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1Unexpected
Hello!
This year I'm determined to reduce my enormous TBR pile to something a little more sensible. I've made a starting list of 75 to work from, though I have no doubt that it will morph depending on what I fancy reading at the time and the inevitable additions. It's quite a while since I last tried to keep a reading log, it'll be fun to see if I can keep it up.
This year I'm determined to reduce my enormous TBR pile to something a little more sensible. I've made a starting list of 75 to work from, though I have no doubt that it will morph depending on what I fancy reading at the time and the inevitable additions. It's quite a while since I last tried to keep a reading log, it'll be fun to see if I can keep it up.
2Unexpected
Read:
1. A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell
2. Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by Rick Gekoski
The Spiderwick Chronicles: by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
3. The Field Guide
4. The Seeing Stone
5. Lucinda's Secret
6. The Ironwood Tree
7. The Wrath of Mulgarath
8. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
9. My Struggle by Paul Merton
10. The Kingdom and the Cave by Joan Aiken (1st off-list)
11. Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams (2nd off-list)
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Currently Reading
The Book List: v 1.1 (Last updated 17th Feb)
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
Age of the Five Trilogy: by Trudi Canavan
Priestess of the White
Last of the Wilds
Voice of the Gods
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Celtic Myths and Legends by Charles L. Squire
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Drowntide by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games
Folk Tales of the British Isles by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Grunts by Mary Gentle
Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow
His Dark Materials Trilogy: by Philip Pullman
The Northern Lights
The Suble Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Irish Sagas and Folk Tales by Eileen O'Faolain
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien
Limbo by Andy Secombe
Made in America by Bill Bryson
Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
The New Noah by Gerald Durrell
Rosy is My Relative by Gerald Durrell
Merlin's Mound by Nigel Bryant
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
N-Space by Larry Niven
Prospero's Children by Jan Siegel
Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
Sally Lockhart Quartet: by Philip Pullman
The Ruby in the Smoke
The Shadow in the North
The Tiger in the Well
The Tin Princess
Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Terry Pratchett: The Spirit of Fantasy by Craig Cabell
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz
The Doomspell Trilogy by Cliff McNish
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Gnole by Alan Aldridge
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Illustrated Odyssey by Homer / E.V. Rieu
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Study Trilogy: by Maria V. Snyder
Fire Study
Magic Study
Poison Study
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Weerde: Book One - Various
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son by J.R.R. Tolkien
Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wind on Fire Trilogy: by William Nicholson
The Wind Singer
Slaves of Mastery
Firesong
1. A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell
2. Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by Rick Gekoski
The Spiderwick Chronicles: by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
3. The Field Guide
4. The Seeing Stone
5. Lucinda's Secret
6. The Ironwood Tree
7. The Wrath of Mulgarath
8. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
9. My Struggle by Paul Merton
10. The Kingdom and the Cave by Joan Aiken (1st off-list)
11. Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams (2nd off-list)
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Currently Reading
The Book List: v 1.1 (Last updated 17th Feb)
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
Age of the Five Trilogy: by Trudi Canavan
Priestess of the White
Last of the Wilds
Voice of the Gods
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Celtic Myths and Legends by Charles L. Squire
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Drowntide by Sydney J. Van Scyoc
Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games
Folk Tales of the British Isles by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Grunts by Mary Gentle
Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow
His Dark Materials Trilogy: by Philip Pullman
The Northern Lights
The Suble Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Irish Sagas and Folk Tales by Eileen O'Faolain
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien
Limbo by Andy Secombe
Made in America by Bill Bryson
Menagerie Manor by Gerald Durrell
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
The New Noah by Gerald Durrell
Rosy is My Relative by Gerald Durrell
Merlin's Mound by Nigel Bryant
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
N-Space by Larry Niven
Prospero's Children by Jan Siegel
Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
Sally Lockhart Quartet: by Philip Pullman
The Ruby in the Smoke
The Shadow in the North
The Tiger in the Well
The Tin Princess
Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Terry Pratchett: The Spirit of Fantasy by Craig Cabell
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz
The Doomspell Trilogy by Cliff McNish
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Gnole by Alan Aldridge
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Illustrated Odyssey by Homer / E.V. Rieu
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Study Trilogy: by Maria V. Snyder
Fire Study
Magic Study
Poison Study
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Weerde: Book One - Various
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son by J.R.R. Tolkien
Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wind on Fire Trilogy: by William Nicholson
The Wind Singer
Slaves of Mastery
Firesong
3drneutron
Welcome! Looks like we share The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. I think we'll get along fine. :)
4whitewavedarling
Oh my. Just the first day of the year, and I was so intrigued by that title in your second post that I've already looked it up and added it to my wishlist. Meanwhile, you've gained an official lurker by starting out with that one...
5Unexpected
@ drneutron Thanks! Hollow Chocolate Bunnies was the first Rankin I read and I've been hooked ever since.
@ whitewavedarling You are most welcome to lurk. There are a couple more Durrell books in my current list. (Menagerie Manor & My Family and Other Animals) Hopefully I'll be adding some more as I find them. I've loved all the ones I've read so far and there are many I've not found yet.
@ whitewavedarling You are most welcome to lurk. There are a couple more Durrell books in my current list. (Menagerie Manor & My Family and Other Animals) Hopefully I'll be adding some more as I find them. I've loved all the ones I've read so far and there are many I've not found yet.
6whitewavedarling
I'll be curious to hear your reactions to his other work, too! I used to read animal-related works all the time, and planned to get back to it this year, but we have a new dog at home who has some special issues we weren't expecting (nightmares and attachment issues---we think he was abused before going to the shelter where we found him) and so I suspect much of our animal reading is tuned toward him in the near future!
7Unexpected
Aww, poor pup. Hope you find something useful for him soon.
8Unexpected
I must try to start adding little reviews of each book before I forget what I thought about them. Will try to add them later today.
9Unexpected
Ooops, disappeared for a while. Been busy buying more books than I should, and finally got some new shelves up to hold them all. Will update my read list soon.
10Unexpected
Very-mini reviews so far:
1. A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell *****
Very funny animal collecting antics from the late 1950's; what happens when you have a zoo but no where to put it.
2. Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by Rick Gekoski ****
Anecdotes on rare books, writers and collectors. Interesting read.
3. - 7. The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi *****
Excellent kids fantasy series, short & fast paced. Love the illustration style.
8. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell *****
Memoir of Durrell's time on Corfu with his family in the 1930's. Very funny.
9. My Struggle by Paul Merton ****
A very silly fictional autobiography, flows much like his improv. Entertaining fast read.
1. A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell *****
Very funny animal collecting antics from the late 1950's; what happens when you have a zoo but no where to put it.
2. Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books by Rick Gekoski ****
Anecdotes on rare books, writers and collectors. Interesting read.
3. - 7. The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi *****
Excellent kids fantasy series, short & fast paced. Love the illustration style.
8. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell *****
Memoir of Durrell's time on Corfu with his family in the 1930's. Very funny.
9. My Struggle by Paul Merton ****
A very silly fictional autobiography, flows much like his improv. Entertaining fast read.
11PersephonesLibrary
Hello Leaf! Been busy buying more books than I should - I think we all know that story. :) My problem is that I don't have any more space for additional shelves. My Struggle sounds good. I'll keep that in mind. Have a nice weekend!
12Unexpected
Ah once the shelf space has run out, that's the time to start building furniture out of the books ;)
13Unexpected
Updated my reading list, replaced the firethief trilogy with a few Durrell books I got my paws on recently.
Very-mini review:
10. The Kingdom and the Cave by Joan Aiken
A sweet adventure story following the adventures of Mickle the cat and Prince Michael as they save the Kingdom of Astalon. Great black and white wood-cut style illustrations. Little Me would have loved this as a bedtime story.
Very-mini review:
10. The Kingdom and the Cave by Joan Aiken
A sweet adventure story following the adventures of Mickle the cat and Prince Michael as they save the Kingdom of Astalon. Great black and white wood-cut style illustrations. Little Me would have loved this as a bedtime story.
