Kidsmum

Oh I'm too much of a technophobe to manage a kindle, I don't even own a mobile phone

I'm only managing to read little bits here & there at the moment of The Forsythe Saga & I'm struggling to remember who's who in it

RIP Pete, a great actor who'll be sadly missed.

We took thec hildren to the Film Museum in Bradford this morning & I bought 3 wire bookmarks in the shape of hands doing paper, scissors ,stone.

I started The Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy yesterday but only managed 20 pages as I'm busy with the spring cleaning at the moment (I know it's a bit early but if I leave it till spring I might not be bothered to do it).

I wouldn't like that, when I start a new book I always look to see how many pages it has so I know where the halfway mark is

I didn't manage to make The Cry of the Owl stretch till New Years day I couldn't put it down last night till I'd found out what happened. This is my first book by Patricia Highsmith & I really liked the way she built up the characters & the story, I found it really gripping I plan on reading The Forsythe Saga Volume One by John Galsworthy next but I'm going to wait till New Years Day before I start it so I've got a couple of book free days to get through till then

I've heard of Vikor Frankl & this sounds like a book I'd enjoy

I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Wizard of Oz Nursenblack I read to my youngest daughter recently:)

I'm not sure anymore to be honest I don't dare count them. We bought more bookshelves a few months ago & I've already filled those & I'm back to stacking the books on top & behind the ones on the shelves, my hubby's really good & doesn't moan about it probably because he's just as bad with CDs

Books bought this year. Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell Persuasion Jane Austen Mansfield Park Jane Austen Emma Jane Austen Hunting Unicorns Bella Pollen Mister Pip Lloyd Jones Dissolution C.J.Sansom The Slap Christos Tsiolkas Jude The Obscure Thomas Hardy The Lost Daughter of Happiness Geling Yan eight months on gazzah street Hilary Mantel The Conjuror's Bird Martin Davies The Believers Zoe Heller Felicia's Journey William Trevor Tales of the City Armistead Maupin The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Penmarric Susan Howatch The Phoenix & The Carpet E.Nesbit The Help Kathryn Stockett 5/5 Oscar & Lucinda Peter Carey The Color Purple Alice Walker The Favoured Child Philippa Gregory The Adventures of Sally P.G. Wodehouse Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Duplicate Death Georgette Heyer The Heartbreaker Susan Howatch Northanger Abbey Jane Austen The Beach Alex Garland The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd The Ambassadors Henry James 1/5 The Master of Ballantrae & Weir of Hermiston R.L.Stevenson Armadillo William Boyd Dead To The World Charlaine Harris Sharpes Battle Bernard Cornwell Sharpes Rifles Bernard Cornwell 5/5 Sharpes Triumph Bernard Cornwell In The Heart of The Sea Nathaniel Philbrick The Bounty Caroline Alexander Redemption Falls Joseph O'Connor I, Coriander Sally Gardner The Dead School Patrick McCabe The Gormenghast Trilogy Mervyn Peake The Godfather Mario Puzo RoofWorld Christopher Fowler 4/5 The Owl Killers Karen Maitland Definitely Dead Charlaine Harris The Solitude of Thomas Cave Georgina Harding The Shack Wm Paul Young Regeneration Pat Barker Bitter Sweets Roopa Farooki A Pocket Full Of Rye Agatha Christie Sharpe's Regiment Bernard Cornwell Bury The Chains Adam Hochschild 4/5 The Tale Despereaux Kate Di Camillo The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Under The Skin Michel Faber Sharpe's Fury Bernard Cornwell Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Kraken China Mieville The Other Boleyn Girl Phillipa Gregory The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh The Visible World Mark Slouka The Bloody Ground Bernard Cornwell The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 5/5 Valley of the Horses Jean M. Auel 2/5 Ghostwritten David Mitchell Reading in the Dark Seamus Deane Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier The Winter Ghosts Kate Mosse problem at pollensa bay Agatha Christie The Silken Net Melvyn Bragg The Virgin's Lover Phillipa Gregory Popco Scarlett Thomas The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson Until I Find You John Irving Hallowe'en Party Agatha Christie Carter Beats The Devil Glen David Gold Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Five Children & It E. Nesbit Arthur & George Julian Barnes Island Aldous Huxley Two Caravans Marina Lewycka Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday The Ladies of Grace Adieu Susanna Clarke 2/5 The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan Murder on the Leviathan Boris Akunin Lord John and the Private Matter Diana Gabaldon Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Before I Go To Sleep S J Watson 5/5 The Redbreast Jo Nesbo 4/5 Girl meets Boy Ali Smith 5/5 New Complete Vegetarian Rose Elliot 5/5 Sharpe's Regiment Bernard Cornwell Rebecca Daphne du Maurier Amsterdam Ian McEwan An Echo in the Bone Diana Gabaldon Lake Wobegone Days Garrison Keillor Cross Stitch Diana Gabaldon 3/5 Dragonfly In Amber Diana Gabaldon When God Was a Rabbit Sarah Winman 4/5 Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens (audio book ) The Untouchable John Banville Sister Rosamund Lupton Ruins of Time Ben Woolfenden 4/5

Well I've decided to take the plunge and start a reading log for the new year. I've had a bit of a scout round at other peoples lists to see how it's done & have decided to keep mine simple as it's my first & because I'm worried that if I type out my TBR list I might frighten off my mojo Books read in 2011 January The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 5/5 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 4/5 February Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge 2/5 Restless by William Boyd 4/5 The Help by Kathryn Stockett 5/5 English Passengers by Matthew Kneale 5/5 March The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 3/5 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 4/5 Living Dead in Dallas Charlaine Harris 4/5 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 5/5 Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell 5/5 Bury The Chains The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery 4/5 Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel 5/5 April Club Dead by Charlaine Harris 3/5 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 4/5 Sharpe's Tiger Bernard Cornwell 4/5 May anti Cancer a new way of life Dr Servan- Schreiber 5/5 Tamburlaine Must Die Louise Welsh 3/5 June The Valley of Horses Jean M. Auel 2/5 The Grace Ladies of Adieu Susanna Clarke 2/5 Roof World Christopher Fowler 4/5 Murder in the Mews Agatha Christie 4/5 tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom 5/5 July Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 3/5 August The Hunger Games Trilogy Suzanne Collins 5/5 The Dark is Rising Sequence Susan Cooper 5/5 Girl Meets Boy Ali Smith 5/5 September Before I Go To Sleep S J Watson 5/5 When God was a Rabbit Sarah Winman 4/5 The Redbreast Jo Nesbo 4/5 October The Ambassadors Henry James 1/5 Cross Stitch Diana Gabaldon 3/5 Ruins of Time Ben Woolfenden 4/5 November The Gargoyle Andrew Davidson 5/5 The Solitude of Thomas Cave Georgina Harding 3/5 At Bertram's Hotel Agatha Christie 4/5 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 5/5 Man's Search For Meaning Viktor E. Frankl 4/5 December The Forsyte Saga Vol. 2 John Galsworthy 5/5 The Winter Ghosts Kate Mosse 2/5 Dead To The World Charlaine Harris 4/5 Definitely Dead Charlaine Harris 4/5 Another Long Hot Soak Chris Gidney 3/5 A Month In The Country J.L. Carr 5/5 Red Leaves Thomas H. Cook 5/5

I'm over halfway through The Cry of the Owl I'm enjoying it but want to make it last till January so that I can start a new book on the first day of the new year

I have that one on my TBR pile, it came free with a magazine I bought awhile ago

One of my daughters is a big fan of JW & has read most of her books, I've read Lola Rose & enjoyed it.

I loved it & found it compulsive reading I stayed up late one night because I just had to finish it Are her other books as good? I managed to read a few pages of The Cry of the Owl while I stirred the gravy

Robert worked nearly an hour after quitting time at five. The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith

I finished The Girl With The Pearl Earring last night & started The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith this morning.

Sounds good Bunce, I've a couple of Fry's books on my shelf but haven't got round to reading them yet & my 13yr old son is a big fan of QI & watches them all on Dave

I've never read any Jules Verne before but after reading your review I'm definitely going to look out for his books .

I would be Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights because I would love to have the freedom to roam the moors as she did & to love & be loved with such a passion as she shared with Heathcliff appeals to my romantic side

I finished An Awfully Big Adventure last night & started Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier my mojo is positively zinging at the moment

Lucky you they sound like great pressies Happy Christmas!!!

I'm sure I have this somewhere in my TBR pile I'll have to burrow into it & see if I can dig it out I've nearly finished An Awfully Big Adventure this is only the second Beryl Bainbridge I've read but I'm really impressed I'll definitely be looking out for more of her stuff.