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Finished Blue Bloods and started Little women, this time I will read the whole thing!

Good luck with your reading! I hope you have great year :-)

Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz Synopsis: Schuyler Van Alen is confused about what is happening to her. Her veins are starting to turn blue, and she's starting to crave raw meat. Soon, her world is thrust into an intricate maze of secret societies and bitter intrigue. Schuyler has never been a part of the trendy crowd at her prestigious New York private school. Now, all of a sudden, Jack Force, the most popular guy in school, is showing an interest in her. And when one of the popular girls is found dead, Schuyler and Jack are determined to get to the bottom of it. Schuyler wants to find out the secrets of the mysterious Blue Bloods. But is she putting herself in danger? Melissa de la Cruz's vampire mythology, set against the glitzy backdrop of New York City, is a juicy and intoxicating read. Review: Yet another book about vampires. This one has a whole new take on how they live and work. I'm not going to spoil it by telling just how but for me it felt like, sure why not at least they don't sparkle. No wait they kind of do, but not really. The characters were okay, but nothing special and not very deep. The story kept a comfortable pace and I did find it interesting. However it was very Gossip girl meets Twilight and I feel a bit sad to say that I might be getting to old for this. I have read that the second book Masquerade is much better so I might give it a shot. On the whole I think that there is a whole lot better YA novles out there. I give it: 2,5/5

The man who smiled (Mannen som log) by Henning Mankell Synopsis: In this riveting Henning Mankell thriller, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself in a deep personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. After almost a year of sick leave, he hits rock bottom and resolves to quit the police force for good. Against his better judgment Wallander stays on the force when unforeseen circumstances compel him to investigate the murder of a friend. While working closely with Ann-Britt Hoglund, the department’s first female detective, he stumbles on a horrific world where human body parts are traded like stock, and just as he comes close to uncovering the truth, the same shadowy threats responsible for the murders close in on Wallander himself. Review: This is the forth book in the Wallander series. I've read the first two but not the third one. Although these can be read as individual books I did feel that I had missed out. Mostly because as the synopsis says Wallander is very troubled in the book due to events that occurred in the former one. Nonetheless I did really like this one. It takes place mostly in and around Ystad which is always fun to read. The book keeps up a good pace and never gets boring. You do kind of figure out who did it pretty early in the book I feel but Mankell still manage to keep the suspense up and I was not disappointed by the ending. I also feel like he always manage to write well-rounded characters that you can relate to. I read this book in swedish but I've heard nothing but good things about the english translations. I give it: 3,5/5

I've absolutely learned my lesson. Now I only lend books to my closest friends whom I see on a regular basis. This way I can just take em back if I feel it is necessary

First of all welcome back! I've only been here for about a year and it's the most warm, kind and funny place on the Internet. You must read the way of kings, it's absolutely amazing! The same goes for the name of the wind, I'm dying to read the sequel Wise Mans Fear that will be out in March! How do you like The Hunger Games? I found it to be very addicting.

Oh the ever lasting problem with the growing TBR list. You are not alone, there are simply to many books that need to be read. Just kidding, there can never be to many books. Do you like the kindle? I've been thinking about getting one but can't afford one at the moment. Are the books much cheaper when you but them for kindle?? I hope you enjoy The girl who kicked the hornets nest, I loved it and thought it was a great ending to the series.

I must say I am a bit jealous that you have all the wonderful Harry Potter books left. They were such an important part of my teenage years and I don't regret reading them for anything. But a tiny part of me wishes that I had something so wonderful left to read. I do hope you enjoy them and wish you happy reading!

Cool books Sara, I've been wanting to get my hands on Uglies myself and it sounds like a pretty good read! I've also been wanting to read something from Lars GW Persson for a while, just because he seems to be such an interesting person. He always looks so tired! Not sure but he kind of reminds me of Henning Mankells character Wallander for some reason. Have you read any of his other books and liked them?

I am a bit annoyed since she claims she doesn't have it. She also got my copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac which I've read but still would like to have the copy in my book shelf. Thank you both I'm looking forward to reading some Rory books! I've been a fan of the show since it first aired. It really helped my passion for books and food! Those girls sure eat a lot. I've been thinking about reading Little women next but I saw that they have Everything Is Illuminated at the libraray so I think I'll try and read both ;-)

You are smart to go with the basic colors, they will hopefully never go out of stock. :-) It was the sparkles that got me, otherwise I was looking at the black ones. That is so great that she has started to read. My mom read a bit too but she never likes my suggestions. I gave he the time travlers wife for her birthday but she found it to complicated with all the jumps back and forward in time. I haven't read it my self but it sounds great. I may steal it back if she decides to give up on it. :-p It sounds like the two of you will have a great year of reading!!

I just got another Billy as well, the gray one that kind of sparkles on the edges if you look closely. Now, I only have two of them but I'm expecting many more in the future. The gray one was on sale though so I'm a bit worried that they won't make them anymore. I guess I could mix them with black or white once. Very impressive book collection Kylie, one can only dream! ;-)

Almost done with the Man who smiled and can't decide what's next!

Thank you! I read A Confederacy of Dunces several years ago and remember really liking it I'm kind of mad about it because I lent it to a friend and never got it back I will check if my library had got everything is illuminated and join in if I can!

I've decided to try out the Rory Book List challenge. This will take time since I'm not really planning on buying a lot of books this year but there is always the library :-) Blue is for books I have in my book shelf TBR I've crossed out the once I already read. Rorys Booklist 1.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 2.Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3.The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 4. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 5. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 7. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 8. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 9. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 10. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 11. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 12. Atonement by Ian McEwan 13. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 14. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 15. Babe by Dick King-Smith 16. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 17. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 18. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 19. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 20. Beloved by Toni Morrison 21. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 22. The Bhagava Gita 23. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 24. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 25. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 26. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 27. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 28. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 29. Candide by Voltaire 30. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 31. Carrie by Stephen King 32. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 33. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 34. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 35. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman 36. Christine by Stephen King 37. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 38. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 39. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 40. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty 41. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honor'e de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. he Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quijote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves 81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford 111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (TBR) 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Gingsburg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante 141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront� 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara 209. E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 210. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A 211. Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 212. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski 213. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 214. Old School by Tobias Wolff 215. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 216. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 217. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 218. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 219. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 220. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 221. Othello by Shakespeare 222. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 223. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 224. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson (TBR) 225. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 226. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 227. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 228. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 229. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 230. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 231. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 232. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 233. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 234. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 235. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 236. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind 237. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 238. Property by Valerie Martin 239. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 240. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 241. Quattrocento by James Mckean 242. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 243. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 244. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 245. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 246. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 247. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 249. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 250. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 251. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) 252. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 253. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 254. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert 255. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 256. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 257. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 258. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 259. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 260. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 263. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 264. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 265. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 266. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 267. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 268. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 269. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 270. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 271. Selected Hotels of Europe 272. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 273. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 274. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 275. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 276. Sexus by Henry Miller 277. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 278. Shane by Jack Shaefer 279. The Shining by Stephen King 280. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 281. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 282. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 283. Small Island by Andrea Levy 284. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 285. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 286. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 287. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 288. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 289. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 290. Songbook by Nick Hornby 291. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 292. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 293. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 294. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 295. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 296. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 297. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 298. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 299. Stuart Little by E. B. White 300. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 301. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 302. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 303. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 304. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 305. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 306. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 307. Time and Again by Jack Finney 308. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 309. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 310. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 311. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 312. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 313. The Trial by Franz Kafka 314. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 315. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 316. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 317. Ulysses by James Joyce 318. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath (TBR) 319. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (TBR) 320. Unless by Carol Shields 321. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 322. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 323. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 324. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 325. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 326. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 327. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 328. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten 329. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 330. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 331. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 332. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 333. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 334. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson 335. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 336. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront� 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 340. 1984 by George Orwell 341. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 342. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

I'll continue to read The man who smiled by Henning Mankell.

That's a great TBR list Rachel, I can really recomend the Stieg Larsson books, they are awesome. I also have The Post Cars Killers on my list so I'm looking forward to reading what you think about it!

I absolutly loved it and gave it a 4,5/5. I think it was the epic feel, and the story about friendship, courage and hope. I also felt that Sanderson has managed to build a believable world that I don't think I've visited before. I saw that you had bought The lies of Locke Lamora. I read that a while ago and even thought I thought it was a good book I had such a hard time getting into it. Mainly because he changes between the past and the present frequently which sometimes seems a bit unnecessary. But I am really glad a read it because I felt it picks up about half way through and has a great ending. I hope you enjoy it. I also saw that you got, flowers for algernon! That was one of the best reads of 2010 for me, it's an incredible book!!

That sounds like a great idea. I was out of shelve space my self, but I just bought another book self...and some more books. Yeah not the best idea. Good luck with your reading this year! The Passage sounds great, but I guess I will try not to buy it

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Synopsis: The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. Review: If you can use one word to describe The Hunger Games series it's Addicting. Mockingjay was no exception. I found it a bit hard to deal wit just how brutal these books are, definitely not for younger kids. I felt that it ws a good end to series and it tied up most of the lose ends. There were some truly sad moments and I felt overall that it was a very dark book. Overall a really good series and I give the book: 3.5/5

Today I went to a book shop with some friends and I just could not help my self, I got two book. Norweigen Wood by Haruki Murakami Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cru

I love Flowers for Algernon it was one of my favorite reads last year! I am more than with you on the reducing the TBR-pile problem. One tip is that it does not help to buy another book shelf Just made me think that I had plenty of room left to buy more books.

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson From www.brandonsanderson.com: "I long for the days before the Last Desolation. The age before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us. A time when there was still magic in the world and honor in the hearts of men. The world became ours, and we lost it. Nothing, it appears, is more challenging to the souls of men than victory itself. Or was that victory an illusion all along? Did our enemies realize that the harder they fought, the stronger we resisted? Perhaps they saw that the heat and the hammer only make for a better grade of sword. But ignore the steel long enough, and it will eventually rust away. There are four whom we watch. The first is the surgeon, forced to put aside healing to become a soldier in the most brutal war of our time. The second is the assassin, a murderer who weeps as he kills. The third is the liar, a young woman who wears a scholar's mantle over the heart of a thief. The last is the highprince, a warlord whose eyes have opened to the past as his thirst for battle wanes. The world can change. Surgebinding and Shardwielding can return; the magics of ancient days can become ours again. These four people are key. One of them may redeem us. And one of them will destroy us." Review: This book was long, over 1000 pages and I liked almost every single one of them. There were parts when it felt like a bit more editing wouldn't have hurt but for the majority of the book I LOVED it. I'm not a big fantasy reader, at leat not this type on fantasy but this was a great book. It follows several characters which could get a bit annoying but it works I think. I liked all of them and though I preferred Kaladins story which really captivated me. Sanderson has also manages to build a world that feels believable and real and even thought it in most ways vastly different from our own there are many things that you can relate to. This is by no means a light book but it has an epic feel to it due to Sandersons writing. I think that is what made me love, the struggles, the goodness in people and will to fight when everything seems hopeless. In some ways it reminded me of LotR with it's grand battles, but it's truly a story about hope and courage and friendship. I give it 4,5/5