Books read 2013

72

  • Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. 29.12.13. Great.
  • Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El Príncipe de la Niebla (IN SPANISH!!!) 28.12.13. A wee bit dramatic.
  • Stephen Hawking, My Brief History. 25.12.13. Good.
  • The Lioness and her Knight, Gerrald Morris. Excellent! 21.12.13.
  • Como Agua para Chocolate, Laura Esquivel. Excellent, IN SPANISH!!!
  • Junkyard Dogs, Crag Johnson, Excellent. Nov 13
  • What I talk about when I talk about running, Haruki Murakami, Nov 13
  • Dragonmakers, Anne McCaffery, 1.12.13
  • The Cold Dish, 17.11.13 Excellent
  • A World of my Own, Robin Knox-Johnston. Good, something of a classic. 13.10.13
  • Mort, Terry Prattchett, Oct 13. Cause it makes life better!
  • The Big Six, Arthur Ransome. Great. 3.10.13
  • Blue River, Black Sea. Andrew Eames. Good. 2.10.13.
  • Last Man in Tower, Arvarind Adiga. Life is too short for vicious books
  • The BFG, for Roald Dahl day, or course. it was, wonderful, of course. 15.9.13
  • The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared. Jonas Jonasson. 12.9.13. Fine.
  • Flight Behaviours, Barbara Kingsolver,9.9.13. Excellent
  • All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCcafferey. Good.
  • Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C Wrede. Great
  • The Calligrapher's Daughter, Eugenia Kim. Fascinating
  • Talking to Dragons, Patricia C Wrede Great
  • The Wave Theory of Angels. Alison MacLeod, Kinda annoying, but good.
  • The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima, very good.
  • Years of Red Dust, Stories of Shanghai, Qui Xiaolong. Good
  • Secret Daughter, Shilpi Somaya Gowda. Fine
  • Searching for Dragons, Patricia C Wrede. Great
  • My Old Man and the Sea, Daniel Hays and David Hays. Very good.
  • The Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliffe. Very good
  • Late Night on Air, Elizabeth Hay. Fine.
  • The Master, Colm Toíbin. Good, but a bit of a slog.
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie, fascinating
  • 13 Rue Thérès, Elena Mauli Shapiro. Good.
  • Crystal Line, Anne McCafferey, Great
  • Killashandra, Anne McCaggerey. Great
  • Crystal Singer, Anne McCafferey. Great
  • The Hare with the Amber Eyes, Edmund de Wall. Very good.
  • Sassinak, Anne McCafferey and Elizabeth (?) Good, one of my favourite authors as a teen/young adult.
  • Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman. 7.7.13. EXCELLENT
  • The Boys in the Boat, , Daniel James Brown. 7.7.13 EXCELLENT!
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami. First of his I've read in English. Gentler than I thought they would be, though he says his short stories are quite different from his novels. Very good. Better read more slowly than I could.12.6.13
  • Bring out the Bodies, Hilary Mantel. Fantastic. 9.6.13
  • Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman. 29.5.13. Don't buy the soft back the print size is ridiculously small. Seriously annoying.
  • Cathedral of the Sea, (in English) by Idelfonso Falcones. Fine, the history was interesting, the story line - melodramatic
  • The South, Colm Tóibín, 17.5.13. Excellent, must read more by this man
  • A Castle in Spain, Matthew Parris. 145.3.13 Not compelling, but fine.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. J.K. Rowling. 9.5.13. Wish it weren't done.
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, 5.5.13, Excellent
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling, 30.4.13. Excellent
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling. 25.4.13 Excellent
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkeban. J.k. Rowling. 21.4.13. Obviously excellent
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. J.K.Rowling. 20.4.13. Really don't need to say it. Excellent. Still.
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. J.K. Rowling. 16.4.13. Do I need to say? Excellent!!!! Still.
  • The Fault in Our Stars, John Green. 12.4.13. It has been a long time since I last read long into the night to finish a book because I just. couldn't. put it down. I did with this one last night.
  • Voyaging down the Thames, Clyde Eddy. 10.4.13. Fine.
  • Under my Skin, Volume 1 of My Autobiography, Doris Lessing. 8.4.13. Irritiating
  • The Outermost House, Henry Beeston, 28.3.13. excellent again.
  • Squirrel seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris. 27.3.13. Not as good as I'd hoped.
  • Parsifal's Page, Geral Morris. With youngest, really really wonderful. 17.3.13.
  • My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell. 10.3.13. Wonderful
  • Ragnarok, A.S.Byatt. 7.3.13. Very good indeed.
  • The Ballad of Sir Dinadan, Gerald Morris. With Youngest, excellent. 5.3.13.
  • Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, again. Excellent, again. 5.3.13.
  • The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf, Gerald Morris. 24.2.13. Fabulous. read it with Youngest.
  • One Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters, with Youngest. REally very good indeed. 12.2.13.
  • I am the Messenger, Markus Zusak. 12.9.13. Excellent, but the last three paragraphs were a mistake. Show don't tel.
  • Shakespeare Revealed, a biography by René Weis. 8.2.13. Informative, very.
  • Miss Felicity Beedles Book of Poo by Terry Pratchett, 31.1.13. Fabulous.
  • Changing Heaven, Jane Urquhart. 27.1.13. Wonderful.
  • A Morbid Taste for Bones with Youngest, Ellis Peters, 19.1.13. Excellent.
  • Snuff, Terry Pratchett. 15.1.13. Simply fantastic. Wish I could start it again for the first time.
  • The Hobbit. Need I say more? 4.1.13.
  • The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart. 1.1.13. Not a book to make one fond.





2 comments:

thecatalanway said...

HI there just popped by to see what you're doing and ended up reading through your books. Wow! You must be sitting down sometimes then! What a great collection. I thought we could try a book group thing - even online would be good - but I don't think I can read as fast as you. I do miss my Cornish book group - we did one book a month to discuss.
So, I have taken a list and might get some on the Kindle. If you want to borrow any from me you can too - but first we need to get you over to Granollers to look over the shelf.

I am not a Terry Pratchett fan - is there anything you can say to help me get in there? I didn't like Trollope at first either so I am open to changing my mind

love Kate

Anonymous said...

I love that you do this!! And that you read so much...I am inspired, and just love reading through your succinct reviews. One thing for sure - I have not read any Terry Pratchet,but it sure looks like we need to. Missing you!!
Unlikely Nomad