Hello to myself... anyone... someone....

Oh no... this blog is almost non-existent! I haven't been able to read very much and my total books read to date is *GASP* 27!!!!!! That's 73 books away from my target read of 100 and 43 books away from 2011 total of 70!

It's ok, the joy is in the reading and not the total no. of books read. Every book read is a journey and an escape from my busy life.

Will update in a bit.

p.s To anyone reading this... HELLO to you! And may you have a good time with the pages of imagination!

2011 - Movies watched

Feb
1. Monsters vs Aliens
2. Did you hear about the Morgans?
3. Salt
4. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
5. Eclipse
Mar
6. Step Up 3
7. TheOxford Murders
Apr
8. Charlie St. Cloud
9. Haeundae: The deadly Tsunami
10. The Bucket List
May
11. Pirates of the Carribean : On Stranger Tide (C)
June
12. Hot Summer Days
13. Never Let Me Go
Jul
14. New York, I love you
15. Legend of the Guardians: The owls of Ga'Hoole
16. The Bounty Hunter
17. Love and other Drugs
18. Hardwired
19. Sliding Doors (R)
20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 (R)
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 (C)
22. The Green Hornet
Sep
23. Streetdance
Oct
24. Black Swan
25. Blue Crush 2
26. No strings attached
Nov
27. Fast and furious 5
Dec
28. Twilight: Breaking Dawn (1) (C)
29. Red Riding Hood
30. The Roommate
31. I am Number Four
TV Series
1. Bones 5 (T)
2. Law & Order, SVU 3
3. NCIS 2 *
4. Law & Order, SVU 4
5. Law & Order, SVU 5
6. Law & Order, SVU 6
7. CSI 11
8. Rizzoli & Isle 1
9. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 1
10. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 4
11. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 5
12. Covert Affairs 1
13. 90210 3
14. Castle 3
15. The Closer 6 *
16. The Vampire Diaries 1
17. Law & Order, SVU 7
18. Blue Blood 1
19. CSI : NY 7
20. Law & Order, SVU 12
21. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 6
22. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 7
23. Law & Order, SVU 11
24. Criminal Minds 6
25. Glee 2
26. Lie to me 3
27. NCIS: Los Angeles 2
28. Fairly Legal 1
29. Life Unexpected 2
30. Hawaii 5 O 1
31. CSI: Miami 9
32. Miami Medical 1

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Hello 2012

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2011 Reads

1. Moonlight Road - Robyn Carr
2. A Place of Secrets - Rachel Hore
3. Vintage Singapore: Souvenirs from the recent past *NF
4. Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
5. In the woods - Tana French (x)
6. New Tricks - David Rosenfelt
7. Lessons from Stanley the cat - Jennifer Freed *NF
8. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
9. The Search - Nora Roberts (C)
10. Birds in the Garden City: A compendum of photographic works by Lee
Tian Khee with text by Lim Kim Chuah *NF
11. Fractured - Karin Slaughter (C)
12. Undone - Karin Slaughter (C)
13. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart - Maria A Vettese & Stephanie
C Barnes *NF
14. Broken - Karin Slaughter (C)
15. The Wild Zone - Joy Fielding (C)
16. Deeper than the dead - Tami Hoag (C)
17. Please Forgive Me - Melissa Hills
18. Summer at Willow Lake - Susan Wiggs
19. Secrets to the Grave - Tami Hoag (C)
20. Ross Dobson's wholefood kitchen : delicious recipes with beans,
lentils, grains and other natural foods / Ross Dobson ; photography by
Peter Cassidy. *NF (F)
21. Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter (C)
22. Never Let you go - Kazuo Ishiguro
23. My first New York: early adventures in the big city *NF
24. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter (C)
25. Every last one - Anna Quindlen.
26. The stopping place - Helen Slavin
27. The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards
28. A Faint Cold Fear - Karin Slaughter (C)
29. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins (YA)
30. The authoritative Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Waterson (GN)
31. The Moment between - Nicole Baart
32. Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
33. Baby Blues: Ten years and still in diapers - Rick Kirkman & Jerry
Scott (GN)
34. The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
35. Heart of the night - Barbara Delinsky
36. Dancing in the Dark - Mary Jane Clark (C)
37. It only takes a moment - Mary Jane Clark (C)
38. Mercy Street - Mariah Stewart (C)
39. Dying for Mercy - Mary Jane Clark (C)
40. Indelible - Karin Slaughter (C)
41. Love Me to death - Allison Brennan (C)
42. Urgent Care - CJ Lyons
43. Warning Signs - CJ Lyons
44. When Day Breaks - Mary Jane Clark (C)
45. Cry Mercy - Mariah Stewart (C)
46. Acts of Mercy - Mariah Stewart (C)
47. I'll walk alone - Mary Higgins Clark (C)
48. Dead Wrong - Mariah Stewart (C)
49. Dead Certain - Mariah Stewart (C)
50. Fallen - Karin Slaughter (C)
51. Dead Even - Mariah Stewart (C)
52. On natural selection (Penguin Great Idea series) - Charles Darwin *NF
53. Dead End - Mariah Stewart (C)
54. Lost and found - Shaun Tan (GN)
55. Nobody Knows - Mary Jane Clark (C)
56. Puffin by Design: 70 years of imagination 1940-2010 - Phil Baines *NF
57. Penguin by Design - Phil Baines *NF
58. Last Look - Mariah Stewart (C)
59. Last Words - Mariah Stewart (C)
60. Last Breaths - Mariah Stewart (C)
61. Scared to death - Wendy Corsi Staub (C)
62. Withering Heights - Dorothy Cannell
63. Promise Canyon - Robyn Carr
64. Wild Man Creek - Robyn Carr
65. Harvest Moon - Robyn Carr
66. Coming Home - Mariah Stewart
67. Lakeshore Christmas - Susan Wiggs
68. Knit the Season - Kate Jacobs
69. Snow - Maxence Fermine
70. Bring me Home for Christmas - Robyn Carr

Read 70 books, 30 books short of targeted 100. But a good reading year so far, except for slumps in Oct and Nov due to work commitments.

2012 will be busier but I hope to maintain the reading list of 70 books, if not more. :)

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Library Loot - 08 Aug 2011

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!

On Natural Selection (Penguin Great Ideas) - Charles Darwin

Dead Even- Mariah Stewart

I was hooked on this series. Read the first 2 books (Dead Wrong and Dead Certain) and had to reserve the third to complete the series quickly!

FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fellow agent Will Fletcher. Their on-again, off-again relationship has left painful scars even he has never seen.
Now, a series of murders has the two agents racing to outwit a killer before he can strike again. Miranda and Will know that lives depend on identifying intended victims and tracking them down before the killer does. But as they begin to unravel this homicidal agenda, it becomes clear that Miranda may be the last and final target in a twisted game. With the clock ticking, time is running out on a killer who is determined to cross Miranda’s name off his hit list . . . permanently.

Dead End - Mariah Stewart

The last in the series

Avon County, Pennsylvania, detective Evan Crosby is called in to investigate when several schoolgirls from well-to-do families are found murdered in the same manner. Then other girls are found dead, seemingly killed in the same way, but the new victims are Hispanic and unidentified. With the help of his girlfriend, FBI profiler Annie McCall, Crosby determines there are two killers and elects to concentrate on the case of the unclaimed girls. Crosby's romantic relationship with Annie is complicated by memories of her fiance, FBI agent Dylan Shields, who died during an FBI operation--his death unsolved. Evan, hoping to provide closure for Annie by reinvestigating Dylan's killing, makes discoveries that bear on the current cases. Evan and Annie make sympathetic leads, and Stewart effectively frames the fast-paced story with details of police investigation and profiling techniques.Sue O'Brien
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Lost and Found- Shuan Tan

Gorgeous illustrations. Read about this Australian author and I was deeply moved by his drawings. They are beautiful and dark and lonesome.

A collection of three jaw-dropping stories: THE RED TREE, THE LOST THING, and THE RABBITS, by New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Shaun Tan

A girl finds a bright spot in a dark world. A boy leads a strange, lost creature home. And a group of peaceful creatures loses their home to cruel invaders. Three stories, written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, about how we lose and find what matters most to us.

Puffin by Design - Phil Baines

Penguin by design- Phil Baines

I was infatuated by Penguin after visiting a penguin exhibition by Books Actually last month.

Review: Fallen by Karin Slaughter

I loved it! And I'm in love with Will Trent! Great storyline and character developments. I felt that I have got to know Faith, Evelyn and Amanda so much more, especially Amanda and her softness behind her mean boss persona.

I ended the book wanting more but I don't mind waiting another year for a good quality book by Karin Slaughter.

5 stars

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Books read: Jan to July 2011

1. Moonlight Road - Robyn Carr
2. A Place of Secrets - Rachel Hore
3. Vintage Singapore: Souvenirs from the recent past *NF
4. Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
5. In the woods - Tana French (x)
6. New Tricks - David Rosenfelt
7. Lessons from Stanley the cat - Jennifer Freed *NF
8. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
9. The Search - Nora Roberts (C)
10. Birds in the Garden City: A compendum of photographic works by Lee
Tian Khee with text by Lim Kim Chuah *NF
11. Fractured - Karin Slaughter (C)
12. Undone - Karin Slaughter (C)
13. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart - Maria A Vettese & Stephanie
C Barnes *NF
14. Broken - Karin Slaughter (C)
15. The Wild Zone - Joy Fielding (C)
16. Deeper than the dead - Tami Hoag (C)
17. Please Forgive Me - Melissa Hills
18. Summer at Willow Lake - Susan Wiggs
19. Secrets to the Grave - Tami Hoag (C)
20. Ross Dobson's wholefood kitchen : delicious recipes with beans,
lentils, grains and other natural foods / Ross Dobson ; photography by
Peter Cassidy. *NF (F)
21. Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter (C)
22. Never Let you go - Kazuo Ishiguro
23. My first New York: early adventures in the big city *NF
24. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter (C)
25. Every last one - Anna Quindlen.
26. The stopping place - Helen Slavin

++++

May 2011

27. The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards
28. A Faint Cold Fear - Karin Slaughter (C)
29. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins (YA)
30. The authoritative Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Waterson (GN)
31. The Moment between - Nicole Baart
32. Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
33. Baby Blues: Ten years and still in diapers - Rick Kirkman & Jerry
Scott (GN)
34. The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
35. Heart of the night - Barbara Delinsky
36. Dancing in the Dark - Mary Jane Clark (C)
37. It only takes a moment - Mary Jane Clark (C)
38. Mercy Street - Mariah Stewart (C)
39. Dying for Mercy - Mary Jane Clark (C)
40. Indelible - Karin Slaughter (C)
41. Love Me to death - Allison Brennan (C)
42. Urgent Care - CJ Lyons
43. Warning Signs - CJ Lyons
44. When Day Breaks - Mary Jane Clark (C)
45. Cry Mercy - Mariah Stewart (C)
46. Acts of Mercy - Mariah Stewart (C)
47. I'll walk alone - Mary Higgins Clark (C)


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