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Well, I am a lucky girly! A few more to add to my list for my birthday. Kelley Armstrong ~ Frostbitten (Otherworld Bk 10) Jodi Picoult ~ House Rules Jodi Picoult ~ Harvesting the Heart

I'm going to close this thread now as it is unlikely that I will complete any more books before the New Year. Not a fantastic year for reading (or much else come to that). Mediocre at best really as I didn't read half as much as I wanted too. I have read some wonderful books (as well as a couple of clangers) but here's to reading much, much more in 2011. See you on the other side.

Just popping in to say I'm a little bit jealous of your Kindle Happy Reading!

Thanks Ben!! I did pretty well this year and only went a bit mad at the end (but that was with gift cards from last Christmas that had to be used up) <--- my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I'll let you know if any good 'uns pop up

I've just added in my Christmas books to Mount TBR! These include: LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez an Da Erfs N Stuffs Pen Farthing ~ One Dog at a Time Gregory Maguire ~ Matchless (A Christmas Story) Philippa Gregory ~ The Red Queen (Cousins War Series bk 2) Not sure how I'm going to make a dent in these but I'm going to have a good go

Waiting to Arrive My Wish List Kelley Armstrong ~ Waking The Witch (Otherworld book 11) Kelley Armstrong ~ Spellbound (Otherworld book 12) Kelley Armstrong ~ Tales of the Otherworld (Otherworld Novella) Kelley Armstrong ~ Angelic (Otherworld Novella) Kelley Armstrong ~ Counterfeit Magic (Otherworld Novella) Kelley Armstrong ~ Forbidden (Otherworld Novella) Kelley Armstrong ~ Made To Be Broken (Nadia Stafford book 2) Kelley Armstrong ~ The Gathering (Darkest Powers book 4) Michele Bardsley ~ Wait til your Vampire gets home (book 4) Michele Bardsley ~ Over my dead body (book 5) Michele Bardsley ~ Cross Your Heart (book 7) Michele Bardsley ~ Must Love Lycans (book 8) The Sacrifice by Kathleen Benner Duble Libba Bray ~ Rebel Angels Libba Bray ~ The Sweet Far Thing Jayne Slayre ~ Charlotte Bronte & Sherri Browning Erwin Blameless ~ Gail Carriger Truman Capote ~ Breakfast at Tiffany's Maryjanice Davidson ~ Undead and Unwelcome (book 8) Maryjanice Davidson ~ Undead and Unfinished (book 9) Maryjanice Davidson ~ Naughty or Nice (book 2) Maryjanice Davidson ~ Dead and Loving it (book 3) Maryjanice Davidson ~ Dead over heels (book 4) Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz Revelations: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa De La Cruz The Van Alen Legacy: A Blue Bloods Novel by Melissa De La Cruz The Spaniard's Daughter by Melanie Gifford Charlaine Harris ~ Dead in the Family (book 10) Charlaine Harris ~ A Touch of Dead (book 11) Eva Ibbotson ~ The Secret Countess Rosamund Lupton ~ Afterwards Eden Maguire ~ Arizona Gregory Maguire ~ The Next Queen of Heaven Carole Matthews ~ Wrapped up in You Amy Molloy ~ Wife, Interrupted The Italian Matchmaker by Santa Montefiore Christopher Paolini - Inheritance (bk 4) Jodi Picoult ~ Compasion Bernard Shaw ~ Pygmalion Alison Weir ~ The Lady in the Tower Elizabeth H. Winthrop ~ December

'Mount To Be Read' 64 Mitch Albom ~ For One More Day Kelley Armstrong ~ Exit Strategy (Nadia Stafford Book 1) Kelley Armstrong ~ The Summoning (Darkest Powers Book 1) Kelley Armstrong ~ The Awakening (Darkest Powers Book 2) Kelley Armstrong ~ The Reckoning (Darkest Powers Book 3) Margaret Atwood ~ The Handmaids Tale Michele Bardsley ~ Because Your Vampire Said So! (book 3) Michele Bardsley ~ Come hell or high water (book 6) Holly Black ~ Ironside Holly Black ~ Tithe Anthony Bozza ~ Slash: The Autobiography Trudi Canavan ~ The Priestess of the White Trudi Canavan ~ Last of The Wilds Trudi Canavan ~ Voice of The Gods Trudi Canavan ~ Magicians Apprentice Gail Carriger ~ Soulless John Connolly ~ The Book of Lost Things Tom Cox ~ Under The Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man Christie Dickason ~ The Principessa Sam Enthoven ~ The Black Tattoo Pen Farthing ~ One Dog at a Time Stephen Foster ~ Walking Ollie Kathryn Fox ~ Blood Born Tess Gerritsen ~ In Their Footsteps Tess Gerritsen ~ Stolen Tess Gerritsen ~ Call After Midnight Emily Giffin ~ Something Borrowed Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen ~ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Philippa Gregory ~ The Red Queen (Cousins War Series bk 2) Vicky Halls ~ Cat Counsellor Charlaine Harris ~ Dead and Gone(book 9) Raven Hart ~ The Vampire's Seduction Raven Hart ~ The Vampire's Kiss Torey Hayden ~ Beautiful Child Mandasue Heller ~ The Pact Susan Hill ~ Mrs DeWinter Jeanne Kalogridis ~ Burning Times Elizabeth Kostova ~ The Swan Thieves Norah Lofts ~ The Lost Queen Norah Lofts ~ The Concubine Gregory Maguire ~ A Lion Amongst Men Gregory Maguire ~ Lost Gregory Maguire ~ Mirror Mirror Gregory Maguire ~ Matchless (A Christmas Story) Donald McCaig ~ Rhett Butler's People Karen Moline ~ Belladonna Kate Morton ~ The Forgotten Garden Christopher Paolini ~ Brisingr Jodi Picoult ~ Harvesting the Heart Jean Plaidy ~ Castille For Isabella (Isabelle & Ferdinand Trilogy bk1) Jean Plaidy ~ Uneasy Lies The Head (Tudors bk1) Terry Pratchett ~ The Light Fantastic Justine Picardie ~ Daphne Mark Spitz ~ Nobody Likes You Eva Stachniak ~ Dancing With Kings Jonathan Stroud ~ Heroes Of The Valley Astro Teller ~ Exegesis Sue Townsend ~ The Queen & I Willy Vlautin ~ Lean on Pete Freda Warrington ~ A Taste of Blood Wine J M Warwick ~ A Season of Eden Alison Weir ~ The Lady Elizabeth Alison Weir ~ Innocent Traitor Markus Zusak ~ The Book Thief Read 3 Buy 1 purchases from 2010 Read 3 Buy 1 purchases from 2011

Currently Reading John Verdon ~ Think of a Number Already Read 25. Charles Dickens ~ Great Expectations 24. Karen Rose ~ You Belong To Me 23.Charlaine Harris ~ From Dead to Worse (book 8) 22. Charlaine Harris ~ All Together Dead (book 7) 21. Charlaine Harris ~ Definitely Dead (book 6) 20. Tess Gerritsen ~ The Killing Place 19. Emma Donoghue ~ Room 18. Jane Eagland ~ Wildthorne 17. Barack Obama ~ Dreams from my Father 16. Martina Cole ~ The Family 15. Charlaine Harris ~ Dead as a Doornail (book 5) 14. Charlaine Harris ~ Dead to the World(book 4) 13. Charlaine Harris ~ Club Dead (book 3) 12. Charlaine Harris ~ Living Dead in Dallas (Book 2) 11.Charlaine Harris ~ Dead Until Dark (Book 1) 10. Mo Hayder ~ Gone 9. Jodi Picoult ~ House Rules 8. Rosamund Lupton ~ Sister 7. Kelley Armstrong ~ Frostbitten (Otherworld book 10) 6. Kelley Armstrong ~ Living with the Dead (Otherworld book 9) 5. Kelley Armstrong ~ Personal Demon (Otherworld book 8) 4. Kelley Armstrong ~ Men of The Otherworld (Otherworld Novella) 3. Jonathan Nasaw ~ When She Was Bad 2. Mary-Janice Davidson ~ Undead and Unworthy 1. Jo Nesbo ~ The Devil's Star Read 3 Buy 1 credits: -5 (Total Earned in 2011 = 6)

Winter Dreams Norah Roberts This title includes two gorgeous stories that are sure to make you believe in the miracle of love this Christmas! Blithe Image - beneath her sophisticated beauty, fashion model. Hillary Baxter was still just a small-town girl. How could she be expected to resist the devastating charm of her new employer, mesmerising tycoon Bret Bardoff? But Christmas in New York could change everything...As he discovered Hillary's alluring innocence, it was Bret who was left defenceless...against the pull of his own heart. Song of the West - nothing was going to seduce Samantha Evans into giving up her dreams, however much the towering mountains and windswept plains of Wyoming called to her. She'd never intended to stay forever. Until one snowy night, when a sexy cowboy rescued her from a terrifying storm. Started: 17/12/10 Finished: 24/12/10 Rated: 2/5 Comments: Not my usual reading material but it wasn't the worst book I've ever read. It was all fluffy and heavy on the romance, which for this time of the year is never a bad thing. You can't complain when the book is filled with hunky cowboys!

Silent Scream Karen Rose Four college kids set fire to a supposedly empty condominium block. But when they see the young girl at an upper-floor window desperately banging on the glass, clawing to get out, they realise their mistake. Although they don’t all agree, the group leave the girl to her certain death, little realising that someone is there, watching their every move. Someone who has a nasty habit of blackmail and sees an opportunity for profit which is far greater than any they have ever had before. For local fire fighter David Hunter, getting the blaze under control is hard enough, but when he finds the girl’s body he realises that this arson attack has become a murder case and the homicide cops are immediately called in. Now, as David works with the cops, it’s a race to find the arsonists, and the blackmailer, before events escalate out of all control Started: 07/12/10 Finished: 17/12/10 Rated: 4/5 Comments: I've grown quite fond of Karen Rose and her set plot formula. Her books are very easy to read but still intriguing enough to keep turning the pages. I like the recurring characters and the cross referencing from previous stories.

As She Climbed Across The Table Jonathan Letham What if your lover left you for nothing? Literally Nothing? From the author of Motherless Brooklyn, this is a strange, hilarious love story about a man, a woman, and the space between them. Physicist Alice Coombs has made a great discovery - a hole in the universe, a true nothingness she and her colleagues call 'Lack'. Professor Philip Engstrand has made his own breakthrough - he realises how much he loves Alice. Trouble is, Lack is a void with a personality - a void that utterly obsesses Philip's beloved. She's fallen out of love with Philip and in love with Lack. Started: 05/12/10 Finished: 06/12/10 Rated: 1/5 Comments: I think I missed the point of this one. I mean, I get it but I didn't find it quite as "hilarious" as I should have done. Maybe it just didn't appeal to my sense of humour

Thanks Mac! Hope you are well too. I've been enjoying these so far. They've been sat on my shelf for a while so I thought I'd give them a go. There is a certain bumbling charm about Pender that I like and also they always seem well researched (a lot of big words!) Looking forward to this next one.

27 Bones Jonathan Nasaw As Lewis's eyes adjusted to the light, what appeared at first to be a can of ivory-coloured sticks and stones proved to be a can of disarticulated bones, some like sticks, long and thin, flared out delicately at the ends, others roundish, like irregularly-shaped stones, and still others short, with conical tips. They were of course, the bones of a human hand. If he'd counted, he'd have found twenty-seven of them - eight carpals, five metacarpals, and fourteen phalanges.' Although officially retired, ex-Special Agent Pender can't ignore a plea for help from an old friend - especially when there's an all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean attached. Julian Coffee, St Luke's chief of police, needs Pender's help in tracking down a serial killer known as the 'Machete Man' because of his habit of cutting off the right hand of his victims. Pender is about to encounter the strangest and most baffling case of his long career. Started: 28/11/10 Finished: 05/12/10 Rated: 3/5 Comments: Another good book from Nasaw. There's an aspect to these books that is not like your average crime books. I can't quite put my finger on it but there's an aspect of science/knowledge that goes into each killer. I think they may just be very well researched but in my opinion, it shows through.

I've had this one sitting around for a while and whilst I haven't picked it up yet, I couldn't find it in myself to give it away. I'm glad I didn't now and I hope to get around to it a lot quicker.

Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw Just as he's celebrating his last day on the job, FBI agent E L Pender receives a letter from Dorie Bell. Dorie is afraid. Last year she attended a convention for Persons with Specific Phobia Disorder. Since then, a couple of the delegates have died in suspicious circumstances. Carl Polander had acrophobia. Fear of heights. So what would he be doing on the 12th floor of the building the police say he jumped from? Mara Agajanian had haemophobia. Fear of blood. So how could she have cut her own wrists in the bathtub? Dorie, who suffers from an irrational fear of masks, wants Pender to look into these cases. She suspects there may be a twisted serial killer on the loose. Someone, who quite literally, enjoys scaring his victims to death. Dorie's right. But she has no idea just how close to her the killer is... Started: 22/11/10 Finished:27/11/10 Rated: 3/5 Comments: This wasn't a bad book considering the story has been done many times before, both in books and on tv. You don't get much character development despite this being the second book with FBI agent Pender and in some parts it's highly unlikely that things would happen in the way they do. But then again, it's only when I think about it in depth that I questioned it. It did seem to flow at the time. Readable but not as good as Mo Hayder.

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw Max admits to killing the young woman whose still-warm, disembowelled body was found beside him - but he claims to be suffering from DID, a multiple-personality disorder and common alibi for murderers. Strawberry-blonde psychiatrist Irene Cogan is brought in to assess his claims and is astonished to find that Max has many more alters - or alternative personalities - than any DID sufferer she's previously encountered. But what Irene doesn't know is that one of those alters is a suspected serial killer the FBI know as Casey - a man responsible for the disappearance, and almost certain death, of several women. Women with just one thing in common - strawberry-blonde hair. Started: 15/11/10 Finished: 21/11/10 Rated: 3/5 Comments:

The Shining by Stephen King is one of my winter books and then as it heads towards the festive season, I love to read A Christmas Carol.

Nursenblack thanks for the comments. So far I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. Very enjoyable! Weave: it is a fantastic book isn't it! I love Gregory Maguire and haven't found anything of his I haven't liked.

The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once home to the March family - fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart... Now Margaret Lea is investigating Angelfield's past - and the mystery of the March family starts to unravel. What has Angelfield been hiding? What is its connection with the enigmatic writer Vida Winter? And what is the secret that strikes at the heart of Margaret's own, troubled life? As Margaret digs deeper, two parallel stories unfold, and the tale she uncovers sheds a disturbing light on her own life... Started: 06/11/10 Finished: 14/11/10 Rated: 4.5/5 Comments: I thoroughly enjoyed this book, so much so, I read two thirds in the last couple of days. I didn't want to put it down. It's such a well written story with just the right amount of twists and turns to keep you on your toes without the confusion of too many threads going on at once. If you like the style of Kate Morton, you'll love this.

Agreed Peacefield. I almost always pick up The Shining around this time of year. It still scares me silly every time.

Stolen Lesley Pearse Sussex, 2003 When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician, Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte Wainright. The girls met working on a cruise ship and their friendship blossomed as they sailed the seas of South America, until Lotte fell under the sinister influence of an older American couple. To her regret, Dale hasn't seen Lotte since leaving the ship months earlier ... but the girl on the beach - although badly bruised - is indeed her much missed friend. Their reunion only marks the beginning of a dangerous tidal wave of secrets, lies and nightmares. Where has Lotte been? Who is the man who seems to want to kill her? And what has become of the baby she's recently given birth to? Dale and Lotte must dig deep and find the strength to hold on against the odds if they are to rebuild their friendship and survive Lotte's stolen - and deadly - past. Started: 23/10/10 Finished: 03/11/10 Rated: 2/5 Comments: Unfortunately this wasn't up to the usual standards of Lesley's other books and I didn't enjoy it any where near as much as I thought I would. The story is an interesting idea but the characters just didn't work for me. It didn't pull me in so I didn't really care quite as much as I should have done.