DECEMBER: Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl (read to Mr Bear).
Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos, Donna Andrews.
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel.
The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd.
Things We Didn't See Coming, Steven Amsterdam.
The Reformed Vampire Support Group, Catherine Jinks.
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton.
Elizabeth and her German Garden, ( Read more... )

Okay, the monthly updates just didn't quite happen next year. (I might do better in 2010, but I'm not making any promises.) So here's the summary of what I read (reverse order) up to the end of October 2009. Once LibraryThing has stopped being maintained, I can post the last couple of months' worth of reading.

OCTOBER: Un Lun Dun, China Mieville.
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16. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (Electronic copy, via DailyLit).

Short, fabulous read. If you haven't read it yet, do so. Victorian oppression.

17. The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa.

Magnificent stuff, rich, dense, wonderful.

18. The Butler Did It, Kasey MichaelsSilliest thing I've read all year, but awfully good fun ( Read more... )

8. Pere Goriot, Honore Balzac. I read this as a Group Reads: Literature read over at LibraryThing. And I was the only one who thought it was funny. :) A mate of mine explained the "naughtiness" of his name by declaiming loudly "Baaaaaaaaaaaallll-ssssaaaaacccccck!" on the bus. (And people wonder why I won't make eye contact with people on the bus.) ( Read more... )

Here be the master list...

1. The Lion in the Valley, Elizabeth Peters.
2. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters.
3. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (read to Mr Bear).
4. The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant.
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: and Six Other Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

6. The Middleman: The Collected Series Indispensability, ( Read more... )

1. The Lion in the Valley, Elizabeth Peters. Fourth in the Amelia Peabody mystery series, still good fun. Amelia is still battling the forces of evil, armed with her trusty parasol.

2. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters. Wonderful stuff, Gothic Victorian back-stabbing thieves. Highly recommended to all.

3. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (read to ( Read more... )

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Are we excited? We might just be!!

Is there anything better than sitting next to a mate on a bus after a long day (that was part of a long week, that was part of a long month, and that looks like it's going to be part of a very long year) and whinging about having to get dressed up for work because The Client Bigwigs were coming into the office, and how my feet hurt because these ( Read more... )