Books, so many books...

I can't resist a book, especially if it is going cheap in a charity shop. I now have more books than I care to mention on my bookshelves which need reading. Alway motivated by a good list (or two) here are the outstanding books on my bookshelves - I just need to get cracking!

• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• Marley and Me - John Grogan
• The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
• How to be good - Nick Hornby
• Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
• Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
  
• The Amber spyglass - Philip Pullman
• The Man in the picture - Susan Hill
• Enigma - Robert Harris
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• Last Tango in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
  

The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones isn't the type of book I would usually read but I picked it up for the bargain sum of 50p from the local charity shop. Everyone who reads it seems to rave about it, so I thought it was worth a look.

I found the whole concept of the book bizarre to start with and to be quite honest a bit morbid. However, the more I read the less it became about death and more about family relationships. In the end it was a fairly enjoyable read and it surprised me how quickly I got through it.

The Kite Runner

Being an avid book reader I thought it would be nice to keep a record of my 'conquests' on my blog. The latest book I have read is the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I was trying to avoid this book because of all the hype and the recent film but it was chosen as the book group book for March - and I am really glad it was.

This book was brilliant and is definitely my book of the year so far. It charts the lives of two very different boys from Afghanistan. I will be very interested to see what the rest of the group think as we all usually have very contrasting opinions on the material we choose.

I was so impressed by this book I really want to see the film adaptation now - I usually avoid films of books I love like the plague but I am interested to see how this one translates.

Overall I give The Kite Runner 9 out of 10.

Next book - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.