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I hope you have an amazing reading year in 2018, Karen!

Sorry Athena, I've somehow missed your post! I did have a lovely Christmas, it was really nice to go home and just relax and see relatives and friends and be home with my parents. Time went by really fast, I wish it had been a longer holiday! I had a really crappy reading year in 2017. Towards the end of it I didn't do much reading at all. I read only 35 books!!! I haven't read such a small number of books since 2006! I didn't manage to write reviews for the last two books I read. I didn't read any 5/5 books! 2018 has to be better!

Ooooh, what a wonderful bookish quest! Good luck with it! I hope you have a wonderfully happy reading year in 2018, Jänet!

Yes, there's no way out! I do hope you will like it! Happy reading in 2018, Claire! I loved going through the first page of your log, because it was so nicely organized, and it was also so very differently organized than anyone elses!

That's excellent customer service! I've requested some books to be bought over the years myself but they don't send e-mails about them over here. I wish they did! I hope you have an amazing reading year in 2018, muggle not!

First of all, happy reading in 2018, Hayley! I hope you will like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell! I thought it was amazing, and I didn't mind the length of the novel at all! I, too, have the Gormenghast trilogy on my TBR pile. I started the first novel some years ago and really, really enjoyed it, but then something came up and I didn't have time to continue reading it. But I think it's going to be really great! Oh crap, what utter horrors you've had to endure! I'm glad you have your laptop again! Did you manage your 10,000 before the deadline? I hope you enjoy writing your reviews, knowing you've been wanting to write them for so long

I'm so sorry I missed your anniversary! Happy 5th Anniversary, Gaia! The thing I've colored in red is such a lovely thing to say! I haven't been on here that much lately, so I'm still going around in other people's reading logs, to wish them a happy new reading year. I'm so late!! In any case, I hope you have an amazing reading year in 2018, Gaia! I hope you get to read a lot of wonderful books!

I really need to read this book this year! And start jogging again... I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm really glad you liked this book, it's one of my favorites by King! Have you seen the movie, by the way? Kathy Bates is excellent as Annie Wilkes. Really scary stuff!! I wish you a very merry reading year in 2018, Alexander!

I watched It's Complicated today. It was good.

Six books already? Well done Kylie! I'm waayyyyy behind!! 10/10 for Helter Skelter? Wowwwww!!! I don't know why, but I didn't dare to imagine you'd like it that much!! But I'm super happy you did!! Holy smokes, missy!!! Making the most of not buying any books in January! I'm only stating the obvious here, but I hope you can sell your house soon and find a new amazing place to live in! I'm sorry that I don't get to visit your home, the one I've lived in, because I loved it so very much! And we had some pretty fabulous times there But I will come and visit your new place at some point!! 2017 was crap on an ugly platter. Let's make 2018 amazing!! Happy reading Kylie!! An amazing haul! I will say, though, that apart from the n.a. books and the Wodehouses, I didn't recognize all too many titles on the list! Did your Mom buy an awful lot?

Is this by Jeffery Deaver? Glad you liked it, but I'm sad to hear not enough to continue with the rest! I loved the first book, and have read the second and it's even better, at least it was for me. I was busy last weekend and now I've caught yet another bug, so I've not felt like reading Helter Skelter, as it's too dark for me at the moment. I started reading Dumplin' by Julie Murphy. I didn't realize this was YA when I borrowed the book from the library.

I will confess that I don't know the Godfather theme song Or maybe I do know the song, I just don't know that it's that song. I have to google now I love learning new stuff!! Edit: Oh yes, I do know the song! Didn't know it was the theme song. I'm now more wordly!

Holy crap, poppy!! Stay safe I hope there's no more of that tonight and that things can get back to normal in your lovely country!

I've heard great things of The Bridge, too! From a number of people. I really ought to watch the series!!

Hello and welcome to the forum! Have you already taken a look at our thread on autobiographies and biographies?

That's hilarious It would make for a really odd reading of older threads!! I'm glad you like The Lovely Bones! Like you, I liked the unusual narrative and focus. As for the Nancy Drew book... I read a bunch of them when I was a kid, too. I reread a few favorites in my early twenties and it was semi painful But they make a great nostalgia trip. I would assume that the Enid Blyton books fair better in this respect: they ought to be still more enjoyable, at an older age, than the Nancy Drews.

Hello and welcome to the forum!

I bought two books yesterday, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion and One of Us by Åsne Seierstad. Found them both at a charity shop

He's a good one!

Horrible news Seriously? Wow. Holy crap! I did not know that could happen over there!

I watched a Star Wars movie last, called The Force Awakens or something. Hadn't planned on it but it was on telly for the first time ever over here. I liked it!

Challenges to me: Dead Wake by Erik Larson (willoyd) Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker (chesilbeach) Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres (chaliepud) One in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth (Alexi) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Madeleine) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Karen.d) Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (Ben) The Running Man by Richard Bachman (More reading time required) The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan (Little Pixie) Challenges by me: willoyd: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake Madeleine: Bleak House by Charles Dickens chesilbeach: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides karen.d: Cujo by Stephen King Alexi: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon chaliepud: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Little Pixie: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak More reading time required: East of Eden by John Steinbeck Ben: HHhH by Laurent Binet

Great choice, I think it's a book that I wouldn't have gone for myself and now I will pick it up sooner rather than later! I've seen bits of the movie and it's... outstanding Birdsong it is then! I'm sorry I'm so late with this, but my challenge to you is HHhH by Laurent Binet! I was happy to see the book on your TBR list, I hope you will enjoy it, as I hope to do so myself when I get a chance to read it! It's on my TBR list, too! Sorry for the mixed up quote block! I can't figure out how to make it right... In any case, thanks Little Pixie for this suggestion! I started reading this book ages ago and really loved what I read but never managed to finish! I'm looking forward to reading it now!

Oh but where else would we ever go.... I'm sorry that last year was not a good reading year for you. Here's hoping this one will be a much better!

Oh crap, I'm really sorry to hear that I hope something else comes up soon! Happy reading in 2018, Brian!