Recent Book Activity

I am many things including a Mancunian, a retired lab technician, BSc, cyclist, walker(I run a rambling group), mother of 4 sons and 1 daughter, grandmother(10 at latest count)great-grandmother of 4, avid book reader(why else would I be here?). I share my home with a granddaughter and a cat. Two of my grand children are book crossers as well, they are scoobydooo and horseryder. Horseryder is the one who lives with me.

CURRENTLY READING...
Encyclopaedia of the Paranormal
The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley

READ IN 2012
JAN
1.Jason Manford, Autobiography.
2. Dr Who Annual
3.Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris
4.The Devil Rides Out, Paul O'Grady Autobiography
5.A Teenager's Journey by Richard Peltzer
6.Secrets about Life Every Woman should Know by Barbara de Angelis
7.Mysteries of the Rain Forest, Reader's Digest
8.Discovering the Amazon, Reader's Digest
9.The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
10.The Good, the Bad & the Bubbly by George Best
11.Lines on the Landscape by Nigel Pennick & Paul Devereux
12.James Dean, in his own words.
13.Just Me by Sheila Hancock
FEB
14.Just one Look by Harlan Coben
15.The Enchanted World, Time Life
16.Second Chance by James Patterson
17.Lion Boy, The Chase by Zizou Corder
18.Hawksmoor by Aileen Armitage
19.Lionboy, The Truth by Zizou Corder
20. Lightsome and the Little Golden Lady by C H Bennett
21.The Crime Busters by Angus Hall
22.The Tigris Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
23.Walking in Britain by John Hillaby
24.Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
MAR
25.Horowitz and Mrs Washington by Henry Denker
26.Bullet Train byJoseph Rance and Arei Kato
27.The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary
28.A boy from Bolton, My Story by Amir Khan
29.Land Shapes by various
30.The Satanist by Dennis Wheatley
APR
31. Dancing with the Virgins by Stephen Booth
32.Encyclopaedia of Ghosts and Spirits by John and Anne Spencer
33.Small Favour by Jim Butcher
34.Tommy's World by Billy Hopkins
35.Waterland by Graham Swift
36.Rabbit Stew by Maggie Smith-Bendell
37.The Girl in the Painted Caravan by Eva Petulengro
MAY
38.The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy
39.Women's Wicked Wit



READ IN 2011
1.Tragedy, The Kenny Carter Story by Tony McDonald
2.Mock the Week by Dan Patterson
3.Faces of fear by John Saul
4.Going Places by Billy Hopkins
5.Lion Boy by Zizou Corder
6.Zen Soup by Laurence G Boldt
7.Schrodinger's Kittens by John Gribbin
8.Jaws 2 by Hank Searls
9. A Dangerous Magic by Frances Lynch
10.The Atlas of Mysterious Places by Jennifer Wesrwood
11.The Forest Dwellers by Stella Brewer
12. Talk Down by Brian Lecomber
13.Festivals Together
14.The Earth from the Air
15.Ramblings of an Actress by Sheila Hancock
16.The Reality of the Paranormal by Arthur Ellison
17.The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
18.The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama
19.The Seniors' Survival Guide by Geoff Tibballs
20.The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom
21.The Way of the Goddess by Ly Warren-Clarke
22.Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
23.Know Yourself Through Colour by Marie Louise Lacy
24.Time: The Ultimate Energy by Murry Hope
25.A Brief History of Time: a Readers Companion by Stephen Hawking
26.The Plus Factor by Dr H E Stanton
27.Beautiful Painted Arrow by Joseph E Rael
28.The Secret Country by Janet & Colin Bord
29.The hidden power of vibrations by Harvey Day
30.Notes from Small Island by Bill Bryson.
31.Run for your Life by James Patterson
32.All the days were summer by Jack M Bickham
33.The Scientist, a Time Life Book
34.Winner Harris by Ian St. James
35.Sadie Shapiro, Matchmaker by Robert Kimmel Smith
36.Explaining the Unexplained by Hans J Eysenck & Carl Sargent
37.Addict by Stephen Smith
38.Wildlife Fact File Yearbook
39.Deathwatch by Colin Falconer
40.Hunter in the Dark by Monica Hughes
41.The Women in his Life by Barbara Taylor Bradford
42.The Ark's Anniversary by Gerald Durrell
43.One Foot Wrong by Sofia Laguna
44.The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
45.Survivor by Sharon Osbourne
46.Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey
47.Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
48.The Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul
49.Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
50.Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks
51.Deliver Me from Evil: by Alloma Gilbert
52.The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
53.Paul O'Grady by Neil Simpson
54.Whatever Next! by Billy Hopkins
55. Drift by Simon A Forward
56.Bloody Valentine by James Patterson
57.Black Market by James Patterson
58.Sold by Zana Muhsen
59.A Promise to Nadia by Zana Muhsen
60.Death Masks by Jim Butcher
61.Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
62.White Night by Jim Butcher
63.Dead Ringer by Mary Burton
64.Have you seen her by Karen Rose
65.Shadow over Babylon by David Mason
66.Craig Shergold, A mother's story by Marion Shergold
67.In Search of the End of Time by John Gribben
68.Final Arguement by Clifford Irving
69.Atlas of magical Britain by Janet and Colin Bord
70.Growth by Max Marlowe
71.My life in Orange by Tim Guest
72. in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
73.Torn Apart by James Patterson & Hal Friedman
74. At my Mother's Knee by Paul O'Grady
75.Summer People by Marge Piercy
76.Racing the Wind by Lucy Daniels
77.Freed for Life by Rita Nightingale
78.Look Who It Is! by Alan Carr
79.The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by David Wells
80.Curious and Interesting Puzzles by David Wells.
81.Flesh and Blood by Jonathon Kellerman
82.Law of Attraction by Michael Losier
83.Black Dog by Stephen Booth
84.The Reluctant Fundamentalist
85.John Thaw, the Biography
86.Right to the Edge by Charley Boorman

READ IN 2010
1.Assess Your True Potential
2.Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
3.The Presence by John Saul
4.The Secret Scripture by S. Barry
5.Images of Infinity
6.Feel Happy Now by Michael Neill
7.Francis Frith's Peak District
8.Dolphin Diaries by Lucy Daniels
9.The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
10.Dolphin in the Deep by Lucy Daniels
11.Zoence by Pater Dawkins
12.Runaway by Skye Sinclair
13.Freedom in Exile:by The Dalai Lama
14.The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
15.Anything Goes by John Barrowman
16.The Secret of Happy Children:by Steve Biddulph
17.Addition by Toni Jordan
18.The Best of African Folklore by Phillis Savory
19.Madly Murderous by John Dunning
20.Anything Goes by Billy Hopkins
21.Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
22.The ASBO Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Asbosen
23.The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.2 by Richard Bott (Editor)
24.Streets of Ancoats by Malcolm Lynch
25.Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
26.Moondust and Mystery by John Foster
27.The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
28..Flickerbook by Leila Berg
29.Kundun by Mary Craig
30.Dear Fatty by Dawn French
31.When the Night Crow Flies by Margaret Elliot
32.Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same by Sloane Tanen, Stefan Hagen
33.Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
34.Falling for a Dolphin by Heathcote Williams
35.Wilderness Man: The Strange Story of "Grey Owl" by Lovat Dickson
36.Cross by James Patterson
37.Dead of Winter by P.J.Parrish
38.Nation by Terry Pratchett
39.The Colour Of Law by Mark Gimenez
40 The Bitch Goddess Notebook by Martha O'Connor (Read half of it)
41.One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawks
42.Second Chance by Elizabeth Wren
43.Others by James Herbert
44.48 by James Herbert
45.Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
46.Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
47.Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
48.How Long Is a Piece of String?: by Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham
49.Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
50.Nefer the Silent (Stone of Light S.) by Christian Jacq
51.Speedway in Manchester by Terry James & Barry Stephenson
52.Pirates! by Celia Rees
53.Unbeaten by Kim Woodburn
54.The Assassini by Thomas Gifford (read a quarter)
55.From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell
56.The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
57.Catch me when I Fall by Nicci French
58.Husbands by Adele Parks
59.The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Che Guevara
60.Why do Buses Come in Threes? by Rob Eastaway & Jeremy Wyndham
61.Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
62.Two Degrees West by Nicholas Crane
63.The Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt
63. Friends and Friendly Beasts by Gerald Durrell
64.Earthsound by Arthur Herzog

READ IN 2009
1. Life of Pi.........Yann Martel
2.Grave Peril ........Jim Butcher.
3.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?....Philip K. Dick
4.The Code of Romulous....Caroline Lawrence
5.Chris Morton: Until the Can Ran Out.....Brian Burford, Chris Morton
6.Jonathan Livingston Seagull.....Richard Bach (again)
7.Dr Who, Revenge of the Judoon...Terrance Dicks
8.The Vitamin Murders...........James Fergusson
9.Apache...................Tanya Landman
10.Through the Looking Glass.........Lewis Carroll
11.Law of Attraction........Michael Losier
12.Geek Love..........Katherine Dunn
13.The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America....Bill Bryson
14.Me and Emma.....Elizabeth Flock
15.The Kalahari Typing School for Men......Alexander McCall Smith
16.Year of Wonders....Geraldine Brooks
17.The Full Cupboard of Life.....Alexander McCall Smith
18.The Fat Pig Diet.....Michael Winner
19.In the Dark of the Night....John Saul
20.The Jesus Family Tomb...Simcha Jacobovici & Charles Pellegrino
21.The Man in the Brown Suit....Agatha Christie
22.Cheshire's Execution Files....Derek Yarwood
23.Pollen...........Jeff Noon
24.Neither Here Nor There......Bill Bryson
25.Midnight Voices.....John Saul
26.Codex...........Lev Grossman
27.Revenge.............Laura Blumenfeld
28.East End Tales.......Gilda O'Neill
29.The 5th Horseman.....James Patterson
30.Summer Knight......Jim Butcher
31.Elephants on Acid....Alex Boese
32.One Man and His Bog.......Barry Pilton
33.In the Company of Cheerful Ladies...Alexander McCall Smith
34.Sold...............Tess Stevens
35.Long Way Down....Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
36.Blue Shoes and Happiness.......Alexander McCall Smith
37.The Motorcycle Diaries.....Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
38.Sliver..................Ira Levin
39.The Good Husband of Zebra Drive.....Alexander McCall Smith
40.Perfect Nightmare...........John Saul
41.Back to the Front............Stephen O'Shea
42. The Lost World.......Arthur Conan Doyle
43.The Owl Service.......Alan Garner
44.Story of O.........Pauline Reage
45.A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.........Yiyun Li
46. The Watchers: A Mystery at Alton Towers...Helen Cresswell
47.Final Solution.......Michael Chabon
48.The Creative Cosmos........Ervin Laszlo
49.A Small Pinch of Weather.........Joan Aiken
50.Peter Craven: The Wizard of Balance......Brian Burford, Peter Craven
51.The Crucifix Killer........Chris Carter
52.Over the Edge.......Jonathan Kellerman
53.Black Creek Crossing....John Saul
54.Race to Dakar......Charlie Boorman
55.The Genesis Code.....John Case
56.The Way Things Look to me....Roopa Farooki
57.Ooh! What a Lovely Pair.... Ant and Dec
58.The Cat Who Went to Paris......Peter Gethers
59.Kate's Story................Billy Hopkins

READ IN 2008
1.Measuring the World...Daniel Kehlmann
2.Fairies & Magical Beings....Cassandra Eason
3.The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency....Alexander McCall Smith
3.Short Stories......Will' Terran
4.The Country of the Blind....H G Wells
5.The Truth Is Out There, The Official Guide To The X Files.....Brian Lowry.
6.A Piece of Cake..................Cupcake Brown
7.There’s No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Travelled.....Doug
Lansky
8.A Quiver full of Arrows........Jeffrey Archer
9.Discovering your Family Tree
10.Yes Man.............Danny Wallace
11.Married to a Bedouin.....Marguerite Van Geldermalsen
12.Tears of the Giraffe.......Alexander Mccall Smith
13.The White Road Westward.............'BB'
14.Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears?..............Matt Walker
15.Storm Front............Jim Butcher
16.Morality for Beautiful Girls.......Alexander McCall Smith
17.The Historian...............Elizabeth Kostova
18.Memory Keeper's Daughter....Kim Edwards
19.Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency...Douglas Adams
20.My Sister's Keeper..........Jodi Picoult
21.Rose Madder.........Stephen King
22.Our Kid.............Billy Hopkins
23.The Underground Man.........Mick jackson
24.Gilchrist.................Maurice Leitch
25.Harrison Ford a Biography...............Robert Sellers
26.Fool Moon....................Jim Butcher
27.North Wales Murder Casebook........Steve Fielding
28. Wasted..............Mayra Hornbacher
29.Don't Ever Tell.......Kathy O'Beirne
30.Can Reindeer Fly? .......Roger Highfield
31.Light my Fire...........Ray Manzarek
32.Such a Pretty Girl......Laura Wiess
33.Daddy's Little Girl............Julia Latchem-Smith
34Damaged.....................Cathy Glass
35.High Hopes...............Billy Hopkins
36.Five boys........Mick Jackson
37.Are you somebody? The life and times of Nuala O'Faolain
38.Foster Kid......Paul Barber
39.Nobbut a Lad.......Alan Titchmarsh
40.Billy.............Pamela Stephenson
41.So Me..........Graham Norton
42.Daughters of Arabia.......Jean Sasson
43.The Kid moves on....Kevin Lewis
44.Blitzcat....Robert Westall
45.How to be Good.....Nick Hornby
46.Murder is all the rage....Jonathan Kellerman
47.Cry from the Highest Mountain....Tess Burrows
48.Cathedral Cats........Richard Surman
49.Life Interupted.....James McConnel
50.Wordplay......Giles Brandreth
51.Tell me Why Mummy.....David Thomas
52.Desert Royal......Jean Sasson
53.Chatto Book of Ghosts.......Jenny Uglow
54.Pete Doherty: Last of the Rock Romantics.....Alex Hannaford
55.The Timewaster Letters..............Robin Cooper
56.Chicken Poop for the Soul..........David Fisher
57.Do You Think What You Think You Think?....Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom
58.The Know.................Martina Cole
59.Vurt.....Jeff Noon
60.A Wayne in a Manger.....Gervase Phinn
61."X-files" #5: Humbug.......Les Martin
62.Dead Man's Ransom.......Ellis Peters
63.Midnight's Children.......Salman Rushdie
64.Ancient Rites and Ceremonies.......Grace A. Murray
65. Messiah........Boris Starling

READ IN 2007.....
1 How Was it for You.....Maureen Lipman
2 Switch Bitch...........Roald Dahl
3 Animal Farm.... George Orwell
4 Felidae on the Road....Akif Pirincci
5 Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman....Richard P Feynman
6 (Un)arranged Marriage.........by Bali Rai
7 The Road to Nab End........William Woodruff
8 Long Way Round.......Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
9 Beyond Nab End........William Woodruff
10 Monty's leap............Derek Tangye
11 The Little Prisoner.........Jane Elliott
12 The Kite Runner.....Khaled Hosseini
13 A short History of tractors in the Ukrainian...Marina Lewycka
14 Swan River.......David Reynolds
15 Enduring Love.................Ian McEwan
16 Diary of a Married Call Girl.......Tracy Quan
17 Is that it?..................Bob Geldof
18 A Short History of Nearly Everything....Bill Bryson
19 The Men and the Girls...............Joanna Trollope
20 A Song of Stone.................Iain Banks
21 Ten Sorry Tales..............Mick Jackson
22 Freakonomics........Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
23 Canal Dreams...............Iain Banks
24 Man and Boy................Tony Parsons
25 UK on a G-string............Justin Brown
26 Something Wicked this way Comes.....Ray Bradbury
27 Diaries of a Cultured Cat........Brigitte Downey
28 The Real Cracker...............Stephen Cook
29 A Ragged Schooling..............Robert Roberts
30 Driving Mr Albert............Michael Paterniti
31 Rambling On..................Mike Harding
32 Narrow Dog to Carcassonne.....Terry Darlington
33 Marianne Dreams.........Catherine Storr
34 Fahrenheit 451..........Ray Bradbury
35 Our Little Secret.........Duncan Fairhurst
36 Stain on the Silence.............Andrew Taylor
37 The Blue Noon...................Robert Ryan
38 Street Kid...............Judy Westwater
39 The Hike.....................Don Shaw
40 Bad Love....................Jonathan Kellerman
41 A year in Provence.........Peter Mayle
42 Life Before Death............Colin Fry
43 QI: The Book of General Ignorance......Stephen Fry
44 You can get Arrested for that.......Rich Smith
45 I Bought a Mountain ..........Thomas Firbank
46 Tuesdays with Morrie...........Mitch Albom
47 Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac....Graeme Garden
48 When I am an Old Woman I shall Wear Purple...Jenny Joseph
49 Liberation.......................Barefoot Doctor
50 I'm OK-you're OK...............Thomas A Harris
51 Shadows of the Unknown.........Steve Cliffe
52 Any Fool's Country Life........James Robertson
53 The Five People you meet in Heaven...Mitch Albom
54 Shamanka...................Jeanne Willis
55 The Hot Zone..............Richard Preston
56 The Penguin Book of Limericks
57 Famous Potatoes.......Joseph Cottonwood
58 Blessed.....................George Best
59 Please daddy No................Stuart Howarth
60 Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.......Dee Brown
61 Feel the Fear and do it Anyway.....Susan Jeffers
62 Insomnia....................Stephen King
63 Number Freaking.........Gary Rimmer