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"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." - Emily Dickenson

Welcome to my bookshelf!

http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/ - online book forum I help run.

Bookboxes I've participated in:
Prize-winners Bookbox (Nicnic)
I'm hosting a bookbox on www.babblingbooks.org.uk

READALONGS:
I am taking part in a Gone With the Wind readalong on http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/ to start 17th Feb 2009.

BOOKS READ IN 2008

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *****
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones ****
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant *** Radio 4 Jan Book Club
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick ****
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield ****
Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann ***
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay ****
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R. J. Ellory *****
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters *****
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres *****
The Food of Love by Anthony Capella ***
The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris ****

BOOKS READ IN 2007:

Perfume by Patrick Suskind ****
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ***.5
Under the Skin - Michel Faber ***
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey ****
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell **.5
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller - ****
Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell **** proof reviewed for Simon & Schuster
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *****
Extreme Psychic by Derek Acorah **
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart *
Smoked by Patrick Quinlan **** reviewed for Headline Review
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukranian - Marina Lewycka ***
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ***
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho ****
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan ****
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly ****
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *****
The Birth House by Ami McKay ****
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling ****
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith *****
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble **
The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter ***
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton ****
Atonement by Ian McEwan *****
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier *****
The Lovers' Room by Steven Carroll **
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde ***
Wicked by Gregory Maguire ***
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld ****
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini *****
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ****
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen *****


2008 READING CHALLENGE - 1001 BOOKS

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *****
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres *****

2007 READING CHALLENGE - 1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE

Perfume - Patrick Suskind ****
Under the Skin - Michel Faber ***
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell **
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *****
(90) Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho ****
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan ****
(93) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *****
Atonement - Ian McEwan *****
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ****
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen *****