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foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 1/1/2009)

Last post 01-01-2009 15:07 by deefer. 22 replies.
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  • 05-25-2008 12:30 Post ID: 345,594 

    foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 1/1/2009)

    Thought I'd post this for our amusement.You probably ain't never seen a TBR as random as this before! Starred books are library books so under no circumstances will they be listed on RiSi!

    Read books cleared off for 2009!

    Currently Reading:

    The Global Soul - Pico Iyer (non-fiction)
    Walking In This World - Julia Cameron (non-fiction) *
    Bite by Laurell K. Hamilton et al
    Small Island by Andrea Levy * (uni reading list)
    Waiting For My Clothes by Leanne O'Sullivan (poetry)

    TBR:

    The Global Soul - Pico Iyer (non-fiction)
    Walking In This World - Julia Cameron (non-fiction) *
    Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani
    Siege of Darkness - R. L. Salvatore
    Valentine Pontifex - Robert Silverberg
    The Silent Shore - Ruth Elwin Harris
    Out - Natsuo Kirino
    Girl, Interrupted -  Susanna Kaysen
    Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
    Smashed: Growing Up a Drunk Girl - Koren Zailckas
    The Princess Bride - William Goldman
    A Carnivore's Inquiry - Sabina Murray *
    Wayward Girls and Wicked Women - ed. Angela Carter
    Povidky: Short Stories by Czech Women - ed. Nancy Hawker
    The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula Le Guin
    The Bloody Sun - Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Guenevere: The Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles
    Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
    The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
    The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (non-fiction)
    The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman
    Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Crossings  - Mel Odom
    Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
    Shade's Children - Garth Nix
    Pegasus in Space - Anne McCaffrey  - need to read the rest of the series first though!
    The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories - Tom Shippey
    The Ill-Made Mute  - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
    Diving In - Kate Cann
    In the Deep End - Kate Cann
    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    365 Ways To Change The World - Michael Norton
    The Accidental - Ali Smith (sister has borrowed)
    The Cure for Death by Lightning - Gail Anderson-Dangatz
    The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
    The Crimson Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
    Women Who Run With The Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes (non-fiction)
    Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (sister has borrowed)
    Are You Loathsome Tonight? - Poppy Z. Brite
    The Rowan - Anne McCaffrey
    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
    To Ride Pegasus - Anne McCaffrey
    No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
    The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
    The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
    Roswell: Nightscape by Kevin Ryan
    Good Bones by Margaret Atwood
    From Pitch to Publication: Everything You Need to Know to Get Your Novel Published by Carole Blake (non-fiction)
    The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
    The Ship Who Won by Anne McCaffrey
    Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
    I Was A Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
    The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
    The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields * (uni reading list)
    Small Island by Andrea Levy * (uni reading list)
    Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi * (uni reading list)
    Beauty by Robin McKinley
    Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley
    Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
    Pop by Kitty Aldridge     
    Parallel Lies by Stella Duffy   
    The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (sister has borrowed)
    Lying in Bed by Polly Samson
    Storytelling & the Art of Imagination by Nancy Mellon (non-fict)
    Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write by Henriette Anne Klauser (non-fict)
    Poetry Review: v. 94, No. 4: Winter 2004-2005 by David Herd
    Poetry Review: v.94,3: Autumn 2004 by David Herd
    Haunted by History: Poetry by Joan Anim-Addo    
    Sound Barrier: Poems, 1982-2002 by Maura Dooley
    Eight Hours by Various
    The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
    Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
    Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
    Frangipani (Materena Mahi Trilogy 1) by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate (Season 8, Vol. 3) by Drew Goddard et al   
    Ruby: A Novel by Francesca Lia Block
    The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin

        ..and many more - these are just some of the unread books in my bedroom! Okay, I admit, it's not that random at the moment, but if I'd added all the rest it would be. There are more in my room and over the whole house, but these are the ones I've put into a physical pile. I haven't included the craft and writing books I'm currently reading or have got to read either.

    I also have several "reading lists" full of books I want to get from the library :) I'm kind of obsessed with fairy tales, which explains some of this list...

  • 05-25-2008 14:17 Post ID: 345,671  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR

    Out - Natsuo Kirino - On my w.list

  • 05-25-2008 20:20 Post ID: 345,793  In reply to

    • deefer
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    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR

    Out - Quite gory, but a good read.

  • 05-30-2008 13:25 Post ID: 348,248  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR (updated 30/5/2008...it's getting bigger...)

    Got so many books arriving at the moment, I'm updating it practically every day! Oh dear... 

  • 06-08-2008 15:38 Post ID: 353,061  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR (updated 8/6/2008...it's getting bigger...)

    updated again! 

  • 06-12-2008 13:03 Post ID: 355,137  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR (updated 8/6/2008...it's getting bigger...)

    ...and again! 

  • 06-14-2008 14:45 Post ID: 356,144  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR (updated 8/6/2008...it's getting bigger...)

    I absolutely love 'The Virgin Suicides', it's such a beautifully written book!

    Vikki...
    is reading The Time Travellers Wife
  • 06-19-2008 18:03 Post ID: 358,802  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR (updated 8/6/2008...it's getting bigger...)

    went to the charity shops...got:

    Diving In - Kate Cann
    In the Deep End - Kate Cann
    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    365 Ways To Change The World - Michael Norton
    The Accidental - Ali Smith
    The Cure for Death by Lightning - Gail Anderson-Dangatz
    The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

  • 06-19-2008 19:43 Post ID: 358,841  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's small hill of a TBR (updated 8/6/2008...it's getting bigger...)

    Only read The Virgin Suicides, a few times, still don't know what to make of it, so I suppose that's good in a way!

  • 06-19-2008 20:30 Post ID: 358,863  In reply to

    • annecater
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    Re: foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 19/6/2008)




    The Color Purple - Alice Walker * - on my TBR

    Out - Natsuo Kirino - on my TBR
    Girl, Interrupted -  Susanna Kaysen - read this a couple of months ago, wasnt impressed

    The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - on my TBR

    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - excellent, one of my favourites

    The Cure for Death by Lightning - Gail Anderson-Dangatz - on my TBR
    The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood  - didnt like this one

     










  • 06-23-2008 14:11 Post ID: 360,527  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 19/6/2008)

     added:

    Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
    Are You Loathsome Tonight? - Poppy Z. Brite
    The Rowan - Anne McCaffrey
    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

    MUST. STOP. BOOK. BUYING. 

  • 07-17-2008 15:02 Post ID: 374,418  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 19/6/2008)

    totally loved The Book Thief. Bought it in hardback and have just bought a paperback copy for my sister as I can't bear to lend her mine in case she should dare to fold the pages or such like!!!

    Currently reading: These is My Words - Nancy Turner
  • 07-21-2008 14:40 Post ID: 376,990  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 17/7/2008)

    The Color Purple - Alice Walker * I just read this a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I found it hard to get into to start with, because of the way it was written, but after a few pages it got a lot easier.

    Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani I picked this up from the library a few weeks ago and really need to make a start on it!

    Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah I have this one and 'Chinese Cinderella' on my bookcase and love them both!

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    Currently Reading: What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
  • 07-21-2008 16:30 Post ID: 377,084  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 17/7/2008)

    pixieholopainen:
    Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah I have this one and 'Chinese Cinderella' on my bookcase and love them both!

    I borrowed Chinese Cinderella from the library years ago and loved it, had to get Falling Leaves to find out what happens!

  • 07-22-2008 10:27 Post ID: 377,496  In reply to

    Re: foreternity's medium hill of a TBR (updated 17/7/2008)

    The Color Purple - Alice Walker   Read this some years ago – really moving story
    Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani  Lovely, just lovely
    Guenevere: The Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles  Ooh I love Arthurian tales, I’ve not heard of this one so off to investigate!
    Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood  I’ve read this. I can’t say I enjoyed it, it seemed to go nowhere and end oddly.
    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini  Very moving story
    The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood  On my TBR – one of those books so big it scares me.
    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak  Lovely


    Currently reading: The Woods by Harlan Coben
    Wishlist TBR
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