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Please don't post spoilers of the books

I'm currently reading or have yet to read!


Go directly to my list of books read this year HERE

Go directly to my wish list HERE

Go directly to my blog tours list HERE

Go directly to my library list HERE

 

2006 reading (124 books + 21 short stories)
2007 reading (127 books)
2008 reading (58 books)
2009 reading (52 books)
2010 reading (58 books)
2011 reading (90 books)
2012 reading (62 books)

2013 reading (** books)

AIMS:
1. To read 52 books (one for each week of the year).
2. To take part in 6 book blog tours with reviews and author interviews

3. To visit the library at least once a month to borrow books

KEY:

K = Kindle e-book
® = Reviewed for author / publisher

A = Interview with author

B = Blog tour
G = Graphic novel
L = Borrowed from library

RC = Reading Circle

2 = Re-read

N = Non-fiction

TO BE READ (from my own shelf - not including Kindle books):

  • Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
  • Jane Austen and Ben H Winters - Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
  • Chris Brookmyre – Flesh Wounds (Jasmine Sharp #3)
  • Richard Castle – Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat #5)
  • Richard Castle – A Brewing Storm (Derrick Storm #1)
  • Richard Castle – A Raging Storm (Derrick Storm #2)
  • Richard Castle – A Bloody Storm (Derrick Storm #3)
  • Richard Castle – Storm Front (Derrick Storm #4)
  • Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
  • Beverly LeBlanc – I Love My Slow Cooker (N)
  • Stuart MacBride – Close to the Bone (Logan McRae #8)
  • Kay Maguire – Grow Your Own Crops In Pots (N)
  • Terry Pratchett – Raising Steam (Discworld #40)
  • Simon Scarrow – The Blood Crows (Romans #12)
  • Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
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Go directly to Mount TBR HERE

 

WISH LIST (Books I'd like to own):

Christopher Brookmyre - Bedlam
Christopher Brookmyre - Flesh Wounds (Jasmin Sharp 3)
Christopher Brookmyre - Jaggy Splinters (Kindle only at present)

Richard Castle - Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat #5)
Stuart MacBride - Close to the Bone (Logan McRae #8)

Stuart MacBride - Partners in Crime (Logan McRae - 2 short stories)

Stuart MacBride - A Song for the Dying (Ash Henderson #2)

Simon Scarrow - The Blood Crows (Romans #12)

Terry Pratchett - Raising Steam (Discworld #40)

WISH LIST (Books I'd like to borrow):

Kelley Armstrong - Omens (Omens and Shadows #1)
Kelley Armstrong - Wild Justice (Nadia Stafford #3)
Tracey Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Arielle Eckstut & Elfreda Drummond - Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen
A G Howard - Splintered

William Joyce - Nicholas St North and the Battle of the Nightmare King (Guardians of Childhood #1)
William Joyce - The Man in the Moon (Guardians of Childhood #2)
William Joyce - E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earths' Core (Guardians of Childhood #3)
William Joyce - Toothania: Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies (Guardians of Childhood #4)
William Joyce - The Sandman and the War of Dreams (Guardians of Childhood #5)

Terry Pratchett (and Stephen Baxter) - The Long Earth

Terry Pratchett (and Stephen Baxter) - The Long War

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Please don't post spoilers of the books

I'm currently reading or have yet to read!


Go directly to Mount TBR HERE

Go directly to my wish list HERE

Go directly to my blog tours list HERE

Go directly to my library list HERE


KEY & STATS:
K = Kindle e-book
® = Reviewed for author / publisher

A = Interview with author

B = Blog tour
G = Graphic novel
L = Borrowed from library

RC = Reading Circle

2 = Re-read

N = Non-fiction

RATINGS (out of 5):
1 = Dire - don't waste your time
2 = OK, but nothing to write home about
3 = Good - worth a read
4 = Excellent
5 = Superb - read it immediately!

 

READ IN JANUARY:

1. Sally Harding – Crochet Step By Step (N) - 5/5

2. Edie Eckman – Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs (N) - 5/5

 

READ IN FEBRUARY:

3. Jeannie Ruesch – Cloaked in Danger (®/B/A/K) - 4/5

4. Guy Adams – Sherlock: The Casebook (N) -  5/5

 

READ IN MARCH:

Nicole Dweck – The Debt of Tamar (®/B/A/K) - ABANDONED UNFINISHED

 

READ IN APRIL:

5. Anna Belfrage - Serpents in the Garden (The Graham Saga #5) (®/B) - 4/5

6. Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2) - 4/5
7. Roald Dahl - The Twits (2) - 4/5

 

READ IN MAY:

8. MJ Rose – The Collector of Dying Breaths (®/B/A/K) - 4/5

9. Roald Dahl - George's Marvelous Medicine (2) - 4/5

10. John Green - The Fault In Our Stars - 4/5

 

READ IN JUNE:

11. Mingmei Yip - Peach Blossom Pavillion (®/K) - 3/5

12. Laura Purcell - Queen of Bedlam (®/K) - 4/5

13. Roald Dahl - The Witches - 4/5

John Green - An Abundance of Katherines - ABANDONED UNFINISHED

 

READ IN JULY:

14. Jo Baker – Longbourn (RC) - 4/5

 

READ IN AUGUST:

15. Anna Belfrage - Revenge and Retribution (Graham Saga #6) ® - 5/5

16. Syrie James - Jane Austen's First Love (®/K) - 4/5

17. Genevieve Valentine - The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (®/K) - 4/5

 

READ IN SEPTEMBER:

Anne Girard - Madame Picasso (®/B/K) - CURRENTLY READING

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach (2) - CURRENTLY READING

 

 

READ IN OCTOBER:

 

READ IN NOVEMBER:

 

READ IN DECEMBER:

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BLOG TOURS COMPLETED THIS YEAR:


 


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21st January 2014


The Tudor Conspiracy by Christopher Gortner


Book review


Author interview


 


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6th and 7th February 2014


Cloaked in Danger by Jeannie Ruesch


Book review


Author interview


 


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19th February 2014


The Chalice by Nancy Bilyeau


Book blast


 


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16th March 2014


The Lady’s Slipper, The Gilded Lily, and A Divided Inheritance by Deborah Swift


Triple book blast


 


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27th and 28th March 2014


The Debt of Tamar by Nicole Dweck


Book review


Author interview


 


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14th and 16th April 2014


To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis by Andra Watkins


Guest post (4th April)


Author interview (16th April)


 


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10th April 2014


Serpents in the Garden by Anna Belfrage


Book review


Author guest post


 


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29th and 30th May 2014


The Collector of Dying Breaths by M J Rose


Book review (29th May)


Author interview (30th May)


 


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16th and 20th June 2014


The Queen of Bedlam by Laura Purcell


Book review (16th June)


Author interview (16th June)


Guest post (20th June) 


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Key:

Waiting to be read

Currently reading

Finished and returned

Returned unread

Returned partially read but unfinished

 

 

Books borrowed from the library (in alphabetical order by author surname):

  • Chris Colfer - The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories #1)
  • David Walliams - The Boy in the Dress
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Books I got for Xmas:

  • Richard Castle – Deadly Heat
  • Terry Pratchett – Raising Steam
  • Simon Scarrow – The Blood Crows
  • Chris Brookmyre – Flesh Wounds
  • Sally Harding – Crochet Step By Step
  • Kay Maguire – Grow Your Own Crops In Pots
  • Beverly LeBlanc – I Love My Slow Cooker

I'll be buying a few more with some of my Xmas money. :)

 

I also got some page darts, two tiny book broaches, two tiny little Gothic notebooks, and my Mam made me a jar filled with book quotes.

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