Piyush's Logbook

January reads:-

1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5*

2. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
4*

3. Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino
3.5*

Hi, Piyush! So good to see you here! And your reading if off to a fabulous start, I see.

Piyush! Good to see you're here again!

Great to see you back Piyush.

Happy reading in 2017, Piyush!

>2 scaifea: Hey Amber! Thanks! Yeah, I got lucky with my first three this year :)

>3 drneutron: Thanks Jim, good to see you too!

>4 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul, hope the New Year is treating you well!

>5 FAMeulstee: Thanks Anita, wish you the same!

Other January reads:-
4. One Shot by Lee Child
3*

5. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
4*

6. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
3.5*

7. The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
3*

February reads:-
8. Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
3.5*

9. Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
3.5*

10. Animal's People by Indra Sinha
4*

11. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
2*

12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5*

Other March reads:-

13. A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
4*

14. Crash by J. G. Ballard
1*

15. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
4.5*

16. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
3.5*

17. Fellowship of the Ring# by J. R. R. Tolkien

18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4*

# - re-read

19. Runaway by Alice Munro
4.5*

20. This was a Man by Jeffrey Archer
3*

Hello, Piyush!

>19 PiyushC: I will have to see if I can find a copy of that one.

>14 alcottacre: Hi Stasia! Yes, you should! Though I do see your updates on FB, hope you have been well?

Other April reads:-

21. The Flood by Ian Rankin
3*

22. Middlemarch by George Eliot
4*

23. Confessions of a Shopoholic by Sophie Kinsella
3.5*

24. Ice Station Zebra by Alistair McLean
3.5*

Fairly quiet over here Piyush. Long time since I read Ice Station Zebra. Not sure how well it will have aged.

Have a great weekend.

>18 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul, hope you have been well? Not sure if you are involved in the Mumbai metro plans, but do let me know if there is any possibility of your travelling here.

I find Alistair Mclean books great fun, maybe a couple a year; not sure if its an apt comparison, but they are like the Reacher books in contemporary fiction.

Other May reads:-

25. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#RLBookClub
5*

26. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
3*

27. The Elephant Vanishes## by Haruki Murakami
#RLBookClub

28. The Two Towers## by J. R. R. Tolkien

29. Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
3.5*

## - re-read

30. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
3*

Other June reads:-

31. Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
3.5*

32. The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
2.5*

July reads:-

33. The Hard Way by Lee Child
3*

34. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
4*

35. House Rules by Jodie Picoult
3*

36. Victim Without A Face by Stefan Ahnhem
#RLBookClub
3*

37. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
3.5*

August reads:-

38. Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse
3*

39. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
3*

40. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
#RLBookClub
5*

41. Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
3*

42. Return of the King## by J.R.R. Tolkien

## - re-read

Other August reads:-

43. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
4*

44. Unfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott
2*

September reads:-

45. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
3.5*

46. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4*

47. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
5*

48. Side Jobs by Jim Butcher
3*

49. The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse
3*

>26 PiyushC: I'm so glad that you liked The Martian Chronicles - I read it recently and loved it, too.

Piyush:

>27 scaifea: Hi Amber, this was my second Bradbury this year and loved both! (I started on him just this year, if you can believe that!) I was a tad apprehensive that he would not be able to live up to the hype, was so happy to discover that I had no reason to worry :)

>28 PaulCranswick: Thanks so much Paul for your kind wishes! Hope you have been well?

>29 PiyushC: Yes, his stuff is as amazing as people say, and that doesn't happen very often!

>30 PiyushC: I am ok Piyush. Getting myself together slowly but surely. Good to see you back posting, buddy.

October reads:-

50. Alistair MacLean's Time of the Assassins by Alastair MacNeill
3*

51. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
4*

52. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
4.5*

53. Thinner by Richard Bachman (pseudonym for Stephen King)
3*

54. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
3*

55. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish## by Douglas Adams

## - re-read

>31 scaifea: I know! Isn't it wonderful to find a "new" awesome author?

This is a time of year when I as a non-American ponder over what I am thankful for.

I am thankful for this group and its ability to keep me sane during topsy-turvy times.

I am thankful that you are part of this group.

I am thankful for this opportunity to say thank you.

Wishing you all good things this holiday season and beyond.