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I'm going to set myself an unofficial goal of 200. This will be interesting because I'm not really sure how many books I would read normally, but I think that's a safe minimum. I think it will be good for me to keep track of what I read over a period of time. This is a cool idea.

Waited for her new book eagerly and I loved this! Genuinely scary and I loved the ending. It was also good to read a book by her with a male protagonist. I'm making my boyfriend read it now.

Very good but not an easy read, emotionally I mean. It's about a Nigerian immigrant in England and a family she stays with.

About an agency of professional flirts in London hired- often by husbands- to boost women's self opinion. Amusing but not much to it.

A reread actually -don't know if they count?- but I haven't read it since I was a kid, so worth a mention. I liked it much more as an adult, far more lyrical and atmosperic than I remembered.

I saw this reviewed in Mslexia (UK magazine for women who write) so I picked it up when I saw it in the library. It's about two sisters, the daughters of Vietnamese immigrants in the American Midwest. I liked the sisters and the setup, and the writing till about halfway through, after that I found myself getting a bit bored.

Typical cosy English murder mystery, only marked out by what I thought was an utterly ludicrous ending.

Wonderful book about sibling rivalry, set in Oxford. Will have to find her first novel now.

I like her books and this was one of the better ones I've read, tracking the lives of a group of family and friends in wartime London and Cornwall.

I loved this! I adore historicals and this one was better than most.

He can be so good but so hit-and-miss...I liked this one, about a girl, Sophie, who grows up in care and wins a scholarship to a local fancy boarding school, and the fate of her friendships there.

Nothing wrong with this but nothing much exciting about it either. Don't think I will bother with the rest of the trilogy.

My first Greene, and a treat! Wormold, a expatriate British vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana, is forced to become an MI6 agent but he doesn't know how to be a spy so he makes it all up. Funny and yet serious and perfect prose, very light of touch but always clear. Will be looking out more Greene!

Never expect anything cheerful from William Trevor but this was definitely the most gloomy book of 2010 so far. In 1921 the Gault family have to leave their big house in Ireland because they have become so unpopular in the district, but Lucy (a child at the beginning) doesn't want to go. Very good, but heart-rending!

My mum gave my brother this for Christmas and he lent it to me. I was impressed by the hard-hitting atmosphere and the way the tension was maintained.

I'm not even a huge EBB fan but am a sucker for a good biography, especially literary biography, ESPECIALLY Victorian literary biography, and this one was fascinating, and so well-written.

I love Fay Weldon but this wasn't one of my favourites. About the establishment and progress of a feminist press in London in the sixties onwards, and the lives of the women involved.

Part of my quest to read as much WC as I can get my hands on.

How can you not love Wodehouse?

Wodehouse binge

Very gripping and introduced me to elements of Sayers's life and works that I had never heard about.