77 Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
78 The Beach by Alex Garland
79 The Gift by Cecilia Ahern
80 Chasing Shadows by Terri Reed
Currently reading:
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Hot on Her Heels by Susan Mallery
Double Play by Robert B. Parker
71 A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
72 Take No Prisoners by Cindy Gerard
73 Den iranske gartner by Bjarne Reuter
74 Kineseren by Henning Mankell
75 Blame it on Cupid by Jennifer Greene
76 Death of a Scriptwriter by M. C. Beaton
63 Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
64 The Crush by Sandra Brown
65 Wedding Season by Katie Fforde
66 Nowhere to Run by Mary Jane Clark
67 Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
68 The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
69 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
70 Dead Over Heels by Charlaine Harris
57 Rumour Has It by Jill Mansell
58 Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver
59 A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
60 The Beach House by Jane Green
61 Perfect Image by Marisa Heath
62 Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
50 First Family by David Baldacci
51 Sound Tracks: Alaskan Panhandle Mysteries by Marcia Simpson
52 Night’s Landing by Carla Neggers
53 Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
54 Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
55 An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
56 Medusa by Clive Cussler
43 All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
44 From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
45 Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
46 The House by Danielle Steel
47 Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
48 Baby Bonanza by Maureen Child
49 Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson
Am currently testing lots of new recipes – very proud of myself.. But since I have given up on updating this goal, I have decided to mark it as “I’ve done this” ;oD
32 The Sugar House by Laura Lippman
33 SLAM by Nick Hornby
34 Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels
35 Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
36 Homespun Bride by Jillian Hart
37 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
38 Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
39 Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
40 Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
41 Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
42 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
OK… I might as well write it myself.. my three years in China flew by with very little cooking and a lot of da baos (take away) and restaurant visits, but.. being back in Denmark/the US, I have started cooking again :oD
Two new recipes so far in April:
Beet soup (recipe in Danish) and roasted pork tenderloin from WeightWatchers – both OK
23 A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong
24 The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
25 Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot
26 The Painter of Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
27 Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
28 Dobbelt snyd by Uri Geller
29 With Or Without You by Carole Matthews
30 Broken Bodies by June Hampson
31 A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong
15 Dancing In the Moonlight by RaeAnne Thayne
16 Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
17 Run the Risk by Scott Frost
18 Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly
19 Pig Island by Mo Hayder
20 Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
21 Heiresses by Lulu Taylor
22 The Dead Pool by Sue Walker
Had totally forgotten about this goal, but fortunately I have actually been to the cinema today and also once last week… He’s just not that into you and Changeling.. OK movies both of them, but neither what I expected actually :o)
11 Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
12 At the Bride Hunt Ball by Olivia Parker
13 The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
14 The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
Yup, even though last year was a disaster book-wise, I try again ;o)
Books read in January:
1 Score! by Jilly Cooper
2 Littly Lady, Big Apple by Hester Browne
3 The Little Lady Agency and the Prince by Hester Browne
4 Picture Me Dead by Heather Graham
5 Seduction of a Proper Gentleman by Victoria Alexander
6 The Double Eagle by James Twining
7 Fourth Time’s the Charm by Lily Rose Moon
8 Foul Play by Janet Evanovich
9 A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
10 Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
By Katie Fforde
Not up to Fforde’s usual standard, or whatever you can call it ;o) Found it quite boring, to tell the truth, but at least it was a quick read ;o)
Review from amazon.co.uk:
Thea, the heroine of Katie Fforde’s Artistic Licence, is a disorganised 35-year-old whose life is going nowhere. Or that is how it appears to her student lodgers—whom she unwittingly mothers—and to her older friend Molly, a lady of leisure with a missed vocation as a chief executive. When Thea jets off to Ireland on a whim to stay with the devastatingly good-looking artist Rory, all her friends from her new hometown of Cheltenham are appalled. Equally, when Thea, on seeing Rory’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful landscape paintings, decides to set up an art gallery in provincial west of England, her friends cannot believe what they are hearing.
Katie Fforde makes clear that Thea knows what she’s doing, and that her chaotic and messy lifestyle is her own conscious choice. Her determined resistance to the persistent Irish charmer Rory—he’s too young, she doesn’t have casual affairs—and the apparent ambivalence of Ben, a divorced and know-it-all artistic director of an ad agency, sets up a plot where the embryonic art gallery and Thea’s accompanying search for a more satisfying life form centre stage, making any love interest incidental.
My rating: **
By Katherine Neville
Supposedly a great book – and of course it makes sense that now that I am lots and lots of books behind reaching my target, I choose one with 694 pages ;o) Didn’t like it that much though.. guess I am not mainstream enough always ;oD
Review from amazon.co.uk:
Catherine is a workaholic computer whizz who finds herself manipulated by sinister influences into using her problem-solving skills to find and reassemble a legendary chess set. It is a journey that takes her throughout time and history.
My rating: *
By Cecelia Ahern
Another lovely story from Ahern, who really seems to be able to make up the strangest dilemmas ;o)
Review from amazon.co.uk:
Lose yourself in the magical new novel from Cecelia Ahern – the No.1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You.
How can you know someone you’ve never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn’t. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair. When she leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, Joyce moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can’t figure out why!
Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets attractive doctor Sarah, who persuades him to donate blood. It’s the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Justin receives a basket of muffins with a note simply saying thank you,he is sure someone is playing a trick on him. But then a series of gifts begin to arrive. Intrigued and disturbed, Justin is determined to find out who is sending them. What he discovers will change his life forever.
My rating: **
By Ann Rule
Scary real life story about a young man, who grows up to hate women, and who ends up on trial for the murder of his fourth wife..
Review from amazon.co.uk:
Documents the case of the charming and brilliant Brad Cunningham, recreating the investigation into his wife’s death and Cunningham’s trial for her murder.
My rating: *
By Stieg Larsson
Third installment in the series about a Swedish journalist, a 1.5 m tall female hacker and seriously strange person and a number of other characters, this time unravelling the past of the hacker one ;o)
“Fortunately” (Stieg Larsson has unfortunately died very young) the last book of the series, as I am finding this one rather boring and much too long, to tell the truth.. Sigh!
Review from saxo.com in Danish:
To hårdt sårede personer bliver bragt til Sahlgrenska Sygehus i Göteborg. Den ene er Lisbeth Salander, som er efterlyst, mistænkt for tredobbelt mord. Hun har en livstruende kugle i hjernen og må straks opereres. Den anden er hendes far, Alexander Zalachenko, en tidligere sovjetisk spion, som Lisbeth har hamret en økse i kraniet på.
Kuglen i hovedet er Lisbeth Salanders mindste problem. Stærke kræfter vil gøre hende tavs én gang for alle. Men mens hun ligger isoleret på sygehuset, graver Mikael Blomkvist i hendes skjulte fortid og kommer efterhånden på sporet af sandheden. Han går i gang med en afslørende reportage, som vil rense Lisbeth og ryste regeringen, Säpo og hele landet i dets grundvold. Endelig får Lisbeth Salander en chance for at gøre op med fortiden.
Luftkastellet der blev sprængt er tredje og afsluttende bind i Millennium-trilogien om Lisbeth Salander og Mikael Blomkvist. Første bind, Mænd der hader kvinder, fik Glasnøglen for Nordens bedste kriminalroman, andet bind, Pigen der legede med ilden, fik prisen for Sveriges bedste kriminalroman.
My rating: *
By Stephen King
My very first audio book! But must admit I find it quite hard to “just” listen to a book. Normally, when I am listening to something on the MP3 player, I am busy doing other things, such as reading ;o), but I have discovered that that does not work too well with an audio book G Have thus listened to it twice!!
Review from amazon.co.uk:
Renting a house on the Florida coast after suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, construction millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady’s enigmatic family history.
My rating: **
