Recent Book Activity

I'm a trainee veterinary nurse, a tea addict (lesser evil after giving up coffee) and an avid reader.

This page is not up to date. I might get to it eventually! 20.05.07

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>I'm currently reading:

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

>Next on the list:

Essays in Love - Alain de Botton
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Monkey's Uncle - Jenny Diski
The Patron Saint of Eels - Gregory Day

>Books read 2005

1. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
2. Perfect Skin - Nick Earls
3. A Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
4. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)
5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)
6. The Horse and his Boy - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)
7. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)
8. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)
9. The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis (audiobook)
10. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
11. Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago - James Conrad
12. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
13. Making Laws for Clouds - Nick Earls
14. Atonement - Ian McEwan
15. allmenarebastards.com - Allison Rushby
16. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
17. The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons
18. Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta
19. Zig Zag Street - Nick Earls
20. Headgames - Nick Earls
21. About A Boy - Nick Hornby
22. World of Chickens - Nick Earls
23. Midwives - Chris Bohjalian
24. Puberty Blues - Gabrielle Carey & Kathy Lette
25. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
26. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
27. My Place - Sally Morgan
28. The Book of Joe - Jonathan Tropper
29. Courts of Love - Jean Plaidy
30. Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
31. Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
32. How to be Good - Nick Hornby
33. Wrack - James Bradley
34. The Land of Narnia - Brian Sibley
35. Matilda - Roald Dahl
36. Girls' Night In - Various
37. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
38. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
39. The Bridge to Holy Cross - Paullina Simons
40. Clockwork - Phillip Pullman
41. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
42. Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult
43. Black Mirror - Gail Jones
44. The First Stone - Helen Garner
45. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
46. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
47. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
48. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
49. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

> Books read 2006
1. Joe Cinque's Consolation - Helen Garner
2. Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson
3. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
4. The Lost Message of Jesus - Steve Chalke
5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
6. The Thompson Gunner - Nick Earls
7. Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
8. Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
9. Stop That Girl - Elizabeth McKenzie
10. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
11. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
12. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
13. Fast Facts on False Teachings - Ron Carlson & Ed Decker
14. Healing Spiritual Abuse - Ken Blue
15. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Nail Gaiman
16. Talking It Over - Julian Barnes
17. The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
18. The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
19. The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
20. The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
21. The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
22. The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
23. The Vile Vilage - Lemony Snicket
24. The Hostile Hospital - Leomony Snicket
25. The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
26. The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
27. The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
28. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
29. The Babe is Wise - Various
30. The Grandmothers - Doris Lessing
31. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
32. Songs in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris
33. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran Desai
34. Fever Pitch - Nick Earls
35. Girls Night In 2 (Gentlemen by Invitation) - various
36. Saturday - Ian McEwan
37. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
38. Perfect Skin - Nick Earls
39. Falls the Shadow - Sharon Penman
40. The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Richard Flanagan
41. The Savage Crows - Robert Drewe