New Years Resolutions

So, for some strange reason unbeknown to myself, I have decided to start a ‘book blog’. Well, it’s not exactly unbeknown, I know I did it because of that horrible tradition that is new years resolutions. Every year I have a different one, and a few of the same, which mainly revolve around starting the gym again and losing weight, but there pretty much givens that I tend to have broken by 12.01 am on New Years Day. But no, this year, I gallantly decided that I would increase the size of that lovely organ in my head, my brain. And how would I do this I asked myself, ah that’s it, read more! It’s not that I didn’t read before, I do read, I love reading, but sometimes I get a bit lazy with it. So my aim is to read one book a month. Of course all books are different shapes and sizes, so if the book is particularly colossal, I will give myself a two month deadline. I sound like I’m taking this far too seriously, but I am determined that this is a new years resolution which I am going to keep! So, here I am, starting my ‘Book Bible’. Yippee! I’m now starting to wonder if it was such a good idea, because, to tell the truth, I have no idea where to start! Why is it that when your having a nosey around the internet at all these other lengthy, professional blogs, they all seem so, well, lengthy and professional! It’s not that I am wondering where might I get the time to write all that they seem to be able to fill their perfectly presented, sickingly enviable pages with (although that does worry me slightly), but more where might I find all them words and ideas in my brain?! But then, I am a writer, and a writer who is creative, inventive and thoughtful! Yes! I will do this. I will write a ‘Book Bible’, as I have ‘inventively’ called it. I will attempt to read all the books I have always wanted to read, but somehow, never got round to, and I will record and review my reading for you lovely people! If you would like to recommend books for me to read, fiction or non-fiction, sci-fi or chick lit, historical thriller or political biography (although I would rather there were fewer requests on the latter, politics isn’t something which fills me with the greatest anticipation to quench my thirst for knowledge on, especially if it involves Gordon Brown or John Prescott, yeesh!). But that said, I am pretty much open to any suggestions! Even if you feel that you cannot be bothered to read a book to find out if it is actually worth reading (I know the feeling), I will kindly do it for you. That’s just the sort of person I am! So, lets get going! My ‘January book’ is, ‘An Education’ by Lynn Barber. A not particularly lengthy book, I should be able to finish it in a couple of weeks or so. It looks interesting, and I always like reading about peoples lives which are more interesting and eventful than mine! I also, as often happens, saw an advert for the film before I had heard of the book, and then wanting to see the film, decided I had to read the book before watching the film or it would ruin the book! Alas, the film is long gone from the cinema, so it looks like I’ll have to be renting that one from Blockbuster!

Published in: on Eanáir 13, 2010 at 12:45 in  Freagra  

Books I endeavour to read!

  1. The Gift – Cecilia Ahern
  2. P.S I Love You – Cecelia Ahern
  3. The Book of Tomorrow – Cecelia Ahern
  4. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
  5. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernes
  6. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  7. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  8. Invisible Women – Jacky Trevane
  9. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  10. Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger
  11. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  12. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Wolf
  13. Less Than Zero – Brett Easton Ellis
  14. I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith
  15. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
  16. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
  17. Deception Point – Dan Brown
  18. Digital Fortress – Dan Brown
  19. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
  20. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
  21. Good Wives – Louisa M Alcott
  22. Memoirs of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
  23. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets – Eva Rice
  24. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
  25. On Kindness – Adam Philips and Barbara Taylor
  26. Fidel & Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
  27. Three Letter Plague  – A Young Man’s Journey Through A Great Epidemic – Jonny Steinberg
  28. The Monster of Florence – Douglas Preston
  29. The White King – Gyorgy Dragoman
  30. Diana Athill – Somewhere Towards the End – Diana Athill
  31. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
  32. Land of Marvels – Barry Unsworth
  33. Once on a Moonless Night – Dai Swie
  34. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
  35. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  36. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  37. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  38. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
  39. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  40. Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
  41. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  42. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  43. Crime and Punishment – Fyder Postoyersky
  44. The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
  45. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  46. Lady Windmere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde
  47. A Woman of No Importance – Oscar Wilde
  48. An Ideal Husband – Oscar Wilde
  49. P.S. I Love You – Cecelia Ahern
  50. Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
  51. Random Acts of Heroic Love – Danny Schienmann
  52. Then We Came to an End – Joshua Ferris
  53. Rome and the Vatican
  54. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
  55. Statues Without Shadows – Anna Swan
  56. Northern Lights – Philip Pullman

The Millennium Trilogy – Stieg Larsson

  1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  2. The Girl Who Played with Fire
  3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

The Harry Potter books – JK Rowling

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The Lord of the Rings books – J.R.R Tolkien

  1. The Fellowship of the Ring
  2. The Two Towers
  3. The Return of the King

Children’s Classics

  1. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
  2. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  3. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  4. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  5. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  7. The Jungle Books – Rudyard Kipling
  8. Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
  9. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  10. Alice Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
  11. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
  12. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
  13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  14. Anne of Green Gables – L Montgomery
  15. Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magonian
  16. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  17. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  18. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  19. Polyanna – Eleanor Porter
  20. Fairy Tales – Han Christian Anderson
  21. Robin Hood – Henry Gilbert
  22. Lassie Come Home – Eric Knight
  23. Bambi – Felix Salten
Published in: on Eanáir 13, 2010 at 12:14 in  Freagra