Update!
I'm crap at keeping this up to date!! Anyway, i read a few more books last year and this is the list of what I've read so far in 2005:
[scroll down - not sure why there's this huge gap, can't get rid of it!!]
Books read in 2005 | ||||||
No. | F or NF | Book title | Author | Source | Comment | Score out of 10 |
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1 | F | I Like This Poem | ed. Kaye Webb | BC loan | Took me back to my childhood! Great poems, not just for kids. | 8/10 |
2 | F | Enigma | Robert Harris | BC ring | Slow starter , reeled me in, race to the finish. Good! | 7/10 |
3 | NF | Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments | Myles & Southwick | BC loan | Recognised my son's autistic traits, useful info. | 7/10 |
4 | NF | The spirit catches you and you fall down | Anne Fadiman | BC ray | Fascinating look at the Hmong culture, interlaced with a child's fight for life. | 8/10 |
5 | F | The Chocolate Run | Dorothy Koomson | BC | Heartwarming tale of love, relationships and chocolate. Made me cry! | 8/10 |
6 | NF | Last Chance to See | Douglas Adams | BC RABCK | Douglas Adams and amazing animals. What more could you want from a book? | 10/10 |
7 | NF | The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby | BC | Interesting observations of a man trapped by paralysis. | 7/10 |
8 | F | Disturbia | Christopher Fowler | BC | Secret societies and puzzles in late night London. A bit disappointing. | 6/10 |
9 | NF | A Decade of I-Deas: encyclopedia of the 80s | ed. John Godfrey | BC | Check the entry to see how I define myself in the 80s! Good bathroom read. | 7/10 |
10 | F | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | Mine | Lived up to the hype! A family's recovery from a tragedy and an interesting view of heaven. | 8/10 |
11 | NF | The best democracy money can buy | Greg Palast | BC ring | Globalisation exposes - done before and done far better. | 4/10 |
12 | F | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | BC ring | Fantastic novel about a family in an impossible position. | 9/10 |
13 | F | The Bad Mother's Handbook | Kate Long | BC ring | Warm novel about three generations of women. | 8/10 |
14 | NF | Hard Work: life in Low-Pay Britain | Polly Toynbee | PC | Investigative report into the struggle to live on a minimum wage. | 8/10 |
15 | F | Virtual Strangers | Lynne Barrett-Lee | RABCK | Enjoyable chick lit about a cyber romance. | 7/10 |
16 | NF | Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader | Anne Fadiman | BC ring | A few interesting essays but ultimately too technical! | 6/10 |
17 | F | Flood | Richard Doyle | BC ring | Believable horror scenario - London flooded and on fire - but way too long. | 6/10 |
18 | NF | Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | PC | Similar to #14 - but low-pay work is even harder in the US. | 8/10 |
19 | NF | Fragments: memoirs of a childhood 1939-1948 | Binjamin Wilkomirskih | BC Ring | Amazing, horrific memoir of a child's fight for survival in the Polish death camps. | 10/10 |
20 | F | Old School Ties | Kate Harrison | BC Ring | A school bully reunites with her victims. Good fun read with a serious undercurrent. | 8/10 |
21 | NF | Scenes from a Smallholding | Chas Griffin | BC Ring | Entertaining anecdotes of life on a small organic farm; a little bit repetitive. | 7/10 |
22 | NF | True Tales of American Life | Paul Auster | BC Ring | Hated this :0( stories with no punchline. | 3/10 |
23 | NF | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | BC Ring | Unusual novel based on facts about murder and an amazing world fair. | 8/10 |
24 | NF | Expecting Adam | Martha Beck | BC Ring | Life-affirming account of a woman's pregnancy with a Down baby. | 8/10 |
25 | NF | Maverick! | Ricardo Semler | BC Ring | A business with very unusual workplace ethics. Interesting but dull. | 6/10 |
26 | F | Just One Look | Harlan Coben | PC | Great thriller with loads of twists! | 9/10 |
27 | NF | Marching to a Different Tune: Diary About an ADHD Boy | Jacky Fletcher | PC | Interesting but doesn't go deep enough - and too many exclamation marks!!!!!! | 6/10 |
28 | NF | Dogme Uncut | Jack Stevenson | Library book | Read for college but an interesting look at a lesser known cinematic style. | 7/10 |
29 | NF | Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS | Helga Schneider | BC ring | Fascinating and frightening account of the fnal meeting between a woman and her Nazi mother. | 9/10 |
30 | F | Ladies of Letters Log On | Carole Hayman & Lou Wakefield | BC ring | Mildly amusing but joke wore off. | 6/10 |
31 | F | Hotel World | Ali Smith | BC NSS | Beautiful novel about five women and a tragedy that touches them all.. | 10/10 |
32 | F | The Way I Found Her | Rose Tremain | BC Ring | A thrilling mystery, love story and coming-of-age novel in one - beautifully written. | 9/10 |
33 | F | The Christmas Mystery | Jostein Gaarder | BC | Gaarder's own retelling of the nativity story, very simple. | 6/10 |
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