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5th Jan 2011
Welcome Back!
And we’re back! Hope you all had a merry Christmas, fabulous festivities aplenty and all sorts of other celebratory shenanigans.
Did Santa bring you any good books? Any discoveries you’d like to share with us? How about reading-related New Year’s resolutions?
What were your best and worst books of 2010, and what would like more of from us in 2011?
We’ll be back later today to tell you more about an event we’ve got planned in a couple of weeks time, so keep an eye out for that.
But in meantime, we want to hear all about what books you were brought by Father Christmas!
Jane Bradley
I read Watermelon by Marian Keyes (loving her at the minute) followed by The Outcast – fantastic but really, really sad. Not recommended for January Blues.
Oh dear, the January blues are distressing enough without sad reading material too! I read a lot of Kathy Acker, which in my germ-befuddled state seemed rather surreal…
I got the Devil Rides Out Paul O’Grady secont autobiography. Its great makes me all nostalgic.
I also got Point Origin Patricia Cornwells new book.
Thanks for the comment, Carol, have you started Point Origin yet? Had several friends raving about it!
I got Just Kids from Santa and so far I’m loving it. The first bit about childhood I thought was a little bombastic and stilted but as soon as she hit NYC, I was with her.
Lucky you! That was definitely my favourite of last year. All the stories about Coney Island! I had to stop reading every few pages to have a little sob at how beautiful it all was, but apart from that, I absolutely loved it.
Lots of books! My head in stuck in The Book Thief at the moment, it’s BRILLIANT.
I know, I love that everyone seems to have done lots of reading over Christmas! And this year I had the excuse that it was work as well, so I got to enjoy curling up with a book and a blanket and feel virtuous and hard-working too!
My boyfriend found an Enid Blyton I’d never read before in Oxfam which is very rare! I’m slowly working through that as it’s essay season. It’s called ‘Shadow the Sheep Dog’ and is about a silly as it sounds. When I’ve stopped pretending to be a child I’ll start reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Nocturnes’.
Can’t beat an Enid Blyton! Somehow that seems appropriately festive too, good find.
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