2015 Google Addict

2015 Google Addict

Jan
1. Julie and Julia (R)
2. Thinspiration (TV Movie)

Feb
3. Five  (TV Movie)

June
4. The Hazing Secret (TV Movie)

July
5. Wuthering High School (TV Movie)
6. Mr Fiction (TV Movie)
7. Save the Last Dance (R)
8. The Memory Book (TV Movie)

Aug
9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Max Payne
11. 88
12. Begin Again
13. Before I go to Sleep

Sep
14. Perfect on Paper (TV Movie)
15. Status :Unknown (TV Movie)
16. Inside out

Oct
17. A Bone to pick : An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (TV Movie)

Nov
18. My Gal Sunday (TV Movie)

Dec
19. Jurassic Park 3


TV series
1. Mind Games
2. Ten 2 (K)
3. The Librarians
4. Murder in the First
5. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 9 (R)
6. Scorpion
7. Major Crimes 3
8. Chicago P.D 2
9. Perception 3
10. Elementary 3
11. Rizzoli and Isles 5
12. Battle Creek
13. CSI: Cyber
14. NCIS: New Orleans 
15. CSI 15
16. The Mentalist 6
17. Motive 3
18. NCIS 12
19. Hawaii Five-O 5
20. Izombies
21. Wayward Pines
22. The Mysteries of Laura
23. Castle 7
24. How to get Away with Murder
25. Bones 10
26. Sleepy Hollow 2
27. Criminal Minds 10
28. Blue Blood 5
29. Covert Affairs 5
30. The Good Witch
31. Forever
32. Murder in the First 2
33. Stalker
34. Witches of East End 2
35. Chicago Fire 3
36. Law & Order, SVU 16
37. NCIS: Los Angeles 6
38. The Good Wife 6
39. Zoo
40. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 3 (R)

2015 Reads

2015 Reads

1. The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton (2008)
2. The Newcomer - Robyn Carr (2013)
3. The Hero - Robyn Carr (2013)
4. I am Maru - mugumogu [P]
5. The Chance - Robyn Carr (2014)
6. One Book in the Grave - Kate Carlisle (2012)
7. The Treatment- Mo Hayder (2001)
8. Ministry of Moral Panic - Amanda Lee Koe (2013)
9. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (2015)
10. Scandal in Spring ~ the Wallflowers - Lisa Kleypas (2006)
11. Crystal Cove -  Lisa Kleypas (2013)
12. Cry Wolf - Tami Hoag (1993)
13. Watch your back - Karen Rose (2014)
14. Cats vs Human : Poems about Cats - Yasmine Surovec (2015)
15. The Promise - Robyn Carr (2014)
16. Informed Risk - Robyn Carr (2013)
17. Frozen - Mary Casanova (2012)
18. Closer than you think - Karen Rose (2015)
19. The one I left behind - Jennifer McMahon (2013)
20. Notorious - Allison Brennan (2014)
21. Ritual - Mo Hayder (2008)
22. The life changing magic of tidying up - Marie Kondo [NF] (2014)
23. The wedding bees - Sarah-Kate Lynch (2013)
24. The Last Dance: and other stories - Victoria Hislop (2012)
25. A space of my own - Caroline Clifton-Mogg [NF] (2011)
26. The Last Victim - Karen Robards (2012)
27. The perfect witness - Iris Johansen (2014)
28. Season of the Dragonflies - Sarah Creech (2014)
29. A blue so dark - Holly Schindler (2010)
30. The disappearance of Emily Marr - Louise Candlish (2013)
31. Compulsion - Allison Brennan (2015)
32. Hometown Girl - Mariah Stewart (2011)
33. Fear Nothing - Lisa Gardner (2014)
34. The Last Kiss Goodbye - Karen Robards (2013)
35. The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide (2014)
36. Home for the Summer - Mariah Stewart (2012)
37. The long way home - Mariah Stewart (2013)
38. At the River's Edge - Mariah Stewart (2014)
39. On Sunset Beach - Mariah Stewart (2014)
40. Love in Translation - Wendy Nelson Tokunaga (2009)
41. That Chesapeake Summer - Mariah Stewart (2015)
42. Her last whisper - Karen Robards (2014)
43. Live to Tell - Wendy Corsi Staub (2010)
44. The Whisperer - Donato Carrisi (2009/2013)
45. Love is Murder - Various (2012)
46. Skin - Mo Hayder (2009)
47. One Wish - Robyn Carr (2015)
48. Scared to Death - Wendy Corsi Staub (2011)
49. Hell to Pay - Wendy Corsi Staub (2011)
50. Far Gone - Laura Griffin (2014)
51. Unspeakable - Laura Griffin (2010)
52. Unforgivable - Laura Griffin (2010)
53. On Strike for Christmas - Sheila Roberts (2007)
54. The lodge on Holly Road - Sheila Roberts (2014)
55. The Chocolate's Lovers Christmas - Carole Matthews (2015)
56. A season to Remember - Sheila O'Flanagan (2010)
57. Cold Snap - Allison Brennan (2013)

++++

2015 is a good year, for I have managed to read again for pleasure on top of my readings and texts.
57 books was easily achieved in the past but looking back at the trends over the past 2 years where I read only 10 and 12 books respectively, I'm giving myself a pat on my back! :)

2014 Google Addict

2014 Google Addict

Movies

Feb
1. Howl's moving castle

Mar
2. Avatar
3. Apollo 18

May
4. Baby Seller (TV Movie)
5. Real Steel
6. Fast and Furious 6

Jul
7. S.W.A.T :Firefight

Sep
8. The Grim Sleeper (TV Movie)

Oct
9. A Sister's Nightmare (TV Movie)
10. Despicable Me 2

Nov
11. Taken : The Search for Sophie Parker (TV Movie)
12. The Hunger Games

Dec
13. The twelve trees of Christmas (TV Movie)


TV series
1. The Following
2. Hawaii Five-0 3
3. Sleepy Hollow
4. Unforgettable 2
5. Motive
6. The Bridge
7. Killer Women
8. Chicago Fire
9. Major Crimes 2
10. Perception 2
11. The Mentalist 5
12. Orphan Black
13. NCIS: Los Angeles 4
14. Bones 9
15. Criminal Minds 9
16. Hawaii Five-O 4
17. NCIS 11
18. Hannibal 2
19. Castle 6
20. Resurrection
21. Chicago P.D
22. Chicago Fire 2
23. Elementary
24. Motive 2
25. Covert Affairs 4
26. Blue Bloods 4
27. Witches of East End
28. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 6 (R)
29. Law & Order, SVU 15
30. Ten (K)
31. The Good Wife 5
32. CSI 14
33. Rizzoli & Isle 4
34. Elementary 2
35. Rush
36. Unforgettable 3
37. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 7 (R)
38. NCIS: Los Angeles 5
39. Law & Order, Criminal Intent 8 (R)

2014 Reads

2014 Reads:

1. Stalked - Alison Brennan (2012)
2. Stolen - Alison Brennan (2013)
3. Birdman - Mo Hayden (1999)
4. Cider Brook - Carla Neggers (2014)
5. Daddy's gone a hunting - Mary Higgins Clark (2013)
6. She is not Invisible - Marcus Sedgwick (2013)
7. Spare Brides - Adele Parks (2014)
8. My Kind of Christmas - Robyn Carr (2012)
9. The Wanderer - Robyn Carr (2013)
10. The Delancy Christmas Carol - Kay Hooper, Iris Johnansen & Fayrene Preston (1992)
11. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbour - Lisa Kleypas (2010)
12. The Devil in Winter ~ the Wallflowers ~ Lisa Kleypas (2006)

Sad number of reads in 2014 due to work and studies.

Library Love - Library at Orchard

New libraries always get my adrenaline pumping and senses tingling. The Library @ Orchard recently opened in Oct 2014 with an emphasis for design, photography and fiction. It's layout is minimalistic and totally gorgeous with bright lights streaming in and lots of seating areas.

And the books! Brand new books that smells so good and feels so crisps! How can I resist them?

With this incentive plus the recent end of my exams, I hope this will get me out of the reading slump that bugged me for 2014.

:)

Library Loot: 24 to 30 November 2014

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief 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.

Getting back into the joy of reading. I have been in a slump for this year with the stress from work and studies that I haven't been really able to read for enjoyment. Hoping that it will change and this can be brought forward to 2015. 

3 Books this week:
1. My kind of Christmas - Robyn Carr
2. The Wanderer - Robyn Carr
3. The Sherlockian  - Graham Moor
    (Because I have been watching Sherlock  and Elementary)

Spare Brides - Adele Parks

 

My first venture into historical (?) fiction, post WW1. Not my usual genre but it's an OK read. Inspired me to watch Downton Abbey.

Lots of adjustment going on after WW1 and the return or death of many husbands and brother. It's the time where women needs to adjust their mentality and do more than succumb to fate or the choices of their parents.

The 1920s, an era of The Great Gatsby is an interesting time of music and alcohol and short bobs. Wouldn't mind picking up more reads of this era.

Synopsis:
"Damaged and beautiful, they were the generation who lost so much and became 'spare brides'. The richly compelling and emotional new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks is the powerful story of four extraordinary women left to pick up the pieces of their lives, in the scarred, glamorous and endlessly fascinating post-First World War era.

New Year's Eve, 1920. The Great War is over and it's a new decade of glamorous promise. But a generation of men and women who survived the extreme trauma and tragedy will never be the same.

With countless men lost, it seems that only wealth and beauty will secure a husband from the few who returned, but lonely Beatrice has neither attribute. Ava has both, although she sees marriage as a restrictive cage after the freedom war allowed. Sarah paid the war's ultimate price: her husband's life. Lydia should be grateful that her own husband's desk job kept him safe, but she sees only his cowardice.

A chance encounter for one of these women with a striking yet haunted officer changes everything. In a world altered beyond recognition, where not all scars are visible, this damaged and beautiful group must grasp any happiness they can find - whatever the cost."

From Goodreads. Read more here.