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    Poppyshake's Reading Year 2017

    in Past Book Logs

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    I love your blog!  :wub:

     

    Here's to a fantastic, stress-free 2017.  I'm looking forward to lots more meetings with books, :reading: coffee :coffee1:  (or tea, if you must!  :P ) and toast. (Where's the toast emoticon?!  :D  )   

     

    I'm looking forward to following your progress.  You will have a better reading year, I can feel it in my bones!  :D

    Oh .. thanks Janet  :smile2: I trust your bones much more than I do my own so I'm feeling confident now :D 

    Yes, hope we have many, many, meet-ups this year .. I always feel a lot happier and booky inspired afterwards  :hug: Haha .. you're right .. I am a teapot!!  :giggle:

    Wishing you a wonderful year of reading, Kay.  :smile:​ 

    Thanks Chrissy  :hug: .. you too! 

    I hope you have a wonderful year of reading in 2017 :):readingtwo:

    Thanks Gaia  :hug: I think we're all going to have a great reading year this year .. I can feel it in Janet's bones  :D

    Janet's Log - Stardate 2017

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    I meant to post this yesterday but I got tied up with personal stuff.

     

    I met up with Kay and Alan and Claire yesterday.  It was great!  :wub:  We met in Waterstones (where else?!) and spent over three hours in their café !  As ever, the time whizzed by. 

     

    Claire gave my my Christmas present - a book called The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange.  A new author to me - and what a gorgeous cover.   I also had an even gorgeouser Christmassy Kindle case.  I love it - it's so pretty.  :wub:  Claire is so, so clever.  :yes:

     

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    I also bought two books with some of the vouchers I had for Christmas. The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo (although I've known of this book for years, I didn't realise this was part of a trilogy) - the cover of this is very pretty and sparkly!   Fiver Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris.  I've picked this up a few times, and yesterday I picked it up again and one of the Waterstones staff members was telling me how much he'd enjoyed it.  It's set in or near Salisbury in Wiltshire, which is an area I love. 

     

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    What a lovely day we had  :hug:

    Hope you enjoy your books Janet :) xx

    Janet's Log - Stardate 2017

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    Thanks, Kay.  :)  :friends3:

     

    The pace of my reading, and the (nearly) up-to-date-ness of my reviews will never last!  :giggle2:  It's good while it does though! :D

     

    Definitely don't forget to read The Girl Who Saved Christmas - it's lovely!  :wub:

    I've written it on the calendar :lol: .. just to prompt me!  :blush2: 

    I usually start the year off well and then fade but I might actually do it the other way around this year :lol: Good luck Janet! :) 

     

    I can confirm that Janet's Kindle case, as made by Claire, is indeed a thing of beauty as I saw it with my own eyes yesterday :wub: :wub: 

    She's a very clever, super talented, bunny indeed! :yes: (but you won't get her to admit it .. she's far too modest for her own good. She'll just say the sewing machine did it .. while she sat nearby and read a couple of chapters!  :D) 

    Frankie reads 2017

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    :lol: Well, pee is absolutely right, rocker is right if you pronounce rocker a certain way. Like, rock ah!

    I'd love to know how you've been pronouncing pie :D

    Something like car-jalan-peer-arka (is that actually saying ANYTHING in Finnish? Please say it's saying something rude :lol:)

    Sadly the book doesn't seem to be covering the months of the year. (I will edit the earlier post and write down the numbers as they are spelled in Finnish.) 

     

    I've just found the Finnish national Anthem :D

     

    Oi maamme, Suomi, synnyinmaa,   literal translation, line for line: (Oh our country, Finland, native land)

    soi, sana kultainen!                                                                         (plays, the word golden)

    Ei laaksoa, ei kukkulaa,                                                                    (no valley, no hill)

    ei vettä rantaa rakkaampaa,                                                             (no water [or] shore that is dearer)

    kuin kotimaa tää pohjoinen,                                                              (than homeland this northern)

    maa kallis isien!                                                                                 (country precious our fathers)

     

    Same in English:

     

    Oi, mummy swarmin', sinnin' Ma

    Suzanna call Thai-nun

    Ale-axe o' awe, hey cool cool awe

    A wet around a rockin' Pa

    Queen caught 'im at the pool join in

    McAllis easy Inn 

     

    :D Sound pretty accurate, once again :D

    I'm totally going to have a go at this the next time Finland win a Gold medal!  :yahoo:  :23_sing:  :D

    Better than yesterday :yes: But not my normal self! How are you today?  :empathy:

    Glad you're feeling a bit better but hope you'll feel a lot better soon  :hug: I'm doing okay thanks .. bit sore throatish but nothing a gin and ginger ale can't fix :D 

    Poppyshake's Reading Year 2017

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    Well, hello my lovelies .. welcome to my 2017 book blog .. here come the cows :cows: :cows: :cows:

    I've really got to do better this year. I don't think I read ANYTHING from any of my challenge lists last year .. or perhaps just one or two but honestly, I just totally ignored them and acted like I didn't have 1001 unread books on my shelves (slight exaggeration but it feels like that many.) 

    2016 started off well. Because I'd set a fairly low target on Goodreads the year before and exceeded it I thought I'd set a higher one in order to inspire myself and see what I was made of. Turns out I was made of clay and my reading hopes sunk in a tidal wave of indifference (not helped by those nice people at Goodreads who taunted me from April onwards!) This year I'll have more modest reading ambitions (and I'll be laughing in their faces!!! :lol:) 

    I had to go and live with my mum and dad for almost three months at the end of 2016 to help them while mum was recovering from an op and I didn't read a single sentence .. unless you count microwave instructions and medicine information. It drove me almost mad! And many a sleepless night did I spend recounting the times when I could have read and didn't!! I couldn't believe I ever turned down reading to watch Rick Stein's Long Weekends!! :o But there it is .. you don't know what you've got till it's gone! I won't be making that mistake again! 

    Now, because it's January and all thoughts have turned to streamlining and de-cluttering I've had a bit of a cull of the old TBR. It's NOT cheating it's just sensible. It's not that I don't want to read the books that I've taken off, it's just that I don't think I will read them for a while and .. well .. they're oppressing me!  :blush2: The titles are all in the book jar still though so that should provide entertainment for ages .. me running up and down looking for books that are actually in the charity shop!!  :D Because of course I have no system for finding books or knowing where they are. I used to have a vague idea but I've slept since then.

     

    The main thing this year is to enjoy my reading. To basically spend as many hours as possible curled up with a book and a mug of hot chocolate (or iced lemonade in the summer .. if we have one.) I felt very unrelaxed when I was unable to read .. and agitated. Stories are such an escape because frankly, who wants to live in the real world 24/7? .. I don't! It's absolutely appalling but I can get through it with a bit of help from Messrs Dickens and Pratchett and Rowling etc.

     

    So, hope you all have A VERY HAPPY READING YEAR and read some gems  :hug:  I do hope I can do better than last year and keep this blog up to date-ish! I'm not going to promise (or threaten :D) reviews because it might not happen. I might just write a few lines .. cut the waffle .. get to the point .. that sort of thing. Or I might write several very lengthy reviews and ignore the rest! As per usual. 

    Anyway WELCOME ONE AND ALL. Please use all your tactics .. bullying and otherwise .. to encourage me to read stuff from my TBR etc. I deeply apologise if I have removed any books that you are particularly fond of. It's not personal .. it's space .. or the lack thereof!  

    This thread is now officially .. OPEN!  :cows: :cows: :cows: 

    Poppyshake's Reading Year 2017

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    Books bought/acquired in 2017 (2016 Christmas books and books bought with Christmas money included) 

    Progress: 20/27

     

    Fiction: 

    Atwood, Margaret - Hag-seed

    Bunzl, Peter - Cogheart

    Carroll, Emma - Strange Star

    Carroll, Emma - The Letters from the Lighthouse

    Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

    Durrell, Gerald - My Family and Other Animals (from lovely Janet)

    Haig, Matt - The Girl Who Saved Christmas

    Keyes, Marian - The Woman Who Stole My Life

    Kidd, Jess - Himself

    Laurain, Antoine - The President's Hat

    Leonard, M.G. - Beetle Boy

    Ness, Patrick - The Ask and the Answer

    Ness, Patrick - The Knife of Never Letting Go

    Nicholl Morgan, Lorna - Another Little Christmas Murder

    Perry, Sarah - The Essex Serpent

    Pratchett, Terry - The Wee Free Men

    Russell, Karen - St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves (short stories)

    Soucy, Gaetan - Vaudeville!

    Spufford, Francis - Golden Hill

    Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

    Strange, Lucy - The Secret of Nightingale Wood (from lovely Claire)

    Strout, Elizabeth - Olive Kitteridge

     

    Non-Fiction:

    Bryson, Bill - The Road to Little Dribbling

    Dahl, Roald - Love From Boy (letters)

    Esiri, Allie - A Poem For Every Night of the Year .. currently reading 

    Macdonald, Helen - H is for Hawk

    Somerville, Christopher - The January Man

    Stevens, Nell - Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

     

     

    Poppyshake's Reading Year 2017

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    BCF Recommended Reads - Non Fiction

     

    Kylie's Favourite Non-Fiction (progress 3/13)
    Bill Bryson - Down Under
    Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
    Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
    AB Facey - A Fortunate Life
    Tim Flannery - The Explorers
    Tim Flannery - The Birth of Sydney
    Anne Frank - The Diary of Anne Frank
    Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road
    Steven D. Levitt - Freaconomics
    Sylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon
    Martin Toseland - A Steroid Hit the Earth

    Frankie's Favourite Non-Fiction (    progress 3/28)
    Sylvia Beach - Shakespeare and Company
    Constance Briscoe - Ugly
    Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter
    Augusten Burroughs - A Wolf at the Table
    Augusten Burroughs - Dry
    Augusten Burroughs - Magical Thinking
    Augusten Burroughs - Possible Side Effects
    Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors
    Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life
    Peggy Claude-Pierre - The Secret Language of Eating Disorders
    Pamela Druckerson - French Children Don't Throw Food
    Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
    Philip Gonzalez - The Dog Who Rescues Cats
    John Grogan - Marley and Me
    Ronald Hayman - The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
    Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
    Lesley McDowell - Between the Sheets - The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers
    Motley Crue - The Dirt
    Vicki Myron - Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
    Christopher V.V. Parnell - Hell's Prisoner
    Dave Peltzer - A Child Called It
    Flora Rheta Scheiber - Sybil
    Mary Roach - Stiff - The Life of the Human Cadavers
    Ann Rule - The Stranger Beside Me
    Deborah Spungen - And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of her Daughter's Murder
    Danny Wallace - Yes Man
    Tobias Wolff - This Boys Life
    Tuula-Liina Varis - Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka

    Poppyshake's Reading Year 2017

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    BCF Recommended Reads - Fiction

     

    Kylie's Favourite Fiction (progress 24/40)
    Jane Austen - Emma
    Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
    John Banville - The Body of Evidence
    Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
    Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
    Italo Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
    John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things
    Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
    Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
    Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Christo
    Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea
    Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
    Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White
    F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
    Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
    George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
    Joseph Heller - Catch 22
    Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
    Jack Kerouac - On the Road
    Jack Kerouac - The Town and the City
    Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
    Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
    Erich Maria Marquez - All Quiet on the Western Front
    Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
    Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
    George Orwell - Animal Farm
    Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
    Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
    John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
    John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
    Bram Stoker - Dracula
    Hunter.S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
    Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
    Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

    Frankie's Favourite Fiction (progress 35/103)
    Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen

    Ingvar Ambjørnsen - Elling series
    Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen - Persuasion
    Iain Banks - Wasp Factory

    Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

    Linwood Barclay - Too Close to Home
    Robert Bloch - Psycho
    John Boyne - Crippen
    John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
    Poppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse

    Karin Brunk Holmqvist - Pieni potenssipuoti

    Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

    Chelsea Cain - Heartsick
    Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
    Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Agatha Christie - Ten little Niggers
    Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Jeffery Deaver - Lincoln Rhyme series
    Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
    Lucy Dillon - The Secret of Happy Ever After

    Emma Donoghue - Room
    Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel
    Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
    Michel Faber - Under the Skin
    Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
    Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
    Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
    Peter Franzén - Tumman veden päällä

    Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus

    Alex Garland - The Beach

    Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan

    Linda Gillard - Emotional Geology

    William Goldman - The Marathon Man

    John Grogan - Marley and Me
    Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    Matt Haig - The Last Family in England
    Anna-Leena Härkönen - Häräntappoase

    Daniil Harms - Incidences

    Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse series
    Joanne Harris - Gentleman & Players
    Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

    Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked
    Siri Hustvedt - The Summer Without Men
    Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills
    Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip

    Katja Kallio - Kuutamolla

    John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

    Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon

    Stephen King - Cujo

    Stephen King - Green Mile

    Stephen King - The Stand

    Sophie Kinsella - Twenties Girl
    Andrey Kurkov - Death & the Penguin
    Tuomas Kyrö - Mielensäpahoittaja

    Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
    Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island

    Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby

    Jeff Lindsay - Dexter
    Vaino Linna - The Unknown Soldier
    Jennifer Lynch - The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (and you need to watch the TV show!!)

    Vladimar Nabokov - Lolita

    Irene Nemirovsky - The Ball

    Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

    David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
    Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
    Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret of Bees

    L.M. Montgomery - The Blue Castle
    Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen
    Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
    Sofi Oksanen - Purge
    Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
    Inna Patrakova - Naapurit

    Dan Rhodes - Gold
    Anne Rice - Interview with a Vampire

    Kauko Röyhkä - Kaksi aurinkoa

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

    Pirkko Saisio - Punainen erokirja

    Sapphire - Push!

    Erich Segal - Love Story
    Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
    Anita Shreve - The Weight of Water
    Linda Lay Shuler - She Who Remembers

    Nevil Shute - Pied Piper

    Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

    Karin Slaughter - Grant County + Will Trent series
    Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
    Garth Stein - The Art of Racing in the Rain
    John Steinbeck - The Wayward Bus

    Kathryn Stockett - The Help

    Bram Stoker - Dracula
    Patrick Suskind - Perfume
    Vikas Swarup - Q&A
    Donna Tartt - The Secret History
    Jari Tervo - Pyhiesi yhteyteen

    Voltaire - Candide
    Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
    Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
    Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
    Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
    Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

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    Books read from the 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die by Peter Boxall - 2006 
    Progress so far: 147/1001

    987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

    985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
    971. Candide - Voltaire
    959. Evelina – Fanny Burney
    940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
    936. Emma - Jane Austen
    933. Persuasion - Jane Austen
    932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
    931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
    916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
    913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
    909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
    905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
    904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
    902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
    900. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
    898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
    897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
    896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    892. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
    891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
    890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
    886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
    883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
    876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
    871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
    869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
    868. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
    865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
    863. Little Woman - Louisa May Alcott
    859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
    854. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
    853. Middlemarch - George Eliot
    846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
    840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
    825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

    821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
    820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
    808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
    805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
    804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    803. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
    797. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

    794. Dracula - Bram Stoker
    790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
    789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
    776. The Ambassadors – Henry James

    740. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
    699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    698. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
    695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
    686. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
    680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
    675. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
    671. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

    656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
    650. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
    619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
    611. The Years - Virginia Woolf
    610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
    608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
    603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
    601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
    596. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

    584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
    566. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
    564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
    563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
    561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

    547. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

    542. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
    529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
    526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
    521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
    495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
    494. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tokien
    484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
    481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
    478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
    474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
    467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
    465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
    459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
    457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
    456. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
    450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
    446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
    445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
    433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
    431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
    411. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

    399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
    394. A Kestrel For a Knave - Barry Hines

    367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
    365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
    354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
    352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
    305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
    300. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino

    278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin review
    275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
    274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
    272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
    260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis

    238. The Cider House Rules - John Irving
    237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
    236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
    222. Beloved - Toni Morrison

    196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
    172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
    170. Regeneration - Pat Barker

    147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
    143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
    133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
    129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
    120. Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster

    117. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

    112. The Information – Martin Amis
    92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
    90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
    89. The Hours - Michael Cunningham

    86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
    69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
    54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
    52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
    49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    38. Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi

    33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
    28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
    26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
    19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
    15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
    13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
    9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
    6. The Sea – John Banville
    3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
    1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

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    WISHLIST


     


    Fiction:


    Bradley, Alan - Speaking From Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce #5)


    Bradley, Alan - The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce #6)


    Bradley, Alan - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7)


    Bradley, Alan - Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce #8)


    Bukowski, Charles - Ham on Rye


    Comyns, Barbara - Who Was Changed and Who was Dead


    Haig, Matt - To Be a Cat


    Hartley, L.P. - The Go-Between


    Laurain, Antoine - The President's Hat 


    Meloy, Maile - The Apothecary


    Mitchell, Gladys - Watson's Choice


    Novik, Naomi - Uprooted


    O'Loughlin, Ann - The Ballroom Cafe


    Pierre, DBC - Vernon God Little


    Robertson, James - To Be Continued


    Rowley, Steven - Lily and the Octopus


    Taylor, Andrew - Fireside Gothic


     


    Non Fiction:


    Gordon, Edmund - The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography


    Hodgman, George - Bettyville


    Rakoff, Joanna - My Salinger Year


    Shaw, Sarah - Portland Place


    Simon, Carly - Boys in the Trees


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    Poppyshake's English Counties Challenge (the most famous books associated with each English county)

     

    For more info visit the English Counties Challenge forum

     

    Progress 30/48 (but some of those read will be re-read)

     

    Bedfordshire: My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates
    Berkshire: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
    Bristol: The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young
    Buckinghamshire: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
    Cambridgeshire: The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers
    Cheshire: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
    City of London: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    Cornwall: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (on shelf)
    Cumbria: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
    Derbyshire: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
    Devon: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
    Dorset: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    County Durham: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
    East Riding of Yorkshire: South Riding by Winifred Holtby
    East Sussex: Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne
    Essex: The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
    Gloucestershire: Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
    Greater London: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Greater Manchester: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
    Hampshire: Watership Down by Richard Adams

    Herefordshire: On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
    Hertfordshire: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    Isle of Wight: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
    Kent: The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates
    Lancashire: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
    Leicestershire: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
    Lincolnshire: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
    Merseyside: An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
    Norfolk: The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
    North Yorkshire: Dracula by Bram Stoker
    Northamptonshire: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
    Northumberland: The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin
    Nottinghamshire: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
    Oxfordshire: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
    Rutland: Set In Stone by Robert Goddard
    Shropshire: Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse
    Somerset: Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
    South Yorkshire: A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry Hines
    Staffordshire: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
    Suffolk: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
    Surrey: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
    Tyne and Wear: Another World by Pat Barker
    Warwickshire: Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
    West Midlands: Middlemarch by George Eliot
    West Sussex: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
    West Yorkshire: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    Wiltshire: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
    Worcestershire: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

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    The Shameful Reckoning of My Books TBR

    Progress 5/139   :unsure:

     

    Link to Books Bought/Acquired in 2017

     

    Fiction:

    Abercrombie, Joe - Red Country

    Abercrombie, Joe - The Heroes

    Akunin, Boris - Murder on the Leviathan

    Akunin, Boris - The Death of Achilles

    Almond, David - The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

    Anderson, James - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy
    Atkinson, Kate - Started Early Took My Dog
    Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
    Barker, Pat - The Ghost Road

    Barker, Pat - Toby's Room

    Barnes, Julian - The Noise of Time

    Beauman, Ned - The Teleportation Accident

    Boyd, William - Any Human Heart

    Bradley, Alan - A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce 3)

    Bradley, Alan - I Am Half Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce 4)

    Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita
    Bullington, Jesse - The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

    Burnett, Frances Hodgson - A Little Princess

    Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

    Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda

    Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus
    Carter, Angela - The Passion of New Eve

    Christie, Agatha - At Bertram's Hotel
    Christie, Agatha - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

    Christie, Agatha - Death on the Nile
    Christie, Agatha - Dumb Witness

    Christie, Agatha - Five Little Pigs

    Christie, Agatha - Hercule Poirot's Christmas

    Christie, Agatha - The Murder at the Vicarage

    Christie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Christie, Agatha - Third Girl

    Collis, John Stewart - The Worm Forgives the Plough

    Connolly, Cressida - My Former Heart

    Connolly, John - Nocturnes

    Dennys, Joyce - Henrietta Sees it Through (Bloomsbury)

    Drabble, Margaret - The Red Queen

    Du Maurier, Daphne - The House on the Strand
    Du Maurier, Daphne - Jamaica Inn

    Eugenides, Jeffrey - My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead
    Ewing, Barbara - The Circus of Ghosts (Mesmerist #2)

    Fforde, Jasper - The Big Over Easy
    Fforde, Jasper - The Fourth Bear

    Fforde, Jasper - The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next #7)
    Fitzgerald, F.Scott - The Beautiful and the Damned
    Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night

    French, Dawn - A Tiny Bit Marvellous

    Gardner, Sally - The Red Necklace
    Gibbons, Stella - Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

    Gogol, Nikolai - The Collected Tales
    Gold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil  :lurker: 

    Goss, Theodora - The Thorn and The Blossom

    Greene, Graham - Brighton Rock

    Haddon, Mark - The Red House

    Haig, Matt - The Last Family in England

    Hall, Louisa - The Carriage House

    Harkaway, Nick - Angelmaker
    Hay, Sheridan - The Secret of Lost Things
    Hines, Barry - A Kestrel For a Knave

    Hoare, Philip - Leviathan
    Hornby, Nick - Juliet Naked

    Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Hustvedt, Siri - What I Loved
    Install, Deborah - A Robot in the Garden

    Irving, John - The Cider House Rules

    Irving, John - The World According to Garp
    James, Marlon - A Brief History of Seven Killings

    Jonasson, Jonas - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

    Joyce, James - Dubliners

    Kingsolver, Barbara - The Lacuna

    Lakhous, Amara - Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

    Lawrence, DH - Women in Love

    Le Carre, John - The Spy who Came in from the Cold

    Lindgren, Astrid - Emil and the Great Escape

    Lindgren, Astrid - Emil and the Sneaky Rat

    Lindgren, Astrid - Emil's Clever Pig

    Lindgren, Astrid - Karlson Flies Again

    Lindgren, Astrid - Karlson on the Roof

    Lindgren, Astrid - Lotta Makes a Mess

    Lindgren, Astrid - Lotta Says No

    Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Goes Abroad

    Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi in the South Seas

    Mantel, Hilary - Fludd

    Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - The Autumn of the Patriarch

    Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - No One Writes to the Colonel

    Maugham, Somerset - Ashenden

    Maugham, Somerset - The Magician

    Maugham, Somerset - The Narrow Corner

    Maugham, Somerset - Up at the Villa
    McGregor, Jon - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

    Morton, Kate - The House at Riverton
    Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince

    Nesbit, E - The Railway Children

    Nesbo, Jo - The Redbreast

    North, Claire - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    O'Flynn, Catherine - The News Where You Are

    Oksanen, Sofi - Purge
    Orwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    Pratchett, Terry and Baxter, Stephen - The Long Earth

    Radcliffe, Ann - The Mysteries of Udolpho
    Ransome, Arthur - Winter Holiday

    Rodriguez, Deborah - The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

    Sewell, Anna - Black Beauty

    Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath

    Steinbeck, John - The Pearl

    Steinbeck, John - The Red Pony

    Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend

    Taylor, G.P. - Mariah Mundi & the Ghost Diamonds

    Toksvig, Sandi - Valentine Grey
    Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
    Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Udall, Brady - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

    Vickers, Sally - Miss Garnet's Angel

    Whipple, Dorothy - Someone at a Distance (Persephone)

    Williams, Nigel - East of Wimbledon

    Williams, Nigel - They Came From SW19

    Winterson, Jeanette - Sexing the Cherry

    Winton, Tim - Cloudstreet

    Wodehouse, PG - Right Ho, Jeeves

     

    Non Fiction:

    Bryson, Bill - Down Under

    De Waal, Edmund - The Hare with Amber Eyes

    Fitzgerald, Penelope - So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

    Grove, Valerie - Laurie Lee: The Well Loved Stranger

    Hepworth, David - 1971 Never a Dull Moment 

    Hodgson, Vere - Few Eggs and No Oranges (Persephone)

    Last, Nella - Nella Last's Peace

    Light, Alan - What Happened Miss Simone?

    Manguel, Alberto - A Reading Diary

    McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
    McCourt, Frank - Tis

    McGrath, Alistair E - CS Lewis: A Life

    Ozma, Alice - The Reading Promise

    Pratt, Jean-Lucey (Edited by Simon Garfield) - A Notable Woman

    White, Florence - Good Things in England (Persephone)

    Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 1

    Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 2

    Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 3

    Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 4

    Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 5

    Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 6 

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    Books Read 2009

    Books Read 2010

    Books Read 2011

    Books Read 2012

    Books Read 2013

    Books Read 2014

    Books Read 2015

    Books Read 2016

     

    Total Books Read 2009 ... 49 - incomplete list (39 fiction, 9 non-fiction & 1 audio } male authors: 24 .. female authors: 25)

    Total books read in 2010 ... 141 (94 fiction, 9 non-fiction, 4 short stories, 2 plays & 32 audio } male authors: 75 .. female authors: 66)
    Total books read in 2011 ... 109 (71 fiction, 26 non-fiction, 1 short story & 11 audio } male authors: 54 .. female authors: 55)
    Total books read in 2012 ... 89 (50 fiction, 27 non-fiction, 3 short stories, 1 poem & 8 audio } male authors: 48 .. female authors: 41)

    Total books read in 2013 ... 109 (67 fiction, 21 non-fiction, 5 short stories, 1 poem, 1 essay, 1 collection & 13 audio } male authors: 57 .. female authors: 51 plus all those in the short story collection)

    Total Books Read 2014 ... 73 (47 fiction, 15 non-fiction, 6 short stories & 5 audio } male authors: 36, female authors: 37)

    Total Books Read 2015 ... 113 (83 fiction, 14 non-fiction, 2 short stories & 14 audio } )

    Total Books Read 2016 ... 91 (57 fiction,15 non-fiction, 2 poetry books & 17 audio } )

     

    Quicklinks

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    1001 Challenge

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    Conquering Mount Virginia

    The English Counties Challenge

    BCF Recommended Reads - Fiction

    BCF Recommended Reads - Non-Fiction

    Poached Quotes on Toast

    Poppyshake's 130 Books You Must Read Before Teatime

     

    I think I'll go back to scoring again this year as there's a definite difference between 3/5 and 4/5 on the liking it scale :)   

    5/5: Loved it!

    4/5: Liked it enormously .. would have been a 'loved it' but for .... :lol: 

    3/5: Liked it!

    2/5: Not really my cup of tea but, you know, tolerable!

    1/5 Hated it .. probably abandoned it or SHOULD HAVE!!!

    Again, I didn't abandon any books last year. There was one that I should have and would have abandoned only I wanted to keep on with the series so I had to plug on. Was annoyed at it for taking up precious minutes .. not to say hours of reading time  :censored: 

     

    January 2017

    1. Five Give Up the Booze - Bruno Vincent 3/5 review

    2. St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves - Karen Russell 4/5 review

    3. The Evenings - Gerard Reve 4/5 review

    4. Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl - Wendy Jones 3/5 review

    5. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz 3/5 review

    6. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell 5/5 review

    7. Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain - Barney Norris (audio) 4/5 review

    8. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout 5/5 review

    9. No Time Like the Past (The Chronicles of St Mary's #5) - Jodi Taylor (audio) 4/5 review

    10. Cogheart - Peter Bunzl 4/5 review

    February 2017

    11. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson 5/5 review

    12. A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines 5/5 review

    13. Hag-seed - Margaret Atwood 4/5 review

    14. The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman 5/5 review

    15. The Secret of Nightingale Wood - Lucy Strange 4/5 review

    16. The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888-1912 (Vol One) - Edited by Nigel Nicolson 4/5 review

    17. Strange Star - Emma Carroll 4/5 review

    March 2017

    18. The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain - Christopher Somerville 4/5 review

    19. The Muse - Jessie Burton (audio) 4/5

    20. Another Little Christmas Murder - Lorna Nicholl Morgan

    21. The President's Hat - Antoine Laurain

    22. So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne 5/5

    23. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (audio, short story) 4/5

    24. Vaudeville - Gaetan Soucy 4/5

    April 2017

    24. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 4/5

    25. The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge (audio) 4/5

    26. Sea (The Huntress #1) - Sarah Driver 4/5

    27. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry 5/5

    28. The Radleys - Matt Haig 4/5

    29. Rock Stars Stole My Life - Mark Ellen 4/5

    30. Beetle Boy (The Battle of the Beetles #1) - M.G. Leonard 4/5

    May 2017

    31. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett 5/5

    32. The Cider House Rules - John Irving 4/5

    33. Letters from the Lighthouse - Emma Carroll 4/5

    34. The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio) 3/5

    35. Himself - Jess Kidd 5/5

    36. The Stolen Child - Lisa Carey 4/5

    37. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr 5/5

    38. Island Summers: Memories of a Norwegian Childhood - Tilly Culme-Seymour 4/5

    39. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells 3/5

    40. A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #1) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio - short story) 4/5

    41. The Red-Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio - short story) 4/5

    42. H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald 5/5

    June 2017

    43. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells 4/5

    44. Mrs Zant and the Ghost - Wilkie Collins (audio - short story) 3/5

    45. A Rare Book of Cunning Device (Peter Grant short story) - Ben Aaronovitch (audio exclusive) 4/5

    46. Bleaker House - Nell Stevens 5/5

    47. Who Let the Gods Out? - Maz Evans 4/5

    48. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty 5/5

    49. Around Britain by Cake - Caroline Taggart 4/5

    50. Golden Hill - Francis Spufford 4/5

    51. The Secrets of Wishtide - Kate Saunders 2/5

    July 2017

    52. The Legend of Podkin One-Ear - Kieran Larwood 4/5

    53. The Movie Doctors - Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo 4/5

    54. The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1) - Jonathan Stroud (audio) 5/5

    55. Talking to Addison - Jenny Colgan 3/5

    56. The Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #2) - Jonathan Stroud (audio) 5/5

    57. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (The Chronicles of St Mary's #6) - Jodi Taylor(audio) 4/5

    58. Down Under - Bill Bryson 4/5

    59. Beetle Queen (The Battle of the Beetles #2) - M.G. Leonard

    60. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #3) - Jonathan Stroud (audio) 5/5

    61. The Goshawk - T.H. White 4/5

    August 2017

    62. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (audio) 5/5

    63. The Woman Who Stole My Life - Marian Keyes 2/5 (and that's generous!)

    64. True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean - David Almond 3/5

    65. An Almond for a Parrot - Wray Delaney 4/5

    September 2017

    66. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson 4/5

    67. How Not to be a Boy - Robert Webb (audio) 5/5

    October 2017

    68. How To Be Champion - Sarah Millican (audio) 4/5

    69. The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell 4/5

    November 2017

    70. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (audio) 5/5 (re-listen)

    71. The Princess Bride - William Goldman 4/5

    72. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello 4/5

    73. The Secrets of Gaslight Lane (The Gower Street Detective #4) - M.R.C. Kasasian 3/5

    74. The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (Burford Family #1) - James Anderson 3/5

    75. La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1) - Philip Pullman 4/5

    76. The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories and Recipes for Midwinter - Nigel Slater 5/5

    December 2017

    77. Dragon's Green (Worldquake Sequence #1) - Scarlett Thomas 4/5

    78. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (audio) 5/5 (re-listen)

    79. The Girl Who Saved Christmas (Christmas #2) - Matt Haig 4/5

    80. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1) - Jessica Townsend (audio) 4/5

    81. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa 5/5

    82. Thin Air - Michelle Paver 4/5

    83. Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #1) - Michelle Paver 4/5

    84. Mr Dickens and His Carol - Samantha Silva 3/5

    85. The Wizards of Once (The Wizards of Once #1) - Cressida Cowell (audio) 4/5

    86. Spirit Walker (The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #2) - Michelle Paver

    87. Father Christmas and Me (Christmas #3) - Matt Haig

    88. The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan 3/5

    89. Dark Matter - Michelle Paver 4/5

    90. A Poem For Every Night of the Year - Edited by Allie Esiri 4/5

    Ian's reading 2017

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    Happy Reading in 2017 Ian  :hug: As much as it's important to set up a reading log, it's much more important to read so you're getting your priorities right .. hope you're enjoying The City of Mirrors and that it's a good closing book for the trilogy.  Very brave to start the year with a 600 pager! I've gone with Five Give Up the Booze!! Ease myself in  :lol: 

    Janet's Log - Stardate 2017

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    Wishing you a very Merry Reading Year Janet!  :D  :hug: You've read a lot of books already and have written reviews and everything!! I'm super impressed :yes: 

    Glad you enjoyed The Girl Who Saved Christmas  :) I'm like Claire, I've left it too late to read it and so will make a note to remember it in December (unless I come over all Christmassy before then :lol:) Glad you liked Grief is the Thing with Feathers too, I wasn't sure if you would ..  I've read a mix of reviews for it. Loving all of your reviews  :smile: 

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    Happy reading in 2017 Little Pixie  :hug: Having looked at your lists I suddenly feel so much better about my TBR :lol:  But then you read twice as many books as I do so you will chew through yours a lot quicker. Good luck! :) 

    Alex's Reading - 2017

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    Happy Reading in 2017 Alex, hope it's an enjoyable reading year for you :hug:  Don't stress too much about the TBR.

    I highly recommend Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell .. fab book but it is huge so I can totally understand why people might be reluctant. Hope you give it a go this year and love it! You'll know pretty soon whether it's for you or not (though give it a good few chapters .. it does take a little while to get into the swing of it :smile: ) Good luck!!   

    Frankie reads 2017

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    Lord!! Is that the right pronunciation for the pie? :lol: Not how I was saying it at all  :blush2: 

    Does the book cover the months of the year? .. be interesting to see how they are spelled and of course pronounced. I have learnt something today already :D Think I might need to lie down now and take it easy for the rest of the day :lol: Brain is at capacity!

    Hope you are feeling better lovely  :hug:

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