Books read, 2012

• total, 89
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• Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon. Good pithy, short and real
• The Clue in the Broken Locket, Carolyn Keene, 15.12.12. Good
• Banderes al Vent! David H Rosenthal. 24.12.12. Good.
• The Long Song, Andrea Levy. 23.12.12. Good
• A Gypsy Life, Clare Allcard. Very good. 22.12.12.
• The Nothing that is 0: a natural history of zero. Robert Kaplan. 15.12.12. Good, math-y, well written.
• Nancy Drew and the secret in the Old Attic. Carolyn Keene. 11.12.12. good.
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the Hidden Gallery, by Maryrose Wood, 24.11.12.
• Niel Flambé and the Crusader's Curse by Kevin Sylvester, 17.11.12. Fine
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Wayne Johnson. I wouldn't have finished it were I not half Newf. 11.11.12.
• The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. With Youngest, great.
• An Intim*te History of American Girls, Joan Jacobs Brumberg. 20.10.12. Great.
• Princess Academy, Shannon Hale, with Youngest. 17.4.12. Very good
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. 14.10.12 Good.
• Somewhere, Home. Nada Awar Jarrar. 12.10.12. Slow
• Dust tracks on a Road, and autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston. 7.10.12. Fine
• Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese. 28.9.12. Utterly fabulous, best read in a long time.
• Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, Lunne Jonell, art byt Jonathan Bean. 27.9.12. weird, but good.
• The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom. 19.9.12 Melodramatic
• Wild, Cheryl Strayed. 18.9.12. Good.
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, 15.9.12. Good, needs larger print.,
• Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph. 13.9.12. Fine
• Thud, Terry Pratchett, 13.9.12. Excellent
• Kitchen Chinese, Ann Mah, 10.9.12. Trite and predictable
• One cup of Tea, Anna Ephron, 8.9.12 Spare
• Vaclav and Lena, Haley Tanner. 8.9.12. Excellent
• Winter Holiday, Arthur Ransome, 3.9.12 Brilliant
• Plum Spooky, Janet Evanovitch. Fast and light and good. 2.9.12
• Motorcycles and Sweetgrass, Drew Hayden Taylor, 2.9.12. Very good and funny
• Running, Jean Eckenoz, 31.8.12. Good.
• 3 views of Chrystal Water, Katherin Govier. 31.8.12. Brilliant
• Secret Waters, Arthur Ransome, 29.8.12. Fantastic
• Irma Voth, Miriam Toews, 26.8.12. Great.
• The Lake, Banana Yoshimoto, 25.8.12. forgotten.
• Automatic World, Struan Sinclair, 25.8.12. Demanding and I like it.
• Creation, Katherine Govier. 23.8.12. OK
• Swallowdale, Arthur Ransome, 22.8.12 Wonderful
• Season of Darkness, Maureen Jennings. Sug 10, 2012
• Bruno, Chief of Police. Martin Walker. Delightful. 6.7.12
• Still Life, Louise Penny. 10.7.12 Good
• Boom, Mark Haddon. 17.6.12. Entertaining with Youngest
• Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey. 15.6.12. Good.
• The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt. 10.6.12. Good, weird, good.
• The Squire, his Knight and his Lady. Gerald Morris. Great. 10.6.12
• The Summer without Men, Siri Hustvedt. 5.6.12. Better than it sounds.
• Still Life, Louise Penny. 10.7.12 Good
• Niel Flambé and the Crusader's Curse by Kevin Sylvester, 17.11.12. Fine

• Never cry wolf, Farley Mowat. 4.6.12. Good

• • Two wheels over Catalonia, Richard Guise. 3.6.12. Delightful and funny.
  • The dog that wouldn't be. Farley Mowat. 31.5.12 Good.
  • Crònica de l'ocell que dóna corda al món. Haruki Murakami. Vicious and passive equally. 26.5.12
  • The Ice Balloon, Alec Wilkinson. Good, didn't tell the story he could have. 24.5.12
  • The Legend of the King, Gerald Morris. 20.5.12. Good, darker.
  • Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, 3.5.12. Disturbing and had to skip sections. Avoided reading it for a long time, and I see why.
  • Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones. 1.5.12. Very good indeed.
  • Looking for Alaska, John Green. 29.4.12 good.
  • In a perfect world by Laura Kasischke. 21.4.12. Harlequin distopia. Tepid.
  • Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin. 19.4.12. Good, but dark.
  • Carry me down by M. J. Hyland. 17.4.12. Good but very dark.
  • Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett. 13.4.12 Fabulous.
  • The Princess, the Crone and the Dun-Cart Knight by Gerald Morris. 13.4.12. Wonderful
  • The Goalie's anxiety at the Penalty kick, Peter Handke. 13.4.12. Horrid.
  • Febre's Book of Insects by Jean Henri Fabre. 12.4.12. Fascinating.
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. 9.4.12. Very good indeed. Her best.
  • Girl Reading by Katie Ward. 8.4.12. Interesting.
• Long Way Round, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. 5.4.12. Good, light and fast.
• The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan. 30.3.12 Very good, sounds cliched, but I think haunting might apply.
• Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel. 24.3.12 Very good.
• The Quest of the Fair Unknown. 23.3.12. Gerald Morris. Delicious
• The Oracle of Stamboul. Michael David Lukas. 14.3.12. Very good.
• Pyramids, Terry Pratchett. 11.3.12. Excellent.
• Enduring Love, Ian McEwan. 11.3.12 Good.
• The Squire's Quest. Gerald Morris. 10.3.12. Very good indeed.
• Blinding Light. Paul Thoroux. 8.3.12. Nasty, smutty and pathetic. The second book I've tossed in the bin in my life.
• Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart. 4.3.12. Good.
• Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery. 22.2.12. Fabulous.
• The Carpet People, Terry Pratchett. 20.2.12. Good
• Debt-free forever, Gail Vaz-Oxlade. 20.2.12. Clear, even if you aren't wallowing.
• Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett. Excellent. 15.2.12
• The Spiderwick Chronicles, book 1. Holly Black and Toni DiTerlizzi. 8.2.12. Very good indeed.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 6.2.12. Excellent, but I don't approve of Fred dying.
• Fallen into the Pit, Ellis Peters, 5.2.12. Fine.
• Three singles to Adventure. Gerrald Durrel. 2.2.12. Excellent
• A School Teacher in Old Alaska, the story of Hannah Breece. Edited by Jane Jacobs. Good. 27.1.12
• Heaven, Hell and Salt Water. Bill and Phyllis Crowe. Good. She's the better writer, but he wrote most.
• A Sense of the World, how a blind man became history's greatest traveller, Jason Roberts. 15.1.12. Fabulous.
• Moon Palace, Paul Auster. 11.1.12. Strange.
• Growing Pains, and autobiography. Emily Carr. 8.1.1. Good.
• First book of 2012.....Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett, 7.1.12. Excellent, and a good omen for the year.