Who’s that girl?
I am a thirty-something (late thirty-something, shhhhh!) bookaholic from Yorkshire in the north of England. I live with my lovely husband and my two fat, lazy cats.
I like
books, chocolate, cats, candles, hiking, butterflies, thunderstorms, dogs, Strictly Come Dancing, purple, China, journals, wolves, countryside, sunshine, autumn, tigers, Israel, real fires, bonfire toffee, Sex and the City, bubble baths, coffee, Iceland, dragonflies, peanut butter, my bed, bags, hot chocolate, history, Ghost Whisperer, New York, lakes, custard creams, Christmas, snow, the cinema, France, sleeping
I don’t like
my alarm clock, sweetcorn, people with no manners, aggression, trifle, pomp, celebrity wannabees, wasps, radishes, organising finances
Bookish things
I love to read and I love to share my thoughts. I have been reviewing on Amazon for about 7 years and I am also very active on Goodreads. I also I run the Victorians! group on GR where we read and discuss books written between 1827-1901 (Dickens, the Brontes, Hardy, Collins et al) and also Neo-Victorian books (books set in Victorian times but not publised then). If you love books from this era then feel free to join us – there are nearly 900 members and growing and we’d love to see you around.
My Favourite ever books
1) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3) The Magus by John Fowles
4) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5) Animal Farm by George Orwell
7) Life of Pi by Yann Martel
8) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
9) Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
10) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
11) Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
12) Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
13) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
15) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
16) The Collector by John Fowles
17) Villette by Charlotte Bronte
19) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
20) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Some of my favourite authors
Books read in 2010
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
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa9) The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
10) All Pets Go To Heaven by Sylvia Browne
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
19)Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
20) A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
21) Moonlight Becomes You by Mary Higgins Clark
Books I read in 2009
January
1) New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
2) Strictly Come Dancing
3) Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
4) The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti
5) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
6) Poem for the Day One (366 Poems, Old and New, Worth Learning by Heart)
7) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
February
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
9) Will you please be quiet, please? – Raymond Carver
10) The Tennant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
11) White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
12) Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
13) The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough
14) Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
15) Chocky – John Wyndham
16) In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
17) le Petit Prince
March
18) The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
19) Wolf Totem – Jiang Rong
20) Sky Burial – Xinran
21) Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
22) Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
23) The Girl who Played with Fire – Steig Larsson
24) The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
25) Villette – Charlotte Bronte
26) The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Murial Barbary
April
27) Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
28) The Husband – Dean Koontz
29) Five Quarters of the Orange – Joanne Harris
30) The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend
31) Blackberry Wine – Joanne Harris
32) Coastliners – Joanne Harris
33) Run for your Life – James Patterson
May
34) The Food of Love – Anthony Capella
35) My First Book of Garden Birds
36) Dead Spy Running – Jon Stock
37) Innocent Traitor – Alison Weir
38) The Queen’s Sorrow – Susannah Dunn
39) The Piano Teacher – Janice K Lee
40) Daughters of Spain – Jean Plaidy
41) The Autobiography of Henry VIII with Notes by His Fool Will Somers – Margaret George
June
42) Summer – Edith Wharton
43) The Six Wives of Henry VIII – Alison Weir
44) Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
45) Love Letters – Katie Fforde
46) Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
47) The Secret Life of France – Lucy Wadham
48) Cold Earth – Sarah Moss
49) Pig Tales – Marie Derrieussecq
July
50) Happy Birthday – Christina Jones
51) The Definitive Book of Body Language – Allan Peace
52) The Day I Died – Polly Courtney
53) Airhead – Meg Cabot
54) The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher – Kate Summerscale
August
55) Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella
56) Gone Tomorrow – Lee Child
57) Goodbe, Dearest Holly – Kevin Wells
58) Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult
59) Hold Tight – Harlan Coben
60) The Time Machine – H G Wells
61) Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
September
62) Too Close to Home – Linwood Barclay
63) Sworn to Silence – Linda Castillo
64) I Heart New York – Lindsey Kelk
65) Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs – Jeremy Mercer
66) Evil at Heart – Chelsea Cain
67) The Woods – Harlan Coben
68) No Place Like Home – Mary Higgins Clark
69) Hide – Lisa Garner
70) Secret Smile – Nicci French
October
71) Heartsick – Chelsea Cain
72) Two Little Girls in Blue – Mary Higgins Clark#
73) Paris – Eyewitness
74) Where are you Now? – Mary Higgins Clark
75) Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
76) Superfreakonomics – Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
77) Coco Chanel: A Biography – Alex Madsen
78) I Heard that Song Before – Mary Higgins Clark
79) Ghost Stories – M R James
November
80) The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
81) Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier
82) If Only They Could Talk – James Herriot
83) It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet – James Herriot
84) The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
85) Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
86) Paths of Glory – Jeffrey Archer
87) Just Take My Heart – Mary Higgins Clark
88) New Moon: The Illustrated Movie Companion
89) Winter Shadow – Richard Knight
90) Gentlemen and Players – Joanne Harris
91) Evermore: The Immortals – Alyson Noel
December
92) On the Street Where you Live – Mary Higgins Clark
93) Hush Hush – Becca Fitzgerald
94) Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater
95) The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
96) Dashing Through the Snow – Mary & Carol Higgins Clark
97) Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
98) Stolen by Lucy Christopher
99) Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
99 books! Not too shabby
I’m breathless….you read so much, and across all genres and types and quality. I so admire that. Interesting reviews, too. wish I could read as much.
Hi Marcys, I know once I find a book I like I tend to binge on that author or genre for a while and then move onto the next. There are so many books and so little time…….I really do need to win the lottery and spend all day kicking back with books.
Boof! Your blog is ridiculously entertaining! I love it! I may hire you as a consultant for mine…LOL. Great design, great imagery, just a fun blog to get lost in. Fantastic!
Thanks Jesse! Hire away – I’m yours. I’m not cheap though, I demand payment in books
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Hello Boof, I hope you got home in one piece. It was great to meet you yesterday, and I’ve put ‘Wolf Totem’ on my wishlist. I’m looking forward to reading and catching up on your posts.