[Rennie's book list]

Now that I have more time I have decided to try this blog in order to remember what I have read and what I still have to read. The following are on my shelf TBR.

 

The Woman in White byWilkie Collins

Jamaica Inn by Daphne duMaurier

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell

Exodus by Leon Uris

The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

Africa Diary by Bill Bryson

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Baudilino by Umberto Eco

Boy by Lindsey Colleen

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Derailed by James Siegel

Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard

Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland

I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Misery by Stephen King

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehrain

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

Shindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Gavin Bell

The Accidental by Ali Smith

The Covenant by James Michener

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Falls by Ian Rankin

The Haj by Leon Uris

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

The Palace of Heavenly Pleasures by Adam Williams

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

The Peoples Act of Love by James Meek

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Sea by John Banvile

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

The Suspect by Michael Robotham

Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis

Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre

What the body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

[Five facts...]

I have been married a long time and have a son and daughter

 

My daughter is getting married next week.

 

I went back to full time education as a mature student and got a degree in economics from Glasgow University (seems a long time ago).

 

I wish I could read faster.

 

Oh and I wish I was musical, but people tell me I can

[Jasper Fforde]

Thanks Muggle Not. I let you know how I get on once I have read it.

[Jasper Fforde]

I have just ordered The Eyre Affair on Amazon. I have not read any Jasper Fforde books before so can you tell me is this the right book to start with?

[Anchee Min - Empress Orchid]

I have made a start on this book and finding it very different from the other books that I have read about China. The contrast between life inside the Forbidden Palace and that outside is vast.

 

Wild Swans, and The Good Earth are the other books that I have read, but I think I will need to try a lot more books on China to get any understanding of the area.

 

I am enjoying the read so far and I can see where you are coming from Michelle when you say you see parallels with The Other Boleyn Girl

[Kell's 2006 Reading Log - July to December]

I really believe you are right with your analysis of We Need To Talk About Kevin. I felt just the same irritation with it when I read it on holiday last month.

 

Having said that I think it is a book that I will always remember or at least will not easily forget, so I can see why many people really liked it.

 

I would probably have given it much the same score as you did, but I do think people should read it and see what they think.

[Have you read a book more than once?]

I read The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel and Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon twice. When I was young I read the Anne of Green Gables books twice. However I have such a huge pile of books waiting to be read that I don

[Bill Bryson - which book to read first?]

I don

[Diana Gabaldon]

I have read all of Diana Gabaldon

[Nora Roberts]

I first encountered Nora Robert