Recent Book Activity

I have a long reading list, but am happy to push anything up the list if you are interested in it. Let me know. At the moment I am trying to reduce my bookshelf, so you don't necessarily need to have a book on your bookshelf that I want. However, if you do wish to send me something, look at my wishlist above.

Bookring/rays started
1. The Domestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella (Ray - closed to participants)
2. The Broker, John Grisham (International Ring - closed to participants)
3. The Time Travellers Wife (Closed to participants)
4. Shopaholic and baby, Sophie Kinsella (Ray - closed to participants)
5. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (2011 - Ray -closed to participants)
6. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella (2011 -int Ray - open)
7. Swimming Pool Sunday - Madeleine Wickham (2011 - int ray - Open)

Rules for Rings/Rays - Max 8 people initially - first come first served.
- Journal when receive book, when completed and
when sent on it's way
- Try to read the book within 1 month.
- Use your initiative if ring stalls
- People may be added on the end, especially if I
start with 1 person!

Books read in 2012
Jan 2012 - Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jan 2012 - A walk in the woods - Bill Bryson (audio)
Jan 2012 - The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy (Audio)
Jan 2012 - Chocolat - Joanne Harris (Audio)
Feb 2012 - Kim - Kipling (unabridged audio)
Feb 2012 - Womens Own Short Stories 2 - (audio)
Feb 2012 - Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - (audio)
Feb 2012 - River God - Wilbur Smith
Feb 2012 - Around the World in 80 days (unabridged)
Mar 2012 - Twenties girl - Sophie Kinsella
Mar 2012 - The Hobbit - Tolkien (audiobook)
Mar 2012 - Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella (audio CD)
Mar 2012 - The Magicians Nephew - CS Lewis (audio CD)
Mar 2012 - Simisola - Ruth Rendall (audio cassette)
Apr 2012 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (audio cassette)
Apr 2012 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Apr 2012 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (audio cassette)
Apr 2012 - A spot of bother - Mark Haddon
May 2012 - Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts - lucy Dillon
May 2012 - Charlottes Webb - E.B. White
May 2012 - The Borrowers - Mary

Books read in 2011
Jan 2011 - Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
Jan 2011 - The importance of being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (audio)
Jan 2011 - Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett
Jan 2011 - Maskarde - Terry Pratchett
Jan 2011 - The Iliad - Homer (audio)
Jan 2011 - The Magicians Nephew - CS Lewis (audio)
Jan 2011 - Into the Fire - Linda Davies
Feb 2011 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling (audio)
Feb 2011 - The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
Feb 2011 - Truckers - Terry Pratchett
Feb 2011 - Diggers - Terry Pratchett
Feb 2011 - Genesis - The Message Bible (Audio)
Feb 2011 - Wings - Terry Pratchett
Feb 2011 - Jingo - Terry Pratchett
March 2011 - the Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
March 2011 - Dracula - Bram Stoker (ring)
March 2011 - Starring Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
March 2011 - Emma - Jane Austin (Audio Cassette - read by Prunella Scales)
March 2011 - Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
March 2011 - Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
March 2011 - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg (audio read by Siobhan Redmond)
March 2011 - Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence (audio cassette)
April 2011 - Eat, Pray, Love (ring)
May 2011 - Rowing without Oars - Ulla-Carin Lindquist
May 2011 - A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irvine (ring)
May 2011 - The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
June 2011 - Screw tape Letters - CS Lewis (ray)
June 2011 - The Dare Game - Jacqueline Wilson
June 2011 - The way through the woods = Colin Dexter
June 2011 - Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard (audio)
June 2011 - Rune Marks - Joanne Harris (ring)
June 2011 - Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
July 2011 - Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
Aug 2011 - The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Sept 2011 - The Hobbit - Tolkien
Sept 2011 - Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Sept 2011 - Swimming Sunday - Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophie Kinsella)
Oct 2011 - The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Oct 2011 - Vanity Fair - William Thackery (audio)
Oct 2011 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling. (Stephen Fry Audio)
Nov 2011 - Enough to make a cat laugh - Deric Langden
Nov 2011 - Monkey Wrench - PJ Tracey (audio)
Nov 2011 - Heidi - Johanna Sypri
Nov 2011 - The animals of farthing wood- Colin Dann (audio Book)
Nov 2011 - Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett (audio)
Nov 2011 - Saving Grace - Katie Fforde (audio)
Nov 2011 - One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kensey
Dec 2011 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling (audio book)
Dec 2011 - The Princess Diaries - Meg Cobat
Dec 2011 - Greeks Bearing Gifts - Colin Dexter (audio book)
Dec 2011 - Village Christmas - Miss Read
Total 51

Books read in 2010
Jan 10 - The tenant of Wildfell hall - Anne Bronte (audio cassette)
Feb 10 - Maurice and his amazing educated rodents. Terry Pratchett
Feb 10 - Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Feb 10 - Queen Camilla - Sue Townsend
April 2010 - Dr Zhivargo - Boris Pasternak
May 2010 - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zapon
May 2010 - Terry Pratchett - Carpet
May 2010 - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
May 2010 - Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
June 2010 - Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
August 2010 - A Passage to India - EM Forster (audio cassette)
August 2010 - David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
September 2010 - Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
September 2010 - Nicolas Nickleby - Charles Dickens (audio cassette)
October 2010 - Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
October 2010 - The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher (audio cassette)
October 2010 - The Girls Guide to hunting and fishing - Melissa Bank (audio cassette)
October 2010 - White Teeth - Zadie Smith
November 2010 - Interesting times - Terry Pratchet
November 2010 - The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom (ring)
November 2010 - Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (audio cassette)
November 2010 - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (audio cassette)
November 2010 - The minute manager meets the monkey - Blanchet
November 2010 - The Secret Garden (unabridged version) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
November 2010 - My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier (audio cassette)
December 2010 - Wintersmith - Terry Pratchet
December 2010 - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
December 2010 - Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
Total for 2010 = 28 books


Books read in 2009
Jan 09 - Rebecca - Daphne De Maurier
Jan 09 - Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
Jan 09 - Death is now my neighbour - Colin Dexter
Feb 09 - The folk of the magic faraway tree - Enid Blyton
Feb 09 - Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Feb 09 - Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
March 09 - 13 Steps Down - Ruth Rendell
March 09 - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Audio Book)
March 09 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
March 09 - The Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
March 09 - The Great Gatsby - E Scott-Fitzgerald
March 09 - The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
April 09 - Perfume - Patrick Suskind
April 09 - Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
April 09 - Rebuilding your broken world - Gordon Macdonald
May 09 - Digital fortress - Dan Brown
May 09 - The Last Black Cat - Eugene Trivizas
May 09 - A last lease of death - Ruth Rendell
June 09 - Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett
July 09 - Watership Down - Richard Adams
July 09 - Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris
August 09 - Swallows and Amazon - Arthus Ransome
August 09 - The full cupboard of life (no 1 ladies detective agency)Alexander McCall
August 09 - Sarum - Edward Rutherford
Septemher 09 - tales of beadle the bard - J.K. Rowling
October 09 - Artemis Fowl - Ioin Colter (audiotape)
October 09 - The Magicians Nephew - CS LEWIS (audiotape)
October 09 - The tale of 2 cities - Charles Dickens - Audiotape
November 09 - Goodnight Mr Tom - Audiotape
November 09 - Remember Me, Sophie Kinsella
November 09 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
November 09 - Noughts and Crosses - Marjorie Blackman
November 09 - Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
December 09 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
December 09 - Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
December 09 - The Memory Keepers Daughter - Kim Edwards
Total for 2009 = 36

Books read in 2008
Jan 08 - The Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
Feb 08 - Treasure Island (audio tape)
March 08 - Anne of Green Gables (audio tape)
March 08 - pyramids by Pratchett.
March 08 - Rainman
March 08 - Pride and Prejudice (autio tape)
April 08 - Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchet.
June 08 - The secret life of bees.
July 08 - Holes
July 08 - Small Island
July 08 - To kill a mocking bird.
August 08 - Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
August 08 - Barry Trotter and the shameless parody - Michael Gerber
August 08 - The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
September 08 - The Alchemist
September 08 - Eric - by Terry Practchett
September 08 - The Last Battle - CS Lewis
September 08 - The life you've always wanted - John Ortberg
September 08 - Persuasion - Jane Austen
October 08 - The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
October 08 - Four Swans (Poldark 6) Winston Graham
November 08 - The War of the World - HG Wells
November 08 - Truckers - Terry Pratchett
November 08 - The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
November 08 - Pompeii - Robert Harris
December 08 - Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
December 08 - Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
December 08 - Only you can save mankind - Terry Pratchett
Total for 2008 = 28 books read

Bookring/rays started
1. The Domestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella (Ray - closed to participants)
2. The Broker, John Grisham (International Ring - closed to participants)
3. The Time Travellers Wife (Closed to participants)
4. Shopaholic and baby, Sophie Kinsella (Ray - closed to participants)
5. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (Ray -closed)
6. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella (Ring - Open)
7. Swimming day friday - Madeliene Wickham (ring - open)

Rules for Rings/Rays - Max 8 people initially - first come first served.
- Journal when receive book, when completed and
when sent on it's way
- Try to read the book within 1 month.
- Use your initiative if ring stalls
- People may be added on the end, especially if I
start with 1 person!

Book rings/Rays I'm/have Participating/ed in:-

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Completed April 06)
Number 10 - Sue Townend (Completed June 06)
Bleachers - John Grisham (Completed July 06)
The Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman - Sue Townend - (Completed August 06)
Shopaholic and sister - Sophie Kinsella (Completed September 06)
The life of Pi (Completed November 06)
Jane Eyre (Completed December 06)
Animal Farm (Completed April 07)
Birdsong (Completed July 07)
Pillors of Fire (Completed September 07
The Secret Life of Bees (Completed June o8)
Perfume (completed July 09)
Kite Runner (completed Feb 2010)
Doctor Zhivago (completed May 2010)
The Shadow on the wind (completed May 2010)
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom (completed Nov 2010)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (conpleted Mar 2011)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Completed May 2011)
Screw Tape letters - CS Lewis (Completed June 2011)
Runmarks - Joanne Harris (completed June 2011)
One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey (completed Dec 2011)
Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (completed Jan 2012)

READALONG's participated in/organised
Middlemarch - participated in during 2006.

War and Peace - organised and participated in 2006
About 50% of people who signed up completed it. Names as follows:-
Jax987654321 - Completed Readalong 6th November 06.
mrsgaskell - completed Readalong November 06
muzette - completed Readalong November 06
GoryDetails - Completed Readalong November 06
jinglefish - Completed Readalong November 06
merimag - Completed Readalong November 06
parisreader - Completed Readalong November 06


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