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1kiwiflowa
Redigeret: nov 17, 2012, 3:20 pm

MASTER LIST categories 1 - 6
Actual books read: 9/144

Off The Shelf
1. The Greengage Summer - Rumor Godden - December 2011
2. Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor - December 2011
3. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
4. Love Falls - Esther Freud
5. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama - March 2012
6. post office - Charles Bukowski - April 2012
7. Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic - May 2012
8. The Wild Party - Joseph Moncure March - May 2012
9. Naked City - Weegee - May 2012
10. Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
11. What Was I Thinking - Paul Henry
12. PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern

Off the Lists
1. Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie - Guardian 1000 - December 2011
2. Good Behaviour - Molly Keane - Guardian 1000
3. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett - Guardian 1000
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Series
1. All Clear - Connie Willis - (Oxford Time Travel Historians 4/4) - December 2011
2. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
3. More Baths Less Talking - Nick Hornby
4. Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby
5. Deadlocked - Charlaine Harris
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Group Reads
1. The Greengage Summer - Rumor Godden - December 2011 -Monthly Author Reads Group
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Steinbeck - Started September 2011
The Grapes of Wrath - read 2009
The Moon is Down - read in 2009
1. Of Mice and Men - September 2011
2. Cannery Row - October 2011
3. Sweet Thursday - November 2011
4. The Pearl
5. East of Eden
6. Tortilla Flat
7. The Winter of Our Discontent
8. Travels with Charley
9. In Dubious Battle
10. To A God Unknown
11. Pastures of Heaven
12. The Wayward Bus
13. Once There Was a War
14. The Long Valley


P. G. Wodehouse
1. The Inimitable Jeeves - December 2011
2. Carry On, Jeeves - December 2011
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2kiwiflowa
Redigeret: nov 23, 2012, 8:25 pm

MASTER LIST categories 7-12
Actual books read: 9/144

Agatha Christie Miss Marple Series
1. The Murder at the Vicarage - December 2011
2. The Body in the Library - January 2012
3. The Thirteen Problems - February 2012
4. The Moving Finger - November 2012
5. A Murder is Announced - November 2012
6. They Do It With Mirrors - November 2012
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A Song of Ice and Fire Series
1. A Game of Thrones
2. A Clash of Swords
3. A Storm of Swords Part 1: Steel and Snow
4. A Storm of Swords Part 2: Blood and Gold
5. A Feast for Crows
6. A Dance With Dragons


Youth Group (YA, children's etc)
1. The Greengage Summer - Rumor Godden - December 2011
2. Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor - December 2011
3. Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic - May 2012
4. Love Falls - Esther Freud
5. The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain - Peter Sis
6. Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
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Fact not Fiction
1. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama - March 2012
2. Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic - May 2012
3. Naked City - weegee - May 2012
4. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
5. The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain - Peter Sis
6. What Was I Thinking - Paul Henry
7. More Baths Less Talking - Nick Hornby
8. Shakespeare Wrote for Money - Nick Hornby
9. The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe
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New Zealand Authors
1. What Was I Thinking - Paul Henry
2. Prelude - Katherine Mansfield
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Brand New 2011/12 new releases
1. Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor - December 2011 (Pub: Sept 2011)
2. More Baths Less Talking - Nick Hornby
3. What Was I Thinking - Paul Henry
4. Deadlocked - Charlaine Harris
5. Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
6. The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe
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3kiwiflowa
Redigeret: nov 18, 2011, 2:24 am

BOOK LUST AND GUILT

books aquired in 2012 - oh boy

4kiwiflowa
Redigeret: nov 18, 2011, 2:55 am

I really should not be starting this on a Friday night after a hard week at work - my brain is too tired... but then again I was thinking about this all day at work so I had to lol.

There is no way I'm going to be able to read 144 books in fact I may even struggle to read half that. So bearing that in mind the books I read can be listed in more than one category.

The categories I've listed at the moment are the only ones I can be sure of right now.. I will be adding more as I get closer to 2012.

Off The Shelf - I have around 400 books to read in my house so I should definitely get to 12 in this category and in fact I hope this will become a second category at least too.

Off The Lists - This is referring to the 1001 books you must read before you die and the Guardian 1000 again I definitely want to get to 12+ in this category

Series - a challenge I've started recently and want to stick with in 2012...If I start a series keep going and finish it rather than taking years and years.

Categories that are under consideration... Themes or Genres. For themes both fiction and non fiction would count

Theme: French Revolution
Theme: Witches and Witchcraft
Theme: Slavery and Abolition of
Theme: British Colonialism
Theme: Vietnam War
Theme: WW1 and/or WW2
Theme: Time Travel
Theme: Midwest and/or Native American
Theme: Academia
Theme: Books about Books
Theme: Faerie World
Theme: Mental Illness
Theme: Virago Modern Classics
Theme: Southern Fiction
Theme: English Literature

Genre: Short Story
Genre: Fantasy and/or Sci Fi
Genre: Nonfiction
Genre: Gothic
Genre: Historical Fiction
Genre: Young Adult and/or Childrens

I'm also thinking about making a category very narrow... maybe on a single series (if it's a big series) or on a single author. So much to consider.. Endless possibilities.

5avatiakh
nov 19, 2011, 3:03 am

Lots of good themes under consideration there. I don't think many of us are considering reading the full 144 books for this challenge. My goal is least 6 per category and most of those will include a mix of YA and children's books. I'm determined to enjoy the challenge rather than find it a bind.

6kiwiflowa
nov 21, 2011, 3:14 am

two more categories added.

Group reads - this will be for all the groups I'm in, not just this one. I decided to add this as I may read books for no rhyme or reason except for the fact that it's a group read and so they may not fit in the other categories. Given the number of groups I'm in and that they all like to read books together I hope to get to 12 in this category

Steinbeck - started this challenge in September when I got back into reading after a hiatus and am really proud of the progress and hope to keep at it next year.

7kiwiflowa
nov 21, 2011, 3:21 am

Hi Kerry :) yes I had already started setting myself mini challenges over on my 75 thread and so decided to come over here and try it out. 6 in each category is a good challenge. I may set limits less than 12 too. For example the Game of Thrones series I may make into a category of it's own. So far there are only 5 books in the series but they are each about 1000 pages. The thing I'm trying to avoid is listing specific books to read now because I could never stick to a pre-planned reading list for the whole year.

8DeltaQueen50
nov 21, 2011, 3:01 pm

Hi Lisa, good to see you over here. I think the main thing about this challenge is to have fun with our reading. I love all the pre-planning and list making, but I rarely stick to my lists. Something always comes along to change my reading direction.

Looking forward to the New Year and starting my challenge and following along with everyone elses' reading.

9Smiler69
nov 21, 2011, 6:16 pm

Have come by to drop my star. Lots of interesting themes you're considering. Much like you, I was overwhelmed at first by the fact that the possibilities are endless. Now that I've narrowed it all down and set myself up, I feel much calmer. The nice thing is that there's no 'right' or 'wrong' way of doing this challenge. And I agree with Judy that I wouldn't plan a list of actual books to read, save for a list that was picked out for me recently for my "Picked for Me" category, and as there were more than 12 books picked, I'm spreading them around the other categories as well. But otherwise, keeping it wide open, though will probably list a bunch of possibilities just for the heck of it (and because I love making lists of course!)

10lkernagh
nov 21, 2011, 11:57 pm

Love the list of themes and genres you have under consideration. I find having Off the Shelf and Next in Series categories is the only way I will stop picking up only new, shiny books!

11letterpress
nov 22, 2011, 10:51 pm

Mmmmm, VERY tasty possibilities here! Starred, and looking forward to seeing what unfolds.

12kiwiflowa
Redigeret: nov 26, 2011, 11:53 pm

Thanks Judy, Ilana, Lori and Annalisse for dropping by.

Ilana, I like the idea of picked by LT members. I would imagine you would get some very good recommendations! (I notice that Kerry recommended Lady Audley's Secret which I read last year and thoroughly enjoyed.)

Lori - I think I will always buy books. Even when I was moving house - the best incentive I can think of to stop buying books - I was still bringing them home. My problem is not the new and shiny but the secondhand shops. Either great books at bargain prices or even better; hard to find / out of print. It's my downfall!

I couldn't resist today and added two categories for 2012. Both Authors.

P. G. Wodehouse - because I love the Wooster and Jeeves TV series with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. I'm reading the first one and it's exactly the same as the series... how fruity is that?! lol

Agatha Christie - her books are apparently the most popular of all time. The book I'm reading now by Connie Willis Blackout and All Clear mention her books quite a lot so that piqued my interest.

Apologies for any inconsistencies with this post. I started it then my sister and bro-in-law and their two kids arrived for a visit then I put on a chicken roast for dinner then gpt back to this post phew - and I wonder why I don't seem to get many books read!

13kiwiflowa
Redigeret: dec 3, 2011, 3:28 am

Ok I seem to have settled on my 12 categories:

1. Off The Shelf
2. Off the Lists
3. Series - Series that have their own category can't be double listed in this category.
4. Group Reads
5. Steinbeck - Started September 2011
6. P. G. Wodehouse
7. Agatha Christie
8. A Song of Ice and Fire Series
9. Youth Group (YA, children's etc)
10. Fact not Fiction
11. New Zealand Authors
12. Brand New 2011/12 new releases

I haven't got any of my initial themes but that doesn't mean I won't do them too. I actually thought of that idea many months ago and I have a notebook with a page for each theme and possible books listed for each one including many more themes I haven't listed here so it's an idea I've been toying with for sometime.

I really want to reach 12 in each category not including doubles. It's very unlikely but that's how interested I am in all of them. I've even decided to address my intolerance of NZ authors which I developed in my school years.

I'm rearing to go and have been thinking about including December reads as part of it, a 13 month challenge ... to make up for the handicap of my job which is appallingly busy now until March and it won't really matter considering I've only read 50 books in 2011 so far... Is it cheating??

14avatiakh
dec 3, 2011, 3:38 am

Lisa - good to see you having another go at NZ writers, I also spent many years in avoidance, only recently pushing myself to try to read more homebased fiction. There are quite a few who set their books offshore which might help entice you - I loved the South of France setting that Elizabeth Knox chose for her vampire novel, Daylight. Sarah Quigley's The Conductor is set in Leningrad and Emily Perkins' Novel about my wife is London-based.

15psutto
dec 3, 2011, 4:34 am

I had a pretty unsuccessful NZ category in my 11/11 so you can see which to avoid in my thread ;-)

16kiwiflowa
Redigeret: dec 4, 2011, 3:05 am

Psutto - Oh no! I shall head over and see what you read so I know what to avoid...

Kerry - I plan to dive all the way in. Thanks for the suggestions I shall seek them out.

NZ authors/books for consideration:

Janet Frame - my 7th form nemisis - To The Is-Land must be confronted after 10 years. Then providing I don't have an apoplexy the rest of her autobiography and Owls Do Cry
Maurice Gee - I remember reading The Halfmen of O at intermediate. Can't remember anything about the series so I may re-read those. Also Plumb.
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip - not set in NZ so I might start with that one.
Witi Ihimaera - I read a collection of his short stories about urban Maori for a uni class then he lectured us on early cinema in NZ and how indigenous people were portrayed. I will read something by him.
Elizabeth Knox - I've read the Vinter's Luck again for a uni class. I'm thinking about reading her Dreamquake books.
C K Stead - All Visitors Ashore
Keri Hulme - The Bone People

If it fails I could always read 12 Hairy McLary books by Lynley Dodd :p

I have been wondering about Emily Perkins. Her books are popping up everywhere. There's one called The Picnic Virgin that is languishing at the 2nd hand bookshop for a while.

I don't intend to read Denniston Rose for some reason that makes me shudder. As a granddaughter of a coal miner it's a bit disloyal.

I should make this clean sweep and watch all the Kiwi movies I also have avoided: The Piano, Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, Boy, The World's Fastest Indian, Heavenly Creatures

17avatiakh
dec 4, 2011, 3:11 am

Fyi - Plumb is a tough read, I managed it last year. If you want to try his realistic fiction for younger readers try The Fat Man which is set in Henderson. For easier adult fiction try his Crime Story.
I have the Fifty-fifty List (Top 50 Women Writers of the Last 50 Years) from Ponsonby Road's Women's Bookshop as I participated in the voting. Denniston Rose made the list so I was thinking of trying it even though it doesn't really appeal.

18psutto
dec 4, 2011, 2:50 pm

You'd have to dig through the thread to see what I wrote, to sum up then I read 6 books by NZ authors and they were all decidedly average luckily none on your list above :-)

19SouthernKiwi
dec 4, 2011, 7:10 pm

I was one of the few who didn't get Maurice Gee as set reading at school, but I'm hoping to include something by him next year too so I'll look out for your review.
Kerry that Fifty-Fifty list will be good to look through, although from that link no list shows up but that may be because I'm on my work computer. I'll find it when I get home.

20avatiakh
dec 4, 2011, 7:25 pm

Alana - I've only read 18 from the list but have many marked down to read.
Lisa - Another book worth checking out is Fiona Farrell's Book Book, it's a long time since I read it and while it wasn't totally a winner for me it did reference the reading life of the main character.

21kiwiflowa
dec 4, 2011, 8:51 pm

I just checked the list and I've read 19... I notice that Patricia Grace's Tu is listed... that may be a contender.. oh and I forgot to say that the New Zealand category is open to nonfiction and I may read The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King... I have a copy and so far two other people have read it - I need to get to it.

Thanks for the rec's Kerry keep them coming as you think of them :)

My Mum just absolutely adores Denniston Rose has bought the special edition with photos, been to visit the town etc. That has probably put me off as she loves Catherine Cookson, Maeve Binchy and Marion Keyes which I don't so...

22kiwiflowa
dec 9, 2011, 7:54 pm

So I've decided to start my challenge now... I have thought of my categories and don't want to wait until January. Also half of my summer holiday is the last third of December and I hopefully will get to reads lots...

23kiwiflowa
Redigeret: dec 27, 2011, 6:52 pm

Book #5



Categories: Off The Shelf, Group Read, Youth Group

Yesterday I finished reading The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. It was based (but embellished) on a family holiday Godden remembered from from childhood.

The story begins with a British family of Greys, 5 siblings, Joss is the eldest at 16, Cecil the narrator is next at 13, then there is Frances, Willmouse, and Vicky the youngest at 5. Willmouse the only boy is effeminate and even at a young age is consumed by fashion and design. Their mother, it is assumed, is not satisfied with her life but is trying to make the best of it. Her husband, the childrens father, is almost permanently absent travelling the world to distant lands as a botanist. He doesn't earn even nearly enough to provide for his wife and children and so their mother's brother, Uncle William, provides for them. This is very generous but it means living in a small, nosy and critical, English town and he is very proper and normal and so he comes across as being this abnormal family's keeper and almost their jailor.

With two of her children entering the difficult, sullen, selfish, teenagehood, she looses her temper one day and declares that she is taking the family to France, to the battlefields so the children can see for themselves the sacrifices others made for their freedom, and to see where Joan of Arc died (a role model it seems). In actuality this sudden flight to France is really an escape from the every day struggle and boredom, an unconscious decision to do something different and exciting.

So they never go near the battlefields etc however disastor strikes almost as soon as they leave. Their mother is bitten by a horsefly and becomes terribly ill. The children just manage to get to their hotel in France before she collapses and ends up in hospital. The hotel owners andd patrons decide to allow the children to stay.

The children are thrown into a new world; the Hotel Les Oeillets is foreign and not used to children underfoot. Normal boundaries that would usually be set for children by their parents are absent - they must make do and fend for themselves. This is a coming of age story. Cecil catches on to the undercurrent dramas in the hotel amongst the adults and is naturally curious. This is a summer holiday they will never forget.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's a young adult novel but I found it just as interesting reading it as an adult. The narrator (Cecil who would have been Rumer in real life), wasn't as self absorbed as YA books/narrators tend to be these days. So I was fully immersed in the life at the Hotel Les Oeillets, in the french countryside, the unique characters, both French and British, both present and not (Uncle William). I highly recommend this as a summer holiday read, for on the beach or under a tree type of book. The lyrical prose is fantastic...

First Sentence:
"On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages."

24kiwiflowa
Redigeret: dec 27, 2011, 6:52 pm

Book #4



Categories: Wodehouse

So The Inimitable Jeeves was my first Wodehouse - finally. I have been meaning to read his books for the longest time and finally have started rather than 'mean to'.

The book was like a collection stories/'episodes' in a young Englishman's life, Bertie Wooster, who comes from an upperclass family and has a private income, basically inherited money that invested provides him with enough to live off in style without having to work. The last era of the titled idle upper class - Austenesque. Much of the epsidodes involve his friend Bingo Little falling in and out of love and needing help getting in or out of it usually helped by Jeeves. Jeeves is Wooster's valet who is infinitely wise and knows everything and so is much appreciated by Wooster. The other notable character is Aunt Agatha who is the only person in Wooster's life who can make him feel uncomfortable about his life of doing as little as possible and provoke him into his own disastors which requires Jeeves to extract him.

I have watched quite a few, but not all, the the BBC TV Series Wooster and Jeeves starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie - whom a love love love. I expect after I have read the series I will make a point of watching every single episode. Throughout reading this book it was their voices I could hear I could not imagine anyone else!

So some of the 'episodes' in the book I was familiar with some not. The thing is with watching TV is I can be distracted if even for a moment or not quite giving it my full attention with a book that is impossible. So even if I had watched a TV episode of one of the stories I got so much more from having read it.

Some differences. On TV they had actually toned down the language. Everything is so much more 'fruity' and 'tootle pip' in the book. I also felt that on TV they made Wooster out to be more simpleminded than in the books. In the book I found Wooster to be more remote or unconcerned about events, as is proper for an English gentleman rather than simple or clueless like in the tv series.

First Sentence:
'Morning, Jeeves,' I said.

25mamzel
dec 16, 2011, 4:08 pm

I loved the Wooster and Jeeves series, too. Those actors were perfect in their roles. I have yet to read one of the books, however. Did you already read Daughter of Smoke and Bone or do you intend to? I just read it and really liked it. I hope she does a better job with the sequels than other authors who couldn't keep up the momentum.

26kiwiflowa
Redigeret: dec 27, 2011, 6:51 pm

Yes I have read Daughter of Smoke and Bone - I've deleted the few planned reads I had up except for the ones where it's already been decided and those are now in italics until I actually do read them. From now on the books that get listed with a month are because I've read them coz it did look confusing.

Book 7: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor



Categories: Off the Shelf, Youth Group, Brand New (published September 2011)

What impressed me about DoSaB was the other world Taylor created. Too often paranormal authors place their stories in the world as we know it with only vague references to legends/myths of how the werewolf/vampire/etc came to be. I do wish this other/alternative world had more depth and was explored more in the book. Additionally I liked the fact that it wasn't the same old good paranormal-human competes with bad paranormal-human for normal/ordinary/clueless girl next door. Karou took the lead and control of her situation. Although the potential is there for Taylor to do that in the sequel... crossing my fingers that this doesn't happen.

I read DoSaB last weekend and it will probably be my last real read until Christmas. This weekend is my family's Christmas celebration at my sister's who lives in another city. Then real Christmas is at my boyfriend's parents also out of town more travelling. In between this I have so much work on right now.

27kiwiflowa
dec 27, 2011, 6:59 pm

Book 6: All Clear by Connie Willis


Categories: Series (4/4 Oxford Time-Travelling Historians)

copied from my 75 in 2011 thread
I've been wanting to try and write more critical reviews but it's not going to happen with Blackout and All Clear. These two books are meant to be considered as one and combined they were well over 1000 pages.

In Doomsday Book Kivrin accidently got sent to the Black Death in the 14th C. It was poignant, dark, and an incredible story as Kivrin and her mentor Dunworthy questioned the existence of God.

In To Say Nothing of the Dog it was set in Victorian Times and had a lot of jumble sales it was whimsical and funny but underlying it all the historians were deperately trying to fix events they thought they had altered incase they had accidently ended the world having created a paradox.

In Blackout and All Clear the historians get stuck, permanently, in the London during the Blitz. They got stuck because somehow with all the time travel over the years history has been altered - History is balanced on a knife's edge and the smallest change can tip the balance.

The book was quirky full of likeable characters and Willis yet again employed the 'comedy of manners' which almost drives me round the bend. But throughout it was packed full of historical detail and the plot was so complex it was forgivable. In the end I had no clear idea of even what I thought was going to happen, or had happened, or how it all tied up at the end - I just read faster to find out. Having experienced the ending of Doomsday I knew this author was capable of delivering a bleak ending so all the time I was thinking 'no she wouldn't dare...?'

There are problems with these books but I feel that each one got better. As I mentioned the comedy of manners and taking hundreds of pages to get to the point would drive me nutty. I think I would only put up with it for this series as the concept and execution of these books just blow me away. I love fantasy / alternative reality / alternative history / historical fiction so how could I not love these books??

28kiwiflowa
Redigeret: dec 27, 2011, 8:37 pm

Book 8: Carry On, Jeeves



Categories: Wodehouse

Another charming collection of short stories about Bertie Wooster and his Gentleman's Gentleman Jeeves. One of the stories told of how Jeeves came to work for Wooster which was nice to find out. The last story was told by Jeeves which was an excellent chnage. I also liked how absurdly Wooster views things such as bowing to pressure from Jeeves over facial hair or silk shirts puts him on par with a serf!! However I am growing a bit weary of all these friends Wooster seems to have who live a life of pleasure thanks to an allowance from an unmarried heirless aunt or uncle. Quite ready for the story to change!

Book 9: Murder at the Vicarage



Categories: Lists (1000 Guardian), Agatha Christie

My first Agatha Christie mystery novel! Have to say I was very impressed and I'm eager to read more. It had me guessing right up to the last "whodunnit?" while at the same time small village life depicted with it's quirky citizens made me smile. I was actually surprised as to how complete the whole picture was. Given that she wrote so many books I thought her books would be a bit sketchy except on the mystery itself. A pleasure to read!

It's worth noting that the thriller/suspense genre is one that I successfully avoid... I was quite happy that the above mystery was solved over cups of tea and chats over the roses! lol

29kiwiflowa
dec 27, 2011, 7:14 pm

ok now that these are all up to date I will endeaver to post them in order!!

30lkernagh
dec 27, 2011, 11:49 pm

Nice set of reviews and you caught my eye with Greengage Summer!

31mamzel
dec 28, 2011, 2:02 pm

I also enjoyed DoSaB and I hope that Taylor keeps up the great story telling in the sequels.

32dianestm
dec 30, 2011, 4:38 pm

I will be interested to see which NZ authors you pick and how you rate them. It seems that there are a few of us with a NZ category this year. Happy reading.

33cammykitty
dec 30, 2011, 4:41 pm

Glad you liked your first Christie. Some are better than others. We studied The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in a mystery class, because "she cheated." Looks you've already got a great start!!!

34_debbie_
jan 2, 2012, 10:38 am

I'm reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone now and loving it. This is a fairly new genre to me, but I can definitely see myself reading more. Great review!

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