Kathy's books for 2011

Hey all!!!

Well, got off to a slow start this year - have had to cut down some on my reading in order to get in some more physical activity due to some health issues so my first 3 of the year are:

1. Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
2. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
3. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

4.Shadow Chasing by Debbie Macomber
5. Led Astray by Sandra Brown
6. One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
7. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
8. Return to Sender by Fern Michaels

How did you like the Macomber book? I have been interested in reading a book by her.
--BJ

Macomber is pleasant reading... to me her best books are her Blossom Street and Cedar Cove series (Shadow Chasing is a stand alone)

Next 3 :

9. Wild Orchids by Jude Deveraux
10. House m.d. The Official Guide to the Hit Medical Drama by Ian Jackman
11. The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake Vampire Hunter book 4

Slow reading as I had eye surgery last month and am hoping to get my new glasses this week... So the next reads are:

12. Sisters by Danielle Steel
13. Trois filles du meme nom by Suzanne Lantagne
14. Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb
15. Out of This World by J.D. Robb, Susan Krinard, Maggie Shayne and Laurell K. Hamilton
16. Showdown by Tilly Bagshawe
17. Pure Silk by Susan Johnson

I am wishing you a speedy recovery. Can you read in French?

Yes I can - I don't do it as often as I should though; I'll read a book in French if that's it's original language or if it was originally in a language other than English (Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Carlos Ruiz Zafon books I read in French as I did with Perfume by Patrick Susskind which was originally in German)

Thanks for the speedy recovery wishes; things are progressing well though I'm still waiting on my glasses... maybe this week (I hope!) Once I get them I should be able to catch up on reading all the threads on LT that I've neglected (since I spend my working day in front of a PC my eyes are too tired at night to do any more).

Have a great day!!

18. Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
19. Gone For Good by Harlan Coben
20. Power Play by Joseph Finder
21. 1022 Evergreen Place by Debbie Macomber Cedar Cove book 10

22. Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb Eve Dallas book 15
23. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
24. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (which looks to be my book of the year for 2011)
25. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
26. Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse book 11
27. Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Are you going to see the movie of Gulliver's Travels?

I am starting to collect the Eve Dallas books, but I only have the first three so far. I understand that they just get better and better.

Hi BJ!!!

I'm not planning on seeing the movie of "Gulliver" - I somehow can't see Jack Black as the title character... :)
The Eve Dallas books are fun and easy reading so they're great to come back to after something heavier... (tho I do wish that there could be a moratorium on authors writing "series" books - there are just too many to keep track of...)

28. Years by LaVyrle Spencer
29. Contagion by Robin Cook
30. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
31. Deadly Affairs by Brenda Joyce Francesca Cahill book 3

I know what you mean about series. For years I never read books in a series. Now all of a sudden I have started a number of series. And the bookstore never seems to have the one I want next in stock. So I have to drop by more often. :)

OMG - it is definitely time for an update!!!

32. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
33. Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb Eve Dallas 16
34. Play it As it Lays by Joan Didion
35. The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
36. Falling for You by Jill Mansell
37. A Little Stranger by Kate Pullinger
38. Mistaken Mistress by Margaret McPhee
39. Think of a Number by John Verdon
41. The Associate by John Grisham
42. Other People's Marriages by Rosie Thomas

What did you think of the Diaz book? I borrowed it from my daughter to read one of these days.

As long as you know quite a bit of Spanish - there is quite a bit of it in the book with no translation provided so unfortunately I wasn't always clear on what was being said which colored my appreciation - it was good but that point kinda spoiled it for me...

43. Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
44. My Point... and I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres
45. La Sagouine by Antonine Maillet
46. Purity in Death by J.D. Robb Eve Dallas book 17
47. The Rapture by Liz Jensen
48. A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova
49. Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
50. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
51. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
52. Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake book 5
53. Portrait in Death by J.D. Robb Eve Dallas book 18
54. Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb Eve Dallas book 19
55. The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Thanks for the heads up on the Spanish. I do speak a little, but not too much. Both of my girls speak more than I do. I wonder why my daughter did not warn me?

And congrats on passing 50! :)

Here are my last reads of 2011:

56. Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts
57. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
58. Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts
59. Tears of the Moon by Nora Roberts
60. Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
61. No Defense by Kate Wilhelm Barbara Holloway book 5
62. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
63. The Parisian Affair by Judith Gould

Happy New Year!

Hi BJ!!!

I haven't been here lately as we were very busy renovating our kitchen and planning next year's bathroom reno!! Wasted a month's vacation supervising workmen and had no time or extra dough to get away at all and since you can't really supervise and read at the same time I'm kinda slow this year (will post my reads soon)