I can't resist wandering into bookshops and looking around for hours. I used to haunt libraries. I love books about all sorts, I don't think I'm too fussy. Right now I'm challenging myself to read all the unread books on my shelves, because I have a weakness for buying more books than I can read.
November Wrap Up
1984 by George Orwell ✰✰✰
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ✰✰✰✰
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins ✰✰✰✰
Animal Farm by George Orwell ✰✰✰
The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls ✰✰✰✰
Divergent by Veronica Roth ✰✰✰✰
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins ✰✰✰✰½
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan ✰✰✰½
December TBR
Books for a Uni module that starts in January!
October Reads
Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill ✰✰✰½
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill ✰✰✰½
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ✰✰✰✰✰
White Teeth by Zadie Smith ✰✰✰✰✰
November TBR
The Best British Short Stories 2011 ed. by Nicholas Royle
1984 by George Orwell
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
August
Collection of Short Stories:
The Cranes that Built the Cranes by Jeremy Dyson ✰✰✰½
Individual Short Stories:
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe ✰✰✰½
The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle ✰✰✰✰
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield ✰✰✰✰
The Dead by James Joyce ✰✰
September
Novels:
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry ✰✰✰✰
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien ✰✰✰✰
Collection of Short Stories:
In-Flight Entertainment by Helen Simpson ✰✰✰
Individual Short Stories:
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ✰✰½
The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter ✰✰✰½
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges ✰✰½
In the Abyss by H.G. Wells ✰✰½
Burning Chrome by William Gibson ✰✰✰½
Death Constant Beyond Love by Gabriel García Márquez ✰✰
Lady with Lapdog by Anton Chekov ✰✰✰
October TBR
The Best British Short Stories 2011 ed. by Nicholas Royle
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
June
All My Sons by Arthur Miller ✰✰✰✰
Educating Rita by Willy Russell ✰✰✰✰✰
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien ✰✰✰✰
The Whole Stupid Way We Are by N. Griffin ✰✰✰
Golden by Jessi Kirby ✰✰✰
(Unfortunately, July was a reading slump month for me. I did read a lot of The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, but I haven't gotten round to finishing it yet)
August TBR
The Cranes that Built the Cranes by Jeremy Dyson
In-Flight Entertainment by Helen Simpson
The Best British Short Stories 2011 (edited by) Nicholas Royle
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Rot & Ruin by Jonathon Maberry
Read in May:
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami ★★★★★
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott ★★★
A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory ★★
Money by Martin Amis ★★★★
Seed by Rob Ziegler ★★★★
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★
The Program by Suzanne Young ★★★★★
Winger by Andrew Smith ★★★★★
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★★
June TBR:
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Sequel coming out this month!)
The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett (Sequel coming out this month!)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Icecream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
Uni:
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Library:
- Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
- A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
- Money by Martin Amis
- Seed by Rob Ziegler
Other:
- The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- The Program by Suzanne Young
In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.
Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone who’s been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone—but so are their memories.
This is a quick post just to tell that an e-book version of the The Program, by Suzanne Young, is free for reading on Pulseit this week. For those who don't know Pulseit is a online community of Simon and Schuster where they put extra information on their teen books. You can read excerpts, have chats with the autors and also sometimes they put an entire book there for free. It's a really cool place to get to know new books.
The Program have a really cool premise, sci-fi, dystopia-ish and also sounds a little creepy. It will definetly be my next read.
Just don't forget: the book will be up for reading until 26 of may. After this date the book can't be accessed.
Links: Pulseit | The Program