Books for postage cost only!

Well, it's a bit dusty in here!

I'm having a summer holiday house declutter, and in the process and pruning my books. I have a long list of books I would like to get rid of, and am happy to send these to anyone willing to pay the postage! If you're interested in any book listed, leave a comment or email me and we can sort out the postage! All books are in good or better condition (quite a few are as new!) except where noted. This list is posted on several forums. I will do my best to keep it up to date and cross off books taken!

Paperback
Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
Gallows View - Peter Robinson
Let’s Meet on Platform 8 - Carole Matthews
The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Hunting and Gathering - Anna Gavalda
Sorting Out Billy - Jo Brand
Shadows and Strongholds - Elizabeth Chadwick
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Attwood - cover a bit bent and scuffed
Body Surfing - Anita Shreve
The Resurrectionist - James Bradley
The Xmas Factor - Annie Sanders
Stereophonics - Danny O’Connor
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - acceptable condition, some marks on cover (received in a swap in this condition)
Like Water for Chocolate - Lauren Esquivel
The Church of Dead Girls - Stephen Dobyns
Goodbye Jimmy Choo - Annie Sanders
Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris
Catch Me When I Fall - Nicci French
Seven Sunny Days - Chris Manby
Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson
Iris and Ruby - Rosie Thomas
Swansea Summer - Catrin Collier
Samantha Smythe’s Modern Family Journal - Lucy Cavendish
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
Embrace the Night - Karen Chance
Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
Queen of the Big Time - Adriana Trigiani
Which Witch is Which - Patricia Telesco
The Outcast - Sadie Jones
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali
The Constant Gardener - John le Carre
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller
Birdman - Mo Hayder
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
A Prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife - Niamh Greene
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
March - Geraldine Brooks
The Behaviour of Moths - Poppy Adams
The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
The Cupid Effect - Dorothy Koomson
The Luminous Life of Lily Aphrodite - Beatrice Colin
26a - Diana Evans
Hiding from the Light - Barbara Erskine
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies



Hardback/Large Format Paperback
A Place of Execution - Val McDermid
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
31 Dream Street - Lisa Jewell
Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell
Violets are Blue - James Patterson
Blow Fly - Patricia Cornwell
Fox Evil - Minnette Walters
Predator - Patricia Cornwell
The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
Trace - Patricia Cornwell
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (First 3 Novels in One Volume) - Laurell K Hamilton
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes
This Charming Man - Marian Keyes

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Distracted ...

I've been a bit distracted from my reading lately as we've booked a holiday .... for Easter 2012! Long time to wait (325 days if you must know, not that I'm counting!) but I've had a mad planning week looking at things we need to do on this visit to Orlando, and when I start I get completely immersed in the whole Disney thing ... it is quite alarming! Anyway the initial excitement has worn off a bit now, and I managed to finish The Weight of Silence this weekend.

I really enjoyed this book. A touching, sad tale of Calli, a selective mute, and her best friend Petra who go missing in the woods near where they live. Each chapter is told from a different person's perspective, and I felt this worked well with the story. It did not become disjointed as this type of book sometimes does, but continued to flow nicely throughout. I'm rating this a 4* star - as I've read elsewhere, a similar writer to Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain.

Next up, I have to put the Kindle down and read The Gallow's Curse by Karen Maitlaind which I reserved at the library and collected yesterday.

Ugh ...

Hmmm ... I seem to be choosing the wrong books lately! Another 1* read came in the form of The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.

I'm finding it difficult to think of anything nice to say about this one! What a horrible bunch of characters. I think I'll just leave it there!

What made it even more disappointing was that it was my first read on my brand sparkling new KINDLE!!! Oh my, I never expected to love this gadget as much as I do! I'm sure I won't ever give up "tree" books completely, but I can definitely see me using the Kindle more than I thought I would! I do miss seeing the nice pretty book covers, but I think I can live without them ...

30 Day Challenge

Day 8 - the book you can quote the best

Hmmm, I would have to say Hamlet for this, purely because we studied it for finals at school and it was drummed into me. I do love Hamlet, my favourite of all Shakesepeare's works (well, those I've read - I'm not pretending to have read them all!).

After only several days of dropping major hints, my hubby came home from a trip to buy tropical fish with a Kindle for me! Woohoo! So excited about this :) I've downloaded a few free books, and a couple of books from the Spring Spectacular on Amazon ... now I need to get reading :)

Also, please excuse the mess ... I'm trying to make a new blog header to match my new colour scheme ....

Book Blogger Hop!

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read!



This week's question comes from Christina who blogs at The Paperback Princesses. She asks:

"If you find a book you love, do you hunt down other books by the same author?"

Yes, yes, yes! I do tend to become a bit author-obsessed if I find one I love! I certainly try and read all their books, but not necessarily one after another as even the most amazing authors can become a bit samey after a while. It does happen that I fall out of love with an author as their writing progresses and changes though - Patricia Cornwell is a perfect example here. I read her early books obsessively, paying out for hardbacks as soon as they were published, but her last 4 or 5 books have not grabbed me in the same way.

I think my newest discovery/obsession will be Mo Hayder. I have just finished reading Birdman (thanks Ellie!) and am now hunting down the next in the series!

30 Day Challenge ...

I'm not doing very well keeping up with this, am I?!

Day 6 - a book you either couldn't finish or struggled to:

The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns - I'm not sure why, but I just did not click with this book.

Day 7 - A book that reminds you of somewhere

An Act of Terror by Andre Brink - a powerful story that immediately transports me back to South Africa where I grew up.

(to read more about the books, just click on the title - links to Amazon)