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Snails Frogs legs Hope to have some when I

Thanks wiccibat. I

Thanks Wiccibat. Another wine to try. Will we get it here in Scotland do you think?

Sometimes I lend books to friends, but like Pontalba I don

I must look out for Madfish then. Not had rose for sometime. We did have pink champagne a few weeks ago when we had the relatives from both sides round to the house for get-together and show of presents when my daughter got married. Rather a good day what I can remember of it.

Drank some chilled red once in Barbados. I was a bit surprised at the time but it tasted very good. Is Bull

I have now finished The Sacred Art of Stealing. It was very good. I will definitely read more by this author. I have started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It say on the inside cover that it is

I like to try something new. I have never read any Bernard Cornwell books and thought that I would start with Sharpe

I have been to Border

Part of my Amazon order arrived today. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Exodus by Leon Uris The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka I have now finished Jane Eyre. I had thought I had read it years ago, but it turns out that I had not. Anyway I enjoyed it very much. I am now going to start on my September challenge and read The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre.

So far this year I have read: December 64 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (reading) 63 Blindness by Jose Saramago 6/10 62 Prodigal Summer 8/10 61 The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 7/10 November 60 The Secret River by Kate Atkinson 7/10 59 Black swan Green by David Mitchell 10/10 58 Never Far from Nowhere by Andrea Levy 7/10 57 Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 8/10 56 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 8/10 55 The Shining by Stephen King 6/10 54 Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell 6/10 53 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruis Zafon 8/10 October 52 March by Geraldine Brooks 6/10 51 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 6/10 50 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 9/10 49 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 7/10 48 Sharpes Tiger by Bernard Cornwell 6/10 47 The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam 6/10 September 46 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 7/10 45 The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe 6/10 44 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 8/10 43 The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre 7/10 42 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 8/10 August 41 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 8/10 40 The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy 7/10 39 The World According to Garp by John Irving 8/10 38High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 6/10 37 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 9/10 36 Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 8/10 July 35 Out by Natsuo Kirino 7/10 34 The Good Earth by Pearl Buck 9/10 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova unfinished 33 Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 8/10 June Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke unfinished 32 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 5/10 31 the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 9/10 30 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 7/10 May 29 Old Filth by Jane Gardam 6/10 28 A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro 6/10 27 The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood 6/10 26 The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster 7/10 25 The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates 7/10 24 Baghdad Burning by Girl Blog from Iraq 7/10 April 23 When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 6/10 22 White Teeth by Zadie Smith 8/10 21 The Van by Roddy Doyle 8/10 20 My Forbidden Face by Latifa 6/10 19 Disgrace by J M Coetzee 6/10 18 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 9/10 17 The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad 6/10 March 16 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 10/10 15 Purple Hibiscus by Chimananda Ngozi Adichi 9/10 14 The Secret History by Donna Tartt 6/10 13 I Claudius by Robert Graves 8/10 12 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 7/10 February 11 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 9/10 10 The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan 6/10 9 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 9/10 8 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 10/10 7 Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 8/10 6 Vanishing Acts by Jodie Picoult 6/10 January 5 Small Island by Andrea Levy 9/10 4 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenger 6/10 3 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon 6/10 2 The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory 5/10 1 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 8/10

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

I don

I have read all of Diana Gabaldon

I first encountered Nora Robert