Recent Book Activity

I NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET AT WORK AND DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER AT HOME. I'M GOING TO BE RELYING ON THE LIBRARY WHICH HAS VERY KINDLY REDUCED IT'S HOURS NOW IT HAS BECOME A TRUST SO DON'T GET MAD AT ME IF I DON'T RESPONSE TO EMAILS STRAIGHT AWAY. MY ADDRESS IS ON RABCK.COM FOR BOOKRINGS.

I love books and love the idea of releasing them into the wild but don't have much luck with wild releases! Years ago when the BBC did their Big Read, I decided to read the top 100 books in order. I did 100, 99, & 98 then got bogged down in life - so now I'm ready to start again and I've added the rest of the 80s to my wish list. I graduated from university so no studying to get in the way of my reading now but I have a rather large roof repair needing done which means I've taken on another job - can't win. Now I've discovered there's a top 200 and after that I'm going to do the 1001 - but I do have a lifetime for that. Big plans!

I have a huge amount of unregistered books at home waiting for me to read them and I still can't resist a library sale so the pile keeps growing. I don't have a computer (yes, you heard correctly) so I'll only be registering them when I'm ready to release. I'm enjoying a couple of surprise roundabouts just now, so if you're involved in the Favourites or the A-Z roundabouts, don't look at the bottom because I've listed them below.

I've also combined my love of books with my rediscovery of the cinema. I now feel the need to read the book before I see the film. This has happened because I live near Scotland's oldest purpose built cinema which has been refurbished and opened again for business in 2009. I don't care if I'm a month or so behind and don't see the film immediately it's released, it's a wonderful little theatre. They also show classics occasionally. Seeing Cary Grant or James Stewart on the big screen is a real treat.


100 BIG READ - TOP 100 BOOKS
100-91 All read
90. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
89. Magician by Raymond E Feist - reading next

88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
85. The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
83. Holes by Louis Sachar
82. I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
81. The Twits by Roald Dahl
80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson



2012 BOOKS READ
1. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
2. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (bookring)
3. 8th Confession by James Patterson (book spiral)
4. Vile Bodes by Evelyn Waugh (bookray)
5. Before the Frost by Henning Mankell (roundabout)
6. The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones (roundabout)
7. The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
8. The Bookshelf by Laura Dennis (roundabout)
9. Die Trying by Lee Child
10. The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
11. Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
12. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (roundabout)
13. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
14. Dubliners by James Joyce
15. Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Hayes
16. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Greogory Maguire (roundabout)
17. The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
18. Girl Reading by Katie Ward
19. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
20. Decked by Carol Higgins Clark (roundabout)
21. Tripwire by Lee Child
22. Murder Suicide by Keith Ablow
23. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
24. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (bookray)
25. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
26. The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustredt
27. The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
28. Ireland by Frank Delaney - reading now
19. Eye of The Red Tsar by Sam Eastland (roundabout)
30. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
31. Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
32. Book of Negroes by Laurence Hill (roundabout)
33. 9th Judgement by James Patterson (sprial)
34. Enter a Murderer by Ngaio March (May roundabout)
35. The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill (June roundabout)
36. You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik - reading now
37. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (July roundabout) - reading next



Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (WBN)
Dissolution by CJ Sansom (WBN)
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
The Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon

2012 FAVOURITE BOOKS SO FAR
Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

2012 FAVOURITES ROUNDABOUT
My Favourite – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
February - The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones (elstaplador)
March - Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (marsala)
April - Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood (dutch-book)
May - Eye of the Red Tsar by Sam Eastland (boekentrol)
June - The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill (LilyKlip)
July - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Qantaqa)
August - Grovalskii
September - LiniP
October - Franaloe
November - Annimanni
December – ahabraken

2011 FAVOURITES ROUNDABOUT
My Favourite – The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
February – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (mafarrimond)
March - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Lemon-crisis)
April – Unsettled by Graham Walker (Karen07814)
May – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Berniers (marsala)
June - Adrian Mole From Major to Minor by Sue Townsend (philosoraptor)
July - A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (BoekenTrol - previously totje2)
August - Momo by Ende Michael (LiniP)
September - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (dutch-book)
October - (stalled by akoisulot)
November - (annimanni)
December - (disneyfreaksam)

A-Z ROUNDABOUT
A Cotswold Killing by Rebecca Tope - Into-the-Blue
Before the Frost by Henning Mankell - Totje2
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel - grovalskii
Decked by Carol Higgins Clark - snowboarderin
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio March - disneyfreaksam
F. mafarrimond
G. elstaplador
H. trik
I. ahabraken
J. Diane-Fraser
Killing Floor by Lee Child - earthcaroleanne
Laura's Handmade Life by Amanda Addison - 3vie
Mrs, Presumed Dead by Simon Brett - ZAS

2012 BOOKS I DIDN'T FINISHED
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier



Books read in 2009 - 65


Books read in 2010 - 84


Books read in 2011 - 66