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Some great books on the list Lopeanha....and I love your bookshelves I wish mine were so tidy
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I have and have read The Watsons it was an unfinished novel but finished by a distant relative, it was a long time ago but I think it ran along similar lines to Pride and Prejudice....not sure I would recommend it though as it was a long time ago. Good luck in the Austen challenge though.
I also bought Death comes to Pemberley with some vouchers if you get there before me I would love to read you review.
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I hope you enjoy it, pickle, one of my top books from the last year. The whole trilogy is super.
I finished it last night and loved it, went straight away to get the second part and the sensibly realised it was almost midnight and another night of poor sleep means I will save it for another day.
I started reading Lara Adrians - Deeper than midnight this morning it was in the kindle sale otherwise I might have left it for a bit longer.
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Started the Knife of never Letting Go - Patrick Ness this morning one of my many kindle sale downloads
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I loved it brilliant start to the series, shame its on 3 parts
Michelle you definitely don't need to have read the originals but they are wprth a read, 9 I know you like audio books the bbc has done some brilliant adaptations I have a few which I listen to in bed)
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woo hoo the first book of the year is done and dusted
1. The Hidden World (The Remarkable adventures of Tom Scatterhorn 2) - Henry Chancellor.
Tom is back at the Scatterhorn Museum, looking forward to spending some time there while his parents are away on one of their adventures. But an unexpected visitor called Pearl Smoot throws everything into disarray when she arrives with an incredible story. She says Tom's old enemy, Don Gervase Askary, has taken her father and brother - and what's more, she claims he has Tom's parents too. Together Tom and Pearl set out on a perilous journey to rescue their families - a journey that will take them in and out of time, to exotic foreign lands, and finally into the secret hidden world of Scarazand, stronghold of the terrifying Don Gervase himself
I really enjoyed this book its the second part of a series of adventures featuring Tom Scatterhorn who inherits the Scatterhorn museum a Victorian style museum filled with diaorama' s of stuffed animals and other memorobilia. In this story Tom encounters old friends and enemies. I encoutered the first book in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford in book form but picked this one up in the kindle sale..
One down many to go for 2012 I hope
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My first read was The Hidden World (The Remarkable adventures of Tom Scatterhorn 2) - Henry Chancellor not sure whats going to be next will have a look at all the ones I have downloaded recently
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Yay the New Year is here and its time to start a new list for 2012.
So I have a few books on my Kindle to start the new year with not strictly speaking a TBR pile as I don't really have one but things I have been picking up in the sale on amazon.
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read somewhere that there will be a new Jo Nesbo out this year. Happy days
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260??!!
How many hours a day do you read? Do you work? Have children/pets?
I can't imagine how much time I world have to set aside to read 260 books in only 365 days! (Leap year in 2012 pickle so you should be able to get that total up next year :-))
Ha ha ha yeah I work full time and have 2 guinea pigs (ok they don't take up to much of my time) But and its a big but I live on my own so in an evening if I feel like it I can read as soon as I get home and at the weekend you might find me having an afternoon snooze
I will try and up the number next year with that extra day
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Karen I love the cat looks very realistic and I am glad you are enjoying your art classes, I always think drawing painting like music and literature are essentials to life.
Have spent a few days in the studio this week as I have been on leave so I managed to get my latest picture finished.
Its called the gate in the woods, although I have done a bit more to it on the top since I took this picture.
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260 - Terry Pratchett - Snuff
Yay I did it, I finished my 260'th book of the year this morning and it was very good, if you are a fan of Sam Vimes then this is a perfect continuation of his story he gets angrier and angrier I have found since he first appeared in Guards Guards?? (first one I think) the humour is still there but its less slap stick now I think and nore insightful, still love em though.
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Stop it, you two! I already have so many books to read that I probably don't need to add any to my list for the next decade - and here you are making me all nostalgic for books I have loved!
I loved the Belgariad when I was younger, although I'm not sure whether I still have the books, and had forgotten all about The Mirror of her Dreams/A Man rides through which I know I still have. I tried to reread The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay a couple of years ago, but again couldn't really get into the first book.
Maybe 2012 is the year I need to make an effort to get back into a genre I enjoyed so much for so many years.
I know what you mean I occasionally delve into the fantasy genre but never with as much enthusiasm as I used to not even sure where to start anymore maybe I will make more of an effort in the Ny too.
I remember being so far ahead of the Mallorean when it came out I waited for ages for the third book couldn't afford the hardback so got one of the first bigger paper backs
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before I forget to update this and the new yearrtoles around I had better make sure my list is up to date.
253 - Blood Dreams - Kay Hooper
254 - Hatsept Heat - Vampire Council of Ethics - T J Michaels
255 - Vampire Breed (Kiera Hudson book 4) - Tim O Rourke
256 - Seratis Flame - TJ Michaels
257 - Fatal Embrace - Aris Whittier
258 - A Job from Hell - Jayde Scott
259 - Serpents Kiss - Thea Harrison
most of these are second and third books in a series although there are a couple of others which are books I downloaded for free on my kindle Fatal Embrace for example which promised more than it delivered I have to say, thought it would be more of a thriller but I have read better by Linda Howard or Nora Roberts. a job from Hell which was a bit of a dissapointment it seemed to be a much better write up than it actually was luckily it was free or at least very cheap. Hatsept Heat was the weakest of the three books so far though.
right thats it I think although I may finish one the books by the side of my bed before the end of the year, I am pretty sure I have another few which I shoud have added to this list and I re-read a few books too when I was to poor to buy any new ones.
actually I am going to make a real effort to read it to take it up to 260 before then end of the year.
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Like Ooshie I read them all many years ago when I was a teenager and liked them, though in hindsight I can see how they are distasteful to read with scenes like that. However I haven't been tempted to read the latest installment I have to admit. Though one of his books which is a much darker but more traditional fantasy is The Mirror of her Dreams and A Man rides Through which are good and I have re-read them.
Go on re-read the Belgariad, I am tempted too sometimes especially as some one on here was reading them for the first time and brought me back to them very nostalgically
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Am about to hit the amazon sales after finally having been paid I can download some of those books which have been tempting me, In the mean time I am still reading Snuff - Terry Pratchett
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Happy New Year reading from me too, I am not sure whats on my list for the first read, it might be that Snuff by Terry Pratchett continues into the NY
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Reading a bit more of Terry Pratchett's snuff really enjoying it
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Popped into Waterstones today to spend my vouchers I got from my sister for Christmas, so I bought Death comes to pemberley - P D James and Snuff - Terry Pratchett not a bad haul but I have to say I was dissapointed with the sales in Waterstones nothing really sprang out at me that I hadn't already gotten and not being a big fan of the celebrity biography not much stood out. I am overall dissapointed in the new pricing of books I resent paying nearly £8 for a paperback when I can get it on Amazon for about £4.50 and even less for my kindle. Still these were good buys and I will be reading them over the next few days.
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Cheese and pickle sandwich
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I decided to treat myself, so downloaded and started Tempest's Legacy by Nicole Peeler
Is that the 3rd or 4th one in the series? I really like it.
Gonna blame Charm for getting me into T J Michaels council of Ethics series Serati's Flame is book 2 dam those sexy gorgeous vampires.... lol
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My warranty still has a ways to go but I have to say I have found the customer sevice for the kindle excellent, when I enquired via email about buying a kindle for my brother who lives in Switzerland because of different book licensing laws, they actually rang me to explain the difference rather than just sending me a standard email reply.
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Hola Roy, Que tal?
Hope you enjoy it on here and your English is marvellous I know I struggle to read in a foreign language, and it is easier with books you are familiar with but persevere and it will get there.
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Angela Carters - The Magic Toyshop one of my favourites of her books
Vodkafan's 2012 Reading List and Genre Challenge
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What about travel books both fictional and non fiction.