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For Kindle: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet- David Mitchell
The Hare With The Amber Eyes - ?
Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
Borrowed:
On the Beach -Nevil Shute
Tom's Midnight Garden - Phillipa Pearce
When I Was Joe- Keren David
The Brooklyn Follies- Paul Auster
Mentioned already, but I love the first lines of Nineteen Eighty Four and Rebecca and my fave opening line ever is:
Marley was dead to begin with. ~ A Christmas Carol, Dickens.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Mauruier
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Actually I'm not happy with this list. Gonna rethink/repost later...
I hardly read a thing during my pregnancy as I had the concentration span of a gnat. Now my twins are 12 weeks and the urge to read is back but I have barely any time and am knackered!
I'm slowly working my way through To Kill a Mockingbird.
When I get in a reading rut it can take months to...
Purchased:
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Stieg Larsson 'Girl' trilogy
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
Borrowed:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer
The Wedding...
I thought it was really interesting. I liked the way everything was put into historical and social context and I liked the fact that at the end it was not completely proven that the main suspect was guilty (although quite clearly was.)
I only found the actual discovery of the body and...
My guilty secret isn't lying about books I haven't read, but pretending not to like popular genre fiction - crime thrillers, chick lit etc. I'm in a reading group that likes to think its a bit high-brow and literary (book snobs) so I never mention the Kathy Reichs or Marian Keyes I've read.
I got so many diaries for last Christmas that I kept one of them solely for recording when I started and finished reading books. I'm really pleased I've done it as it's nice to flick back through to see what I was reading at the start of the year and also to see which months I read more than...