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FILM
TO BE READ: 1
1. Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (Hardback)
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NATURE
TO BE READ: 5
1. 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox (Hardback)
2. Corduroy by Adrian Bell (Paperback)
3. The Dun Cow Rib by John Lister-Kaye (Hardback)
4. Field Notes from a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson (Paperback)
5. Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler (Hardback)
6. The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell (Hardback)
7. Linescapes by Hugh Warwich (Paperback)
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The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris (Hardback)9. Mrs Moreau's Warbler by Stephen Moss (Hardback)
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Outskirts by John Grindrod (Paperback)11. Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington (Hardback)
12. The Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicolson (Kindle)
13. The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young (Kindle)
14. A Shadow Above by Joe Shute (Hardback)
15. A Shepherd's Life by W. H. Hudson (Paperback)
16. A Sweet, Wild Note by Richard Smyth (Paperback)
17. A Wood Of One’s Own by Ruth Pavey (Hardback)
18. The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel (Hardback)
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TRAVEL
TO BE READ: 2
1. A Slice of Britain by Caroline Taggart (Kindle)
2. Engel's England by Matthew Engel (Paperback)
3. Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy by Chris Harrison (Kindle)
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Islander by Patrick Barkham (Paperback)5.
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YOUNG ADULT
TO BE READ: 6
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Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles (Paperback)2. The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy (Paperback)
3. Freshers by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison (Paperback)
4. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Paperback)
5. Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton (Paperback)
6. Indigo Donut by Patrice Lawrence (Paperback)
7. Ink by Alice Broadway (Paperback)
8. Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen (Paperback)
9. Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla (Paperback)
10. A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge (Paperback)
11. A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood (Paperback)
12. Storm Wake by Lucy Christopher (Paperback)
13. Things A Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls (Paperback)
14. This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada (Paperback)
15. The Thornhill by Pam Smy (Hardback)
16. Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton (Paperback)
17. Troublemakers by Catherine Barter (Paperback)
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MIDDLE GRADE
TO BE READ: 10
1. The Battle of the Beetles by M. G. Leonard (Paperback)
2. The Beyond The Odyssey by Maz Evans (Paperback)
3. The Boy Called Hope by Lara Williamson (Paperback)
4. The Dark Wild by Piers Torday (Paperback)
5. Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy (Paperback)
6. The Case of the Missing Treasure by Robin Stevens (Paperback)
7. The Children of Castle Rock by Natasha Farrant (Paperback)
8. The Curse in the Candlelight by Sophie Cleverly (Kindle)
9. A Boy Who Went Magic by A. P. Winter (Paperback)
10. The Explorer by Katherine Rundell (Hardback)
11. Father Christmas and Me by Matt Haig (Hardback)
12. The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson (Paperback)
13. The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson (Kindle)
14. The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson (Paperback)
15. The Huntress: Sea by Sarah Driver (Paperback)
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Kat Wolfe Investigates by Lauren St John (Paperback)17. Kick by Mitch Johnson (Paperback)
18. Kid Normal by Greg James and Chris Smith (Paperback)
19. The Legend of Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood (Paperback)
20. The Light Jar by Lisa Thompson (Paperback)
21. The Little Green Men by B. B (Paperback)
22. Make More Noise by Various (Paperback)
23. Max and the Millions by Ross Montgomery (Paperback)
24. My Evil Twin is a Supervillain by David Solomons (Paperback)
25. Nevermore: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Paperback)
26. A Place Called Perfect by Helena Duggan (Paperback)
27. The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club by Alex Bell (Paperback)
28. Poppy Pym and the Beastly Blizzard by Laura Wood (Paperback)
29. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry (Paperback)
30. The Secret Deep by Lindsay Galvin (Paperback)
31. Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll (Paperback)
32. Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll (Paperback)
33. Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone (Paperback)
34. A Spoonful of Murder by Robin Stevens (Paperback)
35. Tin by Pádraig Kenny (Paperback)
36. Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans (Paperback)
37. White Dolphin by Gill Lewis (Paperback)
38. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Paperback)
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ROMCOM
TO BE READ: 5
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Coming Home to the Comfort Food Café by Debbie Johnson (Kindle)2.
The Endless Beach by Jenny Colgan (Kindle)3. The Little Bakery on Rosemary Lane by Ellen Berry (Kindle)
4. The Love Detective by Alexandra Potter (Kindle)
5. Love is a Four-Legged Word by Michele Gorman (Kindle)
6. Match Me If You Can! by Michele Gorman (Kindle)
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The Reading Group by Della Parker (Kindle)8.
The Secrets of Happiness by Lucy Diamond (Kindle)9.
Sunshine at the Comfort Food Cafe by Debbie Johnson (Kindle)10. What Would Mary Berry Do? by Claire Sandy (Kindle)
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FICTION
TO BE READ: 27
1. Anthropology by Dan Rhodes (Paperback)
2. An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
3. The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor (Kindle)
4. The Battersea Barricades by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
5. Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Paperback)
6. A Black Fox Running by Brian Carter (Hardback)
7. The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Kindle)
8. The Body in the Ice by A. J. Mackenzie (Paperback)
9. Brenda and Effie Forever! by Paul Magrs (Kindle)
10. Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
11. Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (Paperback)
12. The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland (Kindle)
13. The Day She Saved The Doctor by Susan Calman, Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson (Kindle)
14. Dear Mrs Bird by A. C. Pearce (Audiobook)
15. Dispute Over A Very Italian Piglet by Amara Lakhous (Paperback)
16. The End We Start From by Megan Hunter (Paperback)
17. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Kindle)
18. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Kindle)
19. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Kindle)
20. The Golem and the Djinni by Helen Wecker (Kindle)
21. Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Paperback)
22. The In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (Hardback)
23. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier (Kindle)
24. Like by Ali Smith (Paperback)
25. Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk by Kathleen Rooney (Paperback)
26. A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam (Paperback)
27. The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman (Paperback)
28. The Madonna of Bolton by Matt Cain (Kindle)
29. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (Paperback)
30. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Kindle)
31. Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker (Kindle)
32. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Kindle)
33. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Audiobook)
34. The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla (Hardback)
35. Phantom Quartz by Barbra Annino (Kindle)
36. Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier (Kindle)
37. The South in Winter by Peter Benson (Paperback)
38. The Space Between The Stars by Anne Corlett (Paperback)
39. The Steam-Pump Jump by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
40. The Sweet Scent of Blood by Suzanne McLeod (Kindle)
41. This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab (Kindle)
42. These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper (Paperback)
43. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Syndey Padua (Paperback)
44. To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield (Kindle)
45. The Trick To Time by Kit De Waal (Hardback)
46. Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (Paperback)
47. The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel (Kindle)
48. Weathering by Lucy Woods (Paperback)
49. The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin (Hardback)
50. Windfall by Dicksha Basu (Paperback)
51. Winter by Ali Smith (Hardback)
52. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (Kindle)
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2017 reading blog - 153 books
2016 reading blog - 112 books
2015 reading blog - 171 books
2014 reading blog - 151 books
2013 reading blog - 183 books
2012 reading blog - 145 books
2011 reading blog - 141 books
2010 reading blog - 130 books
2009 reading blog - 143 books
2008 reading list - 63 books
2007 reading list - 97 books
2006 reading list - 82 books2018 BOOKS READ
January1. 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox (Hardback)
2. At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple by M. C. Beaton (Kindle)
3. Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll (Paperback)
4. Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone (Paperback)
5. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Paperback)
6. Wildfire At Midnight by Mary Stewart (Kindle)
7. The Education of Miss Paterson by M. C. Beaton (Kindle)
8. The House of New Beginnings by Lucy Diamond (Audiobook)
9. Christmas Past by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
10. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown (Hardback)
11. Poppy Pym and the Beastly Blizzard by Laura Wood (Paperback)
12. Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler (Hardback)
13. The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman (Paperback)
February
14. The Battle of the Beetles by M. G. Leonard (Paperback)
15. You Took The Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston (Hardback)
16. Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (Paperback )
17. Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans (Paperback)
18. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller (Hardback)
19. A Spoonful of Murder by Robin Stevens (Paperback)
20. Corduroy by Adrian Bell (Paperback)
21. The Explorer by Katherine Rundell (Hardback)
22. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Kindle)
23. Nevermore: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Paperback)
24. A Place Called Perfect by Helena Duggan (Paperback)
25. The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson (Paperback)
26. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Audiobook)
27. The Legend of Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Harwood (Paperback)
28. Kid Normal by Greg James and Chris Smith (Paperback)
29. Troublemakers by Catherine Barter (Paperback)
30. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Paperback)
March
31. The Last Wilderness: A Journey Into Silence by Neil Ansell (Hardback)
32. Phantom Quartz by Barbra Annino (Kindle)
33. This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada (Paperback)
34. Ink by Alice Broadway (Paperback)
35. The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy (Paperback)
36. Max and the Millions by Ross Montgomery (Paperback)
37. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Paperback)
38. The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor (Kindle)
39. Thornhill by Pam Smy (Hardback)
40. The Day She Saved The Doctor by Susan Calman, Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson (Kindle)
41. The Curse in the Candlelight by Sophie Cleverly (Kindle)
42. Make More Noise by Various (Paperback)
43. A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam (Paperback)
44. Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy (Paperback)
45. God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Kindle)
46. The Light Jar by Lisa Thompson (Paperback)
47. A Wood of One’s Own by Ruth Pavey (Hardback)
48. The Endless Beach by Jenny Colgan (Kindle)
49. Amaryllis by M. C. Beaton (Kindle)
50. Family and Friends by Anita Brookner (Paperback)
April
51. The Body in the Ice by A. J. Mackenzie (Paperback)
52. Quadrille by M. C. Beaton (Kindle)
53. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan (Hardback)
54. The Year of Taking Chances by Lucy Diamond (Audiobook)
55. The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young (Kindle)
56. The Secrets of Happiness by Lucy Diamond (Audiobook)
57. Beyond The Odyssey by Maz Evans (Paperback)
58. The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin (Hardback)
59. A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When The Birds Sing by Richard Smyth (Paperback)
60. Dear Mrs Bird by A. C. Pearce (Audiobook)
61. An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
62. The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla (Hardback)
63. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford (Audiobook)
64. The Constant Companion by M. C. Beaton (Kindle)
65. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart (Kindle)
66. Coming Home to the Comfort Food Café by Debbie Johnson (Kindle)
67. The Battersea Barricades by Jodi Taylor (Kindle)
68. White Dolphin by Gill Lewis (Paperback)
69. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Audiobook)
70. The Space Between The Stars by Anne Corlett (Paperback)
May
71. The Children of Castle Rock by Natasha Farrant (Paperback)
72. A Slice of Britain: Around the Country by Cake by Caroline Taggart (Kindle)
73. Miss Hargreaves by Fred Baker (Kindle)
74. Sunshine at the Comfort Food Cafe by Debbie Johnson (Kindle)
75. Brenda and Effie Forever! by Paul Magrs (Kindle)
76. The Reading Group by Della Parker (Kindle)
77. Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Kindle)
78. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Kindle)
79. Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen (Paperback)
80. Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss (Hardback)
81. Storm-Wake by Lucy Christopher (Paperback)
82. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry (Paperback)
83. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Audiobook)
84. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Paperback)
85. The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood by John Lister-Kaye (Hardback)
86. Tin by Pádraig Kenny (Paperback)
June
87. A Shadow Above: The Rise and Fall of the Raven by Joe Shute (Hardback)88. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Kindle)
89. The End We Start From by Megan Hunter (Paperback)
90. Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Paperback)
91. The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson (Kindle)
92. Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier (Editor) (Kindle)
93. The Wood: The Life and Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel (Hardback)
94. The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris (Hardback)
95. Swell by Jenny Landreth (Paperback)
96. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (Hardback)
97. The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson (Paperback)
98. Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla (Paperback)
99. Outskirts by John Grindrod (Paperback)
100. A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood (Paperback)
July
101. Tea With Mr Rochester by Frances Towers (Paperback)
102. The Case of the Missing Treasure by Robin Stevens (Paperback)
103. Islander by Patrick Barkham (Paperback)
104. Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles (Paperback)
105. A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair (Paperback)
106. Kat Wolfe Investigates by Lauren St John (Paperback)
107. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan (Audiobook)
August
108. The Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicolson (Kindle)September
October
November
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Welcome to my 2018 book blog. It's categorised as follows:
Books read - 2018
To be read - Fiction
To be read - Romcom
To be read - Middle Grade
To be read - Travel
To be read - Nature
To be read - Film To be read - Biography/Memoir
To be read - History
To be read - Poetry
To be read - Science
Authors - M. C. Beaton
Authors - Anita Brookner
Authors - J. L. Carr
Authors - Georgette Heyer
Authors - Barbara Pym
Authors - Mary Stewart
Authors - E. H. Young
Podcasts - Backlisted
Publishers - Persephone
Awards - Wainwright Prize 2018
Awards - Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2018 -
Some one on a podcast recently recommended setting yourself a target number of pages to read each day. They said 50 pages per day, but they were talking about novels which are generally easier to read, but it you went for say 25 pages per day, that would be 500 pages in just under three weeks which for a difficult book, does seem quite so daunting.
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We had a tiny bit of snow overnight on Tuesday, but the hills around us still have a few inches. It's still cold though, and we've put the fire on this afternoon to keep us nice and toasty.
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Enjoying mooching around not doing much in my downtime between Christmas and New Year.
We've been having our annual Christmas games tournament and I'm currently in the lead 16-9, and hoping to win for the third year in a row. We just play kids games like Tumbling Monkeys and other board games but it's nice to have some time just to mess about and be silly. 
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Today, I bought a bunch of books, and I've managed to update all my spreadsheets and my book blog thread with all the details.
I've also read another two chapters of The Dark Is Rising with two chapters left for tomorrow, and read another chapter of 21st-Century Yokel and I'm now going to start another fiction book to read alongside it.
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Well I was a very lucky thing and received lots of books for Christmas! However, my other half usually buys me a selection of children's books, but bless him, he's been so busy decorating that he didn't really have much time for shopping, so we agreed I'd just go out and get myself some today. I actually had two full stamp cards and a lot of points on my reward card at Waterstones, so I got four books for no money whatsoever! They didn't have a a couple of books I particularly wanted, so I also popped into my local indie bookshop who had one of them in stock, and bought that one and ordered the other, and also bought an impulse purchase too.
Received for Christmas:
1. 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox
2. Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
3. Corduroy by Adrian Bell
4. Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler
5. Letters of Note by Shaun Usher
6. Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown
7. The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel
8. Watling Street by John Higgs
9. Father Christmas and Me by Matt Haig
10. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Today, I bought myself these middle grade books:
1. Christmas Dinner of Souls by Ross Montgomery
2. The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
3. The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club by Alex Bell
4. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
5. Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll
6. Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone
I've already finished The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel, and am halfway through 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox.
There's only one problem with receiving all these wonderful books ... I want to read them all NOW!!!
There's just not enough hours in the day, even with being on holiday until the New Year. I almost wish I could just open the books and absorb it through osmosis so that I can have read them all, as they all look fantastic.
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On 12/27/2017 at 4:33 PM, willoyd said:
I had to do exactly the same! I read it two or three winters ago, and found it completely gripping, and really well written (6 star read). So glad you're enjoying it too.
On second reading I would definitely rate it 5/5, it’s just wonderful.
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On 12/27/2017 at 4:28 PM, Alexander the Great said:
Is that the The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper?
Yes - I’m about three quarters of the way through and enjoying it more than I did on my first read! Such a perfect winter story, and it’s lovely to read it at the time of year the book is set.
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On 12/27/2017 at 3:34 PM, muggle not said:
Sorry to hear that you are not enjoying The Bear and the Nightingale (book 1 of Winternight Trilogy), the debut novel by Katherine Arden. I found the book fascinating and full of Russian folklore, history, and magic. However, the book is probably not for everyone although it is a National bestseller in the U.S. Arden's storytelling is wonderful even though quite a bit on the dark side. The 2nd book in the Winternight Trilogy, the Girl In The Tower was even better and I rate it a 10/10. I am anxiously awaitingr book 3....Winter of the Witch.
I liked the story itself, but something about the writing and pace just didn’t suit me. Sorry.
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A little bit drizzly all day, but not particularly cold. Very foggy up in the hills though.
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I’m done! Delivered the cake and pudding we make every year to my aunt today and I’m home and ready for the festivities to begin. A final tidy up tomorrow while my other half starts the food prep, so a nice easy day for us.
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I’ll add my thanks to you too, @willoyd. I’m really looking forward to this challenge next year
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On 16/12/2017 at 2:08 PM, muggle not said:
I just finished reading the debut novel by Katherine Arden and heartily recommend it. I am now reading The Girl In The Tower (book2 of the trilogy) and even though I am only 50% complete I give it a 10 rating. Michelle, I think you would really like the books
I’m reading this at the moment @muggle not, and finding it a bit of a chore. I can only read a couple of chapters at most before I have to put it down. The only reason I’m going to keep going is because I’m reading it for my next book group meeting. I’m just about to start part three, so another 100 pages to go.
I desperately want to finish it soon and concentrate on the other book I’m reading at the moment, The Dark Is Rising which I’m re-reading as part of a Twitter read-a-long that started on Wednesday (Midwinter’s Eve) as that’s the same day the story starts. It’s a coincidence but both stories are set in winter and have a basis in folklore but for me, TDIR is totally compelling to read and I’m forcing myself to put it down after one or two chapters and savour the reading experience of it!
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20 hours ago, Little Pixie said:
Chesilbeach : I`ve gone for Mary Stewart`s Touch Not The Cat, one of my top books.
Thanks for this one - I think I'm going to be reading a lot of Mary Stewart next year!
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@Little Pixie, I'd like to challenge you to A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark. I've mentioned the Backlisted podcast before, and they chose one of her books as their subject in one episode, so she's on my list of authors to read, and this one sounds really good, and I'd like to know what you think of it.
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@Madeleine, I'd like to challenge you to How To Stop Time by Matt Haig. I'm definitely planning on reading it myself next year, so I'd like to hear your thoughts on it too.
Claire's Book List 2018
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BIOGRAPHY and MEMOIR
TO BE READ: 1
1.
Bookworm by Lucy Mangan (Hardback)2. Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell (Kindle)
3. Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown (Hardback)
4. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Paperback)
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Swell by Jenny Landreth (Paperback)6. The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller (Hardback)