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It sounds an interesting read, I think I'll add it to my wishlist. Thanks for recommending. (:

Incredibly I've never managed to get around to reading Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, something I really should have done a while back. I think I'll read it this year actually, so I look forward to hearing what you thought of it.

Thanks I'll be sure to get to them soon. (:

Admirable goals page turner, I hope you manage to stick to them and have a great 2011 reading year. Looking forward to reading your thoughts. (:

Hey Kelly best of luck with your 2011 reading, I hope you find some crackers. Let me know what you think of Blood, Sweat And Tea because I've got that waiting on my Kindle ready to be read. Looks like you have some great reads waiting in your to-be-read pile. I spot Killing Floor in there by Lee Child; I finished it yesterday and it was a pretty good read.

I've looked at it a few times, that's as far as I've got. Maybe one for the summer perhaps!

A book I've never had the heart to attempt to tackle, so you're doing better than me so far, that's for certain. Best of luck in your 2011 perusals.

The ship cut through the Earth's stratosphere nose first, despite the crew's best effort to level its decent. The Crimson Knights. - James M Watts.

Just looked up The Devils Star on Fantastic Fiction and noticed it was the third in the Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo. Did you know this or does it one of those that doesn't matter? If it doesn't and you like what you've read, I think I'll add it to the wishlist, as it certainly sounds interesting for sure.

Yes but Charm, having enough books doesn't necessarily mean not buying anymore, as I'm sure we all know.

Hey Himself, I have Douglas' Hitchhiker series on my to-be-read list. As you've given Dirk gentley's Holistic Detective Agency a 4/5 and say his other stuff is better, I'm guessing you'd recommend me pushing them up the list a little?

Hey Ruth, I'm certainly intrigued by the title of your first read. Anway, I hope you have a great 2011 reading year and read some great books!

Hey Sleepy Reader, welcome to BCF. I hope you find a lot of new recommendations and I'm quite sure you'll settle in here great.

Hey Kate best of luck with your 2011 reading and reaching your total. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and recommendations.

Hey thanks Kate, it's the first time I've really made an effort to make one and it took ages. I was really impressed by him, certainly going to read more Jack Reacher books.

Okay I was going to start with Stephen Fry's Moab Is My Washpot after deciding it as my next read, but I was just recently emailed a PDF file of The Crimson Knights by James M Watts; a review copy for on here, which I might as well get stuck into first. It's only 194 pages so it shouldn't be too much of a long read, then I can get back to working on my to-be-read pile; God knows it needs the work for sure. Synopsis: The Crimson Knights are the descendants of a long line of chosen warriors from the planet Tempurr. In 1950, the six Crimson Knights, opposed to the Numarian government's slavery of the Galilian people, used the power of the Crimson Light to rebel against the Numarian Empire and flee to Earth. In 2010, after their assassination in the late 1990s, their mantle was passed on to their sons to carry on with their fathers' legacy. Now with the mysterious appearance of the Tempurr Plates, the key to opening Rautpa's Gate, a portal that could unleash Armageddon upon both worlds, the young knights must square off against the evil corporation of Chemtech and the Galilian rebel group the Reapers in order to prevent total chaos. All the while and unknown to all parties involved, a mysterious figure with unimaginable power, known only as Bruce, and his assistant, a homicidal ex-priest from Alabama, are carrying out their own agenda, one even more sinister than that of Rautpa's Gate. Seems to be a bit of a tangle of information, but I'll see how I get on.

Killing Floor. - Lee Child. Thoughts: Finished my first book of 2011, and it was one which I read quite quickly on my new Amazon Kindle. This is the first Lee Child novel I've had the pleasure of reading, and I'm glad to know that I've started off with a series which stretches on for another fourteen books; plenty to get stuck into with this one it seems. The novel itself was fantastic; intriguing and mysterious throughout, it had me hooked all the way from the first page to the last. Now, I'm not normally used to his style of writing, but the short and snappy sentences gave the novel that fast-moving feel which sweeps a reader off their feet and doesn't put them down until it reaches its conclusion. I found the characters to be believable and interesting, especially that of the main protagonist Jack Reacher, who at first the reader learns nothing about. As the novel unravels you start to feel yourself warming to Reacher and certain other characters, giving me the feeling that I was with them all the way in their battle to discover the truth, before everything goes up in flames. 4/5.

Well, my first book of the year is Killing Floor by Lee Child. Synopsis: Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Killing Floor introduces Jack Reacher, the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, with an eye for the women, he is truly every thinking reader’s perfect action hero. This author came to my attention after I saw a few of his books on the Kindle Store. I thought he sounded pretty good, so I started with the first in the Jack Reacher series, and from what I've read so far - about half - it's coming along nicely. As anyone read anything by Lee Child before now?

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Ben’s Reading 2011 Hey all, and welcome to my 2011 reading blog; I’m certainly hoping that it’s an improvement on previous years, which you can find below. Previous Reading Blogs 2009: 48. 2010: 25. This year I will be alternating between reading digitally on my e-reader, and of course trying to get through a large portion of the books I have on my shelves, before I move away to university in September. In the following posts I will be simply commenting on books as I read them; finishing up with a short summary and a rating out of 5, every time I finish one. I’ll also write some complete in-depth reviews which will be linked on here to my blog/reviews page. Oh, and I’m also aiming for around 50 books read, but we’ll just see how it goes; looking forward to seeing what the year brings. Total Read 2011: 52. January 1. Killing Floor. - Lee Child. 2. Moab Is My Washpot. - Stephen Fry. 3. A Clockwork Orange. - Anthony Burgess. February 4. Duma Key. - Stephen King. 5.A Week In December. - Sebastian Faulks. 6. The Redbreast. - Jo Nesbo. March 7. The Rembrandt Secret. - Alex Connor. 8. The Whole Truth. - David Baldacci. April 9. Caught. -Harlan Coben. 10. The Great Gatsby. - F. Scott Fitzgerald. May 11. Scorpia Rising. - Anthony Horowitz. July 12. Love In The Time Of Cholera. - Gabriel García Márquez. 13. The Shadow of the Wind. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón. 14. Deal Breaker. - Harlan Coben. 15. Dead Until Dark. - Charlaine Harris. 16. Living Dead In Dallas. - Charlaine Harris. 17. Club Dead. - Charlaine Harris. 18. Dead To The World. - Charlaine Harris. 19. Dead As A Doornail. - Charlaine Harris. 20. Definitely Dead. - Charlaine Harris. 21. Altogether Dead. - Charlaine Harris. August 22. The Interpretation of Murder. - Jed Rubenfeld. 23. Die Trying. - Lee Child. 24. Eldest. - Christopher Paolini. 25. Hell Gate. - Linda Fairstein. 26. From Dead to Worse. - Charlaine Harris. 27. Afterwards. - Rosamund Lupton. 28. One Day. - David Nicholls. September 29. Oroonoko. - Aphra Behn. 30. 'The Black Cat.' - Edgar Allan Poe. 31. Pride and Prejudice. - Jane Austen. October 32. 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' -Edgar Allan Poe. 33. 'Young Goodman Brown.' - Nathaniel Hawthorne. 34. 'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes.' - Henry James. 35. 'The Old Nurse's Story.' - Elizabeth Gaskell. 36. Waiting for Godot. - Samuel Beckett. 37. Robinson Crusoe. - Daniel Defoe. 38. Venus and Adonis. - William Shakespeare. 39. From The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories. - Cox & Gilbert. I. 'The Truth, The whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.' - Rhoda Broughton. ii. 'The Story of Clifford House.' - Anonymous. iii. 'To Let.' - B. M. Croker. iv. 'Thurnley Abbey.' - Perceval Landon. November 40. From The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories. - Cox & Gilbert. I. 'The Body Snatcher.' - Robert Louis Stevenson. ii. 'The Eddy on the Floor.' - Bernard Capes. iii. 'The Kit Bag.' - Algernon Blackwood. 41. East Is East. - Ayub Khan-Din. 42. Moll Flanders. - Daniel Defoe. 43. Pamela. - Samuel Richardson. 44. 'The Canterville Ghost.' - Oscar Wilde. 45. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. - Salman Rushdie. 46. A Sentimental Journey. - Laurence Sterne. 47. Nights At The Circus. - Angela Carter. December 48. The Fry Chronicles. - Stephen Fry. 49. The Turn of the Screw. - Henry James. 50. Brisingr. - Christopher Paolini. 51. Tripwire. - Lee Child. 52. Inheritance. - Christopher Paolini. 2011 Reading Review

Plug in your Kindle and drag the files that you want into the 'documents' file. When you eject it, it should work fine.