madcow

They both sound good but I've gone for Not Dead Enough.

Hello and welcome Lizzie.

A full monty

Hello and welcome bagel queen.

Total books read in 2008 (46) Jeremy Clarkson - The world According To Clarkson - 7/10 The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger - 8/10 The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult 7.5/10 The Sinner - Tess Gerritsen - 7.5/10 The Cruel Mother - Sian Busby - 7/10 Stolen - Tess Gerritsen - 7/10 Bella of Bow Street - Carol Rivers 7.5/10 Water For Elephants - Sarah Gruen - 9/10 Gone - Lisa Gardner - 8/10 The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen 8/10 Boy A - Jonathan Trigell 6.5/10 Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen - 8.5/10 You Can Run But You Can't Hide - Duane 'Dog' Chapman - 7/10 Harvest - Tess Gerritsen - 9/10 Footprints In The Sand - Sarah Challis - 9/10 Vanish - Tess Gerritsen - 9/10 Blood Ties - Sam Hayes - 9/10 Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult - 9/10 For One More Day - Mitch Albom - 8/10 The Apprentice - Tess Gerritsen - 8/10 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller - 7.5/10 A Small Part of History - Peggy Elliott - 8/10 Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard - 9/10 A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard - 9.5/10 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - Gregory Maguire - 8/10 Being Emily - Anne Donovan 7/10 Star Gazing - Linda Gillard - 9/10 The Midwife's Tale - Gretchen Moran Laskas - 7/10 The Conquest - Elizabeth Chadwick - 8/10 Dead Lovely - Helen Fitzgerald - 8.5/10 Body Double - Tess Gerritsen - 8.5/10 The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen - 9/10 Final Demand - Deborah Moggach - 7/10 After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell - 8/10 No Time For Goodbye - Linwood Barclay - 8.5/10 A Season Of Eden - J M Warwick - 8/10 Unspoken - Sam Hayes - 8/10 Peony In Love - Lisa See - 7/10 The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen - 8.5/10 Blue Diary - Alice Hoffman - 8/10 The Love Of My Life - Louise Douglas - 8/10 A Whispered Name - William Brodrick - 8/10 Keeping The Dead - Tess Gerritsen - 9/10 Entertaining Angels - Joanna Bell - 7/10 The House At Riverton - Kate Morton - 8/10 Asbo Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Asbosen - 6/10

Good luck with all the challenges Kylie, it looks like you'll be kept busy!

Hello and welcome magdalen.

Finished The Gift this afternoon, an enjoyable easy read to help ease me back into the swing of things. I love anything psychic. Not sure what to read next will have to go away and think about it..... That brings my total for 2007 up to 44. Not a bad effort but I will try to beat it in 2008.

I've sent you an invitation too DWMG.

Me too angerball, I've missed curling up with a good book.

Hello and welcome bright_eyes.

Roast beef dinner followed by chocolate fudge cake, feeling a bit stuffed now

He's one of thoses people you either love or hate. Personally I think he's great and love his comments.

Well this last few weeks my reading mojo has been, to put it mildly, PANTS! Only read a few pages of Atonement then got the 'can't be bothered to read any more' feeling, managed to read And Another Thing by Jeremy Clarkson which was hilarious. Got a James Patterson audio book from the library and tried to listen to it but gave up after 6 attempts (I never got past the first cd!) it kept sending me to sleep. Popped into the library yesterday and came home with Mia Dolan's first book The Gift, half way through it and enjoying it a lot. Also another Clarkson book Born To Be Riled and Lauren Weisbergers' The Devil Wears Prada. Hopefully they will kick start my reading mojo back into shape. I was hoping to have read 50+ books this year but alas it is not to be. I will aim to do this in 2008.

I read 'The Apple' which was the follow up to TCPATW. This book was tiny in comparison TCPATW but I was equally entranced by it.

I think I've read more than usual this year. The highlight has to be Michel Faber's Crimson Petal and The White, I loved this book and didn't want it to end. I've also found quite a few new authors this year, Karin Slaughter, Phillipa Gregory, Stuart McBride and Michel Faber to name but a few. Here's to next year and lots more reading!

Looks like it's sweet n sour chicken tonight.

I know the feeling. I don't get stressed in fact I'm quite proud of Mt TBR cos they are mine .... all mine

Hot chicken sandwiches.

stew (a proper winter warmer)

Nice review supergran, still sounds like a good read, might add it to Mt TBR.

No problem chicken.

I bought this on a whim a few weeks back, the blurb on the back sounded interesting. I will read it eventually just can't say when lol.

pizza and salad

Roast duck tonight yummy