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I maychange them between now and the end of the year, but at the moment I am thinking my categories will be: -
1. Virago Modern Classics
2. Persephone Books
3. Contemporary writing
4. 20th Century writing
5. Period and historical writing
6. Books listed for Orange Prizes
7. Books that I have owned without reading for too long
8. Books about books, authors and writing
9. Biographical and autobiographical writing 2cmbohnOct 9, 2008, 1:42pm 
What are Persephone books?
Persephone Books reprints forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers. There are similarities with Virago Modern Classics, but Persephones tend have more intimate, domestic themes. There is a Persephone group here on LibraryThing and Persephone Books themselves have an excellent website: - www.persephonebooks.co.uk.
Hello, returning your visit. You have chosen some very good categories. I am interested to see what books you choose for 8 and 9, might give me some ideas. :-))
I'm not one of those people who is organised enough to know what I'm going to be reading so far in advance. I read whatever takes my fancy of my own books and the books that appear in the library.
So watch this space!
I am lucky to have a good public library with a great fiction reserve that I browse from time to time plus a wonderful private subscription library.
Possible though are Agatha Christie's autobiography, Laura Thompson's biography of Nancy Mitford (I read her Agatha Christie biography in my 888 challege this year and it was excellent) and Rosamond Lehmann's "A Swan In The Evening".
My aim is to to read biographies of the same writers whose fiction I am reading. For instance, I have books by R. C. Sheriff that I plan to read in my Persephone category and I have spotted his autobiography in the library.
Well, having looked around other people's threads and looking again at my books I am making a couple of changes to my categories -
I'm splitting period and historical fiction into two separate categories.
I'm adding short stories. I love them when I read them, but I need that kick.
Going to make way are the Persephone and Orange categories. The books that I would have read there can be reallocated between my other categories.
So now my categories are: -
1. Virago Modern Classics
2. Short stories
3. Contemporary writing
4. 20th Century writing
5. Books written before 1900
6. Historical fiction
7. Books that I have owned without reading for too long
8. Books about books, authors and writing
9. Biographical and autobiographical writing
I've been thinking about adding Short Stories as a category too. Like you I enjoy them when I read them but they tend to get forgotten when another book grabs my attention. I'm trying to make this 999 Challenge a mix of some easy very general categories and some categories that I need an extra incentive to dip into. I like your idea of reading a biography of the author you intend to read.
Persephone books - do they have distinctive covers like the Virago Modern Classics?
It's fun to think about books and categories, isn't it? I'll be interested in seeing what books you choose.
I debated a Short Stories category, but got excited about specific short stories instead - Ghost Stories, so that's one of my categories.
Good luck!
Pesephone books all have plain silvery grey covers with a small cream block for the title and author.
The endpapers though are all different and are usually a fabric design from the same period as the book.
Oh and if you buy the book from direct from Persepone it will come with a bookmark that matches the endpapers and has a quote from the book on the back.
I have never seen the Harper Lee book, but I will look out for it.
My short stories cover a range of genres, but at least one selection will be ghost stories - a small volume by Muriel Spark.
The problem with categories for me at the moment is fitting everything in.
I still plan to read a few of my Persephones, but they will slot into the short stories and 20th century writing categories.
Ideally I would have a gothic category, but there is nothing else I want to take out so the books concerned will have to fit into the books written before 1900 category.
Unless I have another rethink ..... !
I'm thinking of adding another category - 1001 Books You Must Read ... - we had the book out today and it reminded me of so many things I want to read.
I'm thinking it will have to be an overlap category though. 90 books would be too many and I do want to hit some of the big books I never quite get to. So allof the books will come from another category but also get placed in the 1001 category.
Does that make sense?!
I received my first Virago Modern Classics book as a birthday gift last week - The Yellow Wallpaper; so nice to hear about the Persephone series - I'll have to check them out!
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Congratulations on your first VMC Lisa. It's a good one.
Ah! We both have Virago - love it! I was in the NY Public Library's daily library sale, and saw one woman buy 2 VMC's. I so wanted to ask her if she was on LT, but didn't. Kicking myself now!
I have tweaked my category one more time because I want to do an art history challenge next year. So now, finally, here they are. 21FleurFisherEdited: Sep 9, 2009, 4:33pm
20th Century WritingWhen I set up my 888 challenge I thought I was sure of getting all of my fiction reading in by having categories for contemporary fiction and historical and period fiction. Wrong! A lot of books from the 20th century fell between the two, and so I have this category to put them in this time around.1. Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (January) 2. The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (February) 3. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (February) 4. Doreen by Barbara Noble (February) 5. Lady Into Fox by David Garnett (March) 6. Every Eye by Isobel English (April) 7. Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford (May) 8. Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson (August) 9. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple (August)
Oh I did enjoy reading your thoughts and reflections regarding your categories -thank you! I too have been ruminating but have yet to decide. I love the way you wrote a little about each section and your thoughts about what you may read. Thanks!
Shannon - Thank you, that does sound interesting. I shall have a browse of the library catalogue to see if they have a copy.
Julie - It is lovely to see you here. I do a lot of ruminating but for the moment I am trying to clear a backlog of library books and books that don't quite fit. And I am waiting to see your thread too!
fleur - I am almost ready to post. Like you I simply cannot commit to casting my books in stone at the beginning of the year!! I am far too 'flighty' and get eeasily carried away and enthused especially when I feel an interest growing within that has been borne of ideas ot thoughts from another volume.
Your way of listing is rather similar to the way I organised myself for the 888. I kept returning to my thread and edited each time. Best wishes for a wonderful reading 2009!
Book 1 How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Category: Books that I have owned without reading for too long Rating: 3 / 5 (interesting but flawed) More detailed thoughts here. 32SoupdragonEdited: Jan 5, 2009, 3:40am
#31, I enjoyed reading your review.
Like you, I found this book "flawed but interesting". I read it a few years ago and remember feeling very drawn in emotionally by the book whilst I was reading it and then a bit manipulated after I'd put it down.
At the time I put the book's "flaws" down to it being a book aimed at teenagers. Now I wonder if that's a bit patronising!
edited to correct typos
31 : I really liked your review. It was an interesting read on a book I had never heard of! It seems interesting, although I would have to take a look at the book itself to make my idea about it. Thanks! :)
soupdragon - I didn't feel manipulated but I wasn't quite as drawn in as i felt I should be.
kittykay - It's still a book worth reading if you have any interest in YA. Meg Rosoff's subsequent books look rather more juvenile, otherwise I would give her the benefit of the doubt and try them.
Book 2 Monster Love by Carol Topolski Category: Contemporary writing Rating: 3 /5 (very harrowing, but compelling) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 3 The Haunted House by Charles Dickens Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3.5 /5 (Linked ghost stories - a nice Victorian curio.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 4 Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 4 /5 (Is a governess what she seems? - a great little page-turner!) More detailed thoughts here. 38FleurFisherEdited: Jan 24, 2009, 4:42pm
Book 5 Marraine by Oriel MaletCategory: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 4 /5 (Wonderful family memoir.) More detailed thoughts here. Edited because it was listed in the wrong category.
I am enjoying your reviews. More books for my wishlist:-)
Thank you Englishrose. I have only just started reviewing (mainly to help me remember better what I read!), so it is nice to know that I am helping to steer someone else towards some of the books I have enjoyed.
I didn't know Louisa May Alcott had written adult fiction. Behind a Mask sounds fun. The other LT reviews suggest the story is one of a collection. Did your edition contain other stories or was it the novella alone?
My edition was just the one novella published by Hesperus Press. There is another volume of the same title with a total of four novellas and there are a few anthologies of short stories around too, I believe.
My edition of Behind a Mask has the four novellas in it. You're right, the stories are exactly what Jo would write. I love how melodramatic they are.
Book 7 Time Was Soft There* by Jeremy Mercer Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 2 /5 (Parisienne bookshop memoir.) More detailed thoughts here. * That's the American title. Here in England it was "Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs" but there was no touchstone for that.
#44, I listened to a radio serialisation of Dorian Gray a few years ago and it was wonderful. Your review reminded me of why I should read the real thing. So many books...! #45, The subject matter of this one sounds amazing! What a shame the book itself was disappointing.
I can imagine Dorian Gray working well on the radio. Hopefully BBC radio 7 will pull it out of the archive for us to listen to one day soon! There is another book about Shakespeare & Co. - it was quoted on the dust jacket of the book I read but I forgot to note down the details. I'll try to remember to look at the book again next time I'm in the library. I have been off challenge for a while, re-reading The Owl Service (thoughts here) for a childhood favourites reading challenge elsewhere. I'm reading a 999 book again now though - a very good and beautifully illustrated biography of Laura Knight for my writers & artists category. 48SoupdragonEdited: Jan 29, 2009, 10:13am
#47, The Owl Service is one of my all-time favourite books and is probably the book I have re-read the most in my life! Have read it several times as a child, then again as a teenager,and once in my 20s and once in my 30s. (Must be due up again soon, thinking about it as I'm now 40!) Each time I've read it I've experienced it a little differently but it always keeps its magic. I have the same 1960s edition and also a more contemporary one that I bought when I couldn't find my original. Have you read any of Garner's adult novels? I've only read Thursbitch which I found very affecting, once I'd got over the authentic, C18th rural dialect. Edited to correct the word dialogue to dialect!
I loved Alan Garner's books as child but I never owned them and completely forgot about him for a long time.
Re-reading childhood favourites is risky but this one was an absolute joy!
I have never come across his adult books -they are definitely something to look out for.
And now I know that the legend in the book comes from "The Mabinogion" I'm going to have to investigate that too!
Book 8 Baby Love by Louisa Young Category: Books that I have owned without reading for too long Rating: 3 /5 (Single motherhood, belly dancing & crime!) More detailed thoughts here. 51FleurFisherEdited: Jan 31, 2009, 4:31pm
Book 9 Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 2 /5 (Black comedy with a tragic heart) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 10 The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 3 /5 (1920s country house mystery) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 11 Memoirs of a Novelist by Virginia Woolf Category: Short Stories Rating: 3.5 /5 (Five early stories) More detailed thoughts here.
Thank you fleur - a delightful resume of a delightful book!
Book 12 Laura Knight by Caroline Fox Category: Artists & Writers Rating: 3 /5 (Good biography & wonderful paintings) More detailed thoughts here.
Enjoyed you review of Laura Knight. Looks like another one for the wishlist.
Enjoyed your review of Laura Knight. Looks like another one for the wishlist. Sigh...
Book 13 The Great Western Beach by Emma Smith Category: Artists & Writers Rating: 4.5 /5 (Lovely memoir of a Cornish childhood between the wars) More detailed thoughts here.
Really enjoyed reading your review fleur - that sense of loss when you finish a book that had appealed to you so much - I recognise that!
Another one I must get Fleur after reading your blog. Sounds like a book I would enjoy.
Excellent review fleur - I loved it too=) 63judylouFeb 18, 2009, 5:46am
Yet another woderful review Fleur. I am enjoying your reading!!
Book 15 The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Péju Category: Contemporary writing Rating: 3.5 /5 (A simple story to break your heart!) More detailed thoughts here.
I have wandered off-challenge to read another childhood favourites challenge book - The Borrowers by Mary Norton. I'd forgotten just how good - and how lcever - it is. Thoughts here. 67FleurFisherEdited: Feb 27, 2009, 6:17pm
Book 16 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 3 /5 (unreliable narrator - early 20th century classic) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 17 Doreen by Barbara Noble Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 4 /5 (an evacuee is torn between two worlds) More detailed thoughts here.
Very interesting review, Fleur. Thank you. As you know, I recently read Saplings which also looks at the long-term psychological consequences for evacuated children, though Doreen sounds as if it is a more subtle book. Love those end-papers too!
I have yet to read Saplings, but it is mentioned in the introduction to Doreen. The latter book covers a short period - ending before the end of the war - and so focuses more on Doreen being pulled two ways in the present rather than the longer term consequences. I have discovered a hole in my categories - nowhere to put books written this century about the past not old enough for me to call it history. So I am reporting that I have just finished Out Stealing Horses, but I have no category to give it a home. Which is a shame because it is a wonderful book. Thoughts here.
Book 18 The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg Category: Contemporary writing Rating: 2.5 /5 (Swedish murder mystery) More detailed thoughts here.
Enjoying all your excellent reviews. So many books so little time!
Thank you trayfox. I started reviewing mainly to help my own memory and it is a lovely bonus when others read and enjoy.
I've been reading but I've rather slipped up on updating this thread. Time to put things right!
Book 20 Lady Into Fox by David Garnett Category: 20th century writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (A lovely little book) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 21 A Time of Angels by Patricia Schonstein Category: Books that I have owned without reading for too long Rating: 2 / 5 (lovely writing but the mix of reality and magic realism didn't work for me) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 22 Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 4.5 /5 (A joy to read) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 23 South Riding by Winifred Holtby Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 5 /5 (Book of the year!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 24 The Good Women of China by Xinran Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 4 /5 (Extrordinary) More detailed thoughts here.
Great reviews, as ever, Fleur! If you haven't already, I really recommend The Weather in the Streets now you have read Invitation to the Waltz. It is rather different to ITTW and stands alone perfectly adequately but one of the things I enjoyed about it was identifying all the characters from the Waltz as they turned up in Olivia's further life. You are certainly right about The Good Women of China being haunting. I read it several years ago but can't forget some of those true life stories. 81cmbohnMay 2, 2009, 5:00pm
Adding more to my TBR list!
Soupdragon - I have The Weather In The Streets and I'm pleased to have a recommendation. It doesn't always work when authors go back to characters in a later period. cmbohn - I'm having a good run of books!
Book 25 The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber Category: Contemporary writing Rating: 4 /5 (cleverly updated myth) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 27 Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey Category: History - fact & Fiction Rating: 1 /5 (A major disappointment) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 28 The Spare Room by Helen Garner Category: Contemporary writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (A difficult subject beautifully handled) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 29 Every Eye by isobel English Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 4 /5 (Lovely "quiet" novel) More detailed thoughts here. 88judylouMay 4, 2009, 9:44pm
Fleur, wonderful reviews as always. Your well thought out comments on the books you are reading are definitely influencing my tbr list. The Spare Room is an extraordinary book. After reading it last year, its story has remained with me. I lost an aunt last year in similar circumstances to the character in the book, and gave this book to my mother to read a little while after. She found it to be a real help to her coming to terms with the loss of her sister. It is a difficult book to read, but certainly a book that deserves to be read widely.
Judylou, The Spare Room is sticking with me too. I read an interesting short interview with Helen Garner here a few days ago. It seems that the book is partially autobiographical. I had wondered - particularly since she gave the lead character her own name. I didn't want to mention it in my review as many authors resent the assumption that anything with a degree of relism must be taken from life.
Book 30 Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford Category: 20th century writing Rating: 3 /5 (Sharp satire written and published in the "phony war") More detailed thoughts here.
Book 31 Yellow by Janni Visman Category: Contemporary writing Rating: 3 /5 (an agrophobic's ordered life hits problems) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 32 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3.5 /5 (A lovely journey into the past) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 33 An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 4/5 I don't normally classify 20th century books in history, but as the ramifications of World War I run through all of the Maisie Dobbs book it did seem right to put it here. More detailed thoughts here.
Book 35 The Pyramid by Henning Mankell Category: Short Stories Rating: 3 /5 (Short stories to fill in the background) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 36 Without Knowing Mr Walkley by Edith Olivier Category: Artists & Writers Rating: 3 /5 (Author's autobiograpy focuses not on herself but on the world around her) More detailed thoughts here. 97FleurFisherEdited: Jun 28, 2009, 5:46pm
Book 37 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3.5 /5 (An excellent recommendation from my mother.) More detailed thoughts here. edited to correct the link
Book 39 Little Dorrit by Charles dickens Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3.5 /5 (1070 pages!!!) More detailed thoughts here.
I am horribly behind in posting here, but I am going to try to catch up over the next few days.
Book 40 Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 4 /5 (Not your typical Victorian heroine) More detailed thoughts here.
I found your comments on A Boy at the Hogarth Press very interesting. It sounds like a book I'd like to read, if I can get my hands on it. I have mixed feelings about this sort of book though . . . there are certain historical figures (for me, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen and Audrey Hepburn) who I just love to learn about . . . but then I see a lot of exploitation where some people churn out drudge and sell it using the famous name. Sounds like this one was okay.
This one was good. Richard Kennedy stuck to what he saw and how he felt at the time. Clearly the name of Woolf may have helped him get published but I never felt he was exploiting the connection.
Book 41 Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3/5 (A satirical manual!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 42 The swan in the Evening by Rosamond Lehmann Category: Artists & Writers Rating: 4 /5 (Sad fragments of autobiography) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 43 The Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 4.5 /5 (magical!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 44 Jenny Wren by E H Young Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 4 /5 (the missing link between Jane Austen and Barbara Pym) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 45 Noturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro Category: Short Stories Rating: 2.5 /5 (variations on a theme) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 46 Jane's Fame by Claire Harman Category: Artists & Writers Rating: 3.5 /5 (How Jane Austen conquered the world!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 47 Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 3 /5 (A lovely little character study) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 48 High Wages by Dorothy Whipple Category: 20th Century Writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (A wonderful addition to Persephone's list) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 49 The Alchemy of Murder by Carol McCleary Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 3/5 (Mayhem at the World's Fair - unbelievable but highly entertaining!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 50 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 4 /5 (A new perspective on a famous piece of Tudor history) More detailed thoughts here.
Hi Jane, thanks for your detailed review of Jenny Wren. I am a big fan of Barbara Pym so I will look out E.H.Young's novels (now on my wishlist). Glad to see you loved High Wages, I have it on order and recently purchased They Knew Mr Knight.
Hello!
Jenny Wren was my first book by E H Young and I will definitely be reading more. She doesn't quite have the wit of Barbara Pym (then again, who does?) but the observation and detail is spot on.
And High Wages is utterly charming. I'm lookingforward to reading more of Dorothy Whipple's words - if only there were more hours in the day!
Book 53 Gathering the Water by Robert Erdic Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 4/5 (The coming of a reservoir changes lives and a community) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 54 The Best of Men by Clare Letemendia Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 3.5/5 (Intrigue, action, family drama & romance in the civil war) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 55 The View from Downshire Hill by Elizabeth Jenkins Category: Artists & Writers Rating: 4 /5 (Selected memories from author in her nineties) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 56 Notes From Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 3.5 /5 (Country notebooks) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 57 Ten Sorry Tales by Mick Jackson Category: Short Stories Rating: 3.5 /5 (Strange little tales) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 59 The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 4 /5 (A wonderful tale set in the dark ages) More detailed thoughts here.
I'm still reading - I just forget to post updates!
Book 60 We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Category: Books that I have owned without reading for too long Rating: 4.5 /5 (maybe the perfect spooky book.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 61 Kisses on a Postcard by Terence Frisby Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (Memories of a Cornish evacuee.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 62 Brother Jacob by George Eliot Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 2.5 /5 (a morality tale in novella form) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 63 The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3.5 /5 (Linked ghost stories - a nice Victorian curio.) More detailed thoughts The Haunted House by Charles Dickens Category: Books written before 1900 Rating: 3.5 /5 (Adventure and romance - much high drama!.) More detailed thoughts a href="http://fleurfisher.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/the-frozen-deep-by-wilkie-collins/"here/a.">here.
Book 63 Stone's Fall by Iain Peare Category: History - fact & Fiction Rating: 4 /5 (A wonderful, complex journey back through history to discover whay a man died.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 64 Arthur Rackham: A Life in Illustration by James Hamilton Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (A well written biography and a wonderful range of illustrations.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 65 Away From The Bombs by Ricky Clitheroe Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (Another Cornish evacuee - this one in my father's home town.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 66 The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski Category: Books that I have owned without reading for too long Rating: 4 / 5 More detailed thoughts here.
Book 67 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 5 /5 (Wow!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 67 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 5 /5 (Wow!) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 68 Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 3.5 /5 (A highly entertaining mix of history and mystery) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 69 Castle Dor by Arthur Quiller-Couch & Daphne Du Maurier Category: Virago Modern Classics Rating: 3 /5 (Retelling of the legend of Tristan and Iseult - begun by AQQ and completed by DDM) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 70 Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady by Edith Olivier Category: Biographical and autobiographical writing Rating: 4.5 /5 (WW2 through the eyes of an old lady doing her bit in her village.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 71 London War Notes 1939 to 1945 by Mollie Panter-Downes Category: History - Fact & Fiction Rating: 5 /5 (Extraordinarily vivid reports from wartime London. A book that really should be back in print.) More detailed thoughts here.
Book 72 Little Indiscretions by Carmen Posada Category: Books that I have owned without reading for too long Rating: 2 / 5 (The cover promised a “Perfect blend of Agatha Christie and Pedro Almodóvar.” It didn't quite work.) More detailed thoughts here.
Finished! Just in time!
I haven't done separate posts yet for my final books but I have entered them all in the lists back in messages 20 through 28.
Yay!
Well done Fleur and what a feeling of achievement. I enjoyed looking at your lists! Happy New Year and enjoy your reading in 2010.
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