Ooshie

Me Myself and I - De La Soul

I have a lovely Folio Society edition of Possession that is waiting to be read - I think I will try to get started on it this month if it is as good as that!

Lovely Day - Bill Withers

Calm. Brush or comb?

Barbara Erskine

Creaky floorboard. Fountain pen or ballpoint?

Day Tripper - The Beatles

I was the same, Kell and BookJumper, I loved all his earlier work up to Misery, which was just too gruesome for me. I thought he really lost his form after that, but I did enjoy his short story/novella collections and Needful Things. However, my 15 year old and I read Duma Key at the end of last year, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it.

Keeping this post blank just in case I need it later

Belinda Bauer

Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men

I wasn't going to do a list this year because I had missed a few months, but I never keep a note of what I read, and I am beginning to long for a nice list to keep track of it all! So, I'm going to start one now (May), and gradually add as many books as I can remember that I read earlier in the year too. I will probably add short reviews too, although maybe not of everything I read. Feel free to make any comments you like! Looks like around 72 books read this year. January to April So far I can remember... Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith Black Lands - Linda Bauer The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths Bungalow 2 - Danielle Steele Don't Look Twice - Andrew Cross Strangers - Anita Brookner Perfect Match - Jane Moore Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant Home - Marilynne Robinson Long Lost - Harlan Coben The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters The Road - Cormac McCarthy A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick The Gate House - Nelson DeMille The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber The Stand - Stephen King Well, I didn't exactly remember all the above, I have to confess they were in a pile on the floor by my bed waiting to be put in a bookcase - I will have to have a look at other piles around the house now May Q & A by Vikas Swarup Wicked by Gregory Maguire The Apple by Michel Faber The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve Shadow by Karin Alvtegen Bad Blood by S J Rozan The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath June Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King July Possession by A S Byatt Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll I Can See You by Karen Rose The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Shack by Wm Paul Young The Earth is the Lord's : A Tale of the Rise of Genghis Khan by Taylor Caldwell Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy August Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian Post Commander by Patrick O'Brian The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah I Am Legend by Richard Matheson September Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs October Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien Vanity Fair by W M Thackeray The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje November Into the Blue by Robert Goddard The Chrysalids by John Wyndham The Small Hand by Susan Hill The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo O Pioneers! by Willa Cather HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis Before the Storm by Diane Chamberlain December The Snow by Adam Roberts The Big Snow by David Park The Folio Book of Christmas Ghost Stories

I loved Morse, and was prepared to be disappointed by Lewis, but I actually really enjoy it. Looking forward to the new episodes

Just finished watching True Blood and House on Sky+. Dr Who and Britain's Got Talent tonight for me and the 15 year old!

^ chrysalis_stage, I'm really looking forward to The Apple, but have to finish Wicked and read Q&A before I can allow myself to start on it! Your comment on the foreward is making me even more keen to get to it.

News of the World - The Jam

Hedgehogs. Sunrise or sunset?

Oscar Wilde

The covers on paperbacks don't bother me too much one way or another (although it irritates me when publishers keep changing the design of covers throughout a series as it spoils the way they look on my shelf!). But if I am having trouble choosing between two Folio Society books, I sometimes make my final decision on how good the spine looks.

I probably usually read one long book (800 - 1,000 pages) or two or three shorter ones per week. But it does vary, and occasionally I will just read one shorter book in a week.

Harlan Coben

I have taken on extra hours at work for the next few weeks, so I'm not getting half as much reading done as usual. Just as well I'm not still trying to get through Crimson Petal or The Stand! Up to page 150 in Wicked, and hoping to get a few more pages read before I go to sleep.

Finished The Stand, and 100 pages into Wicked which I am thoroughly entertained by so far!

Welcome from a fellow Aries!