Book – Tietam BrownAuthor – Mick FoleyYear – 2003Genre – FictionPages – 241Sent to me by angswap at RISI This is the first book that I have read this year from the website Read It Swap It (more of that in another post but please check out the link above if you want piles of what…
Month: January 2011
Book 4 – Vernon God Little
Book – Vernon God LittleAuthor – DBC PierreYear – 2003Genre – FictionPages – 277 Whilst I know that a book that has won an award is by no means a guarantee of it’s quality, I cannot help but think that any book that has won a major prize – such as this book did with the 2003 Man…
Book 3 – Teechers
Book – TeechersAuthor – John GodberYear – 1987Genre – PlayPages – 31 Yes, you read that right, 31 pages. I have had a copy of this play since I was a drama student and bought it amidst a fit of guilt at only owning three plays. I then proceeded to not read it, and it…
Book 2 – Kraken
Book – KrakenAuthor – China MievilleYear – 2010Genre – Weird Fantasy (that’s what the author calls it!)Pages – 481Bought for me by Mum and Dad China Mieville has a slew of awards to his name, and a devoted following. A purveyor of a subset of fantasy called ‘weird fantasy’, he aims to move fantasy away…
Book 1 – Fire Study
Book – Fire StudyAuthor – Maria V SnyderYear – 2008Genre – FantasyPages – 447Lent to me by Faye Braggins The first book I read this year is actually finishing off a series that I started at the tail end of 2010. As I am pretty sure that I mentioned whilst writing about the second book…
And beyond…
It is the question that literally several people have asked me since I finished The Book Challenge at the end of the year – What next? And a good question it is too. Well, I shan’t be attempting the same mission that I did in 2010. Reading one hundred books was a great challenge, but…
The Book Challenge: Lows and Highs
Well, we are a few days into the new year now, and I have had time to bask in the glory of managing to complete The Book Challenge. Thank you to everyone who has passed on congratulations – it is much appreciated. As I did last year, I wanted to post a few thoughts on…
The Full One Hundred
Now that I have finished The Book Challenge for the year, I thought it would be a sensible thing to do to list all of the books that I have read. Of course, a much more sensible thing to have done, would have been to have kept this list up to date as I went along…