Books read, 2011

    • Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett. 29.11.12. Fantastic.
    • The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall. 29.12.11. Fantastic. Read with Youngest.
    • The Sorcerer's Apprentices, A season at el Bulli. 28.12.11. Fabulous.
    • The Magician's Apprentice, Ann Patchett. 26.12.11. Fine.
    • The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugendes. 22.12.11. Disconcerting.
    • Paris to the Moon Adam Gopnick. 21.12.11. Good.
    • The Gardner Heist, Ulrich Boser. 16.12.11 OK, guy book.
    • Soul Music, Terry Pratchett. 11.12.11. Brilliant.
    • No Bed of Her Own, Val Lewton. 11.12.11. Dark.
    • Winter, Adam Gopnick. 9.12.11 Very good.
    • The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall. With Youngest, 9.12.11. Excellent
    • The Island of the Colour Blind, Oliver Sacks. 4.12.11. Excellent
    • A Summer Bird Cage, Margaret Drabble. 28.11.11. Fine.
    • Backseat Saints, Joshilyn Jackson. 18.11.11. Unpleasant.
    • The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna. 16.11.11. Tough but good.
    • The Golden Mean. Annabel Lyon. 10.11.11. Compelling, but brutal.
    • What I talk about when I talk about running. Haruki Murakami. 7.11.11. A much needed kick in the pants. Well written too.
    • A Field full of Butterflies, memories of a Romany childhood. Rosemary Penfold. 7.11.11. Really interesting.
    • The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett, 6.11.11. Wonderful.
    • The Garden of the Gods, Gerrald Durrell, 6.11.11. Wonderful.
    • IQ84, book 3. Haruki Murakami. 5.11.11. Holy jeez.
    • Birds, beasts and relatives. Gerrald Durrell, 25.10.11
    • The Elephant Keeper, Christopher Nicholson. 17.10.11. Cruel and horrid.
    • Jingo, Terry Pratchett. 16.10.11. Brilliant
    • Balancing Act, Zoe Fishman. 16.10.11. Utter fluff.
    • Gates of Ivory, Margaret Drabble, 15.10.11. Abandoned with relief.
    • The Wood Wife, Terri Windling. 14.10.11. Very very good.
    • The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett, 6.10.11. Almost unbelievable.
    • Sanctuary Line, Jane Urquhart, 3.10.11. Melancholy
    • My Family and Other Animals, Gerrald Durrel. 2.10.11. Wonderful.
    • The Hundred-Foot Journey, Richard C Morais. 1.10.11. Delicious.
    • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. Paulo Coelho. 30.9.11. Preachy.
    • Tree of Codes, Jonathan Safran Foer. 29.9.11. Ambitious.
    • Left Neglected, Lisa Genova. 29.9.11. Fabulous
    • The Beauty of Humanity Movement, Camilla Gibb. 27.9.11. Fabulous. Made me want pho!
    • Equal Rights, Terry Pratchett. 27.9.11. Fabulous
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, Muriel Spark. 25.9.11. Irritating
  • Star Island, Carl Hiaasen. 25.9.11. Funny
  • Room, Emma Donoghue. 22.9.11. Wow.
  • State of Wonder, Anne Patchett. 21.9.11. Really very good.
  • Pongwiffy, a witch of dirty habits , Kaye Umansky. 21.9.11. With Youngest. Good.
  • Still Alice, Lisa Genova. 18.9.11 Spectacular
  • The Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble, 16.9.11. Must read more Drabble.
  • The Raven in the Foregate, Ellis Peters, 16.9.11. Good.
  • The Orphan Sister, Gwendolyn Gross. 13.9.11. Fine
  • Lullabies for little Criminals, Heather O'Neil. 9.9.11. Horrific and good
  • The White Tiger, Aravind Adija, 7.9.11. Good.
  • Sweet Dates in Basra, Jessica Jiji, 6.9.11. Very good
  • Tinkers, Paul Harding. 5.9.11 Scattered and astonishing.
  • Valmiki's Daughter, Shani Mootoo, 4.9.11. Good
  • Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome. 4.9.11. EXCELLENT!
  • Colours of the Sea, John Hamamura. 3.9.11. Clichéd.
  • The Mapmaker's Opera, Bea Gonzalez, 2.9.11. Overblown.
  • Recipe for Bees, Gail Anderson - Dargatz. 1.9.11. Fine at the time, now meh.
  • The Thousand Lives of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell. 31.8.11. Meh at the time, now, good.
  • The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor, Sally Armstrong. 29.8.11. Very good
  • Apocalypse for Beginners, Nicholas Dickner. 27.8.11. Excellent
  • The Ghost Brush, Katherine Govier. 27.8.11. Fascinating
  • Googled, Ken Auletta, 25.8.11. Fascinating
  • The Birth House, Ami McKay, 24.8.11. Fabulous.
  • Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer. 7.8.11. Horrifying, I am a near vegetarian and cautious meat eater, again.
  • Her Royal Spyness solves her first case, Rhys Bowen. 7.8.11. Fine.
  • The Help, Kathryn Stockett, 31.7.11. Wonderful.
  • Shanghai Girls, Lisa See, 30.7.11. Wonderful and there's a sequel!!
  • When God was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman, 24.7.11
  • The Peppered Moth, Margaret Drabble, saving the rest for Spain
  • A Japanese touch for the seasons. Kunio Ekiguchi. 16.7.11.
  • The book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura. 16.7.11
  • Every Lost Country, Steven Heighten. 9.7.11. Fast chase book.
  • Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day, Winifred Watson. 3.7.11. Delightful
  • The Mystery of Blackwood Hall. Carolyn Keene. 24.6.11. With Youngest.
  • Of love and shadows. Isabell Allende. 212.6.11. Heavy told (too?) lightly.
  • Everything is illuminated. Jonathan Safran Foer. 20.6.11. Irritating.
  • Radical Reflections. Mem Fox. 19.6.11. Fine.
  • El Cel és Blau, la Terra Blanca: una historia d'amor. Hiromi Kawakami. 17.6.11. Beautiful, sad, quiet.
  • No entenc el món àrab. Tahar Ben Jelloun. 10.6.11. Meh.
  • Secret of the Haunted Showboat, Carolyn Keene. Fun. 7.6.11
  • An Excellent Mystery, Ellis Peters. Excellent. 4.6.11
  • La Noia de les Taronges, Jostein Gaarder. Excellent! 4.6.11
  • Catalan driving manual. I don't know who wrote it but it was agonizing.
  • El Tren més Llarg. Fernando Martínez Laínez, in Catalan. Fine.
  • PIlgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters, 16.5.11. Wonderful.
  • Dragonflight, Ann McCaffery, 16.5.11. Wonderful.
  • The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler. 14.5.11. Good. Read it just before bed, had weird dreams.
  • The Gift, Lewis Hyde. 11.5.11. Interesting idea, terrible writing.
  • The Hapless teacher's handbook, Phil Ball. 5.5.11. Waste of time.
  • The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett. 4.5.11. Crivens, it's marrrrrrvelous!
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, 1.5.11. Fascinating.
  • IQ84, books 1 and 2, Haruki Murakami, in Catalan. Marvelous. 30.4.11
  • A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, V.S. Ramachandran. 23.4.11, odd writing style and a bit sloppy, but fine.
  • The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing. Can't decide if bleak or dismal would be a better descriptor. I do know it has been abandoned. 6.4.11
  • Dead Man's Ransome. Ellis Peters. Wonderful.
  • My family and Other Animals, Gerrald Durrell. wonderful. 3.4.11
  • The Reader, Bernhard Schlink. Fast, good, true to the movie. 3.4.11
  • Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon. 25.3.11. Well, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon. Need I say more? I mean, really. Ok, a little more. A romp.
  • Burmese Lessons. Karen Connelly. 10.3.11. Absorbing.
  • The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life. Camilla Gibb. 3.2.11. Grim but compelling.
  • Driving Sideways by Jess Riley. 28.2.11. LIGHT beach read.
  • Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart. 28.2.11 Good, fast, funny, light.
  • Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor. Fine. 25.2.11.
  • The Devil's Novice, Ellis Peters. 20.2.11. Very very good.
  • A Hat full of Sky, Terry Pratchett. 19.2.11. Brilliant and funny, as always.
  • Oliver Twist, Dickens. 18.2.11
  • Kafka a la platja, Haruki Murakami. 11.2.11. Lonely.
  • Skin Tight, Carl Hiaasen. 7.2.11. Insane.
  • Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett, 2.2.11. Very very good.
  • Sanctuary Sparrow, Ellis Peters, 31.1.11. Really very good.
  • The Story if Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski 25.1.11. Abandned. Ridiculous.
  • Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips. 22.1.11. Fine.
  • The Amazing Absorbing Boy, Rabindranath Maharaj, 22.1.11. Soporific
  • The Summer of my Amazing Luck, Miriam Toews. 11.1.11. Good.
  • A Boy of Good Breeding, Miriam Toews. 9.1.11. Very very good.
  • I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett. 4.1.11. Pratchett, what more can I say? Excellent.
  • French Lessons, adventures with knife, fork and corkscrew by Peter Mayle. 4.1.11. Fine.
  • Empress by Shan Sa, 3.1.11. Very good.
  • The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama. 1.1.11. operatic.


Total: 118.  Strangely, exactly the same number as 2010.
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