kirsty's 75 books in 2012 Challenge

Hi Everyone - I'm back again! This is my thread for 2012

Currently reading The Betrayal




January
1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
4. Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden

February
5. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
6. The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney

March
7. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
8. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
9. Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones
10. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

April
11. Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom
12. Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh
13. Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin

I only made it to 43 in 2011 - I know! what was I doing with my time? It's that damn thing work that takes up a lot of the day. But I did read some good books and try out some new authors. Here is my 5 best reads of 2011 in no particular order:

Favourite Books of 2011
1. The Year of the Flood
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. Burnt Shadows
4. Room
5. I Shall Wear Midnight

I'm starting the year off to a flying start with the 2nd and 3rd books of The Hunger Games trilogy. I'm halfway through Mockingjay, can you believe I forgot it this morning and had nothing to read on the train. Grrr

Welcome back! hate it when I don't have a book to fill dead time like that...

Thanks!

I tried to read a book I downloaded on my iphone, the font was so big and the screen so small that it was more of an exercise in finger swooshing than reading. Remembered book today.

Finished Mockingjay, the final part of The Hunger Games trilogy. Woah! It was pretty gut-wrenching stuff.

Next up is Jamrach's Menagerie for my Orange January challenge.

Hi, Kirsty! I read Year of the Flood and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society last year too and loved them both. Makes me think that I should maybe hang round here and await recommendations from you... :)

Hi, yes they were both great reads. Feel free to drop by anytime :) How are you finding Ulysses? I live in Dublin but have never tried it.

Well, I'll be honest with you: Ulysses is demonstrably not my favorite read ever, but I'm surprised that I'm understanding as much as I am - I thought I wouldn't get anything at all out of it, and that's not entirely the case. I do, though, much prefer Dubliners, which is simply amazing.

Here is my little list of books on the shelf that I plan to read this year:

The Sisters Brothers
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Marriage Plot
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Birds Without Wings
A Haiku for Hanae
The Wasp Factory
You Shall Know our Velocity
The Passage
Freedom
Murasaki
Me Cheeta
Heartstone
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Our Kind of Traitor
A Week in December
1Q84

I've finished my first Orange January book Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch. It's set in the Victorian period and seemed a little flowery at first but slowly becomes a grippingly poignant tale about survival.

I have a stack of books on the shelf to read but might try the library first for another Orange read.

Next up is my 2nd Orange January read Molly Fox's Birthday.

Molly Fox's Birthday was an intelligent and subtle book. A gentle contemplation of relationships and self.

Next up is The Sisters Brothers.

Really enjoying The Sisters Brothers what a narrator! Has someone snapped up the film rights yet? I wouldn't be surprised. And I love the design of my edition.

The Sisters Brothers was a fantastic read. The voice of the narrator was an unexpected joy. Next up is a book from the library The Invisible Ones.

Current read is Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres. Epic sweep across pre first world war Turkey.

Now reading YA fiction Hush Hush, I needed something light after Birds Without Wings.

Hush, Hush was a really light YA fiction romance about a fallen angel. Perfect for zipping through at home today on sick leave. Now reading Let the Great World Spin.

If anyone hasn't yet read Let the Great World Spin read it now it is a stupendously good book. Set in the 70s in New York and taking the tightrope walk between the Twin Towers as it's lynchpin.

Now reading a very short book by Colm Toibin Lady Gregory's Toothbrush it's described as a biographical essay and is about a woman who mentored many Irish writers including WB Yeats.

I'm also reading Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom but not part of the Shardlake series. It's a thriller set in Spain during WW2. So far so good.

Next up is Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh, great Scottish thriller.

*waving* at Kirsty

Hellooo! *waves back* how are you?

I'm reading The Betrayal now.