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My 2011 reading list
- Girl Most LIkely, Rebecca Sparrow 6.5/10
- A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 8.5/10
- Remember Me, Sophie Kinsella 6.5/10
- Legend of a Suicide, David Vann 8.10
- The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz (re-read)
- The Last Anniversary, Liane Moriarty 7.5/10
- Emma, Jane Austen 9/10
- The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, Deborah Rodriguez, 6/10
- The Story of Us, Lisa Jewell, 7.5/10
- A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, 8.5/10
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen 8/10
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 8/10
- No Strings Attached, Clare Dowling 4/10
- Four Play, Fiona Walker 3/10
- 40 Love, Madeleine Wickham 6.5/10
- The Half Life of Stars, Louise Wener 8/10
- The Lonely Polygamist, Bradley Udall 7.5/10
- I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes, Jaclyn Moriarty 7/10
- Palace Pier, Keith Waterhouse 7/10
- Pillow Talk, Freya North 5.5/10
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 9/10
- Persuasion, Jane Austen 9/10
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 10/10
- The Yorkshire Pudding Club, Milly Johnson 6/10
- Rosie, Alan Titchmarsh 5.5/10
- TinTin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Herge 8/10
- Curable Romantic, Helen Townsend 6/10
- The Gunslinger, Stephen King 6/10
- Husbands, Adele Parks 6/10
- Hope in a Jar, Beth Harbison 6/10
- One Day, David Nicholls 9/10
- The Brightest Star, Marion Keyes 7/10
- The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella 6.5/10
- Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey 9/10
- The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis 6.8/10
- The Case of the Missing Books, Ian Samson 6.5/10
- After The Party, Lisa Jewell 6/10
- Mr Vertigo, Paul Aster 7/10
- The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alexander McCall Smith 7/10
- The Game, Neil Strauss 3/10
- Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith 9/10
- Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn 6/7
- Sex a Murder Mystery, Fiona Quirina 6/10
- Murder at the Academy Awards, Joan Rivers 5/10
- Dog On It, Spencer Quinn 8/10
- My Favourite Wife, Bill Parsons 5.5/10
- City of Tiny Lights, Patrick Neate 6.5/10
- For Esmè With Love & Squalor and other short stories, J.D. Salinger 7/10
- I am Legend, Richard Matheson (graphic novel) 6/10
- Freedom, Jonathan Franzen 10/10
- The Baby of Belleville 7.5/10 (extra .5 for humour)
- The Three Incestuous Sisters, Audrey Niffenegger 6.8/10
- The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do 10/10
My 2010 reading list (books read)
- A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Dawn French
- Air Kisses, Zoe Foster 4.5/10
- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 7.5/10
- Light Boxes, Shane Jones 10/10
- Shopaholic Ties the Knot 7.5/10, Sophic Kinsella
- Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella 7/10
- The Family Man, Elinor Lipman 9/10
- Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris 6/10
- Asterix and the Black Gold, Goscinny and Uderzo
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 9/10
- Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella 7/10
- Squirrel Meets Chipmunk, David Sedaris 7.5/10
- Sleep No More, Greg Iles 7/10
- The Radleys, Matt Haig 8.5/10
- The Third Twin, Ken Follett 6/10
- Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert 8/10
- GTO volume 23, Tohru Fujisawa 6/10
- The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde 7.5/10
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco 8/10
- Ramona's World, Beverly Cleary 8/10
- The Sandman (Endless Nights), Neil Gaiman 8.5/10
- Becoming Strangers, Louise Dean 6.5/10
- The News Where You Are, Catherine Flynn 6/10
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote 7.5/10
- Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell 8.5/10
- Turkish Gambit, Boris Akunin 8/10
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 1/10
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck 8.5/10
- The Bride Stripped Bare, Nikki Gemmell 6.5/10
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, MA Shaffer & A Burrows 6/10
- Daddy Long Legs, Jean Webster 8/10
- The Diary of Anne Frank 9/10
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery 8.5/10
- Spellmans Strike Again, Lisa Lutz 6.10
- Chart Throb, Ben Elton 7/10
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 9/10
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday 7/10
- You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here But it Helps, Tom Holt 6.5/10
- Eric, Shaun Tan 8.5/10
- Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka 7.25/10
- The Truth About Melody Browne, Lisa Jewell 7/10
- Thanks for the Memories, Cecelia Ahern 4/10
- Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith 8.5/10
- The Monday Night Cooking Club, Erica Bauermeister 4/10
- A Friend of the Family, Lisa Jewell 6/10
- 31 Dream Street, Lisa Jewell 8/10
- Just Courage, Gary Haugen
- The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne-Jones, 6.5/10
- Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones 7.5/10
- Isabel's Bed, Elinor Lipman 7/10
- Les Miserables (volume 1), Victor Hugo 8/10
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot 7.5/10
- My Latest Grievance, Elinor Lipman 8/10
- The Girl who Stirred the Hornet's Nest 9/10
- Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett 8/10
- The Girl Who Played with Fire 8.5/10
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8.75/10
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy 8.5/10
- Revenge of the Spellmans, Lisa Lutz 8/10
- Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 8.5/10
- This is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper 5.5/10
- The Case of the Imaginery Detective, Karen Joy Fowler 5/10
- Fly Me to the Moon, Alyson Noel 1/10
- The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas 8/5
- The Glorious Nosebleed, Edward Gorey (unratable)
- Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich 5.5/10
- The Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale 5/10
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks 8/5
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman (re-read) 8/5
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Book I'm reading now
Missing Mark, Julie Kramer - Quite a fun mystery caper about a TV investigative reporter on the trail of a missing groom who has vanished without a trace.
Latest movie
Ides of March - A clever and provocative look at American politics - or rather the politics of politics in general. Ryan Gosling is as good as you expect as the young politico who loses his innocence/naiivety in the nasty game.
Music I'm loving right now
Not Over You, Gavin Degraw
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