LauraLoves Reads 2011

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[Weave]

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

[lauraloves]

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?

[lauraloves]

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

[frankie]

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!

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[lauraloves]

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

[ladymacbeth]

Jill Mansell is great. She is genuinely very funny. I'm glad you enjoyed this book.