By means of a little jiggery-pokery I managed to hit my target of 150 books for 2011 - hurrah! It would have been more but I decided to celebrate completing number 150 by following it with a proper book - in this case, The Crimson Petal and the White, and that is a monstrous tome I only managed to finish today so it goes onto the 2012 list. Yes, ( Read more... )

I've struggled to churn this out so you're kidding if you think I'm going to do the film review thing too. So lazy :(

( 1. Life: An Unauthorised Biography - Richard Fortey )

It's raining horridly so I cut my early morning jog off short and thought I'd slip this in before I am forced to go to work. Lots of small-books cheating this month! I'll reach 150 yet!

( 1. The Passage - Justin Cronin )

How is it October already? Where have the months gone?? Why is it suddenly summer???

( 1. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing )

( 1. Lost Souls - Poppy Z. Brite )

Okay, so this is late this time around due to my being at home doing the whole "meet the parents" thing which went surprisingly wonderfully. I'm sure you were all champing at the bit needing to know exactly what I have read this month. The answer is one of the best books I have read this year, and one of the worst. The worst. One of the worst books ( Read more... )

Not such a good month this month as last. I blame Springwatch, which I became suddenly and pleasingly addicted to after a few years of forgetting to watch it, and now I've just discovered Horrible Histories on my OD channels which it turns out is far funnier than anything post-watershed on the BBC and is getting its ass watched. I've just watched ( Read more... )

That time of the month again. A treat: these reviews are especially badly written! I need to start making time for them, rather than knocking them out between more important activities.

( 1. Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods - Alan Fildes and Joann Fletcher )

I'm not sure if it is premature to post this now, as I have a book teetering on the edge of “being finished today” and “being finished tomorrow.” My competitive spirit wants to give it a go, thus making April my most successful book-reading month; on the other hand I'm drinking copious amounts of real ale this afternoon, for which I need to make ( Read more... )

Some excellent fiction this month! I'm so tired I can't be bothered cleaning up or even spellchecking this post. Suck it up, lewsers!

( 1. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space - Mary Roach )