~Andrea~

Ok so i'm not the fastest reader in the world unlike some of you folks out there My aim for 2007 is to read 25 books. So far this year: 1 The girl in a swing - Richard Adams 9/10 2 Ugly - Constance Briscoe 9/10 3 The last word - Brian McLaren 7/10 4 The big love - Sarah Dunn 7/10 5 Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King 6/10 6 Keeping faith - Jodi Picoult 6/10 (30/04 - 16/05) 7 This book will save your life - A M Homes 8/10 (11/05 - 04/06) 8 The Thief of Always - Clive Barker 8/10 (04/06 - 08/06) 9 The Other Side of Nowhere - Daniella Westbrook 9/10 (08/06 - 14/06) 10 Of mice and men - Steinbeck 9/10 (15/06 - 21/06) 11 The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 9/10 (23/06 - 11/07) 12 The Hobbit - Tolkein 9/10 (11/07 - 27/07) 13 Dracula - Bram Stoker (8/10 28/07 - 20/08) 14 Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (7/10 09/08 - 12/08) 15 Anne of Green Gables (8/10 20/08 - 9/09) 16 My cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier (10/10 09/09 - 24/09) 17 Selected Writings - Meister Erkhart (unfinished 25/09 - 16/10) 18 Harry Potter and the half blood prince - J K Rowling (8/10 29/09 - 29/10) 19 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (audio, abridged) (9/10 17/10 - 21/12) 20 Karma - Holly Harvey (7/10 30/10 - 10/11) 21 Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin (8/10 10/11 - 26/11) 22 Flatland - Edwin Abbott (10/10 26/11 - 18/12) 23 The Stand - Stephen King (26/11 - ) To read soon: Life of Pi - Yann Martell Guards Guards - Terry Pratchett The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides Books on the Bookshelf: Unread Minnette Walters - The shape of snakes Minnette Walters - Acid Row PD James - A Certain Justice Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (modern translation) Thomas Hardy Far from the madding crowd Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason Joanna Trollope - The men and the girls Justin Cartwright - The promise of happiness How to talk to a widower - Jonathan Tropper Damaged - Cathy Glass James Herbert - Haunted Agatha Christie - Five little pigs Shakespeare plays: Othello The Merchant of Venice King Lear Julius Caesar Twelfth night A Winter's tale half read: Pride And Prejudice The French Lieutenant's woman - John Fowles To read at some point: The Testament of Gideon Mack A spot of bother - Mark Haddon James Herbert - The Secret of Crickley Hall Walking Ollie - Stephen Foster The Time Machine - H G Wells The House on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier The Secret Garden The Ghost Writer - John Harwood Superstition - David Ambrose LOTR - Tolkein Far from the madding crowd - Hardy The Princess Bride Rabecca - Daphne Du Maurier Something Wicked this way comes - Ray Bradbury The Time Travellers Wife Shopgirl - Steve Martin The book of lost things - John Connelly Chocky - John Wyndham Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Harry Potter and the deathly hallows - J K Rowling Winnie the Pooh - (complete short stories and poems) A. A. Milne Rumble Fish - Susan Hinton Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency - Douglas Adams (reread) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Planiverse - A.K. Dewdney Stuck in neutral - Terry Trueman The Oyster House Siege - Jay Rayner Spilling the beans - Clarissa Dickson Wright To consider reading: Middlemarch - George Eliot Black Swan Green - David Mitchell The commitments - Roddy Doyle Plague Dogs - Richard Adams Angela's Ashes Authors to try: Phillip K Dick Anthony Horowitz David Baddiel Anne Tyler Kelley Armstrong Raven Hart

Yea maybe i'll give it another go. Enjoyed the film though with Laurence Olivier, very melodrama Will have a look through my books and make some recommendations. Ithink I have the collection you mentioned.

Yea I've only read Garp, a few years ago now. Remember really enjoying it, but finding it sad or slighty depressing. I should probably try some of his other stuff.

Oh I looove Daphne Du Maurier, though I haven't read anything by her for years. I'm more of a fan of her short stories actually. I read and enjoyed Jamaica Inn but found Rabecca hard work and never finished it. Her short stories though I love!! My favourite is perhaps the Blue lenses. But Don't Look Now is really good too. Her stories have a certain darkness about them with supernatural or otherworldly undertones which I love. Yay I'm so glad there's a thread about her now!! The House on the Strand has been on my TBR pile for years. I really should read it soon!

I think Pilgrims Progress is mentioned in George Eliots The Mill on the Floss

Ok here goes The Beach - Alex garland The Magicians Nephew - C S Lewis The lion the witch and the wardrobe - C S Lewis Watership Down - Richard Adams Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Animal farm - George Orwell Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke Who goes here - Bob Shaw The man who was Thursday - G K Chesterton The end of eternity - Isaac Asimov A fairly eclectic mix with a slight leaning towards sci fi

Ooh same birthday as me Birthday:11 Dec 73 Age:33 Starsign:who cares Single/Married/Other?other - attached Children? no Where do you live? south wales Do you work? yes im a geek - I mean a software developer Favourite author? Err C S Lewis, Daphne Du maurier, plus many more Favourite book? The Beach, Watership down, plus many more How did you get here? Google search

Really interesting to see everyone elses lists. I'm currently composing mine - but it has 11 in it and im sure there'll be more added before I get it down to 10!

Oh what a shame, I really enjoyed the last episode.

Ah right. Well I think the dvd is out tuesday or wednesday so not long to wait!

Ew looks horrid. I bet it tastes bitter.

Why are you British living in the US?

Tonight at 9!! I can't wait for the last two episodes of this!!!

You can ask your library to purchase books, and requested books get subjected to a panel I think, who decide whether to buy them or not. It does mean a little wait though.

Its on my "to read" list.

yea thats true! The book im reading at the moment I picked up at a jumble sale for 50p If i dont force myself to use the library from time to time I end up buying tons of books and never reading them

Do you buy them? If so where from? Supermarket? Bookshop? Online? Second hand? Or do you use the library. I used to use the library a lot, not so much these days, though I feel I should really - since its a lot easier on the purse! I quite often buy from Amazon. I occasionally but rarely buy from the supermarket. I'm sure I used to have a good reason not to buy from supermarkets - but I can't remember what it was now something about them only stocking best sellers means its harder to get new talent published maybe

Hmm, maybe i'll try that - i did tess in school and loved it but havent read anything else of his, have always meant to ready far from the madding crowd

me neither

Yea - its not an easy read - but it does get easier the older and less vulnerable she becomes.

Well I thoroughly recommend it - and its a very quick read. One of those books that stays with you.

Has anybody read this? I just finished it. Its a fairly harrowing account of child abuse, but it was so compelling i couldn't stop reading it. I think it took me about a week to read, which is very quick for me. Its a real page turner, and although upsetting in parts its not all depressing and grows more positive the older she gets.

yes half enjoyed it - its well written but just didnt hold my interest, Gave up half way through, there was just something missing for me.

"Who Goes Here" by Bob Shaw - excellent comedy sci fi "The Tin Men" by Michael Frayn