Lauraloves Reads 2016

[lauraloves]

Hi everyone - after a couple of years away I'm back! long story short I had a little boy - Ethan 14 months - and I had a lot of health issues and problems but I'm really getting back into reading so I thought it was time to come back!

Books read 2010 - 56
Books read 2011 - 76
Books read 2012 - 76
Books read 2013 - 40
Books read 2014 - 18
Books read 2015 - 42
Books read 2016 - 34

Edited October 16, 2016 by lauraloves

[lauraloves]

Books read 2016

January

1) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - J.K. Rowling

2) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

3)Quidditch Through the Ages - J.K. Rowling

4)The Hunger Games Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

5)The Hunger Games Mockingjay - J.K. Rowling

 

February

6)The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards

7)Just William - Richmal Crompton

 

March

8)Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J. K. Rowling

9)The Unmumsy Mum - Sarah Turner

10)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling

11)A Whole Lot of History - Kimberley Walsh

12)A Daughters Secret - Eleanor Moran

 

April

13)Alex Rider Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz

14)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban - J.K. Rowling

 

May

​15)Alex Rider Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz

16)Our Zoo - June Mottershed

 

June

17)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling

18)Alex Rider Skeleton Key - Anthony Horowitz

 

July

19)The Fifth Wave - Rick Yancey

20) The Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen

21)Everthing Everything - Nicola Yoon

22)Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage - Milly Johnson

 

August

​23)Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - J.K. Rowling

​24)Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

​25)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling

 

September

26)How to Find Love in a Bookshop - Veronica Henry

27)Village of Secrets - Caroline Moorehead

28)The Sunshine and Biscotti Club - Jenny Oliver

29)Divergent - Veronica Roth

30)Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

31)When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr

 

October

32)City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare

33)Dream a Little Dream - Giovanna Fletcher

34)Local Girl Missing - Clare Douglas
November
December

Edited October 16, 2016 by lauraloves

[lauraloves]

TBR List


I've got a fairly minimal list at the minute compared to the hundreds I have before as most of my books are at my mother in laws house or in storage until we get our house built.

 

Total 1/1/2016 - 25

Total 2016 - 50

 

Marc Acito - How I Paid for College

Katarina Bivald - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Fanny Blake - With a Friend Like You
Oliver Bowden - Assassins Creed Renaissance

Bill Bryson -Shakespeare

Cassandra Clare - City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare - City of Lost Souls

Cassandra Clare - Lady Midnight

Jenny Colgan - The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

Diney Costeloe - The Girl With No Name

Sarah Crossan - Resist
Lucy Diamond - Summer at Shell Cottage

Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle

Rebecca Done - This Secret Were Keeping

Claire Douglas - Local Girl Missing

Harriet Evens - The Butterfly Summer

Jane Fallon - Strictly Between Us

Lizzie K. Foley - Remarkable

Gayle Forman - If I Stay

Claire Fuller Our Endless Numbered Days

Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoos Calling

Lisa Genova - Love Anthony

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Robert Harris - Fatherland
Melissa Hill - The Hotel on Mulberry Bay
Wendy Holden - Born Survivor

Christopher Huff - Haunted Second World War Airfields

Renee Knight - Disclaimer
Alex Lake - After Anna

Dayna Lorentz - No Safety in Numbers

Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom

M​arissa Meyer - Cinder
Caitlin Moran - How to be a Woman

Kass Morgan - The 100
Kate Morton - The Lake House

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You​
Terry Pratchet - The Colour of Magic

Jim Quillen - Inside ​Alcatraz

​Lucy Ribchester - The Amber Shadows
Lucinda Riley - The Angel Tree

Kate Riorden - ​The Shadow Hour
Rick Riorden - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Caroline Roberts - The Cosy Tea Shop in the Castle

Abbie Rushton - Unspeakable

Rainbow Row​ell - Fangirl
J.K Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowing - Harry​ Potter The Creature Vault

​Abbie Rushton - Unspeakable
Lulu Taylor - The Winter Children

Robyn Walker - The Women Who Spied for Britain

Denise Welch - Starting Over

Edited October 16, 2016 by lauraloves

[lauraloves]

Wishlist

 

Cecelia Ahern - A Place Called Here

Michael Alexander - Confessions of a Male Nurse

Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Jennifer Bardsley - Genises Girl

Nina Bawden - Carries War

Christina Benjamin - The Geneva Project

Meave Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Frankie Boyle - Work, Consume, Die

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

Albert Brooks - 2030 The Real Story of What Happens to America

Rapheal Brous - I Am Max Lamm

Rob Buyea - Because of Mr Terupt

Rachel Caine - Glass Houses

Emma Carroll - Frost Hallow Hall

John Le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Kristen Cast - Marked

Diane Chamberlain - The Midwifes Confession

Diane Chamberlain - Summers Child

Joelle Charbonneau - The Testing

Sam Christer - The Turin Shroud Secret

Genivieve Cogman - The Invisable Library

Rachel Cohn - Dash and Lilys Book of Dares

Cheryl Cole - My Story

Allie Condie - Atlantia

Michael Cunningham - A Home at the End of The World

Annie Darling - The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts

James Dashner - A Munity in Time

Degli - Block 11

Isla Dewar - Dancing in a Distant Place

Colin Dexter - Last Book to Woodstock

Paul Dowswell - Auslander

Jaycee Dugard - A Stolen Life

Nick Edwards - In Stiches

Antonia Forest - Autumn Term

Cornelia Funke - Inkheart

Micheal Grant - Gone

Neil Gaimen - Good Omens

Neil Gaimen - Neverwhere

Eva Gray - Behind the Gates

Jane Green - Jemima J

Ellie Griffiths - The Crossing Places

Heather Gudenhauf - Little Mercies

Aramentia Hall - Dot

Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas

Helen Hanff -  84 Charing Cross Road

Johan Harstad -  172 Hours on the Moon

Veronica Henry - The Long Weekend

Charlie Higson - Silverfin

Barry Hines - A Kestral for a Knave

James Holland - Darkest Hour

Anthony Horowitz - The Power of Five

Helen Humphries - Conventry 

P.D. James - Innocent Blood

Pam Jenoff - The Winter Guest

Millie Johnson - The Yorkshire Pudding Club

Katie Kavinsky - Awaken

Liz Kessler - A Year Without Autumn 

Stephen King - Under the Dome

John Knowles - A Separate Peace

Mike Lancaster - 0.4

Lori Lansens - The Girls

Mark Logue - The Kings Speech

Rosamud Lupton - Afterwards

Andrea McLean - Confessions of a Good Girl

Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy

L. M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Amy Sue Nathan - The Glass Wives

Sara Nelson - So Many Books So Little Time

Caragg M O'Brian - Birthmarked

Maggie O'Farrell - After You've Gone

Joel Ohmen - Meritopolsis

Amanda Owen - A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepardess

Julie Pandl - Memoirs of a Sunday Brunch

Katherine Patterson - Bridge to Teribitha

Stephanie Perkins - Summer Days and Summe Nights

Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank

Margaret Peterson Haddix - Among the Hidden

Jodi Picoult - Between the Lines

Gabriella Poole - Secret Lives

Doreen Rapport - Beyond Courage 

James Rebanks - The Shepards Life

Erica Marie Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Sean Reymont - Bomb Hunters

Veronica Roth - Insurgent

Rainbow Rowell - Attachments

Lorna Sage - Bad Blood

Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?

Rita Sepetys - Between Shades of Grey

Sarah Shepard - Pretty Little Liars

L.J. Smith - The Vampire Diaries

Emily St John Mandel - The Lola Quartet

Roger Sutton - A Family of Readers

Ian Tregillis - Bitter Seeds

John Updike - Couples

S. J. Watson - Before I Go to Sleep

Eliza Wass - The Cresswell Plot

Wendy Wax - While We Were Watching Downton Abbey

Elizabeth Wein - Code Name Verity

Arabella Weir - Does my Bum Look Big in This?

Geoff Wikes - Alone in Berlin

Geoffrey Willians - Molesworth

Connie Willis - Blackout

N. D Wilson - 100 Cupboards

Ben Woolfenden - The Ruins of Time

Connie Worth - Call The Midwife

Rick Yancy - The Infinate Sea

Edited September 16, 2016 by lauraloves

[lauraloves]

Books Brought

 

• The Unmumsy Mum - Sarah Turner
• Disclaimer - Renee Knight

• Denise Walsh - Starting Over (not a book I would have normally picked but it was a gift so I'll give it a go!)

• Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell

• The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith

• The Shadow Hour - Kate Riordan

• The 100 - Kass Morgan

• Cinder - Marissa Meyer

  Inside Alcatraz - Jim Quillen
• Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
• Strictly Between Us - Jane Fallon
• Harry Potter The Creature Vault - J.K. Rowling
• When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
• Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald
• Local Girl Missing - Claire Douglas
• The Girl WIth No Name - Diney Costelo

Edited October 16, 2016 by lauraloves

[lauraloves]

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[lauraloves]

Well that's my minimal book log for the year

[bobblybear]

Welcome back, Laura! And congrats on your little boy.

 

All the best for your reading in 2016.

[Alexi]

Good to see you back Laura!

 

Congratulations on the addition

[chaliepud]

Welcome back Laura. Congratulations on your little boy, does he like a good book too?

[lauraloves]

Thanks everyone . he is indeed a mini bookworm! he loves the 'that's not my . .. ' series! It's a touchy feely book series and he must have around 12!

[chaliepud]

Thanks everyone . he is indeed a mini bookworm! he loves the 'that's not my . .. ' series! It's a touchy feely book series and he must have around 12!

Lovely!

[Chrissy]

Welcome back.

Many, many Congratulations on your baby.

Finally, I hope your health issues have been sorted.

 

 

[Athena]

Welcome back, I wish you a great reading year in 2016 . How cute Ethan loves those books!

[lauraloves]

Thank you I have a Waterstones voucher to spend today that I got for Christmas so happy happy me

[frankie]

Happy reading in 2016, Laura! I went through your TBR pile, and was wondering: will you be reading the Harry Potter books for the very first time? If so, you're in for such a great treat!! 

[Kylie]

Welcome back Laura! So glad to have you here again.

 

Congrats on the addition to your family. I'm glad to see you've already been busily making him into a reader (I'm doing the same to my niece ).

[lauraloves]

Happy reading in 2016, Laura! I went through your TBR pile, and was wondering: will you be reading the Harry Potter books for the very first time? If so, you're in for such a great treat!! 

 

Unfortunately not reading the Harry Potter books for the first time, I've read them a few times but not for a few years so I'm hoping that the magic is back in them for me again - but you can't ever loose the magic of Harry Potter if that makes sense! The OH brought me a new set for Christmas as my originals are a bit battered so I'm really looking forward to reading them again hehe!

 

Welcome back Laura! So glad to have you here again.

 

Congrats on the addition to your family. I'm glad to see you've already been busily making him into a reader (I'm doing the same to my niece ).

 

 

Thank you I love the amount of childrens/baby books you can get now and I keep buying them for him. He has one with a digger on at the minute which is his most favourite! 

[frankie]

Unfortunately not reading the Harry Potter books for the first time, I've read them a few times but not for a few years so I'm hoping that the magic is back in them for me again - but you can't ever loose the magic of Harry Potter if that makes sense! The OH brought me a new set for Christmas as my originals are a bit battered so I'm really looking forward to reading them again hehe!

 

Oh, the Harry Potters are always a delight and will stand the trial of time. I think they are one (I mean seven) of those books that you can just read time and a time again, and will always love them And at least you are reading them as new editions for the first time  

[chaliepud]

I have The Italian Girl and The Seven Sisters (first of 7!  ) by Lucinda Riley on my TBR shelves, have you read any of her other books? 

[lauraloves]

Oh, the Harry Potters are always a delight and will stand the trial of time. I think they are one (I mean seven) of those books that you can just read time and a time again, and will always love them And at least you are reading them as new editions for the first time

 

I am so Harry Potter obsessed again at the minute I just can't wait to read them again!

 

  

I have The Italian Girl and The Seven Sisters (first of 7!  ) by Lucinda Riley on my TBR shelves, have you read any of her other books?

 

I haven't yet but I've just looked on Amazon of those books you mentioned and they sound good too so I might just have to add those to my wish list too!

[chaliepud]

I haven't yet but I've just looked on Amazon of those books you mentioned and they sound good too so I might just have to add those to my wish list too!

Oops sorry, didn't mean to add to your wish list!

[lauraloves]

Oops sorry, didn't mean to add to your wish list!

Hehe it's one of the things I've been missing about the forum - book recommendations!

[lauraloves]

So my mother-in-law gave me a Waterstones voucher for Christmas and these turned up today

 

The Yorkshire Sheperdess - Amanda Owen

Dead until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Divergent - Veronica Roth

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

Assassins Creed Renaissance -Oliver Bowden

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchet

How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran

[chaliepud]

So my mother-in-law gave me a Waterstones voucher for Christmas and these turned up today

 

The Yorkshire Sheperdess - Amanda Owen

Dead until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Divergent - Veronica Roth

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

Assassins Creed Renaissance -Oliver Bowden

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchet

How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran

Looks like you don't need much help with recommendations! :D