Frankie reads 2014

[Athena]

So it's my own fault !

[frankie]

So it's my own fault !

 

Yep!

[frankie]

#8

 

Cuckoo

by Julia Crouch

 

 

 

 

 

From Amazon: A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama.

 

Rose has it all - the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose's cosy world starts to fall apart at the seams - her baby falls dangerously ill, her husband is distracted - is Polly behind it all? It appears that once you invite Polly into your home, it's very difficult to get her out again...

 

 

Thoughts: Quite a few people on here have read the book and liked it, and recommended it to others, so I added it to my wishlist ages ago, and got it as a Christmas present from my Mom last Christmas.

 

As well as reading about dysfunctional families, I like reading about people living in close quarters, and I like to read about characters who might not be what they seem... - are they two-faced manipulators or is the person who is wondering about this going insane in the brain... Who knows!

 

For me, there was something missing from the novel. I guess it didn't turn out the way I thought it would, which is sometimes a good and a welcome thing and sometimes not a very good thing. This time it was the latter, unfortunately. However, the story kept together and I did like it how Crouch wove the whole story. Maybe it could've been a bit more subtle. However, there was a very welcome surprise twist at the end that I definitely did not see coming, which made up for other stuff.

 

Not as good as I'd hoped, but still a very decent read.

 

4/5

Edited March 30, 2014 by frankie

[Athena]

This book has been on my wishlist for ages, I'm glad to read you liked it but it's a shame it wasn't a brilliant read for you. Great review !

[frankie]

#9

 

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

 

 

 

 

Amazon (have omitted a lot): MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.

 

Thoughts: Where to begin. Well first of all, of course, a huge grateful thank you to the person whose review made me wishlist this novel: poppyshake!

 

What a brilliant read! Don Tillman is a great character, a deserving protagonist. We need more books with characters like him! I loved how he goes about looking for potential wife candidates. He doesn't play any of those mindgames some people like to play, and he isn't one to pay attention to social conventions. I wonder if one would actually benefit in real life, as a real life singleton, from laying it all out there like he did. With a bit more tact, maybe, but still.

 

And the writing. So detailed, so matter of fact, so scientific and academic, and yet so hilarious. Another laugh out loud book for me. There were so many things I wanted to write down in my notebook.

 

This is such a strong debut for an author. I hope Simsion won a lot of awards for it!

 

This novel is a very strong contender for the best book I've read in 2014. Future reads, be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

 

5/5 (and going on the Frankie Recommends -list at the end of the year)

[Athena]

This novel is a very strong contender for the best book I've read in 2014. Future reads, be afraid. Be very afraid.

x

It's the same for me! I've listed it as a favourite book too. Great review , I'm glad you enjoyed the book (and wow, that's a lot of reviews in one day, well done!).

[Kidsmum]

 

 

 

This novel is a very strong contender for the best book I've read in 2014. Future reads, be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

 

5/5 (and going on the Frankie Recommends -list at the end of the year)

 

Now i can't resist a comment like that ..... it'll just have to go on the wishlist 

[frankie]

x

It's the same for me! I've listed it as a favourite book too. Great review , I'm glad you enjoyed the book (and wow, that's a lot of reviews in one day, well done!).

 

It's such a great book, a real gem

 

Now i can't resist a comment like that ..... it'll just have to go on the wishlist 

 

Wohoo!   I thought that pretty much everyone who would read that sort of book has already wishlisted it or read it, because so many seem to be talking about it nowadays. I hope you will like it!

[Athena]

Now i can't resist a comment like that ..... it'll just have to go on the wishlist 

x

I hope you like it !

[Marie H]

I'm glad that you loved The Rosie Project  , and It's top of the list to read TRP when I finish The Art of Racing in the Rain (and that is a wonderful book  !)

[frankie]

I'm glad that you loved The Rosie Project  , and It's top of the list to read TRP when I finish The Art of Racing in the Rain (and that is a wonderful book  !)

I'm really excited to hear that you will be reading The Rosie Project soon!! I really hope you like it.

 

And I'm even more excisted about you enjoying The Art of Racing in the Rain so much! It's on my top 10 reads, for sure. I think us humans could learn a lot from Enzo... And animals, in general.

[Marie H]

I'm really excited to hear that you will be reading The Rosie Project soon!! I really hope you like it.

 

And I'm even more excisted about you enjoying The Art of Racing in the Rain so much! It's on my top 10 reads, for sure. I think us humans could learn a lot from Enzo... And animals, in general.

I'm looking forward to read The Rosie Project.  I'm still kicking myself, as I didn't go to see the Graeme Simsion in my local bookshop event in Feb, but for some weird reason I had this idea in my head that it wouldn't been a good book  .

 

I agree with you, Enzo has some very good ideas in philosophy in life, and I keep wonder if

if it could be that we are "the creators of own destiny", or that we have very little in creating our own destiny, and is it more random, and what fickle fortune has in for us.

  

[Athena]

That's an interesting thought, Marie! Something to ponder..

[frankie]

I'm looking forward to read The Rosie Project.  I'm still kicking myself, as I didn't go to see the Graeme Simsion in my local bookshop event in Feb, but for some weird reason I had this idea in my head that it wouldn't been a good book  .

Oh, that's a real shame! I was going to say that he'll probably be touring again soon enough, but then I remembered that he's Australian, isn't he?

 

I agree with you, Enzo has some very good ideas in philosophy in life, and I keep wonder if

if it could be that we are "the creators of own destiny", or that we have very little in creating our own destiny, and is it more random, and what fickle fortune has in for us.

 

 

That's an interesting thought, Marie! Something to ponder..

Like Athena said, it is all very interesting Not least because it's something we will never find out and we will never agree on it as a whole. I think it's up to everyone, what they think about the subject.

 

Although I have to say,  generally speaking, I don't personally think we are all the creators of our destiny. Simply because we all have such different starts in life. I was born into a family with a home and money for food and clothes. That alone is something we don't all have. It's easier to start shaping one's happy destiny when one doesn't have to worry about starving and being cold etc.

[Athena]

That's very true, Frankie. We can only shape our destiny to a certain extend, within what we've given.

[frankie]

I was reading Jänet's reading log earlier today and she had arranged her TBR according to the chronological order in which she'd acquired the books. I thought it was a fun idea, and also very useful if one's keen to read some of the books that have been on one's reading list the longest. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while now but I haven't been very successful...
 
Anyhow, I thought I'd copy the idea so that I could easily check out which books have been on my TBR the longest. To encourage me to read the older ones. I hope you don't mind me stealing your idea, Jänet! I will keep my TBR in an alphabetical order as I always have done, but I just also want to have a post where my TBR is in the chronological order.
 
I will use this post to sort it all out. I have all the books I own on an Open Office document on my computer, and it's a 15 pages long document, so it might take a while. Doing it in the document itself might prove to be difficult, so I'm using this post as an aid.
 

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Barres, Pamela des: I'm with the Band
O’Brien, Tim: Going After Cacciato
 
2006
Hammond, Claudia: Emotional Rollercoaster
Aidan, Pamela: An Assembly Such as This
Aidan, Pamela: Duty and Desire
Vincent, Norah: Self-Made Man
 
2007
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway
Cunningham, Michael: Tunnit
Thurman, Judith: Karen Blixen
Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
Droit, Roger-Pol: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
George, Margaret: The Autobiography of Henry VIII With Notes By His Fool, Will Somers
Brontë, Charlotte: Villette
Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Chang, Jung: Wild Swans
 
2008
Kekki, & Ilmonen: Pervot pidot – Homo-, lesbo- ja queer-näkökulmia kirjallisuudentutkimukseen
Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk
Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Plath, Sylvia: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
Swann, Leonie: Three Bags Full
Fforde, Jasper: Lost in a Good Book
Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Dostojevski, Fedor: Crime and Punishment
Dostojevski, F. M. : House of the Dead
Waters, Sarah: Affinity
Waters, Sarah: Tipping the Velvet
Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants
Gripe, Maria: Varjojen kätkö
Hayman, Ronald: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
Fry, Stephen: Moab Is My Washpot
Gripe, Maria: Varjojen lapset
Pratchett, Terry: Monstrous Regiment
Christensen, Lars Saabye: Velipuoli
Cunningham, Michael: Flesh and Blood
Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth
Fitzek, Sebastian: Therapy
Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens
McMahon: Katharine: The Rose of Sebastopol
Reichs, Kathy: Break No Bones
Meyer, Stephenie: Eclipse
Stone, Irving: The Origin – A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin
 
2009
Reichs, Kathy: Monday Mourning
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford
Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy
Canavan, Trudi: The Magicians' Guild
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Meyer, Stephenie: Breaking Dawn
Montanari, Richard: The Rosary Girls
Murdoch, Iris: The Sea, the Sea
Follett, Ken: World Without End
Canavan, Trudi: The High Lord
Hayder, Mo: Birdman
Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things
Deaver, Jeffery: Blue Nowhere
Deaver, Jeffery: Tikapuita pitkin taivaaseen
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: When Elephants Weep – The Emotional Lives of Animals
Canavan, Trudi: The Novice
Oates, Joyce Carol: Blonde
Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera
Armstrong, Kelley: Exit Strategy
Deaver, Jeffery: The Empty Chair
Deaver, Jeffery: The Stone Monkey
Deaver, Jeffery: The Vanished Man
Allende, Isabel: The House of Spirits
Hedlund, Oscar: Friida-koiran tarina
Vehkaoja, Helena: Maankuuluja koiria
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz: The Angel's Game
Introduction to Psychology
Barnes, Julian: Arthur & George
By, Oddbjörn: Memo – Helppo tapa parantaa muistia
Deaver, Jeffery: The Bodies Left Behind
Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk about Kevin
Hayder, Mo: Tokyo
Montanari, Richard: The Skin Gods
Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow
Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage
Deaver, Jeffery: Praying For Sleep
Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
Deaver, Jeffery: The Broken Window
Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood
Fry, Stephen: The Liar
Harris, Charlaine: Dead and Gone
Brown, Dan: The Lost Symbol
Tikkanen, Märta: Två – Scener ur ett konstnärsäktenskap
Sansom, C. J: Dissolution
Tillyard, Stella: Aristocrats
 
2010
Sansom, C. J.: Dark Fire
Sansom, C. J.: Sovereign
Sansom, C. J.: Revelation
Fowles, John: The Magus
Howe, Katherine: The Lost Book of Salem
Rice, Anne: The Witching Hour
Thomas, Scarlett: The End of Mr. Y
Slaughter, Karin: Fractured
Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca
Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards!
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Clinton, Hilary Rodham Living History
Ripley, Alexandra: Scarlett
Roos, Vappu From Dante to Dickens – Biographies of the World's Greatest Masters of Literature
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet
Shakespeare, William: Complete Sonnets
Tan, Amy: The Opposite of Fate
Kilpi, Volter: Alastalon salissa
McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People
Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Brooks, Geraldine: Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Zusak, Markus: I Am the Messenger
Murakami, Haruki: A Wild Sheep Chase
Slaughter, Karin: Genesis
Bloom, Harold: How to Read and Why
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami
Tarkka, Pekka: Pentti Saarikoski - Vuodet 1937- 1963
Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying of Lot 49
Chase, Truddi: When Rabbit Howls
Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Harris, Charlaine: Dead in the Family
Welsh, Irvine: Glue
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Mary Barton
Deaver, Jeffery: The Devil's Teardrop
Deaver, Jeffery: Hard News
Deaver, Jeffery: Mistress of Justice
Deaver, Jeffery: Roadside Crosses
Wolfe, Tom: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Lodge, David: The Art of Fiction
Banks, Iain: Complicity
Fry, Stephen: Making History
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Mason, Jeffrey Moussaieff: The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
Donnelley, Paul: 501 Most Notorious Crimes
Bryson, Bill: Down Under
Flannery, Tim: The Explorers
Winton, Tim: Cloudstreet
Deaver, Jeffery: Death of a Blue Movie Star
Fforde, Jasper: The Big Over Eas
Hayder, Mo: The Treatment
Deaver, Jeffery: Bloody River
Deaver, Jeffery: The Cold Moon
Deaver, Jeffery: The Garden of Beasts
Deaver, Jeffery: Hell's Kitchen
Deaver, Jeffery: More Twisted
Deaver, Jeffery: The Sleeping Doll
Deaver, Jeffery: The Twelth Card
Deaver, Jeffery: Twisted
Murakami, Haruki: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Murakami, Haruki: After the Quake
Murakami, Haruki: Dance Dance Dance
Murakami, Haruki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore
Murakami, Haruki: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas
Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past: 1
Levy, Andrea: Small Island
Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang
Clark, Marcus: For the Term of His Natural Life
Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
Marsden, John: Tomorrow, When the War Began
Read, Mark Brandon: Chopper 4
Sharp, Ilsa: Culture Shock! Australia
Thwaite, Joy L.: The Importance of Being Eve Langley
Koren, Yehuda and Negev, Eilat: A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes' Doomed Love
Plath, Sylvia: Letters Home
Deaver, Jeffery: Manhattan Is My Beat
Fforde, Jasper: The Well of Lost Plots
Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty
Faludi, Susan: Backlash
Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex
Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Deaver, Jeffery: The Lesson of Her Death
Deaver, Jeffery: Shallow Graves
Fforde, Jasper: First Among Sequels
Deaver, Jeffery: Speaking in Tongues
Love Letters by Great Men and Women
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Lord of the Rings
Rhodes, Dan: Little Hands Clapping
Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face
Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca
Pratchett, Terry: Faust Eric
Carey, Peter Jack Maggs
Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
Welsh, Irvine: Glue
McGurk, Harry: Lapsen sosiaalinen kehitys
Peake, Mervyn: The Gormenghast Trilogy
Takala, Annika & Takala, Martti: Psykologinen kehitys lapsuusiässä
Wilson, Colin: Lord of the Under World - Jung and the Twentieth Century
Funke, Cornelia: Inkdeath
 

2011
Tammet, Daniel: Born on a Blue Day
Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections
Eysenck, Hans & Michael: Mindwatching
Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead
Saro-Wiwa, Ken: A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary
Solomon, Andrew: The Noonday Demon. An Atlas of Depression
Dostojevski, F. M.: Notes from Underground
Bryson, Bill: Notes from a Small Island
Kamm, Josephine: The Story of Mrs. Pankhurst
Sacks, Oliver: Seeing Voices
Määttänen, Kirsti & Nevanlinna, Tuomas: Muistikirja - jälkien jäljillä
Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not
Troyat, Henri: Dostojevski
Styron, William: Sophie's Choice
Goethe, J. W. von: The Sorrow of Young Werther
Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids
Marone, Nicky: How to Father a Successful Daughter
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Tsiolkas, Christos: The Slap
Hunt. Rebecca: Mr Chartwell
Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World
McSween, E. Chas et al.: Things Bogans Like - Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: How to Recognise the Twenty-First Century Bogan
Roach, Mary: Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science
Carlo, Philip: The Ice Man - Confessions of a Contract Killer
Hemingway, Leicester: My Brother Ernest Hemingway
Reichs, Kathy: Bare Bones
Stone, Irving: Lust for Life - A Biographical Novel of Vincent van Gogh
Hemingway, Ernest: Death in the Afternoon
Steinbeck, John: Sweet Thursday
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Johnson, Dr Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese?
Bryson, Bill: Notes from a Small Island
Balzac, Honoré de: Lost Illusions
Beauvoir, Simone de: She Came to Stay
Linna, Väinö: Under the North Star #1
Linna, Väinö: Under the North Star #3
Mann, Thomas: Doctor Faustus
Hamid, Mohsin: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Hill, Susan: The Bird of Night
Murakami, Haruki: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Wager, Eija: Tupaantuliaiset Italiassa
Guevara, Ernesto 'Che': The Motorcycle Diaries
Bayley, John: Elegy for Iris
Carey, Peter: Bliss
Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha
Kirkland, Gelsey: Dancing on my Grave
Maurois, André: Marcel Proust
Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne: Eva Peron
Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley
Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Waltari, Mika: Kuun maisema
Waltari, Mika: Suuri illusioni
King, Stephen: The Dark Half
King, Stephen: Salem's Lot
Reichs, Kathy: Cross Bones
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Aubry, Octave: Napoleon
Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Casanova, Giacomo: Memoirs
Denmark in the South and the North: Denmark - History II
Haavio, Katarina & Koskimies, Satu: 50-luvun teinit - päiväkirjat ja kirjeet 1957-1960
Louhija, Aura: Hans Christian - kertomus satukuninkaan nuoruusvuosista
Strachey, Lytton: Queen Victoria
Beauvoir, Simone de: Voiman vuodet
Beauvoir, Simone de: Pariisi 1939-44
Beauvoir, Simone de: Maailman meno
Beauvoir, Simone de: Asioiden laita
Beauvoir, Simone de: Loppujen lopuksi
Barthes, Rolan: The Pleasure of the Text
Edel, Leon: Bloomsbury - A House of Lions
MacShane, Frank: The Life of Raymond Chandler
Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory
Stein, Gertrude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Strömstedt, Margareta: Astrid Lindgren
Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1939
Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1944-1947
Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1947- 1955
Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1955-1966
Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1966-1974
Maddox, Brenda: Nora
Miller, Arthur: Timebends. A Life
Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cassady, Neal: The First Third
Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha
Baker, Frank: Miss Hargreaves
Brite, Poppy Z.: Drawing Blood
Ginsberg, Allen: The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice
Hill, Susan: The Small Hand
Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System
Polo, Marco: Travels in the land of Kubilai Khan
Shteyngart, Gary: Super Sad True Love Story
Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub
Wolff, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid
Banks, Iain: The Crow Road
Maurier, Daphne du: The House on the Strand
Nin, Anaïs: Delta of Venus
Moers, Walter: The 131⁄2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear
Radzinski, Edvard: Stalin
Egan, Jennifer: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Maurier, Daphne du: Frenchman's Creek
Houllebecq, Michel: Atomised
Kilpi, Eeva: Naisen päiväkirja
Malamud, Bernard: The Tenants
Achte, Alanen, Tienari: Psykiatria
Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor
Duffy, Carol Ann: The Christmas Truce

2012

Mencken, H. L.: A Mencken Chrestomathy
Banville, John: The Sea b
Barrie, J. M.: Peter Pan
Boyne, John: Mutiny on the Bounty
Clarke, Gerald: Capote - A Biography
Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde
Haavikko, Ritva: Mika Waltari - Kirjailijan muistelmia
Hemingway, Ernest: By-Line
Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not
Kerouac, Jack: Maggie Cassidy

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Quincey, Thomas de: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Woolf, Virginia: Moments of Being
Saarikoski, Pentti: Nuoruuden päiväkirjat
Fforde, Jasper: Something Rotten
Oksanen, Sofi & Paju, Imbi: Kaiken takana oli pelko
Reichs, Kathy: 206 Bones
Slaughter, Karin: Broken
Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend

Sartre, Jean-Paul: Nausea
Thompson, Hunter S.: Kingdom of Fear
Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast
Linna, Väinö: Täällä Pohjantähden alla #2

Pearce, Philippa: Tom's Midnight Garden
Waltari, Mika: Sinuhe egyptiläinen
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Osborne, Frances: The Bolter
Mann, Thomas: Bubbenbrooks
Burroughs, William S.: Junky
Lehtipuu, Rajala & Väyrynen: Australia
Bradshaw, John: In Defence of Dogs
Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J. :Freakonomics
Hotchner, A. E.: Papa Hemingway
Marx, Harpo: Harpo Speaks!
Beauvoir, Simone de: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Palola, Eino: Heidenstamista Undsetiin
Lindgren, Astrid: Ronja ryövärintytär
King, Stephen: The Bachman Books
Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings
Bryson, Bill: Mother Tongue
Rubenfeld, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder
Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore
Hall, Steven: The Raw Shark Texts
Hämäläinen, Helvi: Päiväkirjat 1955-1988
Shepherd, Lynn: Tom-All-Alone's
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: Dog Never Lies About Love
Thurman, Judith: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Mitchell, David: Back Story
Jakobsen, Mette: The Vanishing Act

Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: The Prisoner of Heaven
Faulks, Sebastian: Faulks on Fiction
Parini, Jay: The Passages of H.M. - A Novel of Herman Melville

 

2013

Fitch, Noel Riley: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation - A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties
Mosley, Charlotte: The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: The Prince of Mist
Erikson, Steven: Gardens of the Moon

Hekanaho, Mustola, Lassila & Suhonen: Uusin silmin - lesbinen katse kulttuuriin

James: E. L.: Fifty Shades of Grey

Marx, Groucho: Groucho and Me

Barlettani, Elvio: Junakoira Lampo

Pitkänen, Ilkka & Pitkänen, Matti A.: Tunski - erään koiran tarina

Smith, Ali: Girl Meets Boy

Vance, Jack: Lyonesse

Butcher, Jim: Ghost Story

Jones, Lloyd: Hand Me Down World

Pancol, Katherine: Krokotiilin keltaiset silmät

Gardell, Jonas: En komikers uppväxt

Gardell, Jonas: Ett ufo gör entré
Martin, George R. R.; A Game of Thrones

Ollivier, Debra: What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of Heart and Mind

Jones, Wendy: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals

Hessérus, Madeleine Paljain jaloin
Foenkinos, David: Delicacy

Kazantzakis, Niko: Zorba the Greek

Puzo, Mario: The Godfather

Shamsie, Kamila: Kartography

Smith, Patti: Just Kids

Harrison, Sue: Mother Earth, Father Sky

Harrison, Sue: My Sister the Moon

Harrison, Sue: Brother Wind

Harrison, Sue: Song of the River

Harrison, Sue: Cry of the Wind

Fowler, Christopher: Full Dark House

Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

Faulks, Sebastien: Human Traces

Butcher, Jim: Storm Front

Tregillis, Ian: Bitter Seeds

Bold, Alan and Giddings, Robert : True Characters: Real People in Fiction

Palola, Eino: Brontësta Lagerlöfiin

Hinkkanen, Juhani & Ekholm, Kai: Science Fiction

Lewis, Damien: War Dog - The No-Man's-Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies

Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London

Toltz, Steve: A Fraction of the Whole

Nevils & Hardy: Ignatius Rising

Lindsay, Jeff: Double Dexter

Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit

Cornwell, Bernard: The Winter King

Semple, Maria: Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

 

2014

Vizzini, Ned: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Herbert, Frank: Dune

Gillard, Linda: A Lifetime Burning

Gillard, Linda: Star Gazing

Barker, Clive: Arabat

Beesley, Simon & Joughin, Sheena: History of Twentieth Century Literature

Gaarder, Jostein: The Solitaire Mystery

Jones, Diana Wynne: Charmed Life

Jong, Erica: Fear of Fifty

Underwood, Tim & Miller, Chuck: Bare Bones - Conversations on Terror with Stephen King

Winterson, Jeanette: Tanglewreck

Bolgár, Mirja: Pariisin päiviä - kirjoja ja kirjailijoita
Kosonen, Päivi: Naissubjekti & postmoderni

Edited April 8, 2014 by frankie

[Athena]

You must've been keeping a log for a while! (to know when you bought which books). I can retrack the books I bought online, but the ones I bought in bookshops (which is quite a few of them too), I don't know which years they were bought. In my opinion though you should read the books you feel like, not specifically what you've owned the longest (it's a nice idea though ).

[frankie]

You must've been keeping a log for a while! (to know when you bought which books). I can retrack the books I bought online, but the ones I bought in bookshops (which is quite a few of them too), I don't know which years they were bought. In my opinion though you should read the books you feel like, not specifically what you've owned the longest (it's a nice idea though ).

I've kept a log for quite while, yes

 

I don't think I said I was going to start reading my TBR from books bought in 2006 and take it from there, in a chronological order...? I only wanted a list of my TBR in a chronological order, as well, so I could try and get inspired to read some of my older TBR books, too Currently many of my books are in bookcases behind another row of books, so I don't actually see them all when I'm going through my bookcases to see what I'd like to read next. Having the books on a list helps to remind myself of the books I own. And a chronological list helps me remind myself of books I've owned for a long, long time, and which I ought to get to reading at some point. I tend to remember my latest purchases better than earlier ones

[Athena]

Sorry, it's me being tired ! I must have misunderstood . That makes sense, it's a lot harder to see the books behind other books. I also remember my later purchases more than my earlier ones. How big is your TBR now?

Edited April 8, 2014 by Athena

[frankie]

My TBR stands at 407 at the moment

[Athena]

That's not too bad . I do hope your mojo will be behaving itself, that tends to complicate things.

[Kidsmum]

Frankie you've just reminded me that i haven't even finished adding all the books on my TBR list to my reading log  I'm really impressed that you've managed to keep a record of which year you've bought your books in & i think it's a good idea to list them in that way. Like you i've got books behind books & books in boxes under beds so i do tend to choose my next read from the books i can see which is a shame as i know i have some great books hidden away 

[frankie]

That's not too bad . I do hope your mojo will be behaving itself, that tends to complicate things.

 

Thanks Mojo seems somewhat content with the Twilight book, at the moment, so I can't complain!

 

Frankie you've just reminded me that i haven't even finished adding all the books on my TBR list to my reading log 

Uh oh Are you looking forward to the task? I like cataloguing books and doing lists and stuff, I wish I could come over and help you with yours That is, unless you really want to do it by yourself and would hate do delegate the task to other people.

 

I'm really impressed that you've managed to keep a record of which year you've bought your books in & i think it's a good idea to list them in that way. Like you i've got books behind books & books in boxes under beds so i do tend to choose my next read from the books i can see which is a shame as i know i have some great books hidden away 

I'm not impressive in many ways, but I do take pride and joy in having been so meticulous about my book purchases and read books over the years My books are my babies!

 

It's such a pain in the ass having to have books in two rows, and not being able to easily look at all of your books. Some books one forgets about I really can't wait for the day when I can have many, many bookcases and have all my books in single rows, and I can see them all, and I have easy access to them all.

 

I think it might be a good idea to sometimes rearrange all of one's bookcases. Put the front row books in the back and the back row books to the front. Equality to all!

[Athena]

Thanks Mojo seems somewhat content with the Twilight book, at the moment, so I can't complain!

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That's great! I quite liked it when I read it, the first book and the last book of the series more than the two in the middle.

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It's such a pain in the ass having to have books in two rows, and not being able to easily look at all of your books. Some books one forgets about I really can't wait for the day when I can have many, many bookcases and have all my books in single rows, and I can see them all, and I have easy access to them all.

 

I think it might be a good idea to sometimes rearrange all of one's bookcases. Put the front row books in the back and the back row books to the front. Equality to all!

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We want pictures when it happens . I've recently put some back rows at the front and vice versa. What also helps is that I tend to put for example all the books by one author at the back, ie. my Sophie Kinsella books are taking up most of a back row. I don't like not seeing them, but I won't forget about Sophie Kinsella as she's one of my favourite authors (two of her books are on my TBR-soon).

[frankie]

We want pictures when it happens . I've recently put some back rows at the front and vice versa. What also helps is that I tend to put for example all the books by one author at the back, ie. my Sophie Kinsella books are taking up most of a back row. I don't like not seeing them, but I won't forget about Sophie Kinsella as she's one of my favourite authors (two of her books are on my TBR-soon).

This reminds me, that one good way to keep the TBR books in plain view is to try and fill the back rows with books one has already read.

 

Mine are shelved pretty much according to size at the moment, to take maximum advantage of the little space I have.