Oct 05 2009
Book Piles
On My Shelf:
- Scheinmann: Random Acts of Heroic Love
- Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life
- Torday: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Picoult: Second Glance
- Picoult: Mercy
- Picoult: Harvesting the Heart
- Fallon: Got You Back
- Kinsella: Remember Me?
- Kinsella: Twenties Girl
- Sage: Bad Blood
- Koomson: Goodnight, Beautiful
- Koomson: The Cupid Effect
- Fforde: Practically Perfect
- Mansell: An Offer You Can’t Refuse
- Mansell: The One You Really Want
- Fiorato: The Glassblower of Muran
- Mitchell: Gone With the Wind
- Grisham: The Appeal
- Grisham: The Associate
- Grisham: Ford County
- Grisham: The Innocent Man
- Grisham: Playing for Pizza
- Weisberger: Everyone Worth Knowing
- Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada
- Weisberger: Chasing Harry Winston
- James: Tell It To The Skies
- Meyer: The Host
- Noble: The Reading Group
- Shreve: Body Surfing
- Reichs: Deja Dead
- Reichs: Death du Jour
- Connelly: The Book of Lost Things
- Rankin: Rebus: The Early Years
- Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
- Lauck: Still Waters
- Mills: The Savage Garden
- Gregory: The Queen’s Fool
- Elton: The Other Eden
- Green: Life Swap
- Green: Second Chance
- Coben: The Woods
- Coben: The Final Detail
- Coben: Just One Look
- Chadwick: A Place Beyond Courage
- Hart: Down River
- Hoeg: Lucky’s Lady
- Titchmarsh: The Last Lighthouse Keeper
- Titchmarsh: Animal Instinct
- Alcott: Little Women
- Levy: Small Island
- Roberts: Truly Madly Manhattan
- O’Flanagan: Connections
- O’Flanagan: Yours, Faithfully
- Binchy: Whitethorn Woods
- Howe: The Lost Book of Salem
- Harry: Under the Apple Tree
- Larkin: Painful Decisions
- Birkegaard: The Library of Shadows
- Milne: When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six
- Brown: The Lost Symbol
- Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle
- Nesbit: The Railway Children
- Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
- Evans: The Love of Her Life
- Dalby: Geisha
- Scanlan: Happy Ever After?
- Sharpe: Grantchester Grind
- Rivers: Redeeming Love
- Crabtree: The Crepe Makers’ Bond
- Kagawa: The Iron Daughter
- Madigan: The Mermaid’s Mirror
- Hamilton: Tyger Tyger
- Eagland: Wildthorn
- Rech: It Started With a Dare
Re-Reads:
- Tolkien: The Hobbit
- Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
- Bronte: Jane Eyre
Library Books:
- O’Farrell: The Hand that First Held Mine
- Hore: The Dream House
- Sonnenblick: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
- Downham: Before I Die
- Cabot: Size 14 Isn’t Fat Either
- Sparks: The Lucky One
- Chevalier: Remarkable Creatures
- Miller: the Senator’s Wife
- Boling: Guernica
Review Books:
- Okimoto: The Love Ceiling
- Rubart: Rooms
- Hart: The Truth About Love
- Nield: New Beginnings
Borrowed Books:
- Heller: Catch-22
- Hislop: The Return
- Fitzek: Therapy
Non-Fiction:
- French: Dear Fatty
- Walters: That’s Another Story
- Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Audiobooks:
- Pratchett: The Discworld Series
- Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Shelley: Frankenstein
- Patterson: The Angel Experiment
- Forster: A Room With a View
- Coolidge: What Katy Did Next
- Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio
- Wodehouse: Adventures of Sally
- Martino: Over The Line
- Courteney: The Power of One
I read ages ago on BCF that you’d taken “A Clergyman’s Daughter” by George Orwell out of the library but I’ve never seen you review it. What did you think – or didn’t you manage to finish it?
I didn’t finish it although I can’t remember why. I think I just found it dull. Orwell is an odd writer for me, some of his work I like (Road to Wigan Pier and Animal Farm) and others I didn’t get on with all at – like this one and 1984
I really liked it – but then I like Orwell’s ‘bleaker’ books. Although I enjoyed 1984, it wasn’t one of my favourites of his – that would be either this one, or Down and Out in Paris and London – I still have a few to read.