Recent Book Activity

I am now on RABCK - same user name!

I enjoy a variety of books. Whilst keen on "a good murder" I also enjoy a bit of light chick-lit, especially for holiday reading and auto/biographies are fascinating.

Currently reading:

Dan Archer, William Smethurst, Anthony Parkin - The Ambridge Years

Fannie Flagg - Can't Wait to Get to Heaven (put to one side last year!)

Books Read 2012
Ann Hood - The Knitting Circle
Kate Jacobs - Knit the Season
Rebecca Promitzer - The Pickle King
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother
Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Mary Higgins-Clark - Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Erin Kelly - The Poison Tree
Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic Abroad
Cleo Coyle - On What Grounds
Debbie Macomber - The Shop on Blossom Street
Casey Hill - Taboo
Tess Gerritsen - Never Say Die
Anne Bartlett - Knitting

Books Read 2011

Sam Llewellyn - The Malpas Legacy
Olivia Goldsmith - Insiders
Gwendoline Butler - Coffin Underground
Jojo Moyes - Night Music
Nicci French - The Memory Game
Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
Erica James - It's the Little Things
Sue Grafton - U is for Undertow
Guillermo Martinez - The Oxford Murders
Susan Sallis - Choices
Emily Barr - Backpack
Danny Wallace - Random Acts of Kindness
Jane Adams - Bird
Victoria Beckham - Learning to Fly
Mary Mackie - Cobwebs and Cream Teas
Jane Blanchard - Fanning Old Flames
Rebecca Shaw - Village Gossip
J.D. Robb - Promises in Death
Anne Cassidy - Looking for JJ
Clare Littleford - Beholden

Holiday
Kathy Lette - 50 Ways to Kill Your Husband (finished on holiday)
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (finished on holiday)
Sara Paretsky - Toxic Shock (last 2 chapters once returned)

Back home
Polly Evans - It's Not About the Tapas: Around Spain on Two Wheels
Rebecca Shaw - Trouble in the Village
Debra Webb - Nameless
Jane Green - Jemima J
Stuart Pawson - The Picasso Scam
Jennifer Weiner - Goodnight Nobody
Iain McDowall - Making a Killing
Jennifer Weiner - In Her Shoes
Harlan Coben - Fade Away
Erica James - A Breath of Fresh Air
Erica James - Time For A Change
PD James - The Murder Room
Alexandra Potter - Going La La
Mary Higgins-Clark - While My Pretty One Sleeps
Sayo Masuda - Autobiography of a Geisha
38 for the year, 8 down on last year, I must be working harder!

Books Read 2010

Kathryn Fox - Malicous Intent
Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark - Dashing Through the Snow
Sue Grafton - M is for Malice
Rebecca Shaw - The Village Show
M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
Sarah Harvey - Misbehaving
Julie Otsuka - When the Emperor Was Divine
E. M. Bard - Test Your Cat: The Cat IQ Test
Sue Grafton - N is for Noose
Lauren Weisberger - Everyone Worth Knowing
Sue Grafton - O is for Outlaw
Margaret Dickinson - Suffragette Girl
Sarah Challis - Blackthorn Winter
Sarah Harrison - Flowers Won't Fax
Sue Grafton - P is for Peril
Sue Grafton - Q is for Quarry
Alexander McCall Smith - The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Katie Fforde - Practically Perfect
Meera Syal - Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Michael Morpurgo - The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
James Patterson - Roses are Red
James Patterson - Violets are Blue
Dorothy Koomson - The Cupid Effect
Athol Fugard - Tsotsi
Jojo Moyes - The Ship of Brides
Sue Grafton - R is for Ricochet (re-read)
Jonathan Tropper - Bush Falls
Sue Grafton - S if for Silence
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
James Patterson and Howard Roughan - Honeymoon
Rebecca Shaw - Village Secrets
Rosamund Lupton - Sister
Maeve Binchy - The Copper Beech
Sophie Kinsella - Twenties Girl
Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One
Laura Hillenbrand - Seabiscuit
Mike Gayle - His 'n' Hers
Sue Grafton - T is for Trespass

Holiday:
Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
Judi Hendricks - Bread Alone
Nicci French - Killing Me Softly

Back home
Alexandra Potter - Me and Mr Darcy
Maeve Binchy - This Year It Will Be Different
Meg Cabot - Size 12 Is Not Fat
Meg Cabot - Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
(46)

Books Read 2009

Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon (I recently found an old notebook showing I read this in 2005!)
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Candace Bushnell - Four Blondes (well, 2 of the 4 stories)
Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth
Sue Grafton - D is for Deadbeat
Libby Purves - More Lives Than One

Holiday:
Jojo Moyes - Sheltering Rain
Maria Palmer - Horrorscopes Pisces
Lisa Jewell - Vince and Joy
Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees

Back home:
Sidney Sheldon - Nothing Lasts For Ever
Sue Grafton - E is for Evidence
Kate Jacobs - Knit Two
M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye
Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Sue Grafton - F is for Fugitive
H E Bates - My Uncle Silas
Patricia Cornwell - At Risk
Susan Fletcher - Eve Green
Kathleen Rowntree - Between Friends
Sue Grafton - G is for Gumshoe
Judy Astley - Muddy Waters
Fanny Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Hack - John Burns
50 Ways to Kill a Slug - Sarah Ford (very small book!)
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Lesley Chamberlain - Girl in a Garden
Ridley Pearson - Under Currents
Rebecca Shaw - The New Rector
Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
Lisa Gardner - Gone
Sue Grafton - H is for Homicide
Allison Pearson - I Don't Know How She Does It
Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal
Sue Grafton - I is for Innocent
Sue Grafton - J is for Judgment
Various - The Little Book of Hedgehogs (small book!)
Rebecca Shaw - Village Matters

Holiday
Lisa Gardner - Hide
Sarah Paretsky - Deadlock
Jim Laker - Over to Me
Sheila O'Flanagan - How Will I Know

Back home:
Sue Grafton - K is for Killer
Various - Irish Girls are Back in Town
Chris Stewart - Driving over Lemons;
Various - Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions, Obsessions;
Sue Grafton - L is Lawless;
Anne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul;
Alice Thomas Ellis - The Clothes in the Wardrobe;
Eileen Goudge - Garden of Lies (finished on aeroplane);

Holiday
F.Scott Fitzgerald - Love in the Night: For a Romantic (Phoenix 60p paperbacks);
Kate Atkinson - Case Histories;
Patricia Scanlan - Two for Joy;

Back home:
Graham Hill - Life at the Limit (started on holiday)
Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons
A Cup of Comfort for Christmas - edited by Colleen Sell
Elizabeth Noble - The Reading Group


Books Read 2008

I did start a journal of books read a couple of years back, but never being able to find it when I finished a book I always have lots of lists floating around so this is my attempt to merge all the bits of paper from the start of 2008.

Sharon Osbourne - Survivor
Kate Jacobs - The Friday Night Knitting Club
Dick Francis - Blood Sport
Imogen Edwards-Jones - Hotel Babylon
Sarah Challis - On Dancing Hill
Christina Jones - Nothing to Lose
Christina Jones - Running the Risk
Claire Calman - Love is Four Letter Word (the second time)
Tess Gerritsen - The Apprentice
Patricia Cornwell - Blow Fly
Nicci French - Beneath the Skin
P D James - The Lighthouse
Olivia Goldsmith - Bestseller
Cathy Kelly - Just Between Us

The Week After My Accident
Judy Astley - Size Matters
Marilyn Edwards - The Moon Cottage Cats - Volume 1 (2 books in 1)
Michael Morpugo - Private Peaceful
Jill Mansell - The One You Really Want
Rhonda Byrne - The Secret
Rebecca Shaw - Talk of the Village
Rebecca Shaw - Scandal in the Village
Rebecca Shaw - A Village Dilemma
Rebecca Shaw - Intrigue in the Village

On the Mend:
Various - The Irish Girls About Town
Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale
Christopher Fitzsimons - Reflex Action
Erica James - Love and Devotion

Holiday reading:
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I
Jeanne Brewer - A Crack in Forever
Tracy Quan - Diary of a Married Call Girl
Joanna Trollope - Second Honeymoon
Tess Gerritsen - Vanish
Imogen Edwards-Jones - Air Babylon

Since holiday:
Toby Litt - Corpsing
Kathy Rodgers - When the Light Fades
Maeve Binchy - Heart and Soul
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Lucas - Kevin Brooks

Books Read 2007
I found my notebook and realised that some I thought I read in 2008 were actually read in 2007

Sue Grafton - R is for Ricochet
Jenny Crusie - Crazy for You
Jill Gascoine - Addicted
Mary Higgins Clark - I'll Be Seeing You
Roy "Chubby" Brown - Common As Muck
Nick Mason - Inside Out - A Personal History of Pink Floyd
Carol Smith - Vanishing Point
Emily Barr - Baggage
Annabel Giles - Crossing the Paradise Line
Claire Calman - Love is Four Letter Word
Jennifer Crusie - Charlie All Night


The above is from the start of the year to 7 April when I mislaid my notebook!

Countries I have released books to:


visited 21 states (9.33%)
Create your own visited map of The World