Kate

Books Read: 1. Terry Pratchett: The Truth 2. Terry Pratchett: The Last Hero 3. Toby Litt: Beatnix 4. Emily Bronte: Agnes Grey 5. Katy Gardner: The Mermaid's Purse

Please can mine be closed at the end of the year too: http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=7398 I've made a new one for 2010. Thank you

I�ve decided to make some reading plans as we approach a new year: - All book ratings will now be out of 5 - My reading target will be 150 - I will complete my Discworld challenge - Books I will read from my TBR pile: Morton: The Forgotten Garden Scheinmann: Random Acts of Heroic Love Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life Torday: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Toews: A Complicated Kindness Fforde: Practically Perfect Mansell: An Offer You Can�t Refuse Yen Mah: Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society Fiorato: The Glassblower of Murano Connelly: The Book of Lost Things Carroll: The Shakespeare Secret Levy: Small Island

I'm still reading Soul Music by Pratchett

You are getting through that so quickly Kell! How long does it take to draw up the grid?

I love the Discworld books and the Harper Connelly series. I enjoyed The Shopaholic series too!

I've been reading Soul Music today by Terry Pratchett - read at least 100 pages

Thank you Paula! I got Sophie Kinsella's Twenties Girl

I'm glad you put this up as I took out one of her books from the library and have never read her work before

I have just made this for my hubby

Synopsis from terrypratchett.co.uk: IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again... The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too). As they say: 'You'd better watch out...' This has become my favourite Discworld novel. I love the Death novels, especially if you add in the humour that is the Wizards. This is number 20 in the Discworld series and it is the Christmas novel. In this book the Hogfather is in danger. The Auditors want to change things and get rid of the Fat Man. To keep him safe, Death has decided to pretend to be the Hogfather to keep the belief alive. And while this is going on, Susan, Death's granddaughter is fighting a man who is controlling children through teeth. Pratchett's imagination is genious in this book. I loved Susan and the poker - a great way to deal with monsters and it added to a nice finale in the book. Death made me laugh all the way through. I especially liked it when he gate-crashed the shopping mall and his pigs urinated on the floor. I just laughed everytime a child mentioned it. This book is full of humour and action. We see a lot of the Discworld and a range of characters. Pratchett throws in Susan, Death and the Wizards, tooth fairies and the assassins. I was gripped from the beginning, laughing most of the way through and was eager to be reading it when I wasn't. I have no complaints of this book and it is definately my favourite. I loved the plot, the characters and I love the way Pratchett writes. He is always descriptive, he writes great events and just keeps the reader wanting more. 10/10

144. Vendetta by Honore de Balzac 7/10

I plan to read more of Poison Study today and finished Vendetta by Balzac yesterday

Thanks It does help that I can't find a job, frees up reading time

Waterstones Synopsis: Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. This is the first book by Joanna Trollope I have read, and I thought it was OK, just an average chick-lit book. The story follows the Boyd family as the children leave the family home, struggle in the real world and have to face moving home. I found this quite a depressing read actually. Everyone seemed to have problems that they dwelt on for most of the book. I know that the point of the book was the struggle with life and the need to return home but I felt that everyone was just whinging all the time. When I sit here and think back to the book that is what stands out the most. It was not all bad. Trollope wrote characters that I developed feelings for. Edie I couldn't stand. Everything had to be about her and she drove me mad. Russell on the other hand I felt sorry for. He just wanted his wife back, and what he got was his children and a stranger in the house. This is what I'd called "grown up" chick-lit. It was easy to read and had a satisfactory ending. It felt more mature than other chick-lit work, but essentially that is what it was. I would like to read another of her books before I make a decision about Trollope. 7/10

I'm reading Vendetta by Balzac

I'm France, while Bonaparte is in power, in an art studio for girls only

Ditto!

I finished Christmas in Seattle by Debbie Macomber today. Have now started Poison Study by Maria V. Synder

143. Christmas in Seattle by Debbie Macomber 8/10

I voted for Team Cola too! So happy they won. Their Charleston is my favourite Strictly dance

Poppyshake: what do you mean BBC bias? I think it is right that they are allowed to do the Charleston. If they are going to add in new dances they should find a place in the final for it. I am sat here supporting Team Cola!