I challenged myself on Goodreads to read 75 books in 2012:
- The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell - 5/5
- Speaking of Love by Angela Young - 2/5
- When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman – 4/5
- Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson – 4/5
- Kaspar by Michael Morpurgo – 5/5
- War Horse by Michael Morpurgo – 5/5
- The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale - 2/5
- Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch – 5/5
- Snowdrops by A D Miller - 3/5
- Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson – 4/5
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes – 3/5
- 11.22.63 by Stephen King – 5/5
- The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs by Christina Hopkinson – 2/5
- Cowboy Heat by Sable Hunter – 2/5
- Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain – 4/5
- After the Party by Lisa Jewell – 3/5
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 2/5
- Blue Monday by Nicci French – 5/5
- A Private Affair by Lesley Lokko – 4/5
- Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day – 4/5
- Pear Shaped by Stella Newman – 4/5
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake - 4/5
- The Great Escape by Fiona Gibson – 3/5
- Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult – 4/5
- That Summer in Ischia by Penny Feeny -4/5
- The End of Everything by Megan Abbott - 4/5
- Trust Me by Lesley Pearse – 4/5
- The Ugly Sister by Jane Fallon – 3/5
- Peter Pan by J M Barrie - 4/5
- The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha – 5/5
- Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult – 2/5
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain – 3/5
- The Patchwork Marriage by Jane Green – 5/5
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James – 1/5
- Fifty Shades Darker by E L James – 1/5
- Fifty Shades Freed by E L James – 1/5
- Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes by Sue Watson – 4/5
- The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood -
‘Toast’ 1/5!!! You and I need to have words! :Z
I enjoyed it in parts, I promise. But overall I wasn’t enamoured. Luckily I prefer his recipes!
Do watch the BBC adaptation with Helena Bonham Carter playing his stepmother if you get the chance. Really good.
Can’t believe how many books you’ve read so far this year!!! I am way down on my ‘goal’ according to goodreads but the books I’ve been reading have been really long!! Current one is pushing 700 pages (it’s also hardback from library rather than kindle book). I think I read kindle books faster.
I definitely read quicker on the Kindle than I do with a regular book. Mind you, I haven’t read one of those in a year!
Hi Jen – am fascinated to know why you bothered to read the two follow ups to Fifty Shades after only giving 1/5 to the first one? Don’t think I’d have bothered with the extra 1000+ pages if I’d not enjoyed the first one. Interested in your rating – usually we like fairly similar books, but obviously not on this occasion! Glad to hear your return to work went well. x
I wasn’t going to… but they were on my Kindle and I wondered about the story! I still don’t rate them any higher as I really struggled to get past the awful grammar and editing, but the sex scenes were… interesting! x