Happy Easter!

 

The allergies and sneezing were almost worth it

My curtains are nice and clean and dust free again.

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Elli is a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in 1944. This heartbreaking memoir describes the horrors and degradation suffered by her and her family during the Holocaust. Tragic, compelling and inspiring.

 

The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My second book of the year, The Mistress of Spices, was disappointing and one of those very rare instances were I much preferred the film to the book. I had wanted to read this book for ages and although I finished it, it was a struggle from beginning to end as I never really connected with any of the characters.

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

The Outcast by Sadie Jones

Lewis is just 10 years old when his mother drowns in the river and his life falls apart. No one really cares for him and he grows into a troubled and unstable young man. He is not a likeable character and yet you can’t help but feel sorry for him. A heartbreaking, disturbing, and powerful character driven book set in the 50’s which grabs you from the very first page. I can’t believe it’s a debut novel. A very good start to the year and Orange January. Recommended.

 

Books Read in 2008

The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
The Physician by Noah Gordon
Audrey: An Intimate Portrait by Diana Maychick
On the Side of the Angels by Betty Miller
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
O Agente Secreto by Graham Greene
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
The Book of Proper Names by Amelie Nothombe
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
World Without End by Ken Follett
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
My Place by Sally Morgan
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Marker by Robin Cook
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books Alberto Manguel
The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
O Menino do Pijama Listrado by John Boyne
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Girls by Lori Lansens
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
In the Woods by Tana French
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
O Meu Pe De Laranja Lima by José Mauro De Vasconcelos
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Postcards from the Ledge: Travel Tales of the Lowveld by Bridget Hilton-Barber
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Every second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
March by Geraldine Brooks
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
I Feel Bad About My Neck: and other thoughts on being a woman by Nora Ephron
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Made in America: an informal history of the English language in the United States by Bill Bryson
Holes by Louis Sachar
Where or When: a novel by Anita Shreve
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
The Field Guide by Holly Black
Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
Mallory’s Oracle by Carol o’Connell
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena De Blasi
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Michael Schumacher: The Edge of Greatness by James Allen
Looking for Alaska by John Green

 

Wordless Wednesday