chesilbeach Posted December 28, 2014 Posted December 28, 2014 2014 reading blog - 151 books 2013 reading blog - 183 books 2012 reading blog - 145 books 2011 reading blog - 141 books 2010 reading blog - 130 books 2009 reading blog - 143 books 2008 reading list - 63 books 2007 reading list - 97 books 2006 reading list - 82 books 2015 BOOKS READ January 1. A Breath of French Air by H. E. Bates 2. My Dear Duchess by M. C. Beaton 3. Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough 4. My Lords, Ladies and Marjorie by M. C. Beaton 5. The Child's Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston 6. The Scandalous Marriage by M. C. Beaton 7. Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn 8. Perfect by Rachel Joyce 9. The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt 10. The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J. L. Carr (Author challenge) 11. First Term At Malory Towers by Enid Blyton 12. Second Form At Malory Towers by Enid Blyton 13. Third Year At Malory Towers by Enid Blyton 14. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton 15. Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson (narrated by Nadia May) 16. In The Fifth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton 17. Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton February 18. The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (abandoned) 19. Citadel by Kate Mosse 20. All Our Worldly Goods by Irène Némirovsky (Reading group) 21. Dimanche and Other Stories by Irène Némirovsky (Persephone) 22. Misty Falls by Joss Stirling 23. All Fall Down by Ally Carter 24. The Ruby Circle by Richelle Mead 25. Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens (WCBP15:5-12) 26. The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald (WCBP15:Teen) 27. Miss Mapp by E. F. Benson (narrated by Nadia May) 28. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavendar by Leslye Walton (WCBP15:Teen) 29. Violet and the Pearl of the Orient by Harriet Whitehorn, illustrated by Becka Moor (WCBP15:5-12) 30. Half Bad by Sally Green (WCBP15:Teen) March 31. Cow Girl by G. R. Gemin (WCBP15:5-12) 32. Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens 33. Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill (WCBP15:Teen) 34. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood 35. The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde 36. The Dark Tourist by Dom Joly 37. The Wolf Princess by Cathryn Constable 38. Prudence by Gail Carriger April 39. Heap House by (abandoned) 40. Soulless by Gail Carriger (narrated by Emily Gray) 41. Celia by E. H. Young 42. Lessons in Love by M. C. Beaton 43. The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein 44. The Curate's Wife by E. H. Young 45. One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper 46. Changeless by Gail Carriger (narrated by Emily Gray) 47. The Gallery of Vanished Husbands by Natasha Solomons 48. The Curvy Girls Club by Michele Gorman 49. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren 50. Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid 51. The Beautifull Cassandra by Jane Austen 52. Blameless by Gail Carriger (narrated by Emily Gray) 53. The Ghost and Lady Alice by M. C. Beaton May 54. The Bloody Tower by Carola Dunn 55. Lady Lucy's Lover by M. C. Beaton 56. The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini 57. The Chocolate Debutante by M. C. Beaton 58. Obsidian Curse by Barbra Annino 59. Summer at the Beach Street Café by Jenny Colgan 60. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson 61. The Viscount's Revenge by M. C. Beaton 62. The Boy in the Smoke by Maureen Johnson 63. The Green Hill Murder by Kerry Greenwood 64. The Black Ship by Carola Dunn 65. A Marriage of Inconvenience by M. C. Beaton 66. A Governess of Distinction by M. C. Beaton 67. House-Bound by Winifred Peck 68. Heartless by Gail Carriger (narrated by Emily Gray) 69. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamin 70. Going to Sea in a Sieve by Danny Baker 71. Minerva by M. C. Beaton (narrated by Claire Morgan) 72. The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies by Martin Millar 73. Walking Home by Clare Balding 74. Resistance is Futile by Jenny T. Colgan June 75. The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson 76. Blood and Circuses by Kerry Greenwood 77. Blood Games by Chloe Neill 78. Sweet Masquerade by M. C. Beaton 79. C'est Modnifique! by Ian Moore 80. Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood 81. Lucy by M. C. Beaton 82. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender 83. The Bride That Time Forgot by Paul Magrs 84. Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano & Jean-Jacques Sempé 85. The Twins at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 86. Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne 87. The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault 88. Artful by Ali Smith 89. The O'Sullivan Twins by Enid Blyton 90. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 91. In the Orchard, The Swallows by Peter Hobbs 92. Summer Term at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 93. Second Form at St Clare's by Enid Blyton July 94. Claudine at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 95. Fifth Formers at St Clare's by Enid Blyton 96. In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll 97. The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine Woodfine 98. The Heavenly Italian Ice Cream Shop by Abby Clements 99. Middlemarch (West Midlands) by George Eliot 100. Campari for Breakfast by Sara Crowe 101. Sheer Folly by Carola Dunn 102. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann 103. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley 104. Mystery In White by J. Jefferson Farjeon 105. Prudence by Gail Carriger (narrated by Moira Quirk) 106. 2am at The Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino 107. Clay by Melissa Harrison 108. The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams August 109. First Class Murder by Robin Stevens 110. The Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install 111. The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera 112. Darkmere by Helen Maslin 113. The Mangle Street Murders by M. R. C. Kasasian 114. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (narrated by Susannah Harker) 115. The Taming of Annabelle by M. C. Beaton (narrated by Claire Morgan) 116. Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Oddysey by Richard Ayoade 117. Deidre and Desire by M. C. Beaton (narrated by Claire Morgan) 118. Betrayed: The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles 119. Hippy Dinners by Abbie Ross 120. The Curvy Girls Baby Club by Michele Gorman 121. The Curse of the House of Foskett by M. R. C. Kasasian September 122. Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters 123. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge 124. The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy 125. Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal 126. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan 127. Stung by Joss Stirling 128. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 129. For the Good of All by Nicky Charles 130. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor 131. Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina 132. The Inn at the Top by Neil Hanson (abandoned) 133. Perfect Girl by Michele Gorman 134. The Desirable Duchess by M. C. Beaton 135. A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor 136. The Westerby Sisters by M. C. Beaton 137. A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor 138. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor 139. The French Affair by M. C. Beaton 140. No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor October 141. The Flirt by M. C. Beaton 142. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor 143. Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch 144. The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky 145. Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 146. Diana The Huntress by M. C. Beaton (narrated by Claire Morgan) 147. Monsters by Emerald Fennell 148. The Snow Sister by Emma Carroll November 149. The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich 150. Omens by Kelley Armstrong 151. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 152. The Angels of Ropemaker Place by Michele Gorman 153. The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell 154. Frederica In Fashion by M. C. Beaton (narrated by Claire Morgan) 155. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 156. Gorilla Dawn by Gill Lewis 157. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan December 158. Poppy by M. C. Beaton 159. Her Grace's Passion by M. C. Beaton 160. Christmas at the Cupcake Café by Jenny Colgan 161. Angel Dares by Joss Stirling 162. Lost on Mars by Paul Magrs (Abandoned) 163. Ms Davenport's Christmas by M. C. Beaton 164. The Bees by Laline Paull 165. The Christmas Bake Off by Abby Clements (short story) 166. Before The Fall: Arrival by Ally Carter (short story) 167. Beswitched by Kate Saunders 168. Puppy Academy: Star on Stormy Mountain by Gill Lewis 169. Heartsong by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Jane Ray 170. Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief by Gill Lewis 171. The Boy Who Drew The Future by Rhian Ivory Quote
chesilbeach Posted December 28, 2014 Author Posted December 28, 2014 2015 BOOKS TO BE READ General: Fiction 1. A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig 2. A Fair Fight by Anna Freeman 3. Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge 4. Demolition Dad by Phil Earle 5. Emma by Alexander McCall Smith 6. Like by Ali Smith 7. Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief by Gill Lewis 8. Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope 9. Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith 10. The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cotterell Boyce 11. The Boy Who Drew The Future by Rhian Ivory 12. The Sound of Whales by Kerr Thomson 13. The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson 14. The Winter Wedding by Abby Clements General: Non-fiction 1. As You Wish by Cary Elwes 2. Film Freak by Christopher Fowler 3. Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy by Chris Harrison 4. Italian Ways by Tim Parks Quote
chesilbeach Posted December 28, 2014 Author Posted December 28, 2014 OTHER AUTHOR READING LISTS There are some authors whose work I want to read in its entirety, so I'll keep a list of their work here, and monitor how I'm doing. This is not a reading challenge or a time specific plan, just simply a list of books I want to read. J. L. CARR Key: Books I own in Italics Books I have read in Bold BOOK LIST: 1. A Day In Summer 2. A Season in Sinji 3. The Harpole Report 4. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The F. A. Cup 5. A Month In The Country 6. The Battle of Pollocks Crossing 7. What Hetty Did 8. Harpole and Foxberrow, General Publishers Status: 5/8 books read = 62.5% complete E. H. YOUNG Key: Books I own in Italics Books I have read in Bold BOOK LIST: 1. A Corn of Wheat 2. Yonder 3. Moor Fires 4. The Bridge Dividing (aka The Misses Mallett) 5. William 6. The Vicar's Daughter 7. Miss Mole 8. Jenny Wren 9. The Curate's Wife 10. Celia 11. Caravan Island 12. River Holiday 13. Chatterton Square Status: 2/13 books read = 15% complete Quote
chesilbeach Posted December 28, 2014 Author Posted December 28, 2014 PERSEPHONE BOOKS I love the books from independent publisher Persephone, not just for their beautiful book designs, but also for their ethos and the authors they chose to publish, so much so that I even started a thread just about them! http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/9960-persephone-books I made far too little progress on this list in 2013, and hope to rectify that in 2014. This is not a reading challenge or a time specific plan, just simply a list of books I want to read. Key: Books I own in Italics Books I have read in Bold BOOK LIST: 1. William - an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton 2. Mariana by Monica Dickens 3. Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple 4. Fidelity by Susan Glaspell 5. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum 6. The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski 7. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher 8. Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes 9. Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson 10. Good Things in England by Florence White 11. Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley 12. It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst 13. Consequences by E. M. Delafield 14. Farewell Leicester Square by Betty Miller 15. Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berridge 16. Saplings by Noel Streatfeild 17. Marjory Fleming by Oriel Malet 18. Every Eye by Isobel English 19. They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple 20. A Woman's Place: 1910-75 by Ruth Adam 21. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson 22. Consider the Years by Virginia Graham 23. Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy 24. Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton 25. The Montana Stories by Katherine Mansfield 26. Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell 27. The Children who lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham 28. Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski 29. The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett 30. Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll 31. A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair 32. The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme 33. The Far Cry by Emma Smith 34. Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes 35. Greenery Street by Denis Mackail 36. Lettice Delmer by Susan Miles 37. The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart 38. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey 39. Manja by Anna Gmeyner 40. The Priory by Dorothy Whipple 41. Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge 42. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding 43. The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf 44. Tea with Mr Rochester by Frances Towers 45. Good Food On The Aga by Ambrose Heath 46. Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd 47. The New House by Lettice Cooper 48. The Casino by Margaret Bonham 49. Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton 50. The World that was Ours by Hilda Bernstein 51. Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper 52. The Village by Marghanita Laski 53. Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruferguson 54. They Can't Ration These by Vicomte De Mauduit 55. Flush by Virginia Woolf 56. They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple 57. The Hopkins Manuscript by Rc Sherriff 58. Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson 59. There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult 60. Doreen by Barbara Noble 61. A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes 62. How To Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw 63. Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan 64. A Woman Novelist and Other Stories by Diana Gardner 65. Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson 66. Gardener’s Nightcap by Muriel Stuart 67. The Fortnight in September by Rc Sherriff 68. The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes 69. Journal by Katherine Mansfield 70. Plats du Jour by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd 71. The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett 72. House-Bound by Winifred Peck 73. The Young Pretenders by Edith Henrietta 74. The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple 75. On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46 by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg 76. The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby 77. Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer 78. A Very Great Profession by Nicola Beauman 79. Round about a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves 80. The Country Housewife's Book by Lucy H Yates 81. Miss Buncle's Book by De Stevenson 82. Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough 83. Making Conversation by Christine Longford 84. A New System of Domestic Cookery by Mrs Rundell 85. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple 86. To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski 87. Dimanche and Other Stories by Irène Némirovsky 88. Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon 89. The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant 90. The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens 91. Miss Buncle Married by D. E. Stevenson 92. Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill 93. The Sack of Bath by Adam Fergusson 94. No Surrender by Constance Maud 95. Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple 96. Dinners for Beginners by Rachel and Margaret Ryan 97. Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins 98. A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf 99. Patience by John Coates 100. The Persephone Book of Short Stories by Various 101. Heat Lightning by Helen Hull 102. The Exiles Return by Elisabeth De Waal 103. The Squire by Enid Bagnold 104. The Two Mrs Abbotts by De Stevenson 105. Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield 106. Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg 107. Wilfred and Eileen by Jonathan Smith 108. The Happy Tree by Rosalind Murray 109. The Country Life Cookery Book by Ambrose Heath 110. Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple 111. London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes 112. Vain Shadow by Jane Hervey Status: 11/112 books read = 10% complete Quote
chesilbeach Posted December 28, 2014 Author Posted December 28, 2014 THE ENGLISH COUNTIES CHALLENGE For more details, visit the English Counties Challenge board: http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/74-english-counties-challenge/ Key: Books I own in Italics Books I have read in Bold BOOK LIST: BEDFORDSHIRE: My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates BERKSHIRE: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame BRISTOL: The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper CAMBRIDGESHIRE: The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers CHESHIRE: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell CITY OF LONDON: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens CORNWALL: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier CUMBRIA: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome DERBYSHIRE: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks DEVON: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle DORSET: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy COUNTY DURHAM: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE: South Riding by Winifred Holtby EAST SUSSEX: Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne ESSEX: The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee GREATER LONDON*: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle GREATER MANCHESTER: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell HAMPSHIRE: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins HEREFORDSHIRE: On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin HERTFORDSHIRE: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ISLE OF WIGHT: England, England by Julian Barnes KENT: The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates LANCASHIRE: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson LEICESTERSHIRE: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend LINCOLNSHIRE: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot MERSEYSIDE: An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge NORFOLK: The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley NORTH YORKSHIRE: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen NORTHUMBERLAND: The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence OXFORDSHIRE: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford RUTLAND: Set In Stone by Robert Goddard SHROPSHIRE: Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse SOMERSET: Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore SOUTH YORKSHIRE: A Kestral For A Knave by Barry Hines STAFFORDSHIRE: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett SUFFOLK: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald SURREY: Emma by Jane Austen TYNE AND WEAR: Another World by Pat Barker WARWICKSHIRE: Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes WEST MIDLANDS: Middlemarch by George Eliot WEST SUSSEX: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons WEST YORKSHIRE: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë WILTSHIRE: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope WORCESTERSHIRE: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Status: 17/48 books read = 35% complete Quote
chesilbeach Posted December 28, 2014 Author Posted December 28, 2014 I hereby declare my 2015 reading list open!!! Quote
Athena Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 I wish you a great reading year in 2015, Claire ! Quote
Alexi Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 Happy 2015! Will enjoy comparing notes on the ECC again! Quote
Brian. Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 I hope you have grand time reading in 2015. Quote
Little Pixie Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Good Luck with your 2015 reads ! I`m quite tempted by those Persephone books. Quote
Anna Begins Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Mu goal should be 1/3 of yours Have a great time in 2015, Claire Quote
BSchultz19 Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 So many great books ahead for you this year Hope you the best and a great reading year Quote
pontalba Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Happy Reading 2015! May all your reads be great ones! Quote
chesilbeach Posted January 1, 2015 Author Posted January 1, 2015 Thank you all, hoping to find some gems among my reading this year … I wonder if I'll find many 5 star books this year? Quote
chesilbeach Posted January 1, 2015 Author Posted January 1, 2015 A Breath of French Air by H. E. Bates Synopsis (from amazon.co.uk):And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins – all ten of them, including little Oscar, the family’s new addition – bundle into the old Rolls and cross the Channel to escape the hostile elements. But far from being the balmy, sunny and perfick spot Ma Larkin hoped for, France proves less than welcoming to an eccentric English family. The tea’s weak, the furniture breakable and the hotel manager is almost as hostile as the wind and the rain they’ve brought with them! And when the manager learns that Ma and Pop are unmarried yet sharing a room under his roof, the trouble really begins … Review:After enjoying The Darling Buds of May yesterday, I couldn't resist buying the sequel today. The Larkins decamp to Brittany for a holiday, and find their hotel rather dilapidated, the food disappointing, the bar almost non-existent and even the weather letting them down. Gradually, the fortunes of the holiday turn around, new friends are made, old friends are met, and everyone has a lovely time. Again, not much happens, but the gentle affection for the family and the period made me nostalgic for a time before I was born! Lovely escapism for my first book of the year. Quote
bobblybear Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 I hope you have a great reading year ahead of you. Quote
poppyshake Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Your reading list figures are so impressive Claire .. you are a reading machine! Happy Reading in 2015! xx Quote
chesilbeach Posted January 3, 2015 Author Posted January 3, 2015 Thank you all! Didn't even open a book or pick up my kindle yesterday, but think I'll start another of my Christmas books today. Probable candidate is Long Larkin by Lindsey Barraclough - a book my OH bought me, and one I'm actually a bit dubious about as it sounds and looks quite scary, and not my usual cup of tea at all. Quote
frankie Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 I hope you have a marvelous reading year, chesil! I expect to be adding a lot of books on my wishlist after reading your reviews this year, too... A few comments on your TBR: coincidentally I have a copy of Perfect by Rachel Joyce borrowed from the library. I can't remember if it's on my wishlist or if I have another book of hers on my wishlist. But ... which edition do you have? This is the library copy I have: It's absolutely gorgeous (If you manage to overlook yellow add for the other novel. Oh yes, that's the novel I have on my wishlist by her Haha, sticker was useful for once!) I see there's another similar edition out there, though: This one's gorgeous, too! How could one choose? Anyway, about the actual book. The blurb sounds so interesting! Any chance the book is high on your TBR list? Your favorable review might just nudge me in the right direction, from just admiring the cover to actually reading it... I forget: have you read anything by Jonathan Tropper before? I know some members on here have... But I can't remember who! I see you have One Last Thing Before I Go on your TBR. I've not read it yet, but I've read two other books by him and he always makes me laugh A Breath of French Air by H. E. Bates Review:After enjoying The Darling Buds of May yesterday, I couldn't resist buying the sequel today. The Larkins decamp to Brittany for a holiday, and find their hotel rather dilapidated, the food disappointing, the bar almost non-existent and even the weather letting them down. Gradually, the fortunes of the holiday turn around, new friends are made, old friends are met, and everyone has a lovely time. Again, not much happens, but the gentle affection for the family and the period made me nostalgic for a time before I was born! Lovely escapism for my first book of the year. Sounds like just the right book to start your reading year with! Great choice! Quote
anisia Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Happy reading in 2015! I see you've already made a lovely start Quote
Alexi Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 I have Perfect on my TBR too Frankie, although I'm dubious because I think i awarded Harold Fry a mere 2/5! I have the second cover - this gorgeous, I agree! Quote
frankie Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) I have Perfect on my TBR too Frankie, although I'm dubious because I think i awarded Harold Fry a mere 2/5! I have the second cover - this gorgeous, I agree! Oh dear re: Harold Fry! I went on Goodreads and Amazon to see what kinds of rating the both have received, and HF is in the lead. But ... It's a completely different book and you might like it so much more than HF! Maybe you should be the one to read the book next and tell Claire and I if it was any good The covers are so gorgeous it's almost ridiculous Edit: I have to add: I even love the font they've used in the blurb Edited January 3, 2015 by frankie Quote
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