I was compelled to start a new sideline blog, for the booklovers out there. I know I'm always raving about the books I read, but I'm hoping it encourages you to read them too.
Scroll through and see if there is something that takes your interest.
Have fun!
Wendy xxx
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I LOVE BOOKS! In this blog I will review the books I read and rate them using the key below. I hope to inspire you to read some great books!
My Rating Key
***** Unputdownable!
**** A satisfying read.
*** A good idea, but not brilliantly executed
**1/2 Young readers will love this
** Some good bits, but lots of rambling
* Disappointing.
**** A satisfying read.
*** A good idea, but not brilliantly executed
**1/2 Young readers will love this
** Some good bits, but lots of rambling
* Disappointing.
Followers
Read One of my reviews
- 61 Hours *****
- A Fortunate Life *****
- A Twist in the Tale ****
- After River *****
- Anne of Green Gables **1/2
- Barefoot ****
- Between a Heart and a Rock Place *****
- Burning Bright ****
- Confessions of a Wild Child **
- Cookie Club ****
- Could Do Better *****
- Crime and Punishment **
- Don't Say a Word ****
- Duchess **
- Emma **
- Four ****
- Gilgamesh *****
- Going Inland *
- Gone With the Wind *****
- Grave Sight ***
- Hell Island ***
- Jessica *****
- Keeping Faith *****
- Kick Back **
- Kite Runner *****
- Life and Death in Shanghai *****
- Lovely Bones *****
- Lucy Family Alphabet *****
- Mama Mia ****
- Mao's Last Dancer *****
- Memory Box ****
- Murder Room ****
- My Sister's Keeper *****
- No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency ****
- Obernewtyn***
- On Beulah Height *****
- Only Way Is Up ****
- Open *****
- Playing With Fire ****
- Pride and Prejudice **
- Red Lotus *****
- Saving Grace ***
- Secret Smile ****
- Slave *****
- Sole Survivor ****
- Something Quite Peculiar ****
- Tears of the Moon *****
- The Alchemist *****
- The Beach House ****
- The Best of Us **
- The Book of Tomorrow ****
- The Dark Shore ***
- The Greatest Lover Ever ****
- The Last Anniversary ****
- The Lollipop Shoes *****
- The Next Always ***
- The Outback Heart ****
- The Time of My Life ****
- The Time-Traveller's Wife *****
- The Twilight Series *****
- Thirst No.1 *****
- Those Faraday Girls *****
- To Kill a Mockingbird ***
- Turn Your Workplace into a WOW Place *****
- Vanishing Acts *****
- What Alice Forgot ****
- Worth Dying For *****
Books I read in 2012
January 1. Sole Survivor -Derek Hansen 2. Barefoot - Elin Hilderbrand 3. That'd Be Right - William McInnes 4. The Valley - Di Morrissey February 5.The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier 6. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay 7. The Next Always - Nora Roberts 8.Emma - Jane Austen March 9. Possession - A.S. Byatt 10. 1001 Ways to Relax - Mike George 11. City of Dragons - Robin Hobb 12. One More Time - Damien LeithApril 13. The Hunter - Julia Leigh 14. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger 15. Poet's Cottage - Josephine Pennicott16. Seriously...I'm Kidding - Ellen Degeneres 17. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey 18. The Captain's Daughter - Leah Fleming 19. Zero Hour- Leon Davidson May 20. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom 21. 11/22/63 - Stephen King 22. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 23. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 24. Everneath - Brodi Ashton 25. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka June 26. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins 27. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins 28. Divergent - Veronica Roth 29. Woman in Black - Susan Hill 30. Insurgent - Veronica Roth 31. Snow White and the Huntsman 32. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux July 33. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins 34. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 35. The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler 36. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 37. Burn Bright - Marianne de Pierres 38. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving 39. Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James 40. Visible Learning - John Hattie August 41. Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James 42. Oddfellow's Orphanage - Emily Winfield Martin 43. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield 44. The Outcast - Sadie Jones 45. A Place Called Here - Cecelia Ahern September 46. The Birthing House - Christopher Ransom 47. The Turn of the Screw 48. Cecelia Ahern - Thanks for the Memories 49. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake - Jenny Wingfield 50. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey October 51. The Gift - Cecelia Ahern 52. Foxmask -Juliet Marillier 53. Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan 54. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins November 55. Every Year - Cecelia Ahern 56. The Light Between Oceans -M.L Stedman 57. One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern 58. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell 59. Cold in Earth - Melissa Jones 60. The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson December 61. The Promise - Lesley Pearse 62. Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park 63. When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
Books I read in 2011
January 1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson 2. The Only Way is Up - Carole Matthews 3. Crime and Punishment - Fyoder Dostoevsky 4. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult 5. April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay 6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 7. Call of the Wild - Jack London February 8. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 9. All That Remains - Patricia Cornwell 10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 11. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 12. A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey March 13. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith 14. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery 15. At Home With the Templetons - Monica McInerney 16. I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson 17. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle 18. The Alchemist's Secret - Scott Mariani April 19. Silent Country - Di Morrissey 20. What to do when the doctor says it's IBS - Leigh Forston 21. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne 22. Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly 23. Nim's Island - Wendy Orr 24. Mum had a Kingswood - Tim Ross 25. The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern 26. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle May 27. Adventures in Caravanastan - Greg Bearup 28. The Inheritance - Robin Hobb June 29. Timemachines Repaired While-U-Wait - K.A Bedford July The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Scaffer and Annie Barrows 31. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 32. Dewey - Vicki Myron 33. Coach Yourself to Wealth - Shirley McKinnon 34. Where's your Wow? Robyn Spizman and Rick Frishman 35. Getting it Right - James Hoy 36. Follow the Other Hand - Andy Cohen 37. Eight Steps to a Remarkable Business - Paul McCarthy 38. Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children - Jen Storer August 39. Who Switched off my Brain?- Dr Caroline Leaf 40. Bulletproof your Business Now - Andrew Griffiths 41. Be a Party Plan Superstar - Mary Christensen 42. Noah Barleywater Runs Away - John Boyne 43. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein - Peter Ackroyd 44. The Help - Kathryn Stockett 45. Summer School - Domenica de Rosa 46. 365 Thank yous - John Kralik 47. The Art of Possibility - Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander September 48. Nothing to Lose - Lee Child 49. Weather - Julie Capaldo 50. Time of My Life - Cecelia Ahern October 51. All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve 52. Lessons in Letting Go : Confessions of a Hoarder - Corinne Grant 53. The Awakening - Beven McGuiness 54. The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo 55. Beastly - Alex Flinn 56. 29 - Adena Halpern 57. Dirt Music - Tim Winton November 58. My Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor 59. Dear Fatty - Dawn French 60. On the Street Where You Live - Mary Higgins Clark 61. Don't Let Her See Me Cry - Helen Barnacle 62. Molly's Millions - Victoria Connelly 63. Eleven Hours - Paullina Simons December 64. Breath - Tim Winton 65. Tully - Paullina Simons 66. The Zahir - Paulo Coelho 66. Upside Down Inside Out - Monica McInerney 67. Testimony - Anita Shreve 68. World's Weirdest True Ghost Stories - John Beckett 69. Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child 70. The Secret Lives of Dresses - Erin McKean
Books I read in 2010
1. Open - Andre Agassi 2. Red Lotus - Pai Kit Fai 3. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 4. The Murder Room - PD James 5. The Lucy Family Alphabet - Judith Lucy 6. The Time of My Life - Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi 7. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 8. Atonement - Ian McEwan 9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 10. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 11. Dragon Haven - Robin Hobb 12. Death of a Domestic Diva - Sharon Short 13. Sweetheart - Peter James 14. A Week in Winter - Marcia Willett 15. Thirst No. 1 - Christopher Pike 16. An Ocean Apart - Robin Pilcher 17. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks 18. Tears of the Moon - Di Morrissey 19. The Gazebo - Emily Grayson 20. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 21. The Duchess - Amanda Foreman 22. Wolfskin - Juliet Marillier 23. The Cookie Club - Ann Pearlman 24. Second Glance - Jodi Picoult 25. The Infinite Plan - Isabelle Allende 26. Nylon Angel - Marianne de Pierres 27. Kimberley Sun - Di Morrissey 28. Thirst No.2 - Christopher Pike 29. The Reef - Di Morrissey 30. Sacrifice - SJ Bolton 31. The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill 32. Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella 33. Life Swap - Jane Green 34. Spencerville - Nelson DeMille 35. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown 36. Watermelon - Marian Keyes 37. Dragon of the Second Moon - Christian Tamblyn 38. Lizzie's War - Tim Farrington 39. Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin 40. Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult 41. Burning Bright - Tracy Chevalier 42. Power Play - Joseph Finder 43. Wonderland - Naomi Cummings 44. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult 45. The Deserted - Naomi Cummings 46. Pieces of Blue - Kerry McGinnis 47. Going Inland - Pat Jacob 48. Cross-Stitch - Diana Gabaldon 49. Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon 50. The Legacy - David Suzuki 51. Ecological Intelligence - Daniel Goleman 52. Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell 53. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 54. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson 55. 61 Hours - Lee Child 56. Worth Dying For - Lee Child
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