2011 has been a strange year, filled with ups and downs and everything in between. I didn’t achieve so much writing wise and certainly failed to keep Paperback City up to date. That said, the last few weeks have seen some serious progress on the second draft of my novel, with much scribbling out and rewriting, and one or two ‘did I write that?’ moments of the good and bad variety. I’m on two week’s holiday at the moment so I hope, in between the never ending seasonal eating and drinking sessions, I get some time to really knuckle down. Basically, I’m not sure it’s any good, nor what I really want to write, but it’s about time I finished something I started, so I can’t let myself off the hook so easy. Challenge accepted.
I’m looking forward to 2012. In particular, I can’t wait for Adelaide Writers’ Week (Megan Abbott, yay!), new Sookie Stackhouse (book 12) in May, and I’ve got a huge list of great books to get through.
Before we get too ahead of ourselves, though, here’s a list of the books I read this year:
- Neanderthal – John Darnton
- Miss Webster and Cherif – Patricia Duncker
- Die a Little – Megan Abbott
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde
- Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris
- The Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien
- The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
- The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
- Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne Du Maurier
- When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Gates – John Connolly
- My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
- A Game of Thrones – George RR Martin
- The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- The White Queen – Philippa Gregory
- The Devil Rides Out – Dennis Wheatley
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith
- Blue Shoes and Happiness – Alexander McCall Smith
- Due Preparations for the Plague – Janette Turner Hospital
- Jazz – Toni Morrison
- The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Song is You – Megan Abbott
- The Brief History of the Dead – Kevin Brockmeier
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