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.
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