Books I've read sice 1st March, 2009... I'm using a rating of 1 to 10, where 1 is bad and 10 is great!
1. Marley and Me by John Grogan - Non Fiction
My rating - 10
2. Don't Postpone Joy by Peter Taylor - Autobiography
My Rating - 10
3. Dreaming of Jupitor by Ted Simon - Armchair Travel
My Rating - 7
4. Still Missing by Scott Bainbridge - NZ Crime
My Rating - 7
5. Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child - Fiction
My Rating - 8
6. Accusation - A Wife's Story - NZ Crime
My Rating - 10
7. Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner - Autobiography
My Rating - 8
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - Fiction
My Rating - 10
9. Zone 22 by Tig Hague - Autobiography
My Rating - 10
10.My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picault - Fiction
My Rating - 10
11.Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule - True Crime
My Rating - 7
12. Getting away with Murder: The Jennifer Beard Enquiry by Mark Price
NZ Crime - My Rating - 5
13. A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and its Aftermath by Jeannine Cummings
True Crime - My Rating - 10
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time by Mark Haddon - Fiction
My Rating - 10
15. Look me in the Eye: My life with Aspergers by John Elder Robison
Autobiography - My Rating - 10
16. Salem Falls by Jodi Picault - Fiction
My Rating - 8
17. Run for you Lives by James Patterson - Fiction
My Rating - 10
18. Daddy's Little Earner by Maria Landon - Autobiography
My Rating - 10
19. The Secret Life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd - Fiction
My Rating - 10
20. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor - Autobiography
My Rating - 10
21. Debunked by Richard Roeper - Non Fiction
My Rating - 8
22. The Whole Truth by David Baldacci - Fiction
My Rating - 10
23. Persuader by Lee Child - Fiction
My Rating - 10
24. Gone tomorrow by Lee Child - Fiction
My Rating - 10
25. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Bryne - Fiction
My Rating - 8
26. Broken by Shy Keenan - Autobiography
My Rating - 10
27. Under Two Dictators - Stalin and Hitler by Margarete Buber-Neumann
Autobiography - My Rating - 10
28. Twilight by Stephanie Mayer - Fiction
My Rating - 10
29. Missing by Susan Lewis - Fiction
My Rating - 8
30, Agatha Christie Reader volume 3 by Agatha Christie
Audio CD - My Rating - 8
31. Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray - Fiction
My Rating - 10
3. The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan - Fiction
My Rating - 7
33. Through a Glass Darkly by Donna Leon - Fiction
My Rating - 7
34. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman - Fiction
My Rating - 10
35. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen - Fiction
My Rating - 10
36. Beyond Ugly by Constance Briscoe - Autobiography
My Rating - 8
37. Dewey - The small town Library Cat by Vicky Myron - Non Fiction
My Rating - 10 (But I like cats)
38. Escape by Carolyn Jessop - Autobiography
My Rating - 10plus - wow!
39. Torn Apart by James Patterson and Hal Friedman - Non Fiction
My Rating - 10
40. What is the What? by Dave Eggers - Autobiography
My Rating - 8
41. Monsoon Rains and Icicle Drops by Libby Southwell - Armchair Travel
My rating - 10
42. The Secret River by Kate Grenville - Historical Fiction
My Rating - 7
43. Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler - Fiction
My Rating - 9
44. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown - Fiction
My Rating - 7
45. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott - Autobiography
My Rating - 9
46, New Moon by Stephanie Mayer - Fiction
My Rating - 10
47. Narrow Dog to Carcassonne by Terry Darlington - Armchair Travel
My Rating - 4 ( he way it was written and English used was terrible!)
48, The Lost Boys by Brent W Jeffs - Autobiography
My Rating - 10
49. The Caller by Alex Barclay - Fiction - Thriller
My Rating - 10 Audio Book - 8 CD's
50. The Covenent of Genesis by Andy McDermott - Fiction - Action
My Rating - 10
(I'll put my next lot of 50 books up in 6 months :) )
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Reading.......
I've always read a lot. And somehow, I learnt to speed read. This was apparent when I was about 11 years old and read the Lord of the Rings in one weekend. That was the whole three books. I didn't do much else though!
My love of reading has never waned. I love the smell of new paperbacks, and I used to buy all my books. However, I can no longer do that as the price of books here in New Zealand has become prohibitive. Between $25 and $35 for a paperback. Some sort of tax I believe that the government receives, which I think is terrible. Books are educational and should not attract any government tax whatsoever.
I recently rejoined my local library, and have a system which is great. I go to the books stores with a pen and paper. Browse in the sections in Borders that I love. Write down the books and authors that I wish to read. Then go home and log into my library website and order the books online. They email me to tell me they are ready to pick up, and when I pick those up, any books that aren't in the library system, I put in an order for them to buy them, and they then also go onto my library list and I get to be the first person to read them when they come in. Not a bad system.
I recently started a book list and I want to read 1000 books in 5 years. I started 1st March, 2009. Today I finished my first 50 books so I'm well on the way.
Reading is not that easy for me now. Both my balance nerves have been destroyed and now I deal with a condition called Oscillopsia. Basically, when I move, everything moves with me. Much like watching the world through a digital camera with no image stabiliser. If I concentrate too hard while everything is moving, I get 'seasick'. Sometimes quite rapidly. I cannot watch car racing or any 'moving' computer games for this reason. If I do, the seasickness will happen within about 15 to 30 seconds, and I will be sick for about 12 hours. Very much not worth it.
If I try to read while moving, the letters jump off the page - it's impossible. So to read a book, I have to prop my head in a certain way and make it immobile for the duration of reading. The best place is in bed with my head immobilised on a pillow. Like any disability, you learn to deal with it, and live with it, and work out ways to get round it. There are still lots of things I can't do, but reading was not one that I was going to give up.
Now that my house is sold, and I'm waiting for my new house to start building, I have quite a lot of time on my hands so am reading much more than usual. However, some of my reading is audio books - I'm teaching myself to listen with the implant. Initially I had to have the book with me to help me follow, but I'm now able to follow a whole book without the need for written material. That's a real improvement!
I'll sign off here for now, but will post up the first 50 books I've read in the next blog shortly...
My love of reading has never waned. I love the smell of new paperbacks, and I used to buy all my books. However, I can no longer do that as the price of books here in New Zealand has become prohibitive. Between $25 and $35 for a paperback. Some sort of tax I believe that the government receives, which I think is terrible. Books are educational and should not attract any government tax whatsoever.
I recently rejoined my local library, and have a system which is great. I go to the books stores with a pen and paper. Browse in the sections in Borders that I love. Write down the books and authors that I wish to read. Then go home and log into my library website and order the books online. They email me to tell me they are ready to pick up, and when I pick those up, any books that aren't in the library system, I put in an order for them to buy them, and they then also go onto my library list and I get to be the first person to read them when they come in. Not a bad system.
I recently started a book list and I want to read 1000 books in 5 years. I started 1st March, 2009. Today I finished my first 50 books so I'm well on the way.
Reading is not that easy for me now. Both my balance nerves have been destroyed and now I deal with a condition called Oscillopsia. Basically, when I move, everything moves with me. Much like watching the world through a digital camera with no image stabiliser. If I concentrate too hard while everything is moving, I get 'seasick'. Sometimes quite rapidly. I cannot watch car racing or any 'moving' computer games for this reason. If I do, the seasickness will happen within about 15 to 30 seconds, and I will be sick for about 12 hours. Very much not worth it.
If I try to read while moving, the letters jump off the page - it's impossible. So to read a book, I have to prop my head in a certain way and make it immobile for the duration of reading. The best place is in bed with my head immobilised on a pillow. Like any disability, you learn to deal with it, and live with it, and work out ways to get round it. There are still lots of things I can't do, but reading was not one that I was going to give up.
Now that my house is sold, and I'm waiting for my new house to start building, I have quite a lot of time on my hands so am reading much more than usual. However, some of my reading is audio books - I'm teaching myself to listen with the implant. Initially I had to have the book with me to help me follow, but I'm now able to follow a whole book without the need for written material. That's a real improvement!
I'll sign off here for now, but will post up the first 50 books I've read in the next blog shortly...
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