Well I didn't quite manage 52 books in 2013, mainly due to spending the last 3 months of the year working my way through the entire back catalogue of Time Team before returning them - I managed 15/20 series! Good accompaniment for the large amount of hand sewing and cutting out I was doing in the run up to Christmas and the Summer Gathering craft stall which was raising funds for FWCC World Office and the Philippines appeal. That rush of activity also partially explains the lack of blogging towards the end of the year....
I've grown to love audio books, especially when travelling (I can't read in road vehicles, I get travel sick) and when my eyes are simply too tired.
I've been making a concerted effort to continue to work my way through the 2003 BBC 100 Big Reads list as well as tackle some new authors and a variety of genre. Sci-fi/fantasy have started to dominate the list again though I have to confess.
I have a long list of titles ready and waiting for me in 2014, hopefully I'll get through at least 52 this year!
* means still to finish
italics means a re-read
January - March 2013
i. Medicinal Cookery - Dale Pinnock (started in 2012)
ii. The Spirit Level - Richard G. Wilkinson & Kate Pickett (started in 2012)
1. Crystal Soldier - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
2. Battle of Rondo - Emily Rodda
3. Crystal Dragon - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
4. This Charming Man - Marian Keyes (totally swayed by 'The Smiths' song title!)
5. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
6. Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert
7. Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
8. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
9. Jennie - Paul Gallico
April - June 2013
10. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
11. A Quaker Astronomer Reflects - Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Backhouse Lecture 2013)
12. Sky Dragons - Anne & Todd McCaffrey
13. One Week in December - Holly Chamberlin
14. The Wise Woman's Tale - Phillipa Bowers
15. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer
16. The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Steven Baxter
17. Dragon Time - Anne & Todd McCaffrey
July - September 2013
18. The Outcasts - John Flanagan
19. Mr Chen's Emporium - Deborah O'Brien
20. Things I Overheard When Talking To Myself - Alan Alda
21. The Invaders - John Flanagan
22. * Being Salt and Light - book of the 6th World Conference of Friends
23. Trader Tales: Quarter Share - Nathan Lowell (audio book)
24. The Hunters - John Flanagan
25. Trader Tales: Half Share - Nathan Lowell (audio book)
26. Trader Tales: Full Share - Nathan Lowell (audio book)
27. Trader Tales: Double Share - Nathan Lowell (audio book)
28. Trader Tales: Captain's Share - Nathan Lowell (audio book)
29. Trader Tales: Owner's Share - Nathan Lowell (audio book)
30. * To be Broken and Tender - Margery Post Abbott
31. The Bone Tiki - David Hair
32. Asterix in Spain - Goscinny & Uderzo
33. Asterix in Britain - Goscinny & Uderzo
34. The Witches - Roald Dahl
35. Esio Trott - Roald Dahl
36. The Twits - Roald Dahl
37. The Giraffe & the Pelly & Me - Roald Dahl
38. The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
39. Matilda - Roald Dahl
October - December 2013
40. The Wit and Wisdom of Mothers - Ulysses Brave
41. Holes - Louis Sachar
42. One More River - Lynne Reid Banks
43. * Middlemarch - George Elliot
44. Nation - Terry Pratchett
45. The Taniwha's Tear - David Hair
46. The Lost Tohunga - David Hair
47. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall-Smith
48. A Trail of Fire - Diana Gabaldon
49. The Black Gryphon - Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon (audio book)
50. * The White Gryphon - Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon (audio book)
1 comment:
I'm working (very slowly) through that list as well. I've now read 62 of them and am hoping to finish several more this year - although some of them I'm finding very hard going, but it's good to be challenged.
dawn
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