Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
by Jacqueline Rayner

English
254 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 978-0-563-48643-5
First line: Rose carefully dropped three pound coins into the large collecting box at the entrance to the British Museum.
Back cover blurb:
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum — a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that [...]

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Love
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

For the Decades ‘08 reading challenge (first published 1843) and part of the BBC Big Read.
English
77 pages
Dover Publications
ISBN: 978-0-486-26865-1
First line: Marley was dead: to begin with.
Back cover blurb:
In October 1843, Charles Dickens—heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher—began work on a book to help supplement his family’s meager income. [...]

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Love
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Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf is holding a read-a-thon on the 28th of June. She’s held one (more?) before, but that was before I got into book blogging properly again, so I missed the last one. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing it solo now that I’m on vacation, [...]

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Love
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Människohamn
by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Swedish
451 pages
Ordfront
ISBN: 978-91-7037-373-2
First line: Välkommen till Domarö.
Back cover blurb:
“Pappa, vad är det där? På isen?”
Det är en strålande vinterdag. Högst upp i Gåvastens fyr står Anders med sin sexåriga dotter Maja. Isen ligger snötäckt så långt ögat kan nå och Anders kan inte se något speciellt där hans dotter pekar.
Maja går [...]

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Love
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En liten chock
by Johanna Lindbäck

Swedish
272 pages
Tiden
ISBN: 978-91-85243-98-3
First line: Han ansträngde sig inte direkt för att komma i tid, det kan man inte säga.
Back cover blurb:
Gustav hoppades på tre saker när han började gymnasiet:

En flickvän, eller en tillfällig tjej att ha sex med, åtminstone en gång.
En massa nya kompisar med samma intressen som han, det [...]

Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Love
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I never posted my reading stats for April, mostly because I didn’t read more than two books that month, so I didn’t feel like there was a point to it. In May, however, my lust for reading came back with a vengeance. The monthly total for May ended up forty books, and I don’t know [...]

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Love
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Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride
by Helen Halstead

For the Back to History reading challenge.
English
310 pages
Ulysses Press
ISBN: 978-1-56975-588-4
First line: What a joy it is to have a worthy topic of conversation, to hold the power to amaze!
Back cover blurb:
In Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen brought together one of the most beloved literary couples of all time—Elizabeth [...]

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, D, English, Historical, Romance | 3 Comments »

Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

For the Decades ‘08 reading challenge (first published 1902).
English
111 pages
a Project Gutenberg e-book
First line: The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Back cover blurb:
In this tale of colonial exploitation, the narrator, Marlowe, journeys deep into the heart of [...]

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Love
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Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
by Stephen Cole

English
254 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 0-563-48644-9
First line:How can something so big sink so fast?
Back cover blurb:
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to hear that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And [...]

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Love
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Strong Poison
by Dorothy L Sayers

English
261 pages
Harper Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-06-104350-5
First line:There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
Back cover blurb:
Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiancé died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman’s noose in [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, English, Historical, Mystery | 1 Comment »