Journal Entry 1 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Since June 2006
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
The Company: The Story of a Murderer by Arabella Edge
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dead Cat Bounce by Damien Owen
Miss Fanny's Voice by Dorit Peleg
The Perfect Soldier by Graham Hurley
Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
An Englishman in Paris by Michael Saddler & Peter Mayle
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Bagels for Breakfast by Neil Rose
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Eleven Hours by Paullina Simons
A Necessary End by Peter Robinson
Under the Dragon: Travels in Burma by Rory McLean
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T. E. Carhart
Dead Beat by Val McDermid
Kick Back by Val McDermid
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Phantom of Manhattn by Frederick Forsyth
As it is in Heaven by Niall Williams
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
In the Red Kitchen by Michele Roberts
Crack Down by Val McDermid
Miss Samilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg
Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Tanamera by Noel Barber
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Holy Pictures by Clare Boylan
Knots & Crosses by Ian Rankin
Tully by Paullina Simons
How Do You Want Me? by Ruby Wax
Hearing Birds Fly ~ A Nomadic Year in Mongolia by Louisa Waugh
White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell
Hide & Seek by Ian Rankin
Maigret and the Wine Merchant by Georges Simenon
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini


Books Read 2007
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Dead Right by Peter Robinson
The Little House by Philippa Gregory
Tooth & Nail by Ian Rankin
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane ~ 10/10
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim
Objects of Desire by CJ Emerson
Virgin ~ Prelude to the Throne by Robin Maxwell
The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
Sorting Out Billy by Jo Brand
The Mermaids Singing by Val Mc Dermid
The Corpse's Tale by Katherine John
The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
The Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra ~ 10/10 ~ (March)
At Ruby's by Frank Delaney
Hound by George Green
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Helene Hanff
Atonement by Ian McEwan
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
Coastliners by Joanna Harris
Where are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Almost There by Nuala O'Faolain ~ (April)
Mother Love, Deadly Love by Andrea Peyser
The Oatmeal Ark by Rory MacLean
Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Tokyo by Mo Hayder
The Boy I Love by Marion Husband
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ~ (May)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Theory of War by Joan Brady
We wish to infrom you that tomorrow we will be killed with our famalies by Philip Gourevitch
Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain
A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
Blue Genes by Val McDermid
The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Small Island by Andrea Levy ~ (June)
Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rough Trade by Dominigue Moantti
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx 10/10
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Manhattan Is My Beat by Jeffery Deaver
Two in a Boat by Gwyneth Lewis
Crossroad Blues by Ace Atkins ~ (July)
What's Your Poo Telling You? by Josh Richman & Anish Sheth
Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard
Firewall by Henning Mankell
Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge
Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
Spies by Michael Frayn
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Vanishing Acts Jodi Picoult > ~ (August)
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritson
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J K Rowling
He Who Fears the Wolf by Karrin Fossum
The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon
Aberystwyth - Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker by Michaek Jecks ~ (September)
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Death on the Nile by Agathe Christie
The Wise Woman by Phillipa Gregory
The Statment by Brian Moore
Stovold's Mornington Crescent Alamanac 2002 by Graeme Garden
Dark Covenant by Peter Luther
Dead Simple by Peter James
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo ~ (October)
Tainted Blood by Arnaldur Indriđason
Courting Trouble by Lisa Scottline
Bodily Secrets by William Trevor
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands by Fred Vargas
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Blood Red Rivers by Jean-Christopge Grange
Soft Voices Whisperingby Adrienne Dines ~ (November)
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
Murder at the Mendel by Gail Bowen
Sunrise on Katsatsu Harbour by Dan Maloney
Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
Self's Punishment by Bernhard Schlink
The New Bloomsday Book Harry Blamires
Ulysses by James Joyce
Death du Jour Kathy Reichs ~ (December)
No Bird Sings by Jo Bannister
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van Gulik
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
The War of Jenkin's Ear by Michael Morpurgo
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Outsider in Amsterdam by Janwillem van de Wetering
Shadow Baby by Margaret Forster
The Snake in Sydney by Michael Larsen
The Poison That Facinates Jennifer Clement

~ Page count for 2007 ~ 33,298 ~
~ Book count for 2007 ~ 109


Books Read 2008
A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard 10/10 (January)
Star Struck by Val McDermid
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Holy Smoke by Tonino Benacquista
Dirt in the Well by Linda Lyon
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Paddy's Lament by Thomas Gallagher
Murder in the Central Cimmittee by Manuel Valasquez Montalban
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Murder in Amsterdam by A C Baantjer
Death From the Woods by Brigitte Aubert ~ (February)
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel
No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
Gentlemen & Players Joanne Harris
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson
From Hereabouts Hill by Micheal Morpurgo
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
A Long Finish by Micheal Dibden
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark ~ (March)
Borkman's Point by Harkan Nesser
The Colour by Rose Tremain
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
The Black Book by Ian Rankin
My Name is Red by Orphan Pamuk ~ (April)
Monster by Jonathen Kellerman
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
A Little White Death John Lawton
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Night by Edna O'Brien
Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
Redbreast by Jo Nesbø ~ (May)
Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block
The Talanted Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
The Red Azalea by Anchee Min
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin ~ (10/10)
Varying States of Grace by Ian Stephen
Providence II: Poems and Photographs by Ian Stephen
The Dead Place Stephen Booth
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby ~ (10/10)
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Law of Dreams by Peter Brehrens ~ (June)
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Days Without Number by Robert Goddard
March by Geraldine Brooks
Equus by Peter Shaffer
Binu and the Great Wall of China by Su Tong
Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark
The Hill Batchelors by William Trevor
Everyman's Poetry ~ W B Yeats selected by John Kelly
Dispensation of Death by Michael jecks
Property by Valerie Martin ~ (July)
Union Jack by Val Mcdermid
One Man's Place by John F. Deane
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Where Your Wings Were by David Almond
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Desperadoes by Joseph O'Connor
The Tenderness of Wolves by Sepf Penney
The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
The Confessions of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth ~ (August)
Where or When by Anita Shreve
Five Quaters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Two of Us - My Life With John Thaw by Shelia Hancock
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
Choclate by Joanne Harris
Lodestar by Peter Nichols
Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
The Pied Piper by Ridley Pearson ~ (September)
The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Show Me the Sky by Nicholas Hogg
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Little Face by Sophie Hannah
Last Temptation by Val McDermid
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wide Sargassa Sea by Jean Rhys
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Torment of Others by Val McDermid
Pemberely by Emma Tennant ~ (October)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Stolen by Tess Gerritsen
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
Sleep Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
Small Circle of Beings by Damon Galgut
Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin
The Gathering by Anne Enright ~ (November)
Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon
Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan
The Temptation of Eileen Hughes Brian Moore ~ (December)
Dissolution by C J Sansom
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Waking by T M Jenkins
The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari
Star Gazing by Linda Gillard
Drifting with the River Gods by Martin Quigley
Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
~ Book count for 2008 ~ 113 ~
~ Page count for 2008 ~ 36,446 ~


Books read 2009
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth ~ (January)
Carolan's Farewell by Charles Foran
Memoirs of A Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Hemlock at Vespers by Peter Tremayne
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 10/10
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund Audiobook ~ (February)
The Savage Garden Mark Mills
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
Skellig by David Almond
A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman
Letters Home by Fergal Keane
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carlofiglio
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene ~ (March)
The Distant Echo by Val mcDermid
Kristin Lavransdatter 1:Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
Watchman by Ian Rankin
Dark Fire by CJ Sansom
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elizabeth Hyde ~ (April)
Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Voices by Arnaldur Indridason
The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen

~ Book count for 2009 ~ 25 ~
~ Page count for 2009 ~ 8,541 ~