[Bee's Books 2009]

 

Have you read the movie guide one? I can't remember who it's by! But I wasn't as keen on that one, although it did have loads and loads of information on the movie, it was more technical than the notebook. Like how they did the 'sparkle' effect and information on the lighting and stuff. Don't get me wrong, it was interesting but it was less about the characters and key scenes. Which is what I'm more interested in!

 

You mean the one with the picture of Rob Pattinson with his shirt open ? I've only flicked through it and had a look at the picture's, not read too much of it yet although I will get round to it.

[Show your bookshelf]

Aww Rach's bookshelf looks so organised, like almost everyone else's! I am ashamed, my room is absolute carnage where books are concerned, the bookshelf is no way organised in any shape or form and as for everywhere else, piles of books all over the place, even in bed lmao!

 

 

In bed??!! I'd be scared of my precious books getting ruined if they were anywhere but the bookcase , very sad I know .

[Bee's Books 2009]

11. TWILIGHT: DIRECTOR'S NOTEBOOK - CATHERINE HARDWICKE

 

10/10

 

I picked this up last week but was a bit unsure about it. However, seeing as you gave it a pretty good rating and we have pretty similar tastes, I might go back and pick up a copy .

[All new What's for dinner?]

Pie and a few chips for me tonight.

[Show your bookshelf]

I don't suppose you like Charmed by any chance Rach.

 

I don't mind the odd episode .

 

Ya think? That is quite an impressive collection of Charmed Rach! I loved all the series', especially the ones with Prue in them

 

I wish it was a complete collection - half of Phoebe is missing where they didn't send me 5 of the dvd's , will have to sort that out soon. I haven't seen too many episodes with Prue, and from the ones I have seen I much prefer Paige.

[100 books]

Read

TBR

 

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read some of)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 1984 - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D

[Show your bookshelf]

We have a lot of the same books! Like loads. Your bookcases look great though; mine are all piled on the floor. I spied an Edward poster.

 

lol. I had a sneaky look at your pile and noticed the same thing . Yeah I thought no-one had noticed the Edward poster, but I couldn't resist it .

[Show your bookshelf]

rach.at.the.disco: Sweeeet! I love how organised your bookshelf is. And I notice there are quite a few familiar favorites of mine

 

Thanks . I'm a bit obssessive about it being organised, which is quite sad really .

[Show your bookshelf]

I love being nosey and looking at other people's bookshelf !!

 

I have two bookcases in my room: one is full of books and I'm now having to move onto the other.

[All new What's for dinner?]

A group of us went out for a friends birthday so I had vegetable burger and chips.

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

17. Acid Row - Minette Walters

Synopsis from Waterstones:

Acid Row was the name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile...and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are out in force. Soon Sophie is trapped at the centre of a terrifying siege, with a man she has come to despise. Whipped to a frenzy by unsubstantiated rumour, the mob unleashes its hatred. Against authority...the law...and the 'pervert'. 'Protecting Amy' becomes the catch-all defence for the terrible events that follow. And if murder is part of it, then so be it. But is Amy really missing?

 

Started: 19th March

Finished: 20th March

475 pages

Rating: 8.5/10

[All new What's for dinner?]

Pizza and garlic bread for us tonight.

[The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks]

For some reason I could not get into this book at the start, I had to keep putting it down - but I did manage to finish it. It had me in tears at the end, it was so sad.

I love the film too and I think that this is one of the only films that I slightly prefer to the book .

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

16. Checkmate - Malorie Blackman

 

Synopsis from Waterstones:

Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage, and becomes determined to find out more, to honour both sides of her heritage. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger. Suddenly, it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner...

 

Started: 12th March

Finished: 18th March

511 pages

Rating: 10/10

[All new What's for dinner?]

New potatoes, salad and Quorn "ham"

[School books...]

It's been more than a couple of years since I left school and I'm trying to remember but struggling!! I can remember:

 

High school:

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

An Inspector Calls

To Kill A Mockingbird *

 

College:

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *

Enduring Love - Ian McEwan *

 

Uni:

Wuthering Heights *

Death Of A Salesman

North and South *

King Lear

The Time Machine

Adam Bede *

Madame Bovary *

Great Expectations

The Mayor Of Casterbridge *

Crime and Punishment

Endgame - Beckett

Hedda Gabler - Ibsen

Fear and Misery In The Third Reich - Brecht

Saved - Bond

Cloud Nine - Churchill

Macbeth

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

The Taming Of The Shrew

Twelfth Night

Affinity - Sarah Waters *

Hey Yeah Right Get A Life - Helen Simpson

The Shape Of Snakes - Minette Walters *

Being Dead - Jim Crace

The Orchard On Fire - Shena Mackay *

 

The ones with a * next to them are the ones that I liked and the two college books I have bought my own copy and re-read one and plan on reading the other.

[Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman]

After reading all these wonderful things about this series I eventually took the plunge and bought Noughts and Crosses and Knife Edge on a shopping trip. And I'm soooo glad I bought the first two at the same time - I was hooked!! I loved it from start to finish and was desperate to get stuck into the next book. I've now moved on to Checkmate which I'm enjoying just as much as the others, which I'm surprised about.

 

So thanks BookBee8 for introducing me to this wonderful series

[Comic Relief]

I love Alan Carr . I find him so funny.

 

The nan from Catherine Tate and The Royal Family were ace. I do find those reports really sad too, I cry every year watching it. It's so sad seeing people suffer like that.

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

15. Knife Edge - Malorie Blackman

 

Synopsis from Waterstones:

Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

 

Started: 10th March

Finished: 11th March

346 pages

Rating: 10/10

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

Glad you enjoyed Noughts & Crosses, are you going to read the other three?

 

Yep, I bought Knife Edge at the same time so I started that today. I plan on getting the others as soon as possible .

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

14. Noughts and Crosses / An Eye For An Eye - Malorie Blackman

Synopsis from Waterstones:

Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into Cross schools...Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity by Noughts, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger...

 

Started: 9th March

Finished: 10th March

479 pages

Rating: 10/10

[All new What's for dinner?]

Tonight was Quorn chicken style dippers and a few chips.

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

13. For One More Day - Mitch Albom

Synopsis from Waterstones:

'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness.

 

Started: 8th March

Finished: 8th March

197 pages

Rating: 7.5/10

[Rach's 2009 Reading Lists]

12. The Orchard On Fire - Shena Mackay

 

Amazon.co.uk Review:

This intimate, intensely seen novel was short-listed for the 1996 Booker Prize. Shena Mackay's six previous novels have won her critical admiration and a popular audience in England, but her work has not received due recognition in the United States yet. The Orchard on Fire is a concise, domestic novel set in the village of Stonebridge, where the parents of April Harlency have come in 1953 to run the local teashop. April's private reveries and her entanglement with the grim family life of her best friend, Ruby Richards, fill up a vivid and dramatic year in the wonderfully distinctive life of Stonebridge.

 

Started: 4th March

Finished: 8th March

215 pages

Rating: 6/10

[Breakfast]

I very rarely eat breakfast, especially during the week. When I do have it I tend to only eat toast and jam as I hate milk (I can only drink it disguised in a brew :tong:). The only time I have a cooked breakfast is when someone else is cooking .