what I read in january 2011...

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Yasi update:</b> I'm so relieved to say that I've just heard from my peeps in Far North Queensland and they are all well and relatively unscathed.  I can breathe out now :)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading is like breathing to me. Absolutely necessary. But since this whole blogging palaver began I have been doing less and less...but not anymore! I've started a new monthly 'series'...doesn't that sound grand :)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIEKTalFO9JVGEdNjGsplBFU8xcobcXlIROoq0MpuAJoynrmkjdcauVxP6A7CoTFkfNaETfE8ZFF6DhKUxD5ksCowaR8sxSkqzV_OrxoFfy20y4QMhxgQNlshxtxxBEn21JGVI0l1ieN2d/s1600/books+with+heart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIEKTalFO9JVGEdNjGsplBFU8xcobcXlIROoq0MpuAJoynrmkjdcauVxP6A7CoTFkfNaETfE8ZFF6DhKUxD5ksCowaR8sxSkqzV_OrxoFfy20y4QMhxgQNlshxtxxBEn21JGVI0l1ieN2d/s640/books+with+heart.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have promised myself to get back to where I once was...devouring books by the bucket load.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIM9hnhd7kJjLVzIdEc_MFV101KKGtDYm1DbmSzGFuIyQNJ18kDBtoywTzy4emweX6_Lf5iZxLgaVe7cbaTmFeUmC00e1WZLtExdDBZcrOjhfkSad-8dx1p41zuH8Q7nKNPfDUtoJDAvj0/s1600/books+couple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIM9hnhd7kJjLVzIdEc_MFV101KKGtDYm1DbmSzGFuIyQNJ18kDBtoywTzy4emweX6_Lf5iZxLgaVe7cbaTmFeUmC00e1WZLtExdDBZcrOjhfkSad-8dx1p41zuH8Q7nKNPfDUtoJDAvj0/s640/books+couple.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to keep me on the straight and narrow I thought I'd do a monthly round-up of the books I've read.  I won't be reviewing them in any detail (because quite honestly, neither you nor I have the time for that now do we) but I will tell you about the one I liked the best.  So, this month (remembering that I've been on holidays so the list is impressive...even if I do say so myself!) I've read...in order...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD18w_P2aLdUAaDWk7Y0QN0cXsS_YJrsrfaop517dh_aWyH7-BXRcVMJwnt8Y5tIO-OWiFIRdGoBheqBO9gQSl_KaFZve2mHR6QrudnLTWK9mTisrd2_0N_0RPV8EpYAaYCq6ftZINqLsU/s1600/book+list+january+2011+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD18w_P2aLdUAaDWk7Y0QN0cXsS_YJrsrfaop517dh_aWyH7-BXRcVMJwnt8Y5tIO-OWiFIRdGoBheqBO9gQSl_KaFZve2mHR6QrudnLTWK9mTisrd2_0N_0RPV8EpYAaYCq6ftZINqLsU/s640/book+list+january+2011+collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings - fiction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Villa Fortuna by Geoffrey Luck - memoir</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs - crime fiction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beloved Homes by Ikea Family - design</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell - historical fiction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos - fiction </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi - non fiction based on Lionel Logue's diaries</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knitting by Anne Bartlett - fiction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - non fiction/memoir</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I enjoyed all of these although The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet was extremely difficult to get in to and if it hadn't been for Book Club I might not have persevered! Glad I did though.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nomad was unputdownable and more than a little bit disturbing. I've given it to a friend to get his perspective. I haven't read the first of her books Infidel, but I will...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFn78n0X9zOa5um2UQm5-FalLP26z-3tF0vghWXa68h7LB1dobVElRAeBezZv62VmbOCzMWK_lqvGFmZIU7U3w9iP77sLdEHpoi57o1rVTASQFYgl3V7NOeEPK9Ec_xZ9MSgY5sDlNPsX/s1600/book+cover+love+walked+in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFn78n0X9zOa5um2UQm5-FalLP26z-3tF0vghWXa68h7LB1dobVElRAeBezZv62VmbOCzMWK_lqvGFmZIU7U3w9iP77sLdEHpoi57o1rVTASQFYgl3V7NOeEPK9Ec_xZ9MSgY5sDlNPsX/s320/book+cover+love+walked+in.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The one that touched me the most (and which I enjoyed the most) was Love Walked In...which was recommended by <a href="http://mostlyolderthanme.blogspot.com/">Julienne</a>. Thank you Julienne, you sure got that right. When I told a friend I was reading a book called Love Walked In she wanted to know if it was a Mills and Boon...honestly, as if I would! It does sound a bit soppy but it is anything but. The story of Cornelia, a cafe manager in Philadelphia...looking for something but not sure what...and Clare, a lost 11 year old reaching out for her father, and a mother who has suddenly disappeared on her. Their paths cross and it's beautiful. The writing is lyrical, magical, literary but easy. It's like a conversation. This is a book you can have a relationship with...better than some of the men I've had relationships with that's for sure ;)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a sequel. I'm on to it :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">images 1 and 2 from weheartit</span><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85794/tranquiltownhouse/6aa76c55681784d717c463ecc754d7c5.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>

what I read in january 2011...

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