The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan ( Read more... )

27/50 Perfume by Patrick SuskindA very interesting book - the writing is so descriptive and the plot so engaging that I don't see how it could fail to impress ( Read more... )

X posted to 50bookchallenge

26/50 The Liar by Stephen Fry ( Read more... )

My pathetic reading list advances at snails pace once more to half way. This is, without a doubt my year of the least books read ever.

Never mind, number 25 was The Road to Nab End by Richard Woodruff. It's the story of a family of cotton weavers in Blackburn, Lancashire in the early 20th Century - and a pretty shitty life it is too with the ( Read more... )

23/50 A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka ( Read more... )

22 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver ( Read more... )

X posted to 50bookchallenge

21/50 Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin

My second Inspector Rebus Novel. We heard him talk at the Borders Book Festival two weekends ago, he's a very good speaker, but I think I've had enough Rebus for now!


( Read more... )

X posted to 50bookchallenge

The Visitor by Maeve BrennaenThis is a very slim volume, a previously unpublished Novella from 1940 - I read it over tea in bed on Sunday Morning! It's very brittle and claustrophobic indeed. It's about a young woman who returns to her controlling Grandmother's house in Dublin after the death of her mother in Paris, where they had ( Read more... )

20/50 Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin

This isn't my usual choice of book, but we have been invited to the Borders Book Festival in a couple of weeks and have been bought tickets to a talk and reading by Ian Rankin, so I though I should do my homework!  I didn't *love* the book, but there were some excellent characters and a clever plot but by far ( Read more... )

X posted to 50bookchallenge

19/50 Watching the English - The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox

A totally fascinating book all about why the English behave as we do.  There's clearly tons of research behind it, even if vast amounts of it was just eavesdropping on almost all possible situations and hours spent observing how we behave in queues, crowds ( Read more... )