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  1. 1. Two's Company - Jill Mansell 22nd December - 1st January 438 pages Synopsis from Waterstones: Jack and Cass Mandeville are a dream couple, ridiculously happy together and successful to boot - Jack as a journalist and Cass with her own hugely popular radio show. Indeed, almost every member of the Mandeville family is famous in their own right: from stunning Cleo, a supermodel with attitude, to Sean, the rising star of the comedy circuit. Incredibly good-looking and likeable, the family have captured the hearts of the nation - and the nation's press. But on the day that Jack hits the big 40 - the same day that a redhead called Imogen turns up to interview Jack and Cass for Hi! magazine - their proverbial bubble is about to burst... 2. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes 2nd January - 3rd January 82 pages Synopsis from Waterstones: A graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner.
  2. Read in 2011 January: Two's Company - Jill Mansell Ghost World - Daniel Clowes The Ivy Chronicles - Karen Quinn From Notting Hill With Love Actually - Ali McNamara The Nanny Diaries - Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin Keeper of the Bride - Tess Gerritsen The Breaker - Minette Walters February: A Mother Like Alex - Bernard Clarke
  3. I didn't exactly keep my 2010 reading blog up to date. Let's hope I can manage it this year. And make a dent in my To Be Read pile along the way. To Be Read: 1. A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans 2. Going Home - Harriet Evans 3. The Breaker - Minette Walters 4. The Chameleon’s Shadow – Minette Walters 5. Airs and Graces - Erica James 6. Watermelon - Marian Keyes 7. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes 8. Angels - Marian Keyes 9. Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger 10. The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory 11. The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory 12. The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory 13. Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult 14. Haunted - Chuck Palahnuik 15. Lullaby - Chuck Palahnuik 16. Choke - Chuck Palahnuik 17. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahnuik 18. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver 19. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh 20. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 21. The Child In Time - Ian McEwan 22. Saturday - Ian McEwan 23. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 24. The Secrets She Keeps - Helen Cross 25. Body Surfing - Anita Shreve 26. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D Salinger 27. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 28. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov 29. Dracula - Bram Stoker 30. Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 31. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 32. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 33. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 34. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 35. Emma - Jane Austen 36. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen 37. Persuasion - Jane Austen 38. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee 39. Selected Tales - Edgar Allan Poe 40. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 41. Double Cross - Malorie Blackman 42. Ash - Malinda Lo 43. Dreaming of Amelia - Jocelyn Moriaty 44. Highland Fling - Katie Fforde 45. Living Dangerously - Katie Fforde 46. Wild Designs - Katie Fforde 47. Artistic License - Katie Fforde 48. Size 12 is not Fat - Meg Cabot 49. Size 14 is not Fat - Mag Cabot 50. It Had To Be You - Sarah Webb 51. When The Boys Are Away - Sarah Webb 52. Take A Chance - Sarah Webb 53. Moab Is My Washpot - Stephen Fry 54. Babyville - Jane Green 55. The Dead Girls Dance - Rachel Caine 56. Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine 57. Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross 58. Mr Darcy, Vampyre - Amanda Grange 59. The Ivy Chronicles - Karen Quinn 60. The Self Preservation Society - Kate Harrison 61. Brown Owl's Guide to Life - Kate Harrison 62. Forget Me Not - Isabel Wolff 63. Flowers In The Attic - Virginia Andrews 64. Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice 65. Just Another Kid - Torey Hayden 66. Misery - Stephen King 67. Lisey's Story - Stephen King 68. Carrie - Stephen King 69. The Green Mile - Stephen King 70. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller 71. The Wedding Day - Catherine Alliott 72. Going Too Far - Catherine Alliott 73. The Real Thing - Catherine Alliott 74. The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman 75. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman 76. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman 77. Too Close To Home - Linwood Barclay 78. The Bay At Midnight - Diane Chamberlain 79. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey 80. A Mother Like Alex - Bernard Clarke 81. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt 82. Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley - Peter Guralnick 83. How To Talk To A Widower - Jonathan Tropper 84. Notes on an Exhibition - Patrick Gale 85. Captain Correlli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 86. The Flight of Swallows - Audrey Howard 87. Making Your Mind Up - Jill Mansell 88. Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracey Chavalier 89. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 90. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly 91. The Other Half Live - Sophie Hannah 92. All The Things We Didn't Say - Sara Shepard 93. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters 94. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 95. Walking On Glass - Iain Banks 96. The Book Theif - Markus Zusak 97. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 98. Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland 99. Memoirs of A Geisha - Arthur Goolden 100. The Host - Stephanie Meyer 101. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows 102. Ghost World – Daniel Clowes 103. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein 104. I’ll Be There For You – Louise Candlish 105. The Nanny Diaries – Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin 106. Keeper of The Bride – Tess Gerritsen 107. From Notting Hill with Love Actually – Ali McNamara
  4. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a fab day.

  5. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a fab day.

  6. off out with the girlies again tonight. Can't wait.

  7. Can't wait for a night out with the girlies. Cocktails!!!!!!

  8. Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang. I say watched, I mean I watched as much as I could when being distracted by two giddy kids.
  9. Took An Education - Lynn Barber back to the library at work (me and my friend found it in the Customer Centre on our Friday lunch break ) as I read it over the weekend. Started Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger on the tram. I'm enjoying it so far, but I'm only about 60+ pages in so that could change.
  10. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a fab day.

  11. 500 Days Of Summer. For the millionth time.
  12. I read some of Petite Anglaise - Catherine Sanderson on the tram to work. Im re-reading it as I was struggling to get into a book yesterday. Been shopping and Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris and Confetti Confidential - Holly McQueen fell into my shopping basket . I'm not happy though because the cover of Dead and Gone does not match the rest of my series
  13. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a fab day.

  14. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a fab day.

  15. 42. Call After Midnight Tess Gerritsen Synopsis from play.com: They'd said her husband was dead... A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newlywed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband's call from London she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O'Hara from the US State Department is calling with devastating news: Geoffrey Fontaine, Sarah's husband of two months, died in a hotel fire... in Berlin. So why was she sure he was still alive? Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them crisscrossing Europe on a desperate search for Geoffrey. Trying to stay one heartbeat ahead of a dangerous killer, they become quarry in the clandestine world of international espionage, risking everything for answers that may prove fatal. Started: 12th June Finished: 15th June 250 pages Rating:7/10
  16. 41. Lucy In The Sky Paige Toon Synopsis from Waterstones: Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James. She finally calls him and he reassures her: it was only his mates playing a silly joke. James is a lawyer, persuasive and gorgeous and Lucy adores him. So why, at the wedding in Sydney of her best friend Molly, does she have niggling doubts, and find herself attracted to Molly's brother-in-law Nathan? The sooner she gets back to her regular life in London, the flat she shares with James, her job in PR, the better. Nathan is a happy-go-lucky surfer boy, with no prospects, no place to live, an almost-girlfriend in tow. And the other side of the world...Lucy - a girl caught between two distant continents - and two very different men... Started: 9th June Finished: 12th June 387 pages Rating: 7/10
  17. 40. Silent Boy Torey Hayden Synopsis from Waterstones: When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him, he hadn't spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless, incurable. But Hayden refused to believe it, though she realised it might well take a miracle to break through the walls he had built around himself. With unwavering devotion and gentle, patient love, she set out to free him -- and slowly uncovered a shocking violent history and a terrible secret that an unfeeling bureaucracy had simply filed away and forgotten. Torey refused to give up on this tragic "lost case." For a trapped and frightened boy desperately needed her help -- and she knew in her heart she could not rest easy until she had rescued him from the darkness. Started: 5th June Finished: 8th June 425 pages Rating: 7/10
  18. 39. The Good, The Bad and The Dumped Jenny Colgan Synopsis from Waterstones: Now, you obviously, would never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn't run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand...Posy is delighted when Matt proposes - on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days later disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking. Why has her love life always ended in total disaster? Determined to discover how she got to this point, Posy resolves to get online and track down her exes. Can she learn from past mistakes? And what if she has let Mr Right slip through her fingers on the way? Started: 2nd June Finished: 5th June 340 pages Rating: 7/10
  19. 38. The Tiger's Child Torey Hayden Synopsis from Waterstones: Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Torey Hayden's life -- a story poignantly chronicled One Child. The Tiger's Child picks up the story seven years later. Hayden has lost touch with the child she helped to free from a hellish inner prison of rage and silence. But now Sheila is back, now a gangly teenager with bright orange hair -- no longer broken and lost, but still troubled and searching for answers. This story of dedication and caring that began in childhood moves into a new and extraordinary chapter that tests the strength and heart of both Sheila and her one-time teacher. In The Tiger's Child the skilled and loving educator answers the call once again to help a child in need through her difficult yet glorious transition into young womanhood. Started: 31st May Finished: 2nd June 359 pages Rating: 7/10
  20. 37. Things I Wish I'd Known Linda Green Synopsis from Waterstones: Remember when life revolved around what top to wear? Let Linda Green take you on a hilarious, romantic and touching journey back to your teenage years...When Claire Cooper was 15 she'd swear on her Wham! album that: Big hair and rah-rah skirts were here to stay; Spandau Ballet would never split up; She would marry her idol, heart-throb footballer Andy Pailes. Fast forward 20 years and things haven't gone quite to plan. And when Claire discovers the 'dream list' she wrote as a teenager, she realises how far removed her life is from the one she'd imagined. Divorced, stuck in a dead-end job and dating an ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer, she decides it's time to put her life back on track. But what really happened between Claire and her teen idol all those years ago? And is meeting him again the way to make her dreams come true? Or a huge mistake? Started: 30th May Finished: 31st May 470 pages Rating: 7/10
  21. 36. The Meloncholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories Tim Burton Synopsis from Waterstones: Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton's lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children - hopeful, yet hapless beings. Started: 25th May Finished: 25th May 113 pages Rating: 7.5/10
  22. 35. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Synopsis from Waterstones: Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. Started: 17th May Finished: 20th May 402 pages Rating: 7/10
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