Well despite my promise to myself never to have more than ten books, I appear to have accumulated almost fifty, so can't buy anymore for a while (whoops)..

23/08/07 - IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED, IF I GET ANY MORE BOOKS I WILL ADD THEM HERE, BUT ANNOUNCE THEM IN A REPLY TO THIS PAGE, RATHER THAN CLUTTER IT UP WITH DATES.

FICTION

• The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
• The Sixth Wife - Susannah Dunn (Library book)
• Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir (Library book) - Currently Reading
• The Borgia Bride - Jeanne Kalogridis (Library book)
• Giving up on Ordinary - Isla Dewar
• The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
• Come and Tell me some Lies - Rafaella Barker
• Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
• Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
• Mercy - Jodi Picoult
• The Memory Keepers Daughter - Kim Edwards
• The Game - Mandasue Heller
• The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
• Affinity - Sarah Walter
• The Seven Year Itch - Emlyn Rees & Josie Lloyd
• The Mummy Diaries - Rachel Johnson
• Fiends Reunited - Paul Reizen
• Brown Owl's Guide to Life - Kate Harrison
• Fallen Women - Sue Welfare
• Don't you Want Me- India Knight
• The Boy Next Door - Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees
• One Night at the Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat
• The Diary of an American Au Pair - Marjorie Leet Ford
• Turning Thirty - Mike Gayle  
• Conversations with the Fat Girl - Liza Palmer 
• Gone - Lisa Gardner
• Brick Lane - Monica Ali
• LA Connections - Jackie Collins
• Thrill - Jackie Collins
• Nowhere to Run - Maggie Hudson
• I don't know how she does it - Alison Pearson
• The Beat Goes on - Adele Minchin
• Border Crossing - Pat Barker
• Me and Mr Darcy - Alexandra Potter
• The WWW Club - Anita Notaro - (currently reading in my car in my lunch break at work and have been for a very long time!)
• Just a Little Disco on an Open-Top Bus - Candy Guard
• Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
• Jemima J - Jane Green (A re-read)
• Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
• My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler
• Eden Close - Anita Shreve
• Stories we could Tell - Tony Parsons
• The 13th Apostle - Richard & Rachel Heller

NON-FICTION

• Miss Potter:  A Novel - Richard Maltby Jr
• A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
• Around the World in 80 dates - Jennifer Cox
• Smashed:  Growing up a Drunk Girl - Koren Zailckas
• My Name is Angel - Rhea Coombes 
• Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
• Coming out as a Bowie Fan in Leeds - Mick McCann
• The Damage Done - Warren Fellowes
• Unnatural Death - Michael Baden
• Strange Tales from Strangeways - Sara Lee
• What about Me - Kate Figes
• Complete History of Jack the Ripper - Philip Sugden
• Fashion Babylon - Imogen Edward-Jones
• A Date with the Hangman - TJ Leech
• Priceless - Charlie Daniels
• Voices from an Evil God - Barbara Jones
• Abandoned - Anya Peters
• Report from Ground Zero - Dennis Smith
• Marley and Me - John Grogan
• Robbie: The Biography - Sean Smith
• Close - Martina Cole
• Confessions of a Working Girl - Miss S
• Thin - Grace Bowman
• The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe - Donald H Wolfe
• Pete from Big Brother - My Story
• Catch me before I fall - Rosie Childs
• How to Lose friends and Alienate People - Toby Young
• My Life as a Medium - Betty Shine
• Relative Strangers:  A History of Adoption and a tale of Triplets - Hunter Davies. 
• Murderous Women - Frank Jones
• The World According to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson
• Shadow of a Princess - PD Jephson

YoYoDieter:

The Girls - Lori Lansens ~ enjoyed this book, the story and the writing style.

A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon ~ did enjoy this, it was a light, quite funny read.

Fashion Babylon - Imogen Edward-Jones ~ didn't like this as much as the other Babylon's

Priceless - Charlie Daniels ~ on my tbr

Marley and Me - John Grogan ~ loved this, excellent read!

The World According to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson ~ hubby loves his books, they keep him chuckling away!

Hey - check you out!

Sorry, haven't read any of these so can't comment on them. Did like Curious Incident by Haddon, though.

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Hey - check you out!

Sorry, haven't read any of these so can't comment on them. Did like Curious Incident by Haddon, though.

 I know!  I am an internet web-page genius aren't I!  I'll be doing a wishlist next, when I can find all the bits of paper that I have scribbled down the books I want on.

 I loved the Curious Incident too, it was a lovely book, good storyline, set in England and really easy to read - just how I like my books to be.

Oh BLIMEY - I really shouldn't be let loose in supermarkets!!  I added another one, "My Name is Angel" by Rhea Coombes.

Finished reading "Annie Mays Black Book" and I gave it 7/10.  I really liked it, it wasn't exciting, but I liked her style of writing, it really flowed, was to the point, with no waffling - a nice, easy, quick read to get my TBR pile down a bit

only one i have read is close by martina cole...it was ok, not fantastic though. But, i wouldn't be a huge fan of martina cole as i find her books too similar.

YoYoDieter:

Brick Lane - Monica Ali - TBR

A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon - Library Book (Currently Reading) - Would like to read.

The World According to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson - TBR, dh reading atm.

UPDATED 23/08/07 - Added to TBR List

My Life as a Medium - Betty Shine (bought from a Charity Shop)

Relative Strangers:  A History of Adoption, and a tale of Triplets - Hunter Davies (bought from a charity shop)

Gone - Lisa Gardner (Bought from a charity shop)

Conversations with the Fat Girl (RISI Swap)

Just a Little Disco on an Open Top Bus - Candy Guard (Found on shelf, but not on TBR list)

Finished "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon this evening.  I gave it 6/10 because although I enjoyed it at the end, I didn't really get into it until half way through, and if it wasn't for the fact I hate giving up on books unless they are truly dire, I would have ditched it before then, as there seemed to be no evidence of a storyline til half way through.  Anyway it got better, and ended up being a good book. 

 Started "Brand New Friend" by Mike Gayle earlier on and I'm finding it quite unputdownable, and have read over 100 pages already.

Eeeeek.  Four more added to the fiction pile - all bought from charity shops

Turning Thirty - Mike Gayle

The Diary of an American Au Pair - Marjorie Leet Ford

One Night at the Call Centre - Chetan Bhagat

The Boy Next Door - Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees

I went to Blackpool for the weekend on Friday, came back this afternoon and finished three books in those four days!

 Brand New Friend - Mike Gayle.  I loved this one, liked the characters, liked the storyline, found it really easy to read and really hard to put down.  I think Mike Gayle might be my Brand New Favourite Author!!  8/10.

 Then I read:  "The Ex-Wives Survival Guide" by Debby Holt.  I liked this one better than "Annie May's Black Book" 8/10.

Then I moved onto to "Liz Jones's Diary:  How one single girl got married" by Liz Jones, which I was dreading to be honest since I started my poll, and someone said they couldn't stand Liz Jones!!  However, I really enjoyed it, and couldn't put it down.  The book was witty and funny, and made me laugh.   However, I hadn't realised it was non-fiction, so had listed it with my fiction titles!!  That's rectified now anyway.  I liked it so much it got 9/10. 

Haven't decided what to move onto next.......

Okay, decided what to read next, and have started on "All that Glitters", an autobiography by Pearl Lowe.  It was adapted and serialised in (I think) the Daily Mail, and was quite interesting, so I treated myself to it in hardback.

I finished "All That Glitters" by Pearl Lowe yesterday and gave it a 7/10.  It had already been adapted and serialised for the Daily Mail, and I have to say there wasn't much in it that I hadn't read in the paper, so there was nothing in there that surprised me. 

Started reading "The Girls" by Lori Lansen straight afterwards and I am loving that so far!!  Could easily be book of the month for September (seeing how I have already done my 'what I read in August' post)

I've also added a few more to my "To Be Read" pile

• The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
• Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
• Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
• The Game - Mandasue Heller
• The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
• Shadow of a Princess - PD Jephson
• Affinity - Sarah Walter
• The Seven Year Itch - Emlyn Rees & Josie Lloyd
• The Mummy Diaries - Rachel Johnson
• Fiends Reunited - Paul Reizen
• Brown Owl's Guide to Life - Kate Harrison
• Fallen Women - Sue Welfare
• Don't you Want Me- India Knight

Finished "The Girls" by Lori Lansen, and I really enjoyed it and thought it was a brilliant book.   I liked how it was written with each chapter being written by a different twin with one in the past, and one in the present, the storyline was lovely, and it's been a long time since I have read such a good work of fiction.  10/10

Will be starting "The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy" by Polly Williams next.....