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What to say about myself? I love reading (obviously!), dancing, visiting the theatre - all the usual stuff.

I read all sorts of things, but tend towards crime & science fiction more often than not.


The books I've really enjoyed, I tend to keep (although can be persuaded to loan them out to people I know) - so they're not all registered here. Some of those kept' are:

Andrew Eames - The 8:55 to Baghdad
Jostein Gaarder - Sophies World
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night Time
Salam Pax - Baghdad Blog
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother
Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Kate Atkinson - When will there be good news
Paulo Cueolo - The Alchemist
All the Quint Dalrymple novels by Paul Johnston
All the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde
All the Nursery Crime novels by Jasper Fforde
David Eagleman - SUM: Forty tales from the afterlives
Jon McGregor - Even the Dogs

In the Autumn of 2010 I decided to have a massive wild release of 50 books to 'celebrate' my birthday. To ease the task I started in mid-August (while the Festival was on) and tried to leave books around Edinburgh with the occasional release in Glasgow and Peebles. So far, I've had 8 catches, so I'm really rather pleased with my success rate. It's quite addictive too - was thrilled to actually witness one or two being picked up, but restrained myself from running over to talk to the recipients! Repeated the challenge in 2011 and am now thinking to make it an annual event, presuming that I can collect enough books.

In addition, this year (2012) I've been chosen as a World Book Night giver and will be distributing copies of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.


Tag Cloud for books read in 2008:

Tag Cloud for books read in 2009:











Books read in 2010 are:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Agatha Christie - 4:50 from Paddington
Reginald Hill - A Pinch of Snuff
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Armistead Maupin - Babycakes
Maggie Graham - Sitting Among the Eskimos
Frankie Boyle - My Shit Life so far
Muriel Barberry - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Stieg Larsson - The Girl who played with Fire
Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey
Veronica Stallwood - Oxford Shift
Barbara Nadel - A Passion for Killing
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
Wendy Holden - Pastures Nouveaux
David Eagleman - SUM: Forty tales from the afterlives
Jenn McKinlay - Sprinkle with Murder
M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
Iain Pears - Stone's Fall
Agatha Christie - The Unexpected Guest
Steig Larsson - The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Kate Harrison - The Self-Preservation Society
David Nicholls - One Day
Agatha Christie - By the pricking of my thumbs
Kathryn Lasky - The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, 1620
Lindsey Kelk - I heart New York
Ben Elton - Popcorn
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Katharine Webb - The Legacy (couldn't finish!!)
Nigel Slater - Toast
Mary Westmacott - Absent in the Spring
Christopher Brookmyre - Pandaemonium
Jostein Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery










Books read in 2011 are:

Natasha Solomons - Mr Rosenblum's List
Anne Perry - The Cater Street Hangman
Jane Harris - The Observations
Richard M Marshall - The Boy on the Shore
Richard M Marshall - Network Sleeper
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood
Ian McEwan - Solar
Jon McGregor - Even the Dogs
Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White
Scarlett Thomas - The End of Mr Y
Iris Murdoch - The Bell
Michel Faber - The Apple
Aimee Bender - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro
Andy Hamilton & Alistair Beaton - Drop the Dead Donkey 2000
Phillipa Gregory - The White Queen
Joanna Fluke - Blueberry Muffin Murder
Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog
Catherine O'Flynn - What was lost
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never let me go
Ian Rankin - Beggars Banquet
Niall Williams - The Unrequited
James Salter - My Lord You & Palm Court
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Reginald Hill - Under World
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit
Mehmet Murat Somer - The Prophet Murders
John Clelland - Fanny Hill
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Jane Harris - Gillespie and I
John Lanchester - The Debt to Pleasure
Ian Rankin - Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Jasper Fforde - The Last Dragonslayer
AS Byatt - Ragnarok
Sarah Raynor - One Moment One Morning
RJ Ellory - A Quiet Belief in Angels
Margaret Atwood - The Tent
Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
Various - A Classic Christmas Crime
MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist


Books read in 2012 are:
Agatha Christie - Miss Marple Omnibus Vol II: A Caribbean Mystery, A Pocket Full of Rye, The Mirror Crack'd from sid to side, They Do It With Mirrors
Agatha Christie - The Thirteen Problems
Dawn Annandale - Call Me Elizabeth
Reginald Hill - An Advancement of Learning
MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
Murial Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Murial Spark
Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Armistead Maupin - Significant Others (Tales of the city #5)
Armistead Maupin - Sure of You (Tales of the city #6)
SJ Watson - Before I go to Sleep (kindle)
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (kindle)
Amor Towles - The Rules of Civility

Unsurprisingly, the "to be read" pile is teetering on the brink of a bookalanche, I need to do some serious reading this year!



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[last updated 20th April 2012]