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Hello Mandie! I'm sure you'll fit in fine What are you reading at the moment?

Hello beneak!

Absolutely. Took a detour from Christmas and watched something I haven't seen in years - Batman Returns

I'm not so sure that Louis will win - I've been looking at a few online polls, and although admittedly they are on a small scale for the most part, Kimberley is now way out in front at the moment, with Louis and Dani pretty much tied for second place and Denise bringing up the rear. I'm waiting to see the dancing on Saturday before I vote, but at the moment, I think it's most likely to be Denise or Dani, although I don't think Dani or Louis have really shone, but since they've decided there's got to be four finalists, at least they're the next best after Denise and Kimberley.

Thanks Julie. It does make me chuckle that you mentioned the books read numbers for the previous years - I joined the forum in January 2009, so make of that what you will! Thanks, Kidsmum. I'm looking forward to reading them, as my OH loves them so much, and he's a pretty good judge most of the time

I used to feel the same, but after reading Fay Weldon's Letters to Alice, it made me think much more about the society of the time, and the need for upper class women to marry to safeguard their future, regardless of whether they loved the man they married.

Had a Christmas movie fest yesterday and watched While You Were Sleeping, Christmas With The Cranks and the wonderful The Family Stone.

Ok, that's it. I'm already to go now. Look out 2013 books, here I come!

Hi Julie! Love how you've sorte your reading for next year, very original to have completely different categories for each month. I've got some vague ideas of what I want to read, and some challenges I'm going to start, but nowhere near as organised as you. Hope you're well - tried to send you a PM but it won't let me for some reason but I'll try again tomorrow.

You could also try looking at www.fantasticfiction.co.uk, where they list authors alphabetically by surname, so you can browse the list of authors under each letter.

But that's the point Austen is making - the majority of marriages in the upper classes in this period were for duty, money, status or security, and if you were either in love or came to love your spouse, you were considered lucky. Edward wants to shy away from the society life his mother has planned for him and enter the church, so you know he's someone who believes strongly in morals and a sense of right, and everything about him and the rules of society at the time, would have led him down the route of honour and a sense of duty to fulfil the promise he made to Lucy. If they had married, you would have ended up with the same marriage as Mr and Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, but that would have been his own fault and he would have made the best of it. Elinor understands this, and accepts it, because she knows that's the moral backbone of the man she's fallen in love with, and she have expected it of him. In our society today, then yes, the honourable outcome would have been to confess and break the engagement with Lucy, but that's placing our own modern views on marriage, which don't compare with theirs.

Finished Findings by Kathleen Jamie today - a collection of essays, essentially about nature, but reads a bit like a travel book, with nature and a bit of memoir thrown in for good measure, but absolutely beautifully written. Next up is Death Comes To Pemberley by P.D. James for my Jane Austen reading.

I did just mean her American Smooth, but I HATE the Charleston as a competitive dance. There's so little technique and it's mostly about the performance, and as long as you can pull silly faces you can get high marks. Ridiculous dance to be compared to a jive or a rumba which are so technical, that it's hard to score high marks. Would have felt the same whoever performed it. I don't find James as objectionable as I know a lot of people do, but he doesn't do himself any favours with the repeated comments about voting, stage school experience, etc. I do think, however, he's one of the weaker choreographers and doesn't get the best out of his celebrities. I agree with both these points! I'm hoping for better show dances than we've seen for the last few years - my favourite show dances have been ones that include elements of the dances they learn on Strictly, not street, hip hop or modern dance. The ones that stood out for me go back a while now - both Jill & Darren and Denise & Ian in series two, Darren & Lilia in series three and Mark & Karen in series four - the golden age of Strictly!

Me too. Think it was Lisa's time to go, and she'd done so well to get so far. Disappointed that people don't like Denise, as I think she's great, and I don't care how much stage school training you've got, ballroom dancing is a completely different discipline, but hey, what do I know? I loved their tango, but I'm rarely a fan of rumba's so they were onto a loser with me there anyway. Liked both of Kimberley's dances, but the American Smooth had 4 lifts (possibly 5, if you're being really picky), she missed a hand grab at one point, and her free arm was limp on at least two occasions, so should never have got 10s. I know I always seem to single out Kimberley, but I do think she's overmarked. In fact, I think all the dances that scored 10s were overmarked this week, not just her, as everyone, except maybe Denise, looked under rehearsed. Despite that, my favourite are Dani & Vincent, even though I don't think they're the best dancers. Still, I like that the couples left in the final are pretty evenly matched, and it'll come down to favourites. Only the public vote counts in the final, the judges just score to give us an idea of how good they dance, and from what I can make out, they will all dance a judges choice and the show dance in the main show, the phone lines opening after the first dance and frozen at some point when they'll count the votes then at the beginning of the results show, the couple with the lowest public vote at that point will be eliminated, then the remaining three will dance their favourite dance. My guess is that with Louis and Dani having never been in the bottom two, and Denise being there both of the last two weeks, and Kimberley there once before, Denise is probably favourite to go first, possibly Kimberley, and then I think the public support is behind Louis, so he'd be my guess to win overall.

Just noticed that Kirstie's Homemade Christmas is about to start. Love this programme.

E. H. YOUNG Another one of my author challenges is to read the books of E. H. Young, and again, another one of my partners favourite writers. I read one of her books many years ago, mostly because after she married in 1902, she married and moved with her husband to Clifton, Bristol, somewhere I too lived for a couple of years, albeit 90 years later, so I was interested to read a novel set in the place I lived at the time. Although we have quite a few of her books, it's by no means the entire collection, but I'm going to start on the ones we have and scour the bookshops and online sellers for the others. First up though, I need to search the bookshelves in the house to find the books we have! This is a long term challenge and not expected to be completed within the year. Key: Books I own in Italics Books I have read in Bold 1. A Corn of Wheat 2. Younder 3. Moor Fires 4. The Bridge Dividing 5. William 6. The Vicar's Daughter 7. Miss Mole 8. Jenny Wren 9. The Curate's Wife 10. Celia 11. Caravan Island 12. River Holiday 13. Chatterton Square

J. L. CARR One of my author challenges is to read the entire fiction collection of J. L. Carr, one of my partners favourite writers. I think we already own his novels (some of them, more than one copy as well!), and this is a long term reading plan to be dipped in and out of. This is a long term challenge and not expected to be completed within the year. Key: Books I have read in Bold 1. A Day In Summer 2. A Season in Sinji 3. The Harpole Report 4. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The F. A. Cup 5. A Month In The Country 6. The Battle of Pollocks Crossing 7. What Hetty Did 8. Harpole and Foxberrow, General Publishers

PERSEPHONE BOOKS I love the books from independent publisher Persephone, not just for their beautiful book designs, but also for their ethos and the authors they chose to publish, so much so that I even started a thread just about them! http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/9960-persephone-books I've been thinking for a while about reading their entire catalogue of books (currently 100 books, but they publish two more every quarter), and this is the year I'm going to start this in earnest. This is a long term challenge and not expected to be completed within the year. Key: Books I own in Italics Books I have read in Bold BOOK LIST: 1. William - an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton 2. Mariana by Monica Dickens 3. Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple 4. Fidelity by Susan Glaspell 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski 7. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson 10. Good Things in England by Florence White 11. Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley 12. It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst 13. Consequences by E. M. Delafield 14. Farewell Leicester Square by Betty Miller 15. Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berridge 16. Saplings by Noel Streatfeild 17. Marjory Fleming by Oriel Malet 18. Every Eye by Isobel English 19. They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple 20. A Woman's Place: 1910-75 by Ruth Adam 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson 22. Consider the Years by Virginia Graham 23. Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy 24. Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton 25. The Montana Stories by Katherine Mansfield 26. Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell 27. The Children who lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham 28. Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski 29. The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett 30. Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll 31. A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair 32. The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme 33. The Far Cry by Emma Smith 34. Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street by Denis Mackail 36. Lettice Delmer by Susan Miles 37. The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey 39. Manja by Anna Gmeyner 40. The Priory by Dorothy Whipple 41. Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge 42. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding 43. The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf 44. Tea with Mr Rochester by Frances Towers 45. Good Food On The Aga by Ambrose Heath 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd 47. The New House by Lettice Cooper 48. The Casino by Margaret Bonham 49. Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton 50. The World that was Ours by Hilda Bernstein 51. Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper 52. The Village by Marghanita Laski 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruferguson 54. They Can't Ration These by Vicomte De Mauduit 55. Flush by Virginia Woolf 56. They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple 57. The Hopkins Manuscript by Rc Sherriff 58. Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson 59. There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult 60. Doreen by Barbara Noble 61. A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw 63. Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan 64. A Woman Novelist and Other Stories by Diana Gardner 65. Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson 66. Gardener’s Nightcap by Muriel Stuart 67. The Fortnight in September by Rc Sherriff 68. The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes 69. Journal by Katherine Mansfield 70. Plats du Jour by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd 71. The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett 72. House-Bound by Winifred Peck 73. The Young Pretenders by Edith Henrietta 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46 by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg 76. The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby 77. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer 78. A Very Great Profession by Nicola Beauman 79. Round about a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves 80. The Country Housewife's Book by Lucy H Yates 81. Miss Buncle's Book by De Stevenson 82. Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough 83. Making Conversation by Christine Longford 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery by Mrs Rundell 85. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple 86. To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski 87. Dimanche and Other Stories by Irène Némirovsky 88. Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant 90. The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens 91. Miss Buncle Married by D. E. Stevenson 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill 93. The Sack of Bath by Adam Fergusson 94. No Surrender by Constance Maud 95. Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple 96. Dinners for Beginners by Rachel and Margaret Ryan 97. Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins 98. A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf 99. Patience by John Coates 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories by Various

MY (CONTINUING) YEAR OF JANE AUSTEN I didn't quite finish my challenge last year, so I'll be finishing it off in 2013, although I may still add some more to it as I go along! These are the Jane Austen books I will be reading this year: 1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 2. Persuasion by Jane Austen 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 5. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 6. Emma by Jane Austen 7. The Watsons by Jane Austen These are the contemporary novels I will be looking at reading - I may add more to this over the course of the year: 8. Mr Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange (Pride and Prejudice) 9. Mr Knightley's Diary by Amanda Grange (Emma) 10. Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange (Persuasion) 11. Colonel Brandon's Diary by Amanda Grange (Sense and Sensibility) 12. Wickham's Diary by Amanda Grange (Pride and Prejudice) 13. Henry Tilney's Diary by Amanda Grange (Northanger Abbey) 14. Edmund Bertram's Diary by Amanda Grange (Mansfield Park) 15. Death Comes To Pemberley by P. D. James (Pride and Prejudice) 16. The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (Sense and Sensibility) 17. An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan (Pride and Prejudice) (recommended by frankie) 18. These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan (Pride and Prejudice) (recommended by frankie) 19. Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan (Pride and Prejudice) (recommended by frankie) 20. The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James (present from poppyshake) 21. Austenland by Shannon Hale This is the biography I would like to read: 21. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin Other miscellaneous books: 22. Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon (recommended by willoyd)

2013 BOOKS TO BE READ 1. Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy by Chris Harrison 2. Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story by Kapka Kassabova 3. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton 4. Can Anyone Hear Me? by Peter Baxter 5. Capital by John Lanchester 6. A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson 7. The Perfect Retreat by Kate Forster 8. Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds 9. Q: A Love Story by Evan Mandery 10. Sea and Shore Cornwall by Lisa Woollett 11. Strands by Jean Sprackland 12. The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall 13. Circle Line by Steffan Meyric Hughes 14. Die Laughing by Carola Dunn (DD No. 12) 15. Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn (DD No. 15) 16. Sheer Folly by Carola Dunn (DD No. 18) 17. Trouble at the Little Village School by Gervase Phinn 18. Little Sacrifices by Jamie Scott 19. Tout Sweet by Karen Wheeler 20. Citadel by Kate Mosse 21. Angel Fire by L. A. Weatherley 22. Love With a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche 23. The Horologican by Mark Forsyth 24. Rainbird's Revenge by M. C. Beaton (HftS No. 6) 25. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley 26. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot 27. Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger 28. How To Eat Out by Giles Coren 29. Saplings by Noel Streatfeild 30. Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis 31. Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery

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 books 2013 BOOKS READ January 1. My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey 2. Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey 3. Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 4. Tomorrow, When The War Began by John Marsden 5. Polly by M. C. Beaton 6. Hunter's Moon by F. E. Heaton 7. Qissat by Various 8. Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie 9. Molly by M. C. Beaton 10. Ciao Bella: In Search of New Relatives and Dante in Italy by Helena Frith Powell 11. Ginny by M. C. Beaton 12. Out For Blood by Alyxandra Harvey 13. The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz 14. The Dead of the Night by John Marsden 15. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson 16. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter February 17. Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson 18. Masquerade by F. E. Heaton 19. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 20. A House In Mayfair by M. C. Beaton 21. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The F. A. Cup by J. L. Carr 22. Challenging Zed by Joss Stirling 23. Back Story by David Mitchell 24. Susie by M. C. Beaton March 25. The Pledge by Kimberly Derting 26. Bleeding Hearts by Alyxandra Harvey 27. Blood Moon by Alyxandra Harvey 28. Blood Prophecy by Alyxandra Harvey 29. The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead 30. The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead 31. Pulse by Tricia Rayburn 32. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Abandoned - 68%) 33. Something Secret This Way Comes by Sierra Dean 34. A Bloody Good Secret by Sierra Dean 35. Secret Santa by Sierra Dean 36. Deep Dark Secret by Sierra Dean 37. Keeping Secret by Sierra Dean 38. Grave Secret by Sierra Dean 39. House Rules by Chloe Neill 40. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 41. To Kill A Warlock by H. P . Mallory 42. Armed and Fabulous by Camilla Chafer 43. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (read by Alan Bennett) 44. Bound To Remember by Lola James April 45. Once Bitten by Trina M. Lee 46. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 47. Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble by H. P . Mallory 48. The Art of Desctruction by Stephen Cole (read by Don Warrington) 49. Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse (read by Simon Callow) 50. Annabelle by M. C. Beaton 51. The Mating by Nicky Charles 52. The Keeping by Nicky Charles 53. Bonded by Nicky Charles 54. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 55. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 56. Betrayed by Nicky Charles 57. The Finding by Nicky Charles 58. Water by Terra Harmony 59. Life Class by Pat Barker 60. A Bit of Bite by Cynthia Eden 61. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 62. Trouble in Mudbug by Jana DeLeon 63. Double Crossed by Ally Carter 64. A Job From Hell by Jayde Scott 65. Stage Fright by Elizabeth Wells 66. A Hidden Fire by Elizabeth Hunter 67. In A New York Minute by Eleanor Moran 68. The Perfect Audition by Kate Forster May 69. Branded by Keary Taylor 70. The Westerby Inheritance by M. C. Beaton 71. Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn 72. Single In The City by Michele Gorman 73. The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella 74. The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters by Sierra Dean 75. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico 76. Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper 77. Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico 78. Misfortune Cookie by Michele Gorman 79. Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss 80. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 81. If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch 82. Under The Skin by Michel Faber (Abandoned 23%) 83. Diving Belles by Lucy Wood 84. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams by Jenny Colgan 85. The Marquis Takes A Bride by M. C. Beaton 86. Lady Anne's Deception by M. C. Beaton 87. Heist Society: Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter 88. Skios by Michael Fray June 89. Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates by Kerry Greenwood 90. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch 91. Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood 92. Penelope by M. C. Beaton 93. Moon Dance by J. R. Rain 94. Dark Horse by J. R. Rain 95. The Vampire With The Dragon Tattoo by J. R. Rain 96. The Third Day, The Frost by John Marsden 97. Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood 98. Henrietta by M. C. Beaton 99. The Rising by Kelley Armstrong 100. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 101. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell 102. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 103. Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris 104. Something Borrowed by Richelle Mead 105. Opal Fire by Barbra Annino July 106. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds 107. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 108. The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling 109. Death at Victoria Dock by Kerry Greenwood 110. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier 111. Where Have All The Boys Gone? by Jenny Colgan 112. Newes From The Dead by Mary Hooper 113. Bella Summer Takes A Chance by Michelle Gorman 114. No and Me by Delphine De Vigan 115. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 116. The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James 117. High Tide by Hugh Hastings 118. Our Songbirds by Matt Sewell August 119. Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp 120. Greenery Street by Denis Mackail 121. Lady Into Fox by David Garnett 122. My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding 123. Biting Bad by Chloe Neill 124. Teacher, Teacher by Jack Sheffield 125. Bloodstone by Barbra Annino 126. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 127. Road To Rouen by Ben Hatch 128. Plain Jane by M. C. Beaton 129. The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 130. Gods and Warriors by Michelle Paver 131. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 132. A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr 133. Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Rascal's Revenge by Emma Kennedy 134. Shattered Promises by Jessica Sorensen 135. The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn September 136. Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger 137. The Little Village School by Gervase Phinn 138. Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn 139. Lady Fortescue Steps Out by M. C. Beaton 140. Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan 141. The Wicked Stepmother by M. C. Beaton 142. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 143. Cupcakes at Carringtons by Alexandra Brown (Abandoned - 46%) 144. Murder on the Flying Scotsman by Carola Dunn 145. Fated by Benedict Jacka 146. Pretty Polly by M. C. Beaton 147. United We Spy by Ally Carter 148. The Misunderstanding by Irène Némirovsky 149. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (read by Stephen Fry) 150. Tiger's Eye by Barbra Annino 151. Damsel in Distress by Carola Dunn 152. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham 153. The End of Me by Tara Brown October 154. Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig 155. Dead in the Water by Carola Dunn 156. Mr Knightley's Diary by Amanda Grange 157. Poltergeeks by Sean Cummings 158. Abyss by Tricia Rayburn 159. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (read by Juliet Stevenson) 160. Styx and Stones by Carola Dunn 161. Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean 162. Love Song by Alex Miller 163. Austenland by Shannon Hale November 164. The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna 165. Girl, Stolen by April Henry 166. The Radleys by Matt Haig 167. Miss Tonks Turns to Crime by M. C. Beaton 168. Mrs Budley Falls From Grace by M. C. Beaton 169. Sir Philip's Folly by M. C. Beaton 170. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (read by Lindsay Duncan) 171. Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue by M. C. Beaton 172. Back in Society by M. C. Beaton 173. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson December 174. Hubble Bubble by Jane Lovering 175. Once You Break A Knuckle by D. W. Wilson 176. Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey 177. Crow Stone by Jenni Mills 178. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai 179. Rake's Progress by M. C. Beaton 180. Death Comes To Pemberley by P. D. James 181. Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell 182. Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll 183. Alex, the dog and the inoperable door by Ross Montgomery

Hello Alayne!

My local library has a copy - you could try them to borrow it to read, and if you still want your own copy you can keep scanning the booksellers, or you could try asking a local bookshop to order it for you. Not sure what country you're in, but Amazon UK have copies in stock.

I bought The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared last night as Michelle pointed out the Kindle version was on offer at 20p, and I'd been planning to get it at some point anyway. Started Findings by Kathleen Jamie this morning, and am in love with it already - beautiful writing, here's a quote:

Thanks Devi! I'm so far behind with my reviews but I'm hoping to catch up before the end of the year