Recent Book Activity

“Oh, I reckon I believes in tea, sunrises, that sort of thing.”
- Granny Weatherwax, Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett

Read recently: Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, I Heart New York by Lindsay Kelk, Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, Cold Case by Faye Kellerman, The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, Human Instinct by Robert Winston, Waste by Tristram Stuart, Bicycle: Love Your Bike by Helen Pidd, With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed by Lynne Truss, The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James 'Jim' Lovelock, The Economic Naturalist by Robert H Frank, Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson, Empire Falls by Richard Russo, London Under London by Richard Trench and Ellis Hillman, The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek, Little Children by Tom Perotta, The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike, Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, The Devil: A Biography by Peter Stanford, Frost / Nixon by David Frost

Read in 2009 (most recent first): Secret Letters at Trebizon by Anne Digby, Fifth-Year Friendships at Trebizon by Anne Digby, The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas, A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve, The K-PAX Trilogy by Gene Brewer, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve, Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, Pop Co by Scarlett Thomaas, The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman, Out of My Depth by Emily Barr, The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin, Predator's Gold by Philip Reeve, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Maginificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham, Carrying the Fire by Michael 'coolest astronaut going' Collins, Revolutionary Road by Richard Parks, A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres, Sleeping Naked is Green by Vanessa Farquharson, Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell To Earth by Andrew Smith, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell, Love Lives by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees, The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters, This Charming Man by Marian Keyes, The Sisterhood by Emily Barr, Love in A Cold Climate and other novels by Nancy Mitford, Frothy Tales by Davey Spens, I Was Vermeer by Frank Wynne, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson, Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007 by Al Gore, The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris, The Pesthouse by Jim Crace, Almost Like A Whale by Steve Jones, The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney, Mightier than the Sword: Omnibus 2 by Tom Holt, Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow

Currently reading: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert