The Chrysalids - John Wyndham The Children’s Blizzard - David Laskin The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse - John Joseph Adams (editor.) [short stories] On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery - Robert M Poole Dissolution - C. J. Sansom Dark Fire - C. J. Sansom Sovereign - C. J. Sansom Villette - Charlotte Brontë Mrs. P’s Journey - Sarah Hartley The Woman in Black - Susan Hill The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks - Steven Johnson The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins Bleak House - Charles Dickens Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Horns - Joe Hill 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill [short stories] Tunneling to the Center of the Earth - Kevin Wilson [short stories] Hey, Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffennegger Room - Emma Donoghugh
I could only come up with 6 that deserved ‘least favourite’, because it was such a great reading year. Every thing else I read fell between ‘pretty good’ and ‘very good’. These 6 ranged from ‘okay, but expected better’ to ‘just… no’.
You’ve Been Warned - James Patterson & Howard Roughan 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne The Gourmet - Muriel Barbery Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult The Small Hand - Susan Hill Blockade Billy - Stephen King
... are you mocking me because I rave about the series too much? I can never spot sarcasm, unless there's a big sign over it saying 'YEAHRIGHT'
... on the off-chance you've missed my giant fictional crush on Matthew Shardlake, property lawyer and reluctant part-time/freelance criminal investigator during the reign of - who else - King Henry VIII, Sansom writes stonkingly good historical crime fiction.
Top ten (AHAHAHAHAHA) best books of 2010:
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
The Children’s Blizzard - David Laskin
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse - John Joseph Adams (editor.) [short stories]
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery - Robert M Poole
Dissolution - C. J. Sansom
Dark Fire - C. J. Sansom
Sovereign - C. J. Sansom
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Mrs. P’s Journey - Sarah Hartley
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks - Steven Johnson
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Horns - Joe Hill
20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill [short stories]
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth - Kevin Wilson [short stories]
Hey, Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland
The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffennegger
Room - Emma Donoghugh
I could only come up with 6 that deserved ‘least favourite’, because it was such a great reading year. Every thing else I read fell between ‘pretty good’ and ‘very good’. These 6 ranged from ‘okay, but expected better’ to ‘just… no’.
You’ve Been Warned - James Patterson & Howard Roughan
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
The Gourmet - Muriel Barbery
Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
The Small Hand - Susan Hill
Blockade Billy - Stephen King
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Good GRAVY I'm glad I met you. :D
And I shall now do a wee interpretive dance to express how much I love that you loved Villette and Bleak House:
*Swish*
*swish swish*
*SWOON*
*Look up dramatically*
*re-swoon*
*spontaneously combusts*
Any link to your review of The Dead Secret?
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ROFL.
I somehow thought your dancing efforts would be more ... effervescent. But the combustion drew applause.
First review is The Dead Secret.
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... on the off-chance you've missed my giant fictional crush on Matthew Shardlake, property lawyer and reluctant part-time/freelance criminal investigator during the reign of - who else - King Henry VIII, Sansom writes stonkingly good historical crime fiction.
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