Recent Book Activity

Updated: May 31, 2012

Currently reading:

Between Shades of Grey ~ Ruth Sepetys
Finn Family Moomintroll ~ Tove Jansson


Bookrings I'm hosting:

AUS ONLY Joe Cinque's Consolation ~ Helen Garner STALLED
Int'l Mercy ~ Jodi Picoult completed
Int'l Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's(Pocket Penguins 70's) ~ Marian Keyes completed
Int'l Ray Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson
Int'l The Lilies of the Field ~ William E Barrett
Int'l Cry, the Beloved Country ~ Alan Paton
Int'l The Book Of Negroes ~ Lawrence Hill
Int'l When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead



Bookrings/bookrays I have participated in:

The Twins at St.Clare's ~ Enid Blyton
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian~Marina Lewycka
Black Like Me ~ Robert Bonazzi, John Howard Griffin
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier ~ T.E. Carhart
Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom ~ Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie
On Chesil Beach ~ Ian McEwan
The Spare Room ~ Helen Garner
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ~ Eva Rice
Austenland ~ Shannon Hale
A Month in the Country ~ Joseph Lloyd Carr


My Birthday RABCK Buddy is Haugtussa


Some of the RABCKs received (thanks so much!):
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Wells from priceliss
The Secret of Guidance ~ F.B. Meyer from snowy652
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Roald Dahl from Carole888


Books read in 2012

1. Austenland ~ Shannon Hale
2. Death Comes to Pemberley ~ P. D. James
3. Give It All to Him ~ Max Lucado
4. The Book Of Negroes ~ Lawrence Hill
5. Poor Man's Wealth ~ Rod Usher
6. Hotel Iris ~ Yoko Ogawa
7. Unbroken ~ Laura Hillenbrand
8. No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub ~ Virginia Ironside
9. Elizabeth Costello ~ J. M. Coetzee
10. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life by P.S. Hill
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ~ Rebecca Skloot
12. The Shack ~ WM. Paul Young
13. A Month in the Country ~ Joseph Lloyd Carr
14. War Horse ~ Michael Morpurgo
15. The Midwife's Confession ~ Diane Chamberlain
16. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ~ Haruki Murakami
17. Postern of Fate ~ Agatha Christie





Books read in 2011

Campaign Ruby ~ Jessica Rudd
Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
Bertie sings the Blues ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
Mysterious Benedict Society ~
Bone China ~ Roma Tearne
Ghost of a Chance ~ Amy Patricia Meade
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa ~ Nicholas Drayson
The Help ~ Kathryn Stockett
One Day ~ David Nicholls
Room ~ Emma Donoghue
The Housekeeper and the Professor ~ Yoko Ogawa
Seven Types of Ambiguity ~ Elliot Perlman
Stories I Only Tell My Friends ~ Rob Lowe
The Tall Man ~ Chloe Hooper
Portugese Irregular Verbs ~ Alexander McCall Smith
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs~ Alexander McCall Smith
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances ~ Alexander McCall Smith



Books read in 2010

1. True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess ~ Wendy Leigh
2. The Dog Who Came In From The Cold ~ Alexander McCall-Smith (audiobook)
3. Fantastic Mr Fox ~ Roald Dahl
4. The Twits ~ Roald Dahl
5. The Lost Art of Gratitude ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
6. A Change in Altitude ~ Anita Shreve
7. London is the Best City in America ~ Laura Dave
8. Towards Zero ~ Agatha Christie
9. The Chocolate Cat Caper (Chocoholic Mysteries, No. 1) ~ JoAnna Carl
10. The Double Comfort Safari Club ~ Alexander McCall Smith
11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Stieg Larsson
12. Naive. Super ~ Erlend Loe
13. Astrid and Veronika ~ Linda Olsson
14. The Makioka Sisters ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
15. The Girl Who Played with Fire ~ Stieg Larsson
16. Hummingbirds ~ Joshua Gaylord
17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ~ Stieg Larsson
18. Mao's Last Dancer ~ Li Cunxin
19. Dear Fatty ~ Dawn French
20. Still Alice ~ Lisa Genova
21. When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead
22. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ~ Agatha Christie
23. Rosewater and Soda Bread ~ Marsha Mehran
24. Partners in Crime ~ Agatha Christie
25. 84 Charing Cross Road/The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street ~ Helen Hanff
26. The Legacy ~ Kirsten Tranter
27. Open ~ Andre Agassi
28. Oxygen ~ Carol Cassella
29. Death in the Clouds ~ Agatha Christie
30. Man in the Dark ~ Paul Auster
31. The Hand that First Held Mine ~ Maggie O'Farrell
32. The New York Trilogy ~ Paul Auster
33. 50 Dates Worse Than Yours ~ Justin Racz
34. The Brooklyn Follies ~ Paul Auster
35. Oracle Night ~ Paul Auster
36. Sad Cypress ~ Agatha Christie
37. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen ~ Syrie James
38. The Importance of Being Seven ~ Alexander McCall Smith
39. Lunch in Paris ~ Elizabeth Bard
40. Million Dollar Baby ~ Amy Patricia Meade
41. Her Fearful Symmetry ~ Audrey Niffenegger
42. The Lilies of the Field ~ William Edmund Barrett
43. The Charming Quirks of Others ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
44. The Mysterious Affair at Styles ~ Agatha Christie
45. Between The Assassinations ~ Aravind Adiga
46. Murder is Easy ~ Agatha Christie
47. Elephants Can Remember ~ Agatha Christie
48. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case ~ Agatha Christie
49. Parky: My Autobiography ~ Michael Parkinson
50. The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins



Books read in 2009

1. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life ~ Kerry Reichs
2. La's Orchestra Saves the World ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
3. The Comfort of Saturdays ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
4. The Spare Room ~ Helen Garner
5. The Hour I First Believed ~ Wally Lamb
6. And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie
7. Like Water for Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel
8. East of the Sun ~ Julia Gregson
9. The Secret Adversary ~ Agatha Christie
10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer
11. Pride and Prescience ~ Carrie Bebris
12. Cranford ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
13. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ~ John Boyne
14. The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Star Trek 1 ~ James Blish
16. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
17. A Wedding in December ~ Anita Shreve
18. Persepolis ~ Marjane Satrapi
19. Suspense and Sensibility ~ Carrie Bebris
20. The Marriage Club ~ Kate Legge
21. Alice in La La land ~ Sophie Lee
22. The Household Guide to Dying ~ Debra Adelaide
23. Corduroy Mansions ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
24. Innocent House/Original Sin ~ PD James
25. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ~ Eva Rice




Books read in 2008

1. Those Faraday Girls ~ Monica McInerney
2. Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson
3. Suite Francaise ~ Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Moving Finger ~ Agatha Christie
5. Otherwise Pandemonium (Pocket Penguins 70's) ~ Nick Hornby
6. Third Girl ~ Agatha Christie
7. Persuasion ~ Jane Austen
8. Due Preparations for the Plague ~ Jannette Turner Hospital
9. On Chesil Beach ~ Ian McEwan
10. The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (Pocket Penguins 70's)
11. The Miracle at Speedy Motors ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
12. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books ~ J. Peder Zane (Ed.)
13. The Screwtape Letters ~ C. S. Lewis
14. Five Little Pigs ~ Agatha Christie
15. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast ~ Bill Richardson
16. Persuading Annie ~ Melissa Nathan
17. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Pocket Penguins 70s)~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
18. The Denniston Rose ~ Jenny Pattrick
19. What the Dead Know ~ Laura Lippman
20. The Diana Chronicles ~ Tina Brown
21. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
22. At Bertram's Hotel ~ Agatha Christie
23. The Lucy Family Alphabet ~ Judith Lucy
24. The Pursuit of Love ~ Nancy Mitford
25. Love in a Cold Climate ~ Nancy Mitford
26. The Blessing ~ Nancy Mitford
27. The Portable Door ~ Tom Holt
28. Tales of the Unexpected ~ Roald Dahl
29. Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome
30. Sense & Sensibility ~ Jane Austen
31. Boy ~ Roald Dahl
32. Going Solo ~ Roald Dahl




Books read in 2007

1. Espresso Tales ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Love Over Scotland ~Alexander McCall-Smith
3. The History of Love ~ Nicole Krause
4. The Europa Conspiracy ~Tim Lahaye and Bob Phillips
5. I was Bono's Doppelganger ~ Neil McCormick
6. Right Attitude to Rain~Alexander McCall-Smith
7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox ~ Maggie O'Farrell
8. White Girl Black Girl ~ Joyce Carol Oates
9. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders ~ John Mortimer
10. After you'd gone ~ Maggie O'Farrell
11. When you wake and find me gone ~ Maureen McCarthy
12. The Thirteenth Tale ~ Diane Setterfield
13. Bill Bryson's African Diary
14. Jane Austen ~ Carol Shields
15. The Memory Keeper's Daughter ~ Kim Edwards
16. The Twins at St.Clare's ~ Enid Blyton
17. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian~Marina Lewycka
18. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ~Alexander McCall-Smith
19. Amsterdam ~ Ian McEwan
20. The Hamilton Case ~ Michelle de Kretser
21. The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Perms, Friendship and Freedom ~ Deborah Rodriguez
22. Black Like Me ~ Robert Bonazzi, John Howard Griffin
23. The Secret Life Of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd
24. The Shifting Fog (AKA The House at Riverton) ~ Kate Morton
25. The Careful Use of Compliments ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
26. Moral Disorders ~ Margaret Atwood
27. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier ~ T.E. Carhart
28. Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's (Pocket Penguins 70's)~ Marian Keyes
29. The World According to Bertie ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
30. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Wells
31. Dream Angus ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
32. Anonymous Lawyer ~ Jeremy Blachman
33. The Survivor ~ Thomas Keneally
34. Blind Submission ~ Debra Ginsberg
35. Scenes from Academic Life ~ David Lodge
36. And Now All This ~ W. C. Sellar, R. J. Yeatman
37. A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
38. Shearwater ~ Andrea Mayes
39. Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom ~ Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie
40. My side of the matter (Pocket Penguins 70's)~ Truman Capote



Books read in 2006

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
2. Harvesting the Heart ~ Jodi Piccoult
3. Morality for beautiful girls ~Alexander McCall-Smith
4. The Kalahari Typing School for Men ~Alexander McCall-Smith
5. The Full Cupboard of Life ~Alexander McCall-Smith
6. The Rising ~ Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
7. The Secret of Ararat ~ Tim Lahaye and Bob Phillips
8. Northanger Abbey ~ Jane Austen
9. The Devil wears Prada ~ Lauren Weisberger
10. Night ~ Elie Wiesel
11. The Pact ~ Jodi Piccoult
12. Separate Lies ~ Nigel Balchin
13. Shopgirl ~ Steve Martin
14. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
15. The Testament ~ John Grisham
16. Joe Cinque's Consolation ~ Helen Garner
17. The Student Chronicles ~ Alice Garner
18. Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas



Books read in 2005

1. Coronation talkies ~ Susan Kurosawa
2. The Motorcycle Diaries ~Che Guvara
3. The Time Traveller's Wife ~Audrey Niffenegger
4. Portugese Irregular Verbs ~Alexander McCall-Smith
5. The Da Vinci Code ~Dan Brown
6. Down Under ~Bill Bryson
7. The Jane Austen Book Club ~ Karen Joy Fowler
8. Soon ~Tim LaHaye
9. Never Let Me Go ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
10. The Known World ~Edward Jones
11. The Wish List ~Melanie LaBrooy
12. The Rising ~Tim LaHaye & Jenkins
13. The Sandglass ~Romesh Gunasekera
14. The Sunday Philosophy Club~Alexander McCall-Smith
15. Night of Rain and Stars ~Maeve Binchy
16. The Lovely Bones ~Alice Sebold
17. Girl with a pearl earring ~Tracey Chevalier
18. The Alphabet Sisters ~Monica Mcinerney
19. Friends, Lovers and Chocolate~Alexander McCall-Smith
20. The Last Juror ~John Grisham
21. 44 Scotland Street~Alexander McCall-Smith
22. The Girl in Times Square ~Paullina Simons
23. The Clocks ~Agatha Christie
24. Why didn't they ask Evans? ~Agatha Christie
25. My sister's keeper ~Jodi Piccoult
26. Babylon Rising ~Tim LaHaye