. I really enjoyed this book, however I did find it a little simular to the previous book that I had read. This book has a very thought provoking plotline, both in the debate of Willow, and also in the thread of Marian's search for her birth mother. I found the part of the trial very interesting to read about, also the section at the back of the book about the condition OI. This book really made me think and I could not put it down at times. The only part I didnt like was MAJOR SPOILER ALERT When Willow died. I personally didnt think the character should have died, considering that they won millions on the lawsuit. This is a book that I would highly recommend to anyone. Rating 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Wow, you are certainly organised with your lists! I can't wait to see what you think of The Carrie Diaries, I really want to read it as well but if it's anywhere near as bad as Sex and the City I will have to give it a miss: I thought S&C was utter rubbish. I love the TV show, though, of course Happy reading 2011! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 Thanks I'm not as organised as you are with your though I think I just like lists Hopefully I'll get around to reading The Carrie Diaries soon, I love the show so I'm hoping I'll love the book too And happy reading to you too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 31 Dream Street - Lisa Jewell Synopsis - In a rambling house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for people who need one. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter interrupt Toby's sedate existence, he needs his housemates to find some direction in their lives. Leah Pilgrim has watched the tenants of the house over the road for several years, and when the owner of 31 Silversmith Road asks her for advice, he opens the door not only to the eccentric building across the street - but to five lives in various stages of turmoil. Can Toby and Leah help these misfits to grow up, move on and move out? And in doing so, can they make their own dreams come true? My Thoughts - To start with I found this book very confusing due to the fact about ten characters were introduced within about two pages. Because of this I thought that one character was the ex wife until halfway through the book! The story itself was quite nice, but I really thought the ending was rubbish! At the moment I cannot stand 'and they all lived happilly ever after' It would have been ok if it was just one couple, but it was several. Having said that some parts of the story was captivating, but I just thought it was all a bit too nice! It is a nice book if you don't want anything to challenging or just want to relax, but not something I would read again. Rating - 2.5/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Falling for You - Jill Mansell Synopsis - Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling as a teenager, what with her NHS specs, unfortunate hair and wonky teeth. Thankfully she's blossomed since then. But when she meets Kerr McKinnon one starry summer's night and discovers, days later, who he actually is... well, that's when the problems really start. Because everyone in Ashcombe knows what happened eleven years ago, and as far as her mother's concerned, Marcella would rather tear that family to pieces with her bare hands than see Maddy associate with a McKinnon. It's Romeo and Juliet all over again. Quick, hide those sharp knives and that little bottle of poison... My Thoughts - To start with I was a little bit unsure about this book because to start with I thought it could be a little bit samey. I was very wrong about this book. The plot centres on a little village and a few of the people that live there. Its a bit of a modern romeo and juilet plotline with the characters of Maddy and Kerr. It was also very funny in places, and had me laughing out loud at several occasions. What I like about Jill Mansell books is that they have a serious side to them aswell, its not all fluffy chick lit. This did make me think more aout the book. I didnt want this books to end as I feel it could carry on more. Rating - 4/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladymacbeth Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Jill Mansell is great. She is genuinely very funny. I'm glad you enjoyed this book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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