Newbie latecomer!!

Hi new to LT and the 75-ers challenge but will give it a go!!

A little bit about me http://www.librarything.com/topic/104688#2672112

Books I've read so far in 2011. started late but hopefully will catch up soon!

Feb/March 2011
1. Eat, Pray, Love - gilbertelizabeth::Elizabeth Gilbert
2. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage - gilbertelizabeth::Elizabeth Gilbert
3. The Boy in the striped pyjamas - John Boyne
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

April 2011
5. The Girl who played with fire - Stieg Larsson
6. Fashion Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones
7. The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest - Stieg Larsson
8. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
9. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult.

May 2011
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte retold by Anna Claybourne TIOLI May #13 (E)
11. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines TIOLI May #16 Title
12. Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne TIOLO May #9 - 28.5cms COMPLETED
13. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd TIOLI May #13 (E)
14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Currently reading
Charlotte's Web by E B White (aloud to my son) TIOLI May #13 (E)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

'''Waiting to read'''
The Book Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Room by Emma Donoghue TIOLI MAY #12
Beautiful by Katie Piper - autobiography TIOLI May #12
Map of the invisible world by Tash Aw TIOLI May #10 -adoption
Yu-gi-oh Manga book TIOLI May #8 - Animated story
A Thousand Splendid Suns

'''Wishlist - ongoing!'''
Outliers: When you are engulfed in Flames; The Shack; handle with Care; The Black Dahlia; Three Cups of Tea; The Thirteenth Tale; Water for Elephants; Fingersmith; White Teeth; The Human Stain; Atonement; No Country for Old Men; Never Let me Go;

'''Book Awards Shortlisted Books - wishlist'''
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011
The Memory of Love; Grace Williams Says it Loud; Great House; The Tiger's Wife; Annabel.
Man Booker 2010 wishlist
Parrot and Olivier in America; In a Strange Room; The Long Song; C; The Finkler Question
Room is shortlisted in both, but is already on my to be read list.

Welcome to this challenge and LT! I look forward to see what interesting books you find.

Welcome!

Welcome to the group!

recent reads April 2011
5. The Girl who played with fire - Stieg Larsson
6. Fashion Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones
7. The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest - Stieg Larsson
8. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Pi, The Girl Who, and Elizabeth Gilbert, eh? You'll fit right in here! Welcome and enjoy!!!! (And tell us what you're thinking about what you're reading !)

thank you, need new suggestions for my next lot of reading!! found the millenium trilogy very interesting, although the second book was a little slow to get going. Fashion Babylon was just a freebie with a magazine, ok but easily read within 24hours, nothing to get your teeth into. Found Life of Pi, very interesting and the last few chapters had me wondering if the novel was in fact reality not fiction.

If you liked the Millenium trilogy, take a look at The Informationist. It's got a strong female lead with a lot of similarity with Salander. Writing's pretty good too.

April

9. The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult.
A family full of secrets and lies. Daniel is escaping from his past as the only white kid in an eskimo village, Trixie is a 14 yr old growing up too fast and Laura is a college professor who had an affair with a student. I enjoyed the different view points of father, mother and daughter, and the addition of the comic strip illustrations was an interesting touch, but thought that the ending was rather quick and more explanation to how the crime was committed was needed. The thread of Dante's inferno and how this linked to the story gave the novel a different dimension. Still trying to solve the puzzle tho!! ***

May

10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte retold by Anna Claybourne
Mode;rn retelling of a classic story, quite a short story retold for the younger reader, missed reading this story at school so thought I would try this one for starters in the hope of reading the full version one day. ***

May

11. kestrel for a knave by Barry Hines
Another one I missed at school, seen the film a few times, well we had to, living in the 'northern' town the book is based in and the author coming from the local area it was kind of compulsory! just started....

May - books to be read this month (fingers crossed)

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White - reading
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (swapped for - The Yorkshire Pudding Club) reading
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (swapped for - Eat, Pray, Love)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (swapped for - Songs of the Humpback Whale
Room by Emma Donoghue

well this little lot should keep me busy for the coming month!

edited to correct Touchstones

That looks like a great list of books you have lined up for May! I don't think you will be bored with that selection. :)
I loved Charlotte's Web as a kid and really enjoyed The Secret Life of Bees as well.

Thanks jolerie, hopefully I will get them all finished, inbetween work and children and reading everyone else's thread, very addictive!! Charlotte's Web is a re-read but not read it for a long time so thought i would re-visit it again!

Hi kerryth,

So glad you found the "75-er's challenge". I hope you find it fun. It certainly is an active group.

I loved, loved, loved Charlotte's Web as a kid and enjoyed it even more when I had a chance to read it over once again to my (now grown) kids when they were little.

I'm also a nurse, but a (more than a little) older than your "over the hill" age of 40. ;-)

... well completed Kestrel for a Knave, very descriptive and glad to say the film Kes is very true to the book, but it does leave you wondering what becomes of Billy Casper. Just glad that I know the dialect or it could have been rather difficult to read in places. but loved it ****

Hi SqueakyChu

thanks for the welcome, this 75-er's challenge is becoming addictive!! love reading all the others thread and you do seem a friendly group too. might even try one of your TIOLI challenges soon too!!

Charlotte's Web is next on the list, loved it before so revisiting it again will be fun, my two eldest have also read the book, just trying to encourage my youngest to follow suit.

Glad to see a fellow nurse on here, I came late to the profession but loving it and wished that I had done it years ago! not quite 4-0 yet, got to endure that milestone birthday later in the year. he he :-)

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might even try one of your TIOLI challenges soon too!!

Oooh! I'd love for you to join the TIOLI challenges.

Welcome, Kerry! You've done good reading so far this year!

Hi tymfos, thanks for the welcome, trying my best to catch up, what with being a late starter and all!! I noticed that you have read 6 books that are on my wishlist! how did you find The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society??

Welcome Kerry

thank you for the welcome elkiedee.

Wahoo!! just been to the post office to send off some books I'm swapping through readitswapit website and managed to come away with 3 other books they were selling for a charity book sale, my TBR pile is getting bigger by the day!! :-D

argh!! this site is getting addictive!! collected youngest from school and called into local charity shop and came away with another 2 books!! 5 book purchases in one day! will hide them on the bookcase before hubby finds out! he he :-D TBR pile increases again!

You're just supporting charity! He can't object to that. My monsieur says nothing about my book purchases. After all, it could be worse. I could be buying shoes!

>24 mamzel: too true mamzel, oo but then shoes are another obession of mine!! he he

Just completed another TIOLI May challenge #9 It won't fit. mine was a children's book Stories of Winnie-the-Pooh measured 28.5cms, read some of it aloud to my youngest, then finished the rest off to myself, was a nice pleasant read and he's loving that I'm reading more to him.

Oo another nice surprise today, a new book swap arrived in the post today - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, so another one to add to my TBR pile!! he he

I've heard some great stuff about The Book Thief and so I bought that book a couple of months ago, but it is sitting on my TBR pile as well. :) Given the subject matter, I was a bit surprised to see it in the YA section of my bookstore, but will have to read it to make a final call on that one.

**Edited to correct Touchstones**

I read through the prologue of The Book Thief and it looks like its going to be an interesting read.. but must add it to the TBR pile and finish the one I'm already reading! he he

oo another book swap book arrived The Da Vinci Code and I borrow a book from my friend, A Thousand Splendid Suns, so the TBR continues to grow!!

me and hubby are celebrating, today is the 22nd anniversary of our 1st date!! WOW, how time flies!!, lots of ups and downs along the way but on the whole the journey so far has been worth it x

A very belated 'Welcome to the group!' from me, Kerry :)

Happy anniversary too, BTW!

>30 alcottacre: thank you for the welcome, hope your job application is successful, and HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all LT-ers on the other side of the pond.

(Here in the UK we celebrated Mothering Sunday on 3rd April this year, changes every year as it's held on the 4th Sunday of Lent)

Thanks for the good wishes about the job app, Kerry! Thanks also for the Mother's Day wishes that you left on my thread as well as here on yours.

Oo, tomorrow is International Nurse's Day!! all the best to any fellow nurses out there xx

13. The Secret Life of Bees - completed
really enjoyed reading this book.

Lily's struggle with her mother's tragic accidental death when she was a child, and how she copes with her abusive father on a peach farm in South Carolina was page turning for me. I enjoyed how she relates to Rosaleen her black housekeeper and the journey she undergoes with her trying to find a connection to her mother's past. The description, plot and characters were very beliveable. How race issues tensions and inequalities of the early 1960's and female sprituality are dealt with very well too.

Another book swapped book arrived in the post today! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. just thought I would read a couple of pages and haven't put it down since! opps, loving the different narratives and how it is all told through letters.

#35: I loved Guernsey!

I just stumbled upon your thread, we seem to have a lot of books in common. Welcome!

I loved Guernsey also and The Secret Life of Bees, though I read it a long time ago. I do quite a bit of reading aloud with my kids, as well.

>36 alcottacre: & 37. thank you both. I loved Guernsey too! just finished the book too, can't believe I have completed it so soon!! but I think it will be another I will re-read again, I enjoyed the afterword by Annie Barrows about how readers of the book become members of the Society through their shared views and love of reading - a lot like here on LT, sharing veiws etc with other book lovers from all across the world and thier interests in different books that you might not have considered before.

>37 AnneDC: thanks for stumbling across my thread, what type of books do your children like to be read aloud, my youngest is more interested in factual books at the moment, so 'Charlotte's Web' is taking longer to read that at first expected!

onto my next book, another bookswap!! The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, fast reading so far, very different from anything I've read before.

#39: Another good one! Enjoy!

>39 kerryth:. I didn't get on with that one, although everybody else in the entire world but me seems to love it. It'll be interesting to know which side of the debate you fall on!

The Guernsey and Potato Peel Pie Society however, I adored! I really must reread that one...

Oh, and hello to a fellow South Yorkshire-er!

>42 generalkala: ey up!! glad to meet a fellow South Yorkshire-er on here too.
had a peek at your profile and I too enjoy having a stroll round Waterstones too! at the moment tho I seem to be doing most of my book shopping or should I say swapping via readitswap, just got another to send off today in exchange for The Missing Person's Guide to Love so will have to add that to my every increasing TBR pile!!

Hi, i've been thinking and i've decided to start a new thread that makes more sense at my attempt to read 75 books in 2011, plus I also wanted to change my topic title and this was the only way I could think of changing it!

it can be found here http://www.librarything.com/topic/116444

thank you to all who stopped by this one, hopefully i might see again on the new one. x