The Book Whisperer

jottings, musings and recommendations of an incurable bookaholic

Book Blogger Appreciation Week (BBAW) July 7, 2010

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OK, I’ve bitten the bullet and entered (is it just me or is it a little scary to stick your hand in the air and say “look at my awesome blog!” ?) Ah well, I love books, I love writing about books and I love chatting with all you guys about books so why the hell not!

 

I have entered three categories:

 

 

Best Most Humorous Blog

Can you spot the difference?

Guilty as charged, Mi’ Lord!

I’m Freaking out!

Do you really NEED that book?

Yippppeeeeeeee!!! I’m going on holiday!

 

Best New Blog

Curl up with The Victorians 

Curl up with Enid Blyton 

The Best 11 Book Club Reads……EVER!!!

Can you spot the difference?

Guilty as charged, Mi’ Lord!

 

Best Author Interview

Interview with Leanna Renee Hieber

Interview with Kathryn Stockett 

Interview with Thomas J Rice 

Interview with Susan Abulhawa

Interview with Mary Higgins Clark

Good luck everyone!

 

 

Half Year Review July 7, 2010

Filed under: Authors,Ellen Wood,Jo Nesbo,Susan Fletcher — The Book Whisperer @ 8:48 am
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Instead of the normal end of month review I have decided to do a half year review this time as I have now been blogging for 6 months so this is a bit of a milestone for me.

  January
1) Invisible I (The Amanda Project) by Stella Larson
2) The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
3) The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark
4) Soulless by Gail Carriger
5) Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
6) Corrag by Susan Fletcher
7) Shakespeare’s Truth by Rex Richards
 

February
8) Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
9) The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
10) All Pets Go To Heaven by Sylvia Browne
 
March
11) The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson
12) Far From The Land by Thomas J Rice
13) You Belong to Me by Mary Higgins Clark
14) In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
15) East Lynne by Ellen Wood
16) The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
17) The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marhganita Laski
18) Let me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark
 
April
19)Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
20) A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
21) Moonlight Becomes You by Mary Higgins Clark
22) Retribution by Jilliane Hoffman
23) Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
24) Part of the Furniture by Mary Wesley
25) Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
 
May
26) The Little Boy Lost by Marghanisa Laski
27) Sunlight on Cold Water by Francoise Sagan
28) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
29) The Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark
30) The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark
31) The Land of the Living by Nicci French
32) The Japanese Lover by Rani Manicka
33) Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
34) The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesely
 
June 
35) Day and Night by Anita Diamant
36) Caedmon’s Song by Peter Robinson
37) The Help by Kathryn Stockett
38) Caught by Harlan Coben
39) The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
40) The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
41) True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
42) The Weight of Water by Penelope Evans
 

Most looked at book reviews

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris

The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella

 

The most looked at Author Interviews  

Gail Carriger (author of Souless, Changeless & Blameless)

Becca Fitzpatrick (author of Hush Hush and Crescendo)

Kathryn Stockett (author of The Help)

 

The most looked at general posts

The Best Book Club Reads EVER!!!

Guilty as charged, Mi’ Lord!

Can you spot the difference?

 

My favourite books in the last 6 months

This was so hard to do! I have read quite a lot of great books so far this year and I have loved them for different reasons. After much deliberation and trying to pick 3 from different genres (literary, classics, crime/thriller) I have come up with the following. All three were amazing and I can highly recommend them all:

Corrag - Susan Fletcher

Corrag by Susan Fletcher

East Lynne - Ellen Wood

East Lynne by Ellen Wood

The Snowman - Jo Nesbo

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

 

What have beenyour favourite books so far this year?

 

 

 
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