poppyshake Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) Books Read 2009 Books Read 2010 Books Read 2011 Books Read 2012 Books Read 2013 Books Read 2014 Books Read 2015 Books Read 2016 Total Books Read 2009 ... 49 - incomplete list (39 fiction, 9 non-fiction & 1 audio } male authors: 24 .. female authors: 25) Total books read in 2010 ... 141 (94 fiction, 9 non-fiction, 4 short stories, 2 plays & 32 audio } male authors: 75 .. female authors: 66)Total books read in 2011 ... 109 (71 fiction, 26 non-fiction, 1 short story & 11 audio } male authors: 54 .. female authors: 55)Total books read in 2012 ... 89 (50 fiction, 27 non-fiction, 3 short stories, 1 poem & 8 audio } male authors: 48 .. female authors: 41) Total books read in 2013 ... 109 (67 fiction, 21 non-fiction, 5 short stories, 1 poem, 1 essay, 1 collection & 13 audio } male authors: 57 .. female authors: 51 plus all those in the short story collection) Total Books Read 2014 ... 73 (47 fiction, 15 non-fiction, 6 short stories & 5 audio } male authors: 36, female authors: 37) Total Books Read 2015 ... 113 (83 fiction, 14 non-fiction, 2 short stories & 14 audio } ) Total Books Read 2016 ... 91 (57 fiction,15 non-fiction, 2 poetry books & 17 audio } ) Total Books Read 2017 ... 90 I'm going to try and keep it more simple this year. I'm not going to promise (or threaten ) to write any reviews as we all know how that's panned out over the last few years. Possibly I'll write a few words about books I love and/or hate. 5/5: Loved it! 4/5: Liked it enormously .. would have been a 'loved it' but for .... 3/5: Liked it! 2/5: Not really my cup of tea but, you know, tolerable! 1/5 Hated it .. probably abandoned it or SHOULD HAVE!!! January 2018 1. Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller (audio) 4/5 2. Fated (Alex Verus #1) - Benedict Jacka 4/5 3. Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Yoko Tawada 4/5 4. Sky Song - Abi Elphinstone 4/5 5. My Sweet Revenge - Jane Fallon 2/5 6. Calling Major Tom - David M Barnett 5/5 7. The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight #1) - Katherine Arden 4/5 8. The New Mrs Clifton - Elizabeth Buchan 5/5 9. Autumn - Ali Smith 4/5 10. Three Things About Elsie - Joanna Cannon (audio) 4/5 11. The Polar Bear Explorers' Club - Alex Bell 4/5 12. How To Stop Time - Matt Haig February 2018 13. The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) - Jonathan Stroud 4/5 14. The Very Thought of You - Rosie Alison 2/5 15. Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks 5/5 16. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon (audio) 4/5 17. Soul Eater (Chronicles of Darkness #3) - Michelle Paver 3/5 18. Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton 4/5 19. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter 4/5 20. Mythos - Stephen Fry (audio) 5/5 21. The Summer of Impossible Things - Rowan Coleman 3/5 March 2018 22. My Grandmothers and I - Diana Holman Hunt 4/5 23. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #25) - Agatha Christie 4/5 24. A Skinful of Shadows - Frances Hardinge (audio) 4/5 25. Neither Here, Nor There - Bill Bryson (audio) 4/5 26. The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - Imogen Hermes Gowar 27. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce #3) - Alan Bradley 4/5 28. The Rest of Their Lives - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent 4/5 29. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (audio) 5/5 30. The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn (audio) 4/5 31. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading - Lucy Mangan 4/5 32. Left of the Bang - Claire Lowdon 4/5 April 2018 33. The Power - Naomi Alderton (audio) 3/5 34. After Me Comes the Flood - Sarah Perry 2/5 35. Make More Noise: New Stories in Honour of the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage - Emma Carroll and others 4/5 36. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer (audio) 5/5 37. The Witchfinder's Sister - Beth Underdown 4/5 38. The Good People - Hannah Kent 4/5 39. The Pier Falls - Mark Haddon 5/5 40. Dear Mrs Bird - A.J. Pearce (audio) 4/5 41. Sourdough - Robin Sloane 3/5 42. The Chrysalids - John Wyndham 4/5 Edited April 27, 2018 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) The Shameful Reckoning of My Books TBR Progress 3/104 Link to Books bought/acquired in 2018 Fiction: Akunin, Boris - Murder on the Leviathan Akunin, Boris - The Death of AchillesAtkinson, Kate - Started Early Took My Dog Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin Barker, Pat - The Ghost Road Barker, Pat - Toby's Room Beauman, Ned - The Teleportation Accident Boyd, William - Any Human Heart Bradley, Alan - A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce 3) Bradley, Alan - I Am Half Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce 4) Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita Bullington, Jesse - The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart Burnett, Frances Hodgson - A Little Princess Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda Carter, Angela - Nights at the CircusCarter, Angela - The Passion of New Eve Christie, Agatha - At Bertram's HotelChristie, Agatha - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case Christie, Agatha - Death on the NileChristie, Agatha - Dumb Witness Christie, Agatha - Five Little Pigs Christie, Agatha - Hercule Poirot's Christmas Christie, Agatha - The Murder at the Vicarage Christie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles Christie, Agatha - Third Girl Collis, John Stewart - The Worm Forgives the Plough Connolly, John - Nocturnes Dennys, Joyce - Henrietta Sees it Through (Bloomsbury) Drabble, Margaret - The Red Queen Du Maurier, Daphne - The House on the Strand Du Maurier, Daphne - Jamaica Inn Eugenides, Jeffrey - My Mistress's Sparrow is DeadEwing, Barbara - The Circus of Ghosts (Mesmerist #2) Fforde, Jasper - The Big Over Easy Fforde, Jasper - The Fourth Bear 70 Fforde, Jasper - The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next #7)Fitzgerald, F.Scott - The Beautiful and the DamnedFitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night Gardner, Sally - The Red Necklace Gibbons, Stella - Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm Gogol, Nikolai - The Collected TalesGold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil Goss, Theodora - The Thorn and The Blossom Greene, Graham - Brighton Rock Haddon, Mark - The Red House Haig, Matt - The Last Family in England Hall, Louisa - The Carriage House Harkaway, Nick - AngelmakerHay, Sheridan - The Secret of Lost Things Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Hustvedt, Siri - What I LovedInstall, Deborah - A Robot in the GardenJames, Marlon - A Brief History of Seven Killings Jonasson, Jonas - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden Joyce, James - Dubliners Kingsolver, Barbara - The Lacuna Lakhous, Amara - Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio Le Carre, John - The Spy who Came in from the Cold Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - The Autumn of the Patriarch Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - No One Writes to the Colonel Morton, Kate - The House at Riverton Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince Nesbit, E - The Railway Children North, Claire - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August O'Flynn, Catherine - The News Where You Are Oksanen, Sofi - PurgeOrwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying Pratchett, Terry and Baxter, Stephen - The Long Earth Radcliffe, Ann - The Mysteries of Udolpho Ransome, Arthur - Winter Holiday Rodriguez, Deborah - The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul Sewell, Anna - Black Beauty Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John - The Pearl Steinbeck, John - The Red Pony Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend Taylor, G.P. - Mariah Mundi & the Ghost Diamonds Toksvig, Sandi - Valentine Grey Udall, Brady - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint Vickers, Sally - Miss Garnet's Angel Whipple, Dorothy - Someone at a Distance (Persephone) Williams, Nigel - East of Wimbledon Williams, Nigel - They Came From SW19 Winterson, Jeanette - Sexing the Cherry Winton, Tim - Cloudstreet Wodehouse, PG - Right Ho, Jeeves Non Fiction: De Waal, Edmund - The Hare with Amber Eyes Fitzgerald, Penelope - So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald Grove, Valerie - Laurie Lee: The Well Loved Stranger Hepworth, David - 1971 Never a Dull Moment Hodgson, Vere - Few Eggs and No Oranges (Persephone) Last, Nella - Nella Last's Peace Light, Alan - What Happened Miss Simone? Manguel, Alberto - A Reading Diary McGrath, Alistair E - CS Lewis: A Life Ozma, Alice - The Reading Promise Pratt, Jean-Lucey (Edited by Simon Garfield) - A Notable Woman White, Florence - Good Things in England (Persephone) Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 2 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 3 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 4 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 5 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 6 Edited April 5, 2018 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) Poppyshake's English Counties Challenge (the most famous books associated with each English county) For more info visit the English Counties Challenge forum Progress 31/48 (but some of those read will be re-read) Bedfordshire: My Uncle Silas by H. E. BatesBerkshire: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameBristol: The Misses Mallett by E. H. YoungBuckinghamshire: The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperCambridgeshire: The Nine Tailors by Dorothy SayersCheshire: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell City of London: A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensCornwall: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (on shelf)Cumbria: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur RansomeDerbyshire: Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDevon: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleDorset: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyCounty Durham: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens East Riding of Yorkshire: South Riding by Winifred HoltbyEast 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 GaskellHampshire: Watership Down by Richard Adams Herefordshire: On The Black Hill by Bruce ChatwinHertfordshire: Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenIsle of Wight: The Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamKent: The Darling Buds of May by H. E. BatesLancashire: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Leicestershire: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue TownsendLincolnshire: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Merseyside: An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge Norfolk: The Go-Between by L. P. HartleyNorth Yorkshire: Dracula by Bram StokerNorthamptonshire: Mansfield Park by Jane AustenNorthumberland: The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin Nottinghamshire: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LawrenceOxfordshire: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordRutland: Set In Stone by Robert Goddard Shropshire: Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse Somerset: Lorna Doone by R. D. BlackmoreSouth Yorkshire: A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry HinesStaffordshire: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettSuffolk: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Surrey: The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsTyne and Wear: Another World by Pat Barker Warwickshire: Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas HughesWest Midlands: Middlemarch by George Eliot West Sussex: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons West Yorkshire: Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëWiltshire: Barchester Towers by Anthony TrollopeWorcestershire: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Edited February 21, 2018 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) WISHLIST Fiction: The Girl in the Tower - Katherine Arden Bear Town - Fredrik Backman Toymakers - Robert Dinsdale Caraval (Caraval #1) - Stephanie Garber Fly By Night - Frances Hardinge Whistle In The Dark - Emma Healey Non Fiction: Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field - John Lewis-Stempel The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland - John Lewis-Stempel The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood - John Lewis-Stempel Where Poppies Blow - John Lewis-Stempel Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell Edited April 27, 2018 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) Books Bought/Acquired in 2018 Progress 21/42 Fiction: Aaronovitch, Ben - The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London #6) Arden, Katherine - The Bear and the Nightingale Barnett, David M. - Calling Major Tom Bell, Alex - The Polar Bear Explorers' Club Buchan, Elizabeth - The New Mrs Clifton Carroll, Emma (and others) - Make More Noise Didierlaurent, Jean Paul - The Rest of Their Lives Divry, Sophie - Madame Bovary of the Suburbs Driver, Sarah - Sky (The Huntress #2) Fridlund, Emily - History of Wolves Haddon, Mark - The Pier Falls Haig, Matt - How To Stop Time Hermes Gowar, Imogen - The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Hogan, Ruth - The Keeper of Lost Things Jacka, Benedict - Fated (Alex Verus #1) Kent, Hannah - The Good People Kidd, Jess - The Hoarder Lowdon, Claire - Left of the Bang McCaughgrean, Geraldine - Where the World Ends Nicholls, Sally - Things a Bright Girl Can Do Niven, Jennifer - All the Bright Places Paul, Laline - The Ice Paver, Michelle - Oath Breaker (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness #5) Perry, Sarah - After Me Comes the Flood Pratchett, Terry - A Hatful of Sky Rooney, Sally - Conversations with Friends Smith, Ali - Autumn Stroud, Jonathan - The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & co #1) Stroud, Jonathan - The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & co #2) Sukegawa, Durian - Sweet Bean Paste Sund, Erik Axl - The Crow Girl Tawada, Yoko - Memoirs of a Polar Bear Udall, Tor - A Thousand Paper Birds White, Frank - There Was a Time Non-Fiction Alderton, Dolly - Everything I Know About Love Clark, Dodie - Secrets for the Mad Ellis, Samantha - Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life Hanks, Tom - Uncommon Type Holman-Hunt, Diana - My Grandmothers and I Mangan, Lucy - Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading Nunn, Emily - The Comfort Food Diaries Patterson, Sylvia - I'm Not with the Band Edited April 27, 2018 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Janet Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Is your thread open? If not, let me know and I'll delete. I just wanted to say what a lovely time I had with you guys and Claire yesterday. The time flew by! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 18 hours ago, Janet said: Is your thread open? If not, let me know and I'll delete. I just wanted to say what a lovely time I had with you guys and Claire yesterday. The time flew by! It IS open Janet It's not entirely tidy and the books are strewn all over the floor but you're very welcome indeed It was wonderful to see you and Claire, the best day I've had in ages .. here's to the next one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 I wish you a wonderful year of reading in 2018, Kay ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen.d Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Have a great reading year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Have a great reading year in 2018, Kay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 5, 2018 Author Share Posted April 5, 2018 On 2/22/2018 at 9:50 AM, Athena said: I wish you a wonderful year of reading in 2018, Kay ! On 2/25/2018 at 7:35 PM, karen.d said: Have a great reading year! On 3/3/2018 at 8:28 PM, bobblybear said: Have a great reading year in 2018, Kay! Thank you all I've been shockingly remiss about updating this blog I could make lots of excuses but I won't .. I'll just try and do better. Usually I tail off towards the end of the year but this year I've started off badly .. perhaps I'll improve .. it'll be the reverse of all other years My reading is still going relatively well so that's a positive. These are always the good reading months for me though .. when the days are still cold etc. Nothing much to distract, no days or trips out, no holidays (and I hardly ever read on holiday .. unless it's sitting on a beach weather .. which it hardly ever is ) no long walks in the sunshine. I love winter reading and I still count it as winter and will until the weather positively warms up. Today I did go out for a walk without a coat mind you so it can't be long now. Hope you're all having a good reading year so far xx <3 xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I'm glad your reading is going well at least . For myself I don't think I read more in certain seasons compared with other ones. But I've only been tracking it a few years now, so who knows what hidden statistic could be there.. I hope you'll get some warmer weather soon . Today here it's still cold right now but it is sunny and should warm up soon to a nice temperature . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Very very late to say this to you, poppyshake, but I wish you the most amazing reading year in 2018! I see you've read 34 books already?!? Bloody hell! Guns ablaze! I saw on Goodreads that you'd already read Left of the Bang And you'd given it quite a good rating!! I'm very pleased if you liked it! I've finally finished the Manson book I was reading for months and months. I'll be starting the Eleanor book this weekend! I honestly cannot wait! The Manson book was non-fiction and it took me ages, and the book before that was a re-read, I think, so I'm ever so much looking forward to reading some new fiction!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 On 4/6/2018 at 8:19 AM, Athena said: I'm glad your reading is going well at least . For myself I don't think I read more in certain seasons compared with other ones. But I've only been tracking it a few years now, so who knows what hidden statistic could be there.. I hope you'll get some warmer weather soon . Today here it's still cold right now but it is sunny and should warm up soon to a nice temperature . Thanks Gaia We did have some lovely warm weather last week .. but it's drizzly and cold again now Good job that reading is a hot and cold weather pursuit ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 On 4/6/2018 at 10:43 PM, frankie said: Very very late to say this to you, poppyshake, but I wish you the most amazing reading year in 2018! I see you've read 34 books already?!? Bloody hell! Guns ablaze! I saw on Goodreads that you'd already read Left of the Bang And you'd given it quite a good rating!! I'm very pleased if you liked it! I've finally finished the Manson book I was reading for months and months. I'll be starting the Eleanor book this weekend! I honestly cannot wait! The Manson book was non-fiction and it took me ages, and the book before that was a re-read, I think, so I'm ever so much looking forward to reading some new fiction!! Thank you my lovely .. I hope you have an amazing year too I have indeed read Left of the Bang already and really enjoyed it .. thank you so much You know how it is, a day turned up which seemed just the right day to begin it .. so I did I hope you get on alright with Eleanor ... fingers crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 20 hours ago, poppyshake said: Thanks Gaia We did have some lovely warm weather last week .. but it's drizzly and cold again now Good job that reading is a hot and cold weather pursuit ! That's very true !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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