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January

 

01. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay 9/10 review

02. The Stand by Stephen King (re-read) 8/10 review

03. Martyr by Rory Clements 8/10 review

04. Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson 6/10 review

05. The White Rose by Glen Cook 7/10 review

06. Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss 7/10 review

 

 

February

 

07. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance 8/10 review

08. The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance 6/10 review

09. Grass by Sheri S. Tepper 7/10 review

10. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny 9/10 review

11. Grendel by John Gardner 7/10 review

12. Habibi by Craig Thompson 8/10 review

13. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher 7/10 review

14. The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman 8/10 review

15. Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist 3/10 (did not finish)

 

 

March

 

16. Replay by Ken Grimwood 10/10 review

17. Cowl by Neal Asher 8/10 review

18. Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell 8/10 review

19. The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter 4/10 review

20. Revenger by Rory Clements 9/10 review

21. Knights of Dark Renown by David Gemmell 9/10 review

22. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds 7/10 review

23. Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell 8/10 review

 

 

April

 

24. Midwinter of the Spirit by Phil Rickman 8/10 review

25. Winter Warriors by David Gemmell 9/10 review

26. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield 10/10 review

27. Hannibal: Enemy of Rome by Ben Kane 5/10 review

28. The Alchemist's Secret by Scott Mariani 7/10 review

29. Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell 9/10 review

30. Death Masks by Jim Butcher 8/10 review

31. Heretic by Bernard Cornwell 7/10 review

 

 

May

 

32. Remote Control by Andy McNab 5/10 review

33. Midnight Falcon by David Gemmell 9/10 review

34. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 9/10 review

35. Weaveworld by Clive Barker 7/10 review

36. Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe 7/10 review

37. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 10/10 review

 

 

June

 

38. Old Man's War by John Scalzi 7/10 review

39. The Skystone (A Dream of Eagles book 1) by Jack Whyte 8/10 review

40. Mockingbird by Walter Tevis 7/10 review

41. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 9/10 review

42. Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance 6/10 review

43. Prince by Rory Clements 9/10 review

44. A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman 8/10 review

 

 

July

 

45. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks 7/10 review

46. Ravenheart by David Gemmell 8/10 review

47. Persuader by Lee Child 8/10 review

48. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 8/10 review

49. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay 6/10 review

50. The Breach by Patrick Lee 8/10 review

51. Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales 7/10 review

52. Ghost Country by Patrick Lee 8/10 review

 

 

August

 

53. Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson 6/10 review

54. The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin 7/10 review

55. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie 10/10 review

56. Deep Sky by Patrick Lee 8/10 review

57. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells 10/10 review

58. The Wurms of Blearmouth by Steven Erikson 9/10 review

59. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 3/10 review

60. Manhattan in Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton 6/10 review

 

 

September

 

61. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke 8/10 review

62. Rivers of London by Ben Aaranovitch 8/10 review

63. The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt 7/10 review

64. Hard Landing by Stephen Leather 6/10 review

65. Stormrider by David Gemmell 7/10 review

 

 

October

 

66. The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland 8/10 review

67. Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher 8/10 review

68. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld 7/10 review

69. Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill 5/10 review

70. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 7/10 review

71. Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian 8/10 review

 

 

November

 

72. The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey 8/10 review

73. Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover (did not finish)

74. Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis 8/10 review

75. Safe House by Chris Ewan 6/10 review

76. Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy Trilogy Book 1) by David Gemmell 10/10 review

77. Shield of Thunder (Troy Trilogy Book 2) by David Gemmell 8/10 review

78. Fall of Kings (Troy Trilogy Book 3) by David & Stella Gemmell 9/10 review

 

 

December

 

79. The Long Way Home by John McCallum 7/10 review

80. The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers 7/10 review

81. The Man in the Snow by Rory Clements 8/10 review

82. Nine Princes in Amber (Chronicles of Amber Book 1) by Roger Zelazny 5/10 review

83. Shadow Games (The Books of the South - Tales of the Black Company) by Glen Cook 9/10 review

84. Dreams of Steel (The Books of the South - Tales of the Black Company) by Glen Cook 9/10 review

85. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 9/10 review

86. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 10/10 review

 

 

 

Books started in 2012: 86

 

Books finished in 2012: 84

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TBR List

 

Read: 70

Abandoned: 2

Remaining: 56

 

 

Treebooks:

 

Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie

The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss

Shadow of the Scorpion - Neal Asher

Cowl - Neal Asher

The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks

Dawnthief - James Barclay

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett

Persuader - Lee Child

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

Revenger - Rory Clements

Prince - Rory Clements

A Cruel Wind - Glen Cook

The White Rose - Glen Cook

The Books of the South - Glen Cook

The Return of the Black Company - Glen Cook

The Many Deaths of the Black Company - Glen Cook

Shadowline - Glen Cook

Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell

Vagabond - Bernard Cornwell

Heretic - Bernard Cornwell

The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell

The Wurms of Blearmouth - Steven Erikson

Stonewielder - Ian C. Esslemont

Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist

Sword in the Storm - David Gemmell

Hero in the Shadows - David Gemmell

Stormrider - David Gemmell

Midnight Falcon - David Gemmell

Ravenheart - David Gemmell

The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend - David Gemmell

The Legend of Deathwalker - David Gemmell

Dark Moon - David Gemmell

Echoes of the Great Song - David Gemmell

White Wolf - David Gemmell

The Swords of Night and Day - David Gemmell

Troy: Shield of Thunder - David Gemmell

Troy: Fall of Kings - David Gemmell

Winter Warriors - David Gemmell

Lord of the Silver Bow - David Gemmell

Knights of Dark Renown - David Gemmell

Replay - Ken Grimwood

Manhattan In Reverse - Peter F. Hamilton

Imperium - Robert Harris

The Mad Ship - Robin Hobb

Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb

The Gates of Rome - Conn Iggulden

The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan

Hannibal: Enemy of Rome - Ben Kane

The Last Light of the Sun - Guy Gavriel Kay

Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch

The Many-Coloured Land - Julian May

Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey

The White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey

The Engines of God - Jack McDevitt

The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock

Elric - Michael Moorcock

Apartment 13 - Adam Nevill

Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian

Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian

Heresy - S J Parris

Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin

House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds

Terminal World - Alastair Reynolds

The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld

Heroes Die - Matthew Woodring Stover

Grass - Sheri S. Tepper

Mockingbird - Walter Tevis

Bitter Seeds - Ian Tregillis

The Dying Earth - Jack Vance

The Eyes of the Overworld - Jack Vance

A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells

The Skystone - Jack Whyte

The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams

Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny

Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

 

Total: 85 Read: 47 Abandoned: 2

 

 

Kindle:

 

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

Zero Day - David Baldacci

Weaveworld - Clive Barker

Summer Knight - Jim Butcher

Death Masks - Jim Butcher

The Crucifix Killer - Chris Carter

Safe House - Chris Ewan

The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber

The Mall - S.L. Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey

Pompeii - Robert Harris

The Chicago Way - Michael Harvey

The Strain - Chuck Hogan & Guillermo del Toro

Conan the Reaver - Robert E. Howard

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson

Hard Landing - Stephen Leather

The Breach - Patrick Lee

Ghost Country - Patrick Lee

Deep Sky - Patrick Lee

The Long Way Home - John McCallum

The Owl Killers - Karen Maitland

The Alchemist's Secret - Scott Mariani

The Kinshield Legacy - K.C. May

Remote Control - Andy McNab

The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers

The Wine of Angels - Phil Rickman

Midwinter of the Spirit - Phil Rickman

A Crown of Lights - Phil Rickman

The Cure of Souls - Phil Rickman

The Lamp of the Wicked - Phil Rickman

The Prayer of the Night Shepherd - Phil Rickman

Curfew - Phil Rickman

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Adrift on the Sea of Rains - Ian Sales

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Suldrun's Garden - Jack Vance

The Green Pearl - Jack Vance

Madouc - Jack Vance

The Emperor's Gold - Robert Wilton

The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe

 

Total: 43 Read: 23

 

 

Wishlist:

 

Habibi - Craig Thompson

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

Revenger - Rory Clements

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood

Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell

Hothouse - Brian Aldiss

Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny

Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey

Sacred Treason - James Forrester

Prophecy - S. J. Parris

World War Z - Max Brooks

The Reapers Are the Angels - Alden Bell

More Robert Silverberg

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

The Steel Remains - Richard Morgan

Faith - John Love

Beowulf - Seamus Heaney translation

Shadow And Betrayal: Book One of The Long Price - Daniel Abraham

Old Man's War - John Scalzi

Absorption - John Meaney

The Kings of Eternity - Eric Brown

Something (anything!) by Ian Rankin

Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence

The Island of Doctor Moreau - H G Wells

Ancient Blades trilogy - David Chandler

Stormlord Trilogy - Glenda Larke

Rebels and Traitors - Lindsey Davis

Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

Camulod Chronicles - Jack Whyte

K J Parker

The Braided Path - Chris Wooding

King of Ithaca - Glen Iliffe

A Place Called Armageddon - C C Humphreys

Among Others - Jo Walton

The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

The Somme Stations - Andrew Martin

Bitter Seeds - Ian Tregillis

All Hell Let Loose - Max Hastings

The Star Fraction by Ken McLeod

The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sing by Kate Wilhelm

Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells

Slow River by Nicola Griffith

Wasp by Eric Frank Russell

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Synners by Pat Cadigan

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

Son of Heaven by David Wingrove

Jack Glass by Adam Roberts

A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin

The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

 

 

 

Bought: 14

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Last year I set myself a target of beating my previous year's total of books read. I'm not going to do that this year, as I think it did affect my enjoyment of some of the novels I read because I was in too much of a rush to get through them ...

 

Anyhoo ...

 

 

The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay

 

This is a duology, comprising of the novels Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. It is another historical fantasy, like his The Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song for Arbonne, this time concentrating on Byzantium, or Constantinople. You can quickly see Kay drawing parallels with real history as he introduces the religions involved (the worship of Jad, and some also worshipping his son, Heladikos), and the feeling of the Roman Empire runs throughout the books, even if it is known as the Sarantine Empire.

 

The story tells the tale of the artisan Caius Crispus (Crispin), a mosaicist who travels east from his home in Varena (Ravenna) in answer to an Imperial summons to the capital, where the emperor Valerius II is building a vast sanctuary and wants the best to work upon the mosaic for its dome. Crispin recently lost his wife and daughters to plague and is struggling to find a reason to go on. He is bitter and angry, and his mentor, Martinian - to whom the summons was really addressed - believes that the moment is right for his protegee to leave. Crispin's journey is fraught with danger, both physical and spiritual, and he moves in the highest circles due to the nature of the summons, which brings its own perils with it. In a lot of ways, the story deals with grief and guilt and how people deal with them differently.

 

I think Kay's a brilliant wordsmith. There's a lyrical quality to his writing which makes me want to pause and re-read passages just because they are so good. He deals primarily with characters. Huge events may be going on, but he always keeps it on a personal level. He has some wonderful characters to deal with in these two novels, from the emperor and empress, to his general and a dancer, to a soldier and a physician, to a tavern girl and a charioteer. It's the women who he has most fun with - they are all strong, intelligent, powerful, and he takes great delight in having them outwit their male counterparts, who also have the same qualities but can't seem to evade the cunning at their backs. My favourite was Styliane Daleina, wife of the emperor's Strategos, and daughter of a man who would've been emperor had he not been murdered on the eve of assuming power. She is icy, wickedly smart, and the word games in the dialogue she has with others is, at times, enough to make your head spin. She's brilliant and, in some ways, tragic. However, if I have one complaint about these books, it is that the women are all stunningly beautiful and - despite them all being involved with handsome, powerful men - they all seem to fall for Crispin in some way or other, perhaps because they all bare their souls to him at one point or another, unable to do so with their spouses. I suppose these sorts of things were rife in the Roman Empire, though, and Kay uses it to weave some riveting sub-plots, political and personal, and everything - everything! - comes to fruition before the end.

 

I haven't even mentioned the thrilling chariot races (which are epic on a Ben-Hur scale), or the birds, or the way he sets up a situation so that you know the outcome must be inevitable, and then wrings every last piece of tension out of it so that I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. The books of his that I've read before were all one-volume, stand-alone efforts, so it was great to see him give himself room to breathe, and I think this story benefits greatly for it.

 

I've read five of Kay's novels now, and he hasn't let me down once. The only downer is that I'm running out of them!

 

Sailing to Sarantium 9/10

Lord of Emperors 9/10

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Cheers VF :smile:

 

Notice I'm being harsher with my scores this year - I was so tempted to give 10's :giggle2:

 

Got about 100 pages into The Stand yesterday. It's about 30 years since I read it, and this is the 'expanded' version, so I don't really know what's been added and what was there before. I'd forgotten how easy Stephen King is to read, too, as it must be 15 years or so since I last read one of his books (the last one I read was Desperation, I think).

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The Stand (expanded version) by Stephen King

 

I enjoyed re-reading this book. I've always been a big fan of King's earlier novels. I first read them back in the early 80s, so I've come back to The Stand without being able to remember it in detail, just the premise, the start, and a few of the more obvious characters. It has the feel of one of those epic disaster movies of the 70s, as various diverse groups of survivors come together in the aftermath of said disaster and try to build a new life. Then King throws in the supernatural element - shared dreams of a dark man and an old woman who may represent the struggle between good and evil.

 

I guess that is where my problems with the novel begin. Not that I didn't like it - I liked it a lot - but for me it does leave a little too much to coincidence and convenience at times and, although I was happy to go along with it for 90% of the time, I found it did become more problematic towards the end. Still, the characters are generally very good, particularly Nick, Glen, Larry and Tom Cullen. Then there's the Trashcan Man. His encounter with The Kid is pretty intense, and the fact that you start to empathise with a character who is not in possession of all his marbles is a testimony to King's innate ability to get you inside the heads of the people inhabiting his stories.

 

Considering the book is 1,300 pages long it moves at a very good pace. I can't recall any time where I felt it had got bogged down, although I did feel the last 50 pages or so seemed a little drawn out. It covers a whole range of emotions, has some exciting and horrific and funny moments, and if it sometimes feels a little like a soap opera it is to King's credit that he nearly always manages to put a wicked little twist in before you get too comfortable. It left me with a lot of questions, particularly regarding the supernatural side of things, but I don't mind that. Sometimes it's nice to let your imagination work things out for itself :lol:

 

8/10

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Great rview Karsa

I have my copy primed and ready to go, but will await a few others to possibly jump in with me sometime soon ,whenever all our book times click .

What's next on your agenda, have you decided ?

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Thanks, Julie :smile:

 

I'm 100 pages into it, really enjoying it already. I can't tell you what a relief it is to be reading a book that's only 430 pages long. That's less than a third of The Stand :giggle2:

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The Stand (expanded version) by Stephen King

Then there's the Trashcan Man. His encounter with The Kid is pretty intense, and the fact that you start to empathise with a character who is not in possession of all his marbles is a testimony to King's innate ability to get you inside the heads of the people inhabiting his stories.

 

This is what I love about King. He's so skillful at drawing these rounded portrayals of different kinds of interesting characters. Everytime when I'm reading It, I almost forget about the whole plot and the fight against It, I'm so engrossed by the everyday dealings of the kids.

 

You gotta love Tom Cullen :)

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This is what I love about King. He's so skillful at drawing these rounded portrayals of different kinds of interesting characters. Everytime when I'm reading It, I almost forget about the whole plot and the fight against It, I'm so engrossed by the everyday dealings of the kids.

 

You gotta love Tom Cullen :)

 

Very true. To be fair, the plot of The Stand is pretty thin - it's only because the characters are so good that it can get away with being as long as it is.

 

And laws yes, Tom was my favourite. :D

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Martyr by Rory Clements

 

An assassin, sent by the Spanish, is on the streets of London, his target: Sir Francis Drake. The year is 1587, Queen Elizabeth contemplates whether or not to execute Mary Queen of Scots, and her men stalk the streets hunting Roman Catholic priests. A brutal murder (and it is quite horrific - be warned) leads Secretary Walsingham's intelligencer, John Shakespeare, into a battle against time to both stop the assassin and solve the crime.

 

I drew the immediate comparison with C J Sansom's Shardlake novels even before I started reading this. It's got a suitably convoluted plot, involves real people from history and uses real events as a backdrop. It's quite gruesome, but very exciting, quite amusing in places, and has lots of twists and turns. I particularly liked that it didn't end up the way I thought it was going to, which was a nice surprise. I also liked that it was written in third person. Sansom uses the first person and, as a result, he has had to come up with more and more, to be frank, ludicrous ways to get Shardlake into the situations he needs to in order to progress the story (Heartstone was particularly guilty of this). Clements, on the other hand, switches between characters, settings and events as the story requires, and it makes it fast-paced and full of suspense without tipping the balance and taking you out of the experience. In fact, in his hands, 16th century London is a scary place indeed.

 

For a debut novel this is top stuff. I'll definitely be checking out more of John Shakespeare's adventures. And yes, he is related!

 

8/10

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Started S J Watson's Before I Go To Sleep this morning. At the moment, I am having trouble disassociating it from the 'Scholar's Tale' in Dan Simmons' Hyperion. In that particular story, Sol's daughter returns from a scientific expedition to the Time Tombs on Hyperion with a strange disease that, every time she goes to sleep, causes her to age backwards, losing her memories in the process. It's an absolutely brilliant story, heartbreakingly told. I know Watson's novel will go in completely different directions, and I'm only about 16% into it, but at the moment it seems so similar that it is suffering in comparison to Simmons' masterpiece.

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I have Martyr on my tbr pile. Really liked the Shardlake stories (well, the one I've read anyway), so am looking forward to it.

 

I thought Before I Go To Sleep was fantastic, and I hope you end up enjoying it too :) I haven't read Hyperion, so didn't have the problems with comparisons though.

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I thought Before I Go To Sleep was fantastic, and I hope you end up enjoying it too :)

 

Thanks, Ruth, I'm sure I will, especially once I'm through the opening stages :smile:

 

I highly, highly, highly (highly!) recommend Hyperion - providing you like science fiction, that is :smile:

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Okay, so I'm confused. I don't know how other people decide upon which book they're going to read next but I normally have a fairly set method: I'll take several books that interest me off the shelf, read the first page of each, and the one that makes me turn the page and keep reading is the one I'll go with.

 

However ...

 

The Kindle seems to have thrown all this up in the air. By my reckoning I've currently got about 30 treebooks and a similar number of ebooks to read. I've been trying to come up with a plan for how to choose from now on. I kind of want to make some in-roads into the books I already own before I buy more (shyeah right, like that's going to happen!). So now I'm thinking Kindle for the days when I'm at work, treebook for the days when I'm at home. But I hate reading more than one book at a time. I'm a man - I can't multi-task like that! :lol:

 

Consider me confuzzled :wacko:

 

 

Note to self: must make list of TBR pile

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But I hate reading more than one book at a time. I'm a man - I can't multi-task like that! :lol:

 

You said it, not us :D

 

Note to self: must make list of TBR pile

 

I was going to say that if I have no idea what to read next, which rarely happens to me, I usually go over my TBR pile and see which title jumps up. So yep, making a TBR list might be the way to go. It doesn't hurt to try :)

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I have to admit I just read what I fancy next...depends on my mood at the time of choosing. However at the moment I do have 5 books on the go so have a selection to choose from, though my reading choice is dictated to , where I am ie bed, bath, sofa work and the time of day wierdly.

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You said it, not us :D

 

That one's going to come back to haunt me, isn't it? :lol:

 

 

I was going to say that if I have no idea what to read next, which rarely happens to me, I usually go over my TBR pile and see which title jumps up. So yep, making a TBR list might be the way to go. It doesn't hurt to try :)

 

Make the most of this: I think you're right, Frankie. There, I've said it. :giggle2:;)

 

I shall attempt to do this over the weekend and add it to this thread. I'm also going to make sure that the next book I read is a treebook off the TBR pile. I've taken two off it so far this year. Mind you, I've added about five more :lol:

 

I have to admit I just read what I fancy next...depends on my mood at the time of choosing. However at the moment I do have 5 books on the go so have a selection to choose from, though my reading choice is dictated to , where I am ie bed, bath, sofa work and the time of day wierdly.

 

I bow to your multi-tasking skills, pickle :D I don't know how you do it - I'd have trouble remembering all the plots and sub-plots and keeping the right characters in the right stories. But then I have trouble remembering what happened last week :doh: The other thing that would happen with me is that I'd get more interested in one of the books than the others, so I'd end up concentrating on that one, forget the others and probably never finish them. It's a bit like my writing: I currently have four potential novels on the go, plus multiple short stories, and the chances of me actually finishing even one of them seem to get longer by the day :rolleyes:

 

I must at least finish one of the short stories. Maybe this weekend. Oh wait, I'm going to be doing my TBR list this weekend. Procrastinate, procrastinate ...

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That one's going to come back to haunt me, isn't it?

 

It's a possibility, yes :giggle:

 

Make the most of this: I think you're right, Frankie. There, I've said it. :giggle2:;)

 

There, that wasn't so hard, was it? Ah, what an awesome way to start my day :D

 

I shall attempt to do this over the weekend and add it to this thread. I'm also going to make sure that the next book I read is a treebook off the TBR pile. I've taken two off it so far this year. Mind you, I've added about five more :lol:

 

I can't wait to see your TBR list! :smile2:

 

So, by the end of the year, if things go nice and linear for you, you've added 60 books to mount TBR and have read 24 off it. How are you liking those numbers? ;) Are my mathematics scaring you?

 

I bow to your multi-tasking skills, pickle :D I don't know how you do it - I'd have trouble remembering all the plots and sub-plots and keeping the right characters in the right stories. But then I have trouble remembering what happened last week :doh: The other thing that would happen with me is that I'd get more interested in one of the books than the others, so I'd end up concentrating on that one, forget the others and probably never finish them. It's a bit like my writing: I currently have four potential novels on the go, plus multiple short stories, and the chances of me actually finishing even one of them seem to get longer by the day

 

... yes, or you could think of it this way: When you get them finished, you probably get them all finished at the same time and thus have 4 best sellers + multiple short stories to show for it. Instant success!

 

I must at least finish one of the short stories. Maybe this weekend. Oh wait, I'm going to be doing my TBR list this weekend. Procrastinate, procrastinate ...

 

Do the TBR list today and the short story on weekend, please :)

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Ah, what an awesome way to start my day :D

 

Glad I could help! :P

 

Are my mathematics scaring you?

 

:lol:

 

No more than you usually do :giggle2:

 

... yes, or you could think of it this way: When you get them finished, you probably get them all finished at the same time and thus have 4 best sellers + multiple short stories to show for it. Instant success!

 

There you go expecting me to multi-task again!

 

Do the TBR list today and the short story on weekend, please :)

 

Yes mum :lol:

 

Only problem is I'm not at home so can't see my books! I suppose I could add the Kindle ones when the boss isn't looking ...

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No more than you usually do :giggle2:

 

Whaaaat?!

 

There you go expecting me to multi-task again!

 

You know people need to always find ways to better and improve themselves. This week's task is for you to learn how to multi-task!

 

Yes mum :lol:

 

Whaaaat?!

Does your Mum say 'please' when she tells you to do something?

 

Only problem is I'm not at home so can't see my books! I suppose I could add the Kindle ones when the boss isn't looking ...

 

Do you mean me? Oh, I'm always looking.

:giggle:

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Whaaaat?!

Does your Mum say 'please' when she tells you to do something?

 

Not anymore. I taught her to ask, not tell :lol:

 

 

Do you mean me? Oh, I'm always looking.

:giggle:

 

Great! That gives me an excuse not to do it :P:giggle2:

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Not anymore. I taught her to ask, not tell

 

:D Aren't mothers supposed to teach their children stuff and not the other way around.

 

Great! That gives me an excuse not to do it :P:giggle2:

 

Oh great frankie, you painted yourself in the corner. Nicely done. :roll:

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