Books read, 2012


  • total, 89

  • 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.

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