bookwormmum Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) Here are my reads so far for this year. I will update each month. Please feel free to comment on any. Jan 2008 The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman Wicked - Gregory Maguire How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell The Baby Trail - Sinead Moriarty Feb 2008 The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall Girl with a Pearl Earing - Tracy Chevalier A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly The Dead of Summer - Camilla Way Things to Make & Mend - Ruth Thomas Before I Die - Jenny Downham Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly Q & A - Vikas Swarup March 2008 The Only Boy For Me - Gil McNeil Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka 26a - Diana Evans The Family Tree - Carole Cadwalladr Stardust - Neil Gaiman The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen April 2008 Finding Violet Park - Jenny Valentine The Birds & the Bees - Milly Johnson The Matchbreaker - Chris Manby Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris Growing Up Again - Catriona McCloud I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith May 2008 Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones Mrs Zhivago of Queen's Park - Olivia Lichtenstein Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons June 2008 Things I Want my Daughters to Know - Elizabeth Noble Knitting - Anne Bartlett The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank Just in Case - Meg Rosoff July 2008 Highland Fling - Katie Fforde What was lost - Catherine O'Flynn Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal - Lucy Cavendish The Observations - Jane Harris Odd One Out - Lissa Evans Divas Don't Knit - Gil McNeil Playing with the Grown-ups - Sophie Dahl Friends Like These - Danny Wallace Pay it Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde The Wedding Date - Liz Young Aug 2008 In My Sister's Shoes - Sinead Moriarty In the Wee small Hours - Gil McNeil Addition - Toni Jordan The Flood - David Maine Astrid & Veronika - Linda Olsson The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood Sept 2008 A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo Holly's Inbox, Scandal in the City - Holly Denham New Moon - Stephenie Meyer The Mother & Daughter Diaries - Clare Shaw The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The House at Riverton - Kate Morton The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller The Mathematics of Love - Emma Darwin Oct 2008 Claudia, Daughter of Rome - Antoinette May Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday Needles & Pearls - Gil McNeil Spa Wars - Chris Manby A Small Part of History - Peggy Elliott A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, A novel - Nicholas Drayson By The Time You Read This - Lola Jaye Me & Mr Darcy - Alexandra Potter One Night at the Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat Edited November 1, 2008 by bookwormmum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nici Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Wow that's quite a list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo-Bridge Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 That is a really amazing list! What would you say has been your favourite of the year so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted September 21, 2008 Author Share Posted September 21, 2008 The one that I really loved & still feel sad it ended was the 1st read. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice. I'm not sure why I loved it so much, but reading it was like wrapping a huge duvet round me. I have many that I that I have enjoyed, but I know this one will be a comfort read in time to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 I'm looking forward to reading The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets That is a great list you have there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyanddandy Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 I have read a few on your list - I spy a fellow knitter - I don't know anyone else who has read Gil McNeil - 'Diva's Don't Knit' except me!! Are you on Ravelry? What did you think of Joshua Ferris? My review is in the blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loopyloo100 Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 You certainly get through more books than me! I'm hoping to read I Capture the Castle at some point although I'll probably get it from the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 I have read a few on your list - I spy a fellow knitter - I don't know anyone else who has read Gil McNeil - 'Diva's Don't Knit' except me!! Are you on Ravelry? What did you think of Joshua Ferris? My review is in the blog. Oh no, not a knitter at all, I don't know how. My mum was a big knitter when I was a child. Our wardrobe was always full of her creations, but she became ill when I was 10 and cannot control her right hand enough now to continue and I never had the patience before then to learn. Despite my lack of ability I can't get enough of knitting themed prose at the moment. In fact I started a thread on it because I'm looking for more reads. It all started when I read The Friday Night Knitting Club last year. I loved Divas Don't Knit and I'm currently waiting to get hold of the follow up Needles & Pearls from the library. I was a little bit disappointed by the Joshua Ferris. I wanted it to be funnier than it was and it was just a little depressing, but all the too true. I will have to have a look at your review hun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 I'm looking forward to reading The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets That is a great list you have there Oh dear, now I've bigged it up I hope your not disappointed when you do get to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 You certainly get through more books than me! I spead a lot of time on the bus to work to an office bang in the middle of nowhere, so I have nothing else to distract me. I'm hoping to read I Capture the Castle at some point although I'll probably get it from the library. Do, it's lovely. It also has one of my favourite first lines, second only to Pride & Prejudice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo-Bridge Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 The one that I really loved & still feel sad it ended was the 1st read. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice. I'm not sure why I loved it so much, but reading it was like wrapping a huge duvet round me.I have many that I that I have enjoyed, but I know this one will be a comfort read in time to come. That sounds lovely! What is the book about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 That sounds lovely! What is the book about? It's a coming of age novel set in the 1950s. It's one of those books where not a lot seems to happen, but really a lot is happening, if you get what I mean. It's all about friendship & family and learning about what love really is. Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family at the start of the rock'n'roll era. Penelope longs to be grown-up and to fall in love; but various rather inconvenient things keep getting in her way. Like her mother, a stunning but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age, her younger brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that isn't Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry... Eva Rice's novel is an utterly engrossing read, in the tradition of Nancy Mitford and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE. from Lovereading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 Just updated with September's reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 Oct 2008 Books Claudia, Daughter of Rome - Antoinette May Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday Needles & Pearls - Gil McNeil Spa Wars - Chris Manby A Small Part of History - Peggy Elliott A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, A novel - Nicholas Drayson By The Time You Read This - Lola Jaye Me & Mr Darcy - Alexandra Potter One Night at the Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 I spead a lot of time on the bus to work to an office bang in the middle of nowhere, so I have nothing else to distract me. *laughs* I know what you mean. I spend 2,5 hours commuting between home and work every day. It was a real pain until I started taking a book with me... now it's turned into 2 hours of reading time to look forward to every morning when I wake up You have a very impressive list here, with some great books! I read The kite runner recently and loved it. How did you find A thousand splendid suns y comparison? I plan to read it soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookwormmum Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 *laughs* I know what you mean. I spend 2,5 hours commuting between home and work every day. It was a real pain until I started taking a book with me... now it's turned into 2 hours of reading time to look forward to every morning when I wake up You have a very impressive list here, with some great books! I read The kite runner recently and loved it. How did you find A thousand splendid suns y comparison? I plan to read it soon. While I loved The Kite Runner, I adored A Thousand Splendid Suns. I warmed & understood the characters more But I don't know if that was down to the book being set from female eyes. Like TKR its not always comfortable reading, but worth it. I'll like to see what he could do with a story set outside the history of Afghanistan. BTW - how are you enjoying The Stepmother? I've had it on by TBR for ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 While I loved The Kite Runner, I adored A Thousand Splendid Suns. That means I have a fantastic read ahead of me! *grins* BTW - how are you enjoying The Stepmother? I've had it on by TBR for ages. I just started it today and I'm finding it a bit difficult to get into. The first person voice is annoying me a bit... But it's just the beginning so hopefully the story will pick up soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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