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Today I sucessfully went in to at least 4 book shops and I cam out with zero books! I saw at least ten that I wanted and that I've been looking for but I knew I had books on the way (a bit annoyed that they are not here yet) and like 50 to read so buying more would just be stupid. I'm still working my way through The Way of Kings, I'm past pages 500 at least only 500 more to go! It's a great book I can even say one of the best I've ever read so it not torture. But 1000 pages is a lot for one book.

I truly hope your family is doing okay. My thought go to all of you who has family or live in the area. Living so far away I feel I want to do something to help and I found this if anyone feels like doing something even though we do not live there and can help on location. http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

I am reading the Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson at the moment. It is over a 1000 pages so it's gonna take me a while. Now I am not a fantasy reader per say, I mean I've read Harry Potter and a few others books but it has not been a genre that I've typically been drawn to. But after about 3 chapters of this book I declared to be the best book I have ever read! I love is language and the story. I can really recommend this book! I post a review when I'm done. I also saw that you had a joe abercrombie book on your TBR list. Have you read The Blade Itself? My boyfriend bought this a while ago and been thinking about reading it but I haven't heard much about it. Happy Reading!

I had my first reading log last year and I really liked it. Looking forward to reading yours! Don't be afraid to post your TBR list, there are very few people here that has a short one. ;-)

Sign me up!! I've also decided to get healthy this year, and all of you are such an inspiration. I can't afford going to a gym either but I have a cross trainer at home and hopefully will begin exercising soon. I spend the first week of this new year with a splitting head ache trying get lose my sugar addiction. Anyone else that have one of those ?? Well it's almost passed now but tomorrow wont help, I'm celebrating my boyfriend and his little brothers birthday and there will be cake. But I've been doing good other wise I think. I don't have a scale and will only go by how my clothes fit, the umbers tend to make me depressed and that leads to eating and..well you get the picture. I also have made a promise to my self that when I eat that will be the only thing I'm doing, that means no TV, no computer or *gasp* book. This year I will enjoy food. And also I think I will participate on the 1 pound 1 book challenge but dare I raise the stakes and say 2 pound 1 book!? Wait that won't work since I don't have a scale...I'll have to think about that one.

I did it again, I bought some books even though I shouldn't. But I really wanted Mockingjay to see how the story ends and then I found the god delusion really cheap and I've been wanting to read it for a while and then I bought one book for my boyfriend so he wouldn't get mad at me for buying more books...:-p I think I have a problem.

I have both of these books on my TBR list and I've been putting of reading them forever. Perhaps I should put them even further back... I want to read some classics but sometimes I get the feel that they are overrated. You have some awesome books on your list, please let me know what you think of the Ray Bradbury once! I've been wanting to read the forever but had not had the time nor resources t buy them. I am gonna but The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins though cause I've been wanting that one forever. I loved the Count of Monte Cristo, you should really read that one! I hope you have a great year of reading!!

I absolutely LOVED the Virginia Andrews books when I was younger I hope you will enjoy them. They are a little bit creepy I would say but very addictive. I have these two on my TBR list as well and I'm really looking forward to reading To kill a mockingbird since I've only heard good things about it. Please let me know what you think! I've seen the movie Angels and Demons so I keep putting of reading it since I still remember what happens. Happy reading!

The Sieg Larsson books are really good, the first one is really slow in the beginning so stick with it and it will pick up around 200 pages in I think. I really wanna read Life of Pi but I've never gotten around to it. I hope you enjoy it!

An Abundance of Katherines Synopsis: When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun—but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself. Review: Oh John Green how can anyone not like your books? This was such a pleasant read and a great way to start the year.I will be honest I probably would never have read any of his books or eve heard about John Green if it had not been for the excellent youtube-series(show??) called Vlogbrothers in which he an his brother Hank makes videos enlightening the world with funny facts, brilliant songs, touching moments and of course a whole lot of nerdfighting. Anyway this book is funny, had great characters, some really interesting facts and a slow but heart-warming storyline. Greens books are not action packed if you don't count that mathematical action that is going on in this book. But they are "heart packed" and they make you think and remember you teen age years. As usual his descriptions are wonderful, the characters are flawed and human. Although I thoroughly enjoyed this book I still think Looking for Alaska was one notch better since this one was a bit more predictable. But still if you have it read it! I give it 4/5

Thank you Kylie! You too, your list are amazing and you will most definitely have a great year of reading I hope to get a bit more organized this year and take the time to read. I also hope to not buy to many books since I have a lot and have declared war on my TBR-list

Wise mans fear by Patrick Rothfuss And the new book by John Green, which I hope comes out in 2011!

To be read list BOOKS READ: 20 BOOKS TBR:59 1. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 2. The Runaway Jury by John Grisham 3. Flowers in the Rain by Rosmund Pilscher 4. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 6. Populärmusik från vittula by Mikael Nemi 7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 8. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 9. 1984 by George Orwell 10. Vägen till Jerusalem by Jan Gulliou 11. Walden by Henry David Therou 12. Dubliners by james Joyce 13. Catch 22 by Joeseph Heller 14. The grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 15. Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne 16. Sofies Värld by Jostein Gaarder 17. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams 18. Stuffed and starved by Raj Patel1 19. Riket vid vägens slut by Jan Gulliou 20. The man who smiled by Henning Mankell 21. Sidetracked by Henning Mankell 22. Before the frost by Henning Mankell 23. Pyramiden by Henning Mankell 24. Den hedersvärda mördaren by Jan Guillou 25. The two towers by J.R.R Toliken 25. Selected short stories 27.Oscar Wilde complete collection - The Cantervile Ghost - The Sphinx Without a Secret - The Model Milionaire - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - The Picture of Dorian Gray 28. Anna Karenina part 1 and 2 by Leo Tolstoy 29. His dark materials series: Northern lights by Phillip Pullman 30. His dark materials series: The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman 31. His dark materials series: The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman 32. Mr Darcy takes a wife by Lisa Berdoll 33. Royal assassin by Robin Hobb 34. The Valley of Horses by J M. Auel 35. Heavens Net is Wide by Lian Hern 36. Pigs Have Wings by P.G Woodhouse 37. Gösta Berlings Saga by Selma Lagerlöf 38. Hemsöborna by August Strindberg 39. Tom Sawyers adventures by Mark Twain 40. 73. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and Davis Levithan 41. Wicked by Gregory Maguire 42. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky 43. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michale Chabon 44. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 45. Naturally Thin by Bethenny Frankel 46. Shade by Jeri Smith Ready 47. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 48. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 49. Ulysses by James Joyce 50. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 51. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 52. Ireland’s Master Storyteller- The Collected stories of Eamon Kelly 53. An abundance of Kathrines by John Green 54. Paper towns by John Green 55. Post card killers by Liza Marklund and James Paterson 56. Norweigen Wood by Haruki Murakami 57. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz 58. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 59. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer(Abandoned) 60. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult 61. The Left hand of God by Paul Hoffman 62. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 63. Anna and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkins 64. van Gogh by Gerard Knuttel 65. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 66. How to Succeed in Business without really Trying by Shepherd Mead 67. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 68. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel 69. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 70. Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruez 71. Divergent by Veronica Roth 72. Across the Universe by Beth Revis 73. The Emerald Atlas: The Books of Beginning by John Stephens 74. Irish Ghost stories 75. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. 76. About a boy by Nick Hornby 77. Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain. 78. Roots by Alex Haley 79. Hamlet by Shakespeare. Wish list Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris Bones- series by Kathy Reich The Road by Cormac Mccarthy P.S I love you by Cecelia Ahern Things I want my daughters to know by Elisabeth Noble Wicked by Gregory Maguire Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Will greyson, will greyson by John Green Player one by Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland Good wives by Louisa M Alcott The Girl In The Lighthouse by Roxane Tepher Sanford Room by Emma Donoghue Eleven by Mark Watson Books bought in 2011 1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 2. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 3. Legend by David Gemell 4. Norweigen Wood by Haruki Murakami 5 Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz 6. The Left hand of God by Paul Hoffman 7. van Gogh by Gerard Knuttel 8. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 9. How to Succeed in Business without really Trying by Shepherd Mead 10. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 11. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel 12. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens1 13. Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruez 14. Divergent by Veronica Roth 15. Across the Universe by Beth Revis 16. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and Davis Levithan 17. Wicked by Gregory Maguire 18. Naturally Thin by Bethenny Frankel 19. Shade by Jeri Smith Ready 20. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky 21. The Emerald Atlas: The Books of Beginning by John Stephens 22. Irish Ghost stories 23. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. 24. About a boy by Nick Hornby 25. Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain. 26. Roots by Alex Haley 27. Hamlet by Shakespeare. Books Borrowed in 2011 1. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer(Abandoned) 2. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett(abandoned) 3.Uglies by Scott Weserfeld 4. Anna and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkins 5. Room by Emma Donoghue

Books read January 1. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 2. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 4. The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell 5. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz Febuary 6. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott 7. The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle by Patrick Rothfuss March 8. Paper Towns by John Green 9. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult 10.Post card killers by Liza Marklund and James Paterson April 11. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 12. Anna and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkins May June 13. His dark materials series: Northern lights by Phillip Pullman July 14. Divergent by Veronica Roth 15. Shade by Jeri Smith Ready August 16. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky 17. Marked by PC and Kristen Cast (audioboook) 18. Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruez 19. van Gogh by Gerard Knuttel 20. How to Succeed in Business without really Trying by Shepherd Mead September 21. The Left hand of God by Paul Hoffman October November December 22. Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Leviathan

Haha I'll better watch out then. But that's the one I want the most I think, it's just so pretty! I still have a little while to decide so let me know when you get yours how you like it!

So I actually found a way to buy one of these from Sweden and now comes the tricky part, I have to pick one! Any recommendations? I'm choosing between these once: Moleskine Book Journal My Bibliofile A book lovers Diary I saw some of you had these, do you like them? Please help!

I read the book when I was in my teens, and I remember loving it. I have planned to re-read it at some point if I can find it again. Blume has a way of writing about young people in a way I think you can easily relate to.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D�Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller�s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli�s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid�s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones�s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight�s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte�s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 15, and I have several of them on my TBR list

Gulliver's Travels: Part 1 and 2 by Jonathan Swift Synopsis(Barnes and Noble):Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos. Review: The version of the book I got a hold of contained Gullivers first two journeys, the one to Lilliput and to Brobdingnag. It was a quick read and easy read and I did enjoy it more than I thought I would. I for some reason always seem to struggle with classics. When everyone else raves about them I normally find the a bit boring but this was not the case with Gullivers travels. It felt sort of like a fairy tale for adults. The language was great and I found the description of the different people interesting. My one issue was the synopsis at the beginning of each chapter which basically gave the plot away, but I suppose you can just opt not to read that part. A surprisingly enjoyable book. I give it: 3/5

I really want to read that book but haven't been able to get a hold of it, did you like it?

1. Age (<18, 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55+) 25-34 (25, I a few months) 2. Gender Female. 3. What do you read on a daily basis? (blogs, newspapers, books, etc.) Book, blogs, newspaper. 4. How often do you read for fun in a week? Daily. 5. What time of day do you like to read? Any time. 6. Where do you read? At home, on buses, trains, when I'm waiting for something. I always have a book in my bag. 7. How many books have you read in the last 6 months? 20 I think... 8. What type/genre do you enjoy reading most? I try to read a little bit of everything, I don't know what I love the most yet. 9. Why do you read? (entertainment, relaxation, learning, etc.) Because it's awesome and I learn so much by doing it. 10. What barriers prevent you from reading more? Nothing at the moment, but normally work and school. 11. Do you think reading for fun is important? Yes! 12. Do you fold page corners or use a bookmark? Fold 13. Do you prefer to read to music or in silence? Doesn't matter it can be a concert going on I can always read. 14. Do you discuss books with your friends? I try but they never read what I read. I discuss them here! 15. Do you borrow books from the library? Yes I just started to again. 16. Do you borrow/loan books from/to friends? I loan to friends but not as much anymore as I've lost a few by never getting them back.

The Host is really an excellent book. I'm not a big fan of the Twilight-series although I read them all....:-p But The Host is different I really did like it more then I expected to.