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real for me too
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Real - though I could see the potential of a kindle whn going on holidays for a couple of weeks and not wanting to have the weight of a handful of books in your luggage. I love having all my books on show in the house.
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ditto JOCI Club re: display
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I only keep books which are signed by the author , all the others go to the charity shop.
Libraries of books do look great.....but life ain't long enough to reread very many , there are too many other books to read. it's not like listening to an album again , that only takes about an hour. |
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A kindle is handy for all the free books you can get, if you've the time!
Ok you can read them on your pc/laptop but it's nicer to have something in your hand. If you are book fans have you ever checked out the old/classic "free" books on the Gutenberg website? |
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Took me half a day arranging all mine on shelves in the study in our new house. Of course, done alphabetically! However, had to have two rows per shelf as I have so many. Then chosing which ones not to have on show was arduous!
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01 Run! - Dean Karnazes
02 Embedded - Dan Abnett 03 Parasite - Mira Grant 04 Shadow's Edge - Brent Weeks 05 Memories Of Ice - Steven Erikson 06 Never Go Back - Lee Child 07 Running With The Pack - Mark Rowlands 08 Killing The Shadows - Val McDermid 09 A Place Of Execution - Val McDermid 10 At The Stroke Of Madness - Alex Cava 11 Trace - Patricia Cornwell 12 Rancid Aluminium - James Hawes 13 Slash And Burn - Matt Hilton 14 Spud - John van de Ruit 15 Drop Shot - Harlan Coben 16 Rancid Aluminium - James Hawes 17 Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb 18 Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb 19 King Of Plagues - Jonathan Maberry 20 Zombie Britannica - Thomas Emson 21 Mindstar Rising - Peter F Hamilton 22 Ecko Rising - Danie Ware 23 The Maze Runner - James Dashner |
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1 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 8/10 2 Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd 8/10 3 Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 5/10 4 Ecstasy Irvine Welsh 8/10 5 A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 9/10 6 Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals Mike Vockins 8/10 7 Never Google Heartbreak Emma Garcia 8/10 8 Skinheads John King 6/10 9 Common Sense Rules: What You Really Need To Know About Business Deborah Meaden 6/10 10 I Laughed, I Cried Viv Groskop 7/10 11 Streetwise Roberta Kray 6/10 12 IKEA edge Anders Dahlvig 5/10 13 Heartbreak Hotel Deborah Moggach 7/10 14 Bullfighting Roddy Doyle 7/10 15 Armadillo William Boyd 7/10 16 Made in Britain James Bower 7/10 17 Villain's Daughter Roberta Kray 6/10 18 Expats Chris Pavone 7/10 19 Cocktail Waitress James Cain 8/10 20 Streetwise Roberta Kray 5/10 21 Dry Augusten Burroughs 8/10 22 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 7/10 23 Live at the Brixton Academy Simon Parkes 9/10 24 The Complete Parkhurst Tales Norman Parker 6/10 25 Kings Road Max Decharne 7/10 26 Wilt Tom Sharpe 9/10 27 Flight into Camden David Storey 7/10 28 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell 8/10 29 The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 9/10 30 My Manor Charlie Richardson 6/10 31 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 7/10 32 All of These People Fergal Keane 9/10 33 Union Street Pat Barker 8/10 34 Hellraisers Robert Sellers 6/10 35 From Right Wing to B Wing Mark Ward 7/10 35 Lush Life Richard Price 3/10 did not finish 36 You have 3 Minutes Richard Bellino 3/10 did not finish 37 The Shock of the Fall Nathan Filer 5/10 38 Unexpected Lessons in Love Bernardine Bishop 9/10 39 The Postman Always Rings Twice James Cain 7/10 40 Case Histories Kate Atkinson 8/10 41 The Case of the Missing Books Ian Sansom 8/10 42 One Day David Nicholls 9/10 43 Playing the Moldovans at Tennis Tony Hawks 8/10 44 Finding Peggy: a Glasgow Childhood Meg Henderson 8/10 45 Whitethorn Woods Maeve Binchy 8/10 46 The Sure Thing Nick Townsend 7/10 47 Love For Now Anthony Wilson 7/10 48 Mr Dixon Disappears Ian Sansom 7/10 49 Boozers, Ballcocks and Bail Stephen Smith 8/10 50 Gallows View Peter Robinson 8/10 51 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson 8/10 52 Love For Now Anthony Wilson 7/10 53 The News Where You Are Catherine O'Flynn 8/10 54 The Panic of '89 Paul Erdman 8/10 55 Some You Win Julian Wilson 7/10 56 Freud Ego Clement Freud 7/10 57 Firefly Summer Maeve Binchy 7/10 58 Defending The Guilty Alex McBride 7/10 59 Black Swan Green David Mitchell 5/10 60 The Georgian Art of Gambling Claire ****-Starkey 6/10 61 Quite Ugly One Morning Christopher Brookmyre 7/10 62 In Character John Mortimer 7/10 63 The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt 7/10 The Robin Friday Story 64 The Gamblers John Pearson 8/10 65 More Dangerous Ground Roger Cook 7/10 66 24 Hours In The Kitchen Michael Gibney 7/10 67 His Last Bow: Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 8/10 68 Alex's Adventures In Numberland Alex Bellos 7/10 69 Silas Marner George Eliot 8/10 70 The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty 8/10 71 Vidal Vidal Sassoon 7/10 72 The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window Jonas Jonasson 8/10 73 The Man In The Middle David Elleray 6/10 74 How Not To Be A Football Millionaire Keith Gillespie 7/10 75 The Business Of Dying Simon Kerning 7/10 76 A Dedicated Man Peter Robinson 7/10 77 Stonemouth Iain Banks 7/10 78 The Quarry Iain Banks 8/10 79 The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce 9/10 80 Buffett:The Biography Roger Lowenstein 9/10 . 81 Full House Maeve Binchy 8/10 82 Tommy Tynan: The Original Football Idol Ryan Danes 6/10 83 No Holding Back Michael Holding 7/10 84 A Few Kind Words And A Loaded Gun Razor Smith 8/10 85 The Secrets We Left Behind Susan Elliot Wright 8/10 86 Diary Of A Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith 8/10 87 Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 6/10 88 The Understudy David Nicholls 8/10 89 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 9/10 90 A Song For The Dying Stuart MacBride 7/10 91 A Rusty Gun Razor Smith 7/10 92 Deaf Sentence David Lodge 8/10 93 After The War Is Over Maureen Lee 7/10 94 The Picturegoers David Lodge 7/10 95 The Things We Never Said Susan Elliot Wright 8/10 96 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 4/10 (did not finish) 97 Random Acts Of Politeness Andrew Taylor 8/10 98 Why England Lose And Other Curious Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski 9/10 Football Phenomena Explained 99 London Through A Lens Time Out 8/10 100 Trains And Lovers Alexander McCall Smith 8/10 101 Junkies, Judges and Jail Stephen Smith 7/10 102 The Corrections Jonathan Frantzen 8/10 |
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01 Run! - Dean Karnazes
02 Embedded - Dan Abnett 03 Parasite - Mira Grant 04 Shadow's Edge - Brent Weeks 05 Memories Of Ice - Steven Erikson 06 Never Go Back - Lee Child 07 Running With The Pack - Mark Rowlands 08 Killing The Shadows - Val McDermid 09 A Place Of Execution - Val McDermid 10 At The Stroke Of Madness - Alex Cava 11 Trace - Patricia Cornwell 12 Rancid Aluminium - James Hawes 13 Slash And Burn - Matt Hilton 14 Spud - John van de Ruit 15 Drop Shot - Harlan Coben 16 Rancid Aluminium - James Hawes 17 Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb 18 Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb 19 King Of Plagues - Jonathan Maberry 20 Zombie Britannica - Thomas Emson 21 Mindstar Rising - Peter F Hamilton 22 Ecko Rising - Danie Ware 23 The Maze Runner - James Dashner 24 Symbiont - Mira Grant |
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Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Ranulph Fiennes 6/10
Victims - Jonathan Kellerman 9/10 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenger 7/10(take out the mushy stuff and it would be 9/10) Autobiography - Ruby Walsh 7/10 Camilla Lackberg - The Hidden Child 7/10 Geekspeak - Graham Tattersall 7/10 Under The Dome - Stephen King 8/10 Sole Survivor - Dean Koontz 7/10 The Taking - Dean Koontz 8/10 From A Buick 8 - Stephen King 9/10 Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi 8/10 Time Out Of Joint - Philip K Dick 9/10 Born To Manage - Terry Venables 6/10 Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz 7/10 Moomintroll and The Great Flood - Tove Janssen Mr Mercedes - Stephen King 6/10 How Did this All Happen ? - John Bishop 8/10 Velocity - Dean Koontz 7/10 Comet In Moominland - Tove Janssen Watership Down - Richard Adams 10/10 Dexter Is Delicious - Jeff Lindsay 7/10 Ulysses S. Grant - Brian John Murphy 8/10 Devices and Desires - PD James 8/10 Carrie - Stephen King 9/10 The Damned Utd - David Peace 9/10 Police - Jo Nesbo 7/10 Looking For Madeleine - Anthony Summers / Robbyn Swan |
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1 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 8/10
2 Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd 8/10 3 Monday or Tuesday Virginia Woolf 5/10 4 Ecstasy Irvine Welsh 8/10 5 A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 9/10 6 Arthur Milton: Last of the Double Internationals Mike Vockins 8/10 7 Never Google Heartbreak Emma Garcia 8/10 8 Skinheads John King 6/10 9 Common Sense Rules: What You Really Need To Know About Business Deborah Meaden 6/10 10 I Laughed, I Cried Viv Groskop 7/10 11 Streetwise Roberta Kray 6/10 12 IKEA edge Anders Dahlvig 5/10 13 Heartbreak Hotel Deborah Moggach 7/10 14 Bullfighting Roddy Doyle 7/10 15 Armadillo William Boyd 7/10 16 Made in Britain James Bower 7/10 17 Villain's Daughter Roberta Kray 6/10 18 Expats Chris Pavone 7/10 19 Cocktail Waitress James Cain 8/10 20 Streetwise Roberta Kray 5/10 21 Dry Augusten Burroughs 8/10 22 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 7/10 23 Live at the Brixton Academy Simon Parkes 9/10 24 The Complete Parkhurst Tales Norman Parker 6/10 25 Kings Road Max Decharne 7/10 26 Wilt Tom Sharpe 9/10 27 Flight into Camden David Storey 7/10 28 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell 8/10 29 The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 9/10 30 My Manor Charlie Richardson 6/10 31 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 7/10 32 All of These People Fergal Keane 9/10 33 Union Street Pat Barker 8/10 34 Hellraisers Robert Sellers 6/10 35 From Right Wing to B Wing Mark Ward 7/10 35 Lush Life Richard Price 3/10 did not finish 36 You have 3 Minutes Richard Bellino 3/10 did not finish 37 The Shock of the Fall Nathan Filer 5/10 38 Unexpected Lessons in Love Bernardine Bishop 9/10 39 The Postman Always Rings Twice James Cain 7/10 40 Case Histories Kate Atkinson 8/10 41 The Case of the Missing Books Ian Sansom 8/10 42 One Day David Nicholls 9/10 43 Playing the Moldovans at Tennis Tony Hawks 8/10 44 Finding Peggy: a Glasgow Childhood Meg Henderson 8/10 45 Whitethorn Woods Maeve Binchy 8/10 46 The Sure Thing Nick Townsend 7/10 47 Love For Now Anthony Wilson 7/10 48 Mr Dixon Disappears Ian Sansom 7/10 49 Boozers, Ballcocks and Bail Stephen Smith 8/10 50 Gallows View Peter Robinson 8/10 51 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson 8/10 52 Love For Now Anthony Wilson 7/10 53 The News Where You Are Catherine O'Flynn 8/10 54 The Panic of '89 Paul Erdman 8/10 55 Some You Win Julian Wilson 7/10 56 Freud Ego Clement Freud 7/10 57 Firefly Summer Maeve Binchy 7/10 58 Defending The Guilty Alex McBride 7/10 59 Black Swan Green David Mitchell 5/10 60 The Georgian Art of Gambling Claire ****-Starkey 6/10 61 Quite Ugly One Morning Christopher Brookmyre 7/10 62 In Character John Mortimer 7/10 63 The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt 7/10 The Robin Friday Story 64 The Gamblers John Pearson 8/10 65 More Dangerous Ground Roger Cook 7/10 66 24 Hours In The Kitchen Michael Gibney 7/10 67 His Last Bow: Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 8/10 68 Alex's Adventures In Numberland Alex Bellos 7/10 69 Silas Marner George Eliot 8/10 70 The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty 8/10 71 Vidal Vidal Sassoon 7/10 72 The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window Jonas Jonasson 8/10 73 The Man In The Middle David Elleray 6/10 74 How Not To Be A Football Millionaire Keith Gillespie 7/10 75 The Business Of Dying Simon Kerning 7/10 76 A Dedicated Man Peter Robinson 7/10 77 Stonemouth Iain Banks 7/10 78 The Quarry Iain Banks 8/10 79 The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce 9/10 80 Buffett:The Biography Roger Lowenstein 9/10 . 81 Full House Maeve Binchy 8/10 82 Tommy Tynan: The Original Football Idol Ryan Danes 6/10 83 No Holding Back Michael Holding 7/10 84 A Few Kind Words And A Loaded Gun Razor Smith 8/10 85 The Secrets We Left Behind Susan Elliot Wright 8/10 86 Diary Of A Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith 8/10 87 Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 6/10 88 The Understudy David Nicholls 8/10 89 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 9/10 90 A Song For The Dying Stuart MacBride 7/10 91 A Rusty Gun Razor Smith 7/10 92 Deaf Sentence David Lodge 8/10 93 After The War Is Over Maureen Lee 7/10 94 The Picturegoers David Lodge 7/10 95 The Things We Never Said Susan Elliot Wright 8/10 96 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 4/10 (did not finish) 97 Random Acts Of Politeness Andrew Taylor 8/10 98 Why England Lose And Other Curious Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski 9/10 Football Phenomena Explained 99 London Through A Lens Time Out 8/10 100 Trains And Lovers Alexander McCall Smith 8/10 101 Junkies, Judges and Jail Stephen Smith 7/10 102 The Corrections Jonathan Frantzen 8/10 103 A Week In Winter Maeve Binchey 8/10 104 Goldman Sachs:The Culture of Success Lisa Endlich 7/10 105 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 9/10 106 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 8/10 And lastly 107 Fake, Forgery, Lies And Ebay Kenneth Walton 8/10 Happy Reading in 2015 All |
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108 books read, 3 not finished Ratings out of 10: 3 x 2 4 x 1 5 x 5 6 x 11 7 x 38 8 x 39 9 x 12 mean 7.29 median 7 mode 8 Best Book Why England Lose and Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski Worst Book Lush Life Richard Price |