Recent Book Activity

I love to share my books, so if you see anything on my available shelf that you like the look of, do get in touch and (finances permitting) I will happily send it on.

Currently reading:

Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Books Read 2012:

Alicia Silverstone - The Kind Diet
Sophia Blackwell - Into Temptation

Books Read 2011:

Joanne Harris - Blackberry Wine
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie
Derren Brown - Portraits
Liz Williams - The Poison Master
Vanessa Feltz (Editor) - RaW Voices - True Stories of Hardship and Hope
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson - An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love
Mitch Albom - For One More Day
Matthew Johnstone and James Kerr - The Alphabet of the Human Heart
Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell
Kiran Desai - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Philippa Gregory - The Wise Woman
Ron Martin - Retail Selling Made Easy
Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses
Sue Monk Kidd - The Mermaid Chair
Jennifer Weiner - In Her Shoes
Mandy Aftel - Essence & Alchemy: A Book of Perfume
Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., John Christensen and Harry Paul, with Philip Strand - Fish Tales
Lorenzo Carcaterra - Gangster
Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Carol Ann Duffy - Another Night Before Christmas
Clement C. Moore - The Night Before Christmas
Jostein Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery
Patrick Lindsay - Now Is the Time

Books read 2010:

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Kayte Terry - Creative Embellishing
Gail Anderson-Dargatz - The Cure for Death by Lightning
Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels
Mario Puzo - The Godfather (Bookray)
William Shakespeare - King Lear
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
James Runcie - The Discovery of Chocolate
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
The Mighty Boosh - The Mighty Book of Boosh
Richard Lacayo and George Russell - Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism
Alison Weir - Innocent Traitor
Barrington Barber - Through the Eyes of Vincent Van Gogh
The Works of The Earl of Rochester
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - The Mistress of Spices
Joanne Harris - The Lollipop Shoes
Bob Torres & Jenna Torres - Vegan Freak (Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World - Version 2.0: Revised, Expanded & Updated)
Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer - How it All Vegan
Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn - A Sketch in Time
Chantal Thomas - Farewell, My Queen
Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh with an Introduction by J. K. Rowling - One City
Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin - Skinny Bitch
David Baddiel - The Secret Purposes
Kitty Hart-Moxon - Return to Auschwitz
Jonathan Tropper - How to Talk to a Widower
Nomi Eve - The Family Orchard
Laurent Gaude - Death of an Ancient King
Raymond Briggs - When the Wind Blows
Charlotte Bronte - Stancliffe's Hotel
Dr Seuss - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Clement C. Moore - The Night Before Christmas
Carol Ann Duffy - Another Night Before Christmas
Matt Harvey - Where Earwigs Dare
Jostein Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows


Books read 2009:

David M. Glantz - The Siege of Leningrad (1941 - 1944) 900 Days of Terror
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
Donna Leon - Doctored Evidence
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
The Dalai Lama - Freedom in Exile
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl
Jim Morrison - The Lords/The New Creatures
Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells
Michael Crichton - Binary
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World (Bookray)
Jim Davis - Garfield Who's Talking?
Deborah Moggach - Seesaw
Sylvia Plath - Poems selected by Ted Hughes
Alan Bennett - Untold Stories
Roald Dahl - The BFG
Beatrix Potter - A Journal
China Mieville - Un Lun Dun (Bookring)
D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List
Joanne Harris - Coastliners
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Shena Mackay - The Orchard on Fire
Ernst Schnabel - The Footsteps of Anne Frank
Tracy Tolkien - Miller's Handbags: A Collector's Guide
T.S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Bookring)
Patrick Suskind - Perfume (Bookring)
Patrick Gale - Notes From An Exhibition
H. T. Dickinson - Walpole and the Whig Supremacy
Kim Edwards - The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Edward Marston - The Painted Lady
Esther Freud - The Sea House
Alan Wall - The School of Night
Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
David Annal - Easy Family History
John S Booth - Around Hanley Revisited
Anchee Min - Empress Orchid
Michael Morpurgo - Why the Whales Came
David Attenborough - Life on Air
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Ben Okri - Astonishing the Gods
Donna Leon - Wilful Behaviour
Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees
Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro (Bookray)
E. B. White - Charlotte's Web
Richard Adams - Watership Down (Bookray)
Lorna Oakes - Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt
Clement C. Moore - The Night Before Christmas

Wishlist Granted:

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights - Big thanks to KanaPoutz for this (arrived 06/03/2009)
Patrick Gale - Notes From An Exhibition - Found on a bookcrossing zone, thank you to house-elfdobby for the release (picked up 08/04/2009)
Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species - Thank you so much RokPig (arrived 31/05/2009)
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner - Very large thanks indeed CountofMonte for this release (picked up 07/07/2009)
Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago - big thank you for this maid-of-kent (arrived 04/09/09)
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre - thank you very much indeed wibba (arrived 11/03/10)

Favourite reads (in no particular order):

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List
Joanne Harris - Chocolat
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mario Puzo - The Godfather