~Andrea~

I started listening to Room by Emma Donaghue today.

Thanks Devi and the same to you

Thanks Poppyshake. Happy new year to you too. I have to keep my TBR under control because I am a slow reader. I'm quite impulsive and used to just buy books when I wanted them and then they would languish on my shelves, never again tempting me bringing me nothing but guilt. Now I've replaced my impulse buys with additions to the wish list. It's a lot cheaper

Thanks everyone!

Thanks Julie. Whoops - those wish lists are infectious aren't they?

Right new year new start! I hope this year I'll be able to finish more books than last year since I only managed 21! I declare this thread open

Thanks Julie

Thanks Devi My total for 2013 is 21 books - a little pitiful when you consider some of them were audio books that I listened to concurrently with my reading ones. In fairness The Making of Modern Britain was a bit of a marathon and I was slowed down by some other fairly heavy non-fiction. Still, must try harder in 2014

Thanks Athena

My poor neglected thread! I'm still reading Ship of Magic and Six Easy Pieces. I'm over half way through the first and about half way through the second. Tut tut, I need to get reading. However in my defence December has been incredibly busy - not only with Christmas, but there are also 5 birthdays in my family, including my own 40th which was a major planning feat! My reading year has been enjoyable but not as prolific as I'd hoped. My TBR has gone down - but only by 3 books!! Still it's the right direction

reading goals: (work in progress) By the end of Jan: The Mad Ship - Robin Hobb The Secret History - Donna Tartt By the end of Feb: Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman This year: Damaged - Cathy Glass Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb

The Wish List Ambrose, David - Superstition Alexander, Denis - creation or evolution: do we have to choose? Beah, Ishmael - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Bradbury, Ray - Farenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray - Something Wicked this way comes Barker, Clive - Weaveworld Brother Lawrence - The Practice of the Presence of God Buechner, Fred - Godric Bugan, Carmen - Burying the Typewriter Challis, Sarah - Footprints in the sand Chalmers, David J - Philopsphy of Mind - Contermporary and Classic Readings Chamberlaine, Diane - The Midwife's confession recommended here Chesterton, G K - Orthodoxy Conran, Shirley - Savages Coupland, Douglas - Microserfs/JPod Coben, Harlan - Six Years recommended Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca Du Maurier, Daphne - The House on the Strand Dunant, Sarah - Transgressions (recommended) Dick, Philip K - A Scanner Darkly Foster, Richard - Celebration of Discipline Gaarder, Jostein - Sophie's World Greene, Grahame - Brighton Rock Greene, Grahame - The Third Man & The Fallen Idol Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book recommended Harwood, John - The Asylum Haugen, Gary (IJM) - Just Courage Highsmith, Patricia - The Talented Mr Ripley Hinton, Susan- Rumble Fish Hodgson, Burnett Frances - The Secret Garden Hodkin, Michelle -The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Jerome, Jerome K - My Life and Times Kempis, Thomas - The Imitation of Christ Krauss, Nicole - Man walks into a Room recommended Koontz, Dean - The Mask Koontz, Dean - From The Corner Of His Eye Koontz, Dean - False Memory Koontz, Dean - Odd Thomas Lennox, John - God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Lennox, John - Seven Days that Divide the World. London, Jack - White Fang Marion, Issac - Warm Bodies recommended McKinley, Robin - Sunshine Mercer, Jeremy - Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs Milne, A. A. Winnie the Pooh - complete short stories and poems Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind Moran, Caitlin - How to be a Woman recommended Moss, Sarah - Night Waking recommended Moyes, Jojo - Me Before You Moyes, Jojo - The Last Letter From Your Lover recommended Neville, Adam - Apartment 16 Semple, Maria - Where'd you go Bernadette - recommended Phillips, Caryl - A Distant Shore (recommended here) Pargeter, Edith - The Heaven Tree Penny, Stef - The Tenderness of Wolves recommended Rayner, Jay - The Oyster House Siege Tolkein - LOTR Trueman, Terry - Stuck in neutral Trigell, Jonathan - Boy A Vine, Barbara - King Solomon's carpet recommended Wheatley, Dennis - The Haunting of Toby Jugg Winter, Tom - Lost and Found recommended Wyndham, John - The Kraken awakes Watson, S J - Before I go to sleep Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The Shadow Of The Wind Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The Angel's Game Ryan, Carrie - The Forest Of Hands & Teeth Wroblewski, David - The story of Edgar Sawtelle Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry recommended

Unread books on the bookshelf: Acquired pre 2009 1 Minnette Walters - The shape of snakes 2 Logic - A very short introduction 3 Wilkie Collins The Woman in White 4 Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (modern translation) 5 Through the looking glass - Lewis Carrol 6 Damaged - Cathy Glass 7 The French Lieutenant's woman 8 The Essential tales of Chekhov 9 Othello 10 The Merchant of Venice 11 Julius Caesar 12 Twelfth night 13 A Winter's tale Begin year size: 13 End year size: 12 Acquired 2009 1 The Soldier's return - Melvyn Bragg 2 Collected works of Tennyson Begin year size: 2 End year size: 1 Books acquired 2011 1 Clean Code - Robert Martin 2 Six easy pieces - Richard Feynmann 3 Blodwen Jones a'r aderyn prin - Bethan Gwenas (a novel for welsh learners 4 The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel Begin year size: 4 End year size: 2 Books acquired 2012 1. The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy Jones (xmas) Begin year size: 1 End year size: 0 Books acquired 2013: 1. The Four Loves - C S Lewis 2. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan 3. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 4. Room - Emma Donahue (audio) 5. The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith (audio) 6. Above Suspicion - Lynda La Plant (audio) 7. Bonkers - Jennifer Saunders (audio) 8. The Trial - Franz Kafka (audio) 9. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death - M. C. Beaton (Audio dramatisation) 10. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet - - M. C. Beaton (Audio dramatisation) Begin year size: 10 End year size: 3 Books acquired 2014: 1. The Graveyard Shift - Neil Gaimon 2. King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine 3. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings - Edited by David Chalmers 4. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz 5. The Asylum - John Harwood 6. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn End year size: 3 Total Begin year size: 30 Max size: 32 Min size: Current Size: End year size: 22

Previous logs: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Read: The Mad Ship - Robin Hobb (15/01/14) Room - Emma Donaghue (audio) (25/01/14) The Secret History - Donna Tartt (8/02/14) Above Suspicion - Lynda La Plant (audio) (11/02/14) Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman (24/02/14) Bonkers - Jennifer Saunders (audio) (05/03/14) The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman (graphic novel) (08/03/14 - unfinished!) The Soldier's Return - Melvyn Bragg (16/03/14 - unfinished) The Graveyard Shift - Neil Gaiman (14/03/14) The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol (05/05/14) The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith (audio) (14/05/14) Freed For Life - Rita Nightingale (18/05/14) The Martian - Andy Wier (19/07/14) Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb (21/09/14) Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz (29/10/14) Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb (20/11/14) The Magician's Nephew - C.S.Lewis (3/12/14) The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S.Lewis (8/12/14) Currently reading: Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine The Trial - Franz Kafka Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Hope you enjoy it Marie!

I finished Seeking Spirituality which I enjoyed. I'm in a bit of a lull with Ship of Magic so I've started Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman.

Yea me too Kat. It's so compulsive. I think they've done a great job updating it. I'd love to watch the original again - I'm tempted to get it on DVD But as for the new one, I can't wait for the next series.

I can understand that as they have changed things quite considerably and updated it for a modern audience. The old characters are all there, but much younger versions of them and they are similar but different in some ways to the originals. I think it's awesome though, it's a shame your wife doesn't like it. That's so cool though, that she met the cast! I haven't caught the last episode of series 1 yet. Hoping to watch it tonight!

I finished Philosophy of mind. It was really interesting and enjoyable but got quite technical on the philosophy and metaphysics so I found it a little heavy at times. It's a fascinating subject though.

Has anyone been watching this? I think it's brilliant, but I was a huge fan of Prisoner Cell Block H which it's a remake/re-imagining of.

Congratulations Kell! He's gorgeous

We already have a religion thread in the debating/mature discussion section. These topics sound like they should be there (separately?) rather than general book discussions (since this appears to be a topic about the topic of the book rather than the book itself)

Well I've started the next live ship book, The Mad Ship to help me get through all the non-fiction. Looking forward to getting stuck in. Philosophy of Mind is going really well but it's quite long and not exactly light reading so I'm only about a third way in.

Well Ship of Magic is the first of the live ship trilogy so it's not really a one-off. As far as the other trilogy: It doesn't give away anything in the farseer trilogy other than referring vaguely to some events. However some of the later live ship books, might go a bit further than that. No characters from the farseer trilogy appear in the live ship books but some events may get mentioned, without being greatly spoilerish. So I think you could read the liveship books first but some of the ideas in the farseer books wouldn't be a complete surprise. If you have no intention of reading farseer then yes, go ahead and read the liveship books. You don't need farseer as a backstory. However, farseer is an excellent trilogy. I would recommend reading it as well and preferably first. Sorry, a rather longwinded answer!