Posted by: makeshiftwings on: April 17, 2010
Book #17 was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I had read a few reviews of this book and seen it around once or twice and picked it up the last time I was in Borders off the 3 for 2 table. I have to admit, it took me a LONG time to get into [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: April 12, 2010
Book #16 was Absurdistan, by Eric Campbell. Campbell is an ABC foreign correspondent, primarily covering areas in a state of conflict. He was first stationed in Moscow, Russia and traveled from that base to places like Chechnya, Serbia, Afghanistan, Kalmykia, Armenia, Iraq, etc. He was later stationed in Beijing China and then in Afghanistan and [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: February 1, 2010
Book #6 was Divine By Choice by P.C. Cast. I don’t even know what to say about this one. I think I should’ve just left it alone and not even bothered to read it after Divine By Mistake. But given that I’d paid for it, I had to have a go! And boy am I [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: January 24, 2010
I finished book #4 on Friday and book #5 on Saturday. Book #4 was We Need To Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver. I read a small blurb on the book in the arts section of Saturday the 16th Jan’s paper so when we were in Borders the next day spending DH’s birthday/Xmas vouchers, I [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: January 21, 2010
Yesterday I finished book #3 in my 50 Book Challenge, The Killings At Badger’s Drift by Caroline Graham. This is the first book in her Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby series and its plot forms the inspiration for the pilot episode of Midsomer Murders, a British TV series based upon the Barnaby books. I’d watched a [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: January 11, 2010
Book #1 completed for 2010!! More Than You Know: A Novel by Beth Gutcheon. Found this in DH’s stash when we were cataloging shelf #2 in the massive cupboard of books. Like a dozen or so others, I set it aside to read and I pulled it out last night and read a few pages, [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: December 19, 2009
Been busy busy lately! Finishing off Christmas shopping has been my first priority – we always have a lot of people to buy for as DH has a very large extended family and there’s always a long list! Thankfully everyone has been very helpful this year and given us suggestions for other people they know [...]
