Best of 2009

I have had a successful reading year in quantity but most importantly in quality. Some of the titles that I have read this year have become all-time favourites. I have also read a lot of new fiction and some of those were extraordinary and I couldn’t choose between them all. I have included all of [...]

A Reading Year

As I was composing my end-of-year statistics I spied this meme on Savidge Reads and borrowed it. How many books read in 2009? I have beaten my own personal best by reading 133 books this year and I’ll finish another before midnight on New Year’s Eve. How many fiction and non fiction? I have only [...]

Tuesday Teaser and Trivia

Over the next couple of days check back for my round-up of reading in 2009 -both my favourite books of the year and the best published during the year- and following that there may even be a review or two to start of 2010. Once I return to London at the weekend I should be [...]

Hogfather

My Christmas-themed reading mainly consisted of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett as I have less reading time over the festive period than I had imagined. However, it was the perfect holiday reading as I could pick it up here and there and be amused for forty so pages before eating and being merry and then return [...]