The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O'Brien
I’ve read a few of these books since seeing Master and Commander: The far side of the world film which was...
7 June 2005
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
I really liked this book. The writing was simple and straight-forward but wonderful. Dwyer Hickey makes Tatty, the character, come alive,...
27 May 2005
Time traveler’s wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Author: Audrey Niffengger
I’ve listed this under chick-lit as it is basically a romance story, with a little bit of sci-fi (in the form of time travel) thrown in. The plot revolves around Clare and Henry, who meet when Clare was 6 and Henry 36. But marry when Clare was 22 and Henry 30.
27 May 2005
Gifted by John Cassidy, Joss Whedon
ISBN:0785115315 I’ve always been a theoretical fan of the X-Men comics. What I mean is that I’ve always thought they were...
20 May 2005
The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
Written for in order to entertain a sick brother this is the first of Heyer’s books and was published when she...
19 May 2005
Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge
At 22 she dreamed of being a ballerina, yet she ended up working for and “liking the greatest criminal ever to...
18 May 2005
Songdogs by Colum McCann
Sondogs is the tale of seven days in the life of Conor, he has come home to see his father while...
26 April 2005
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones
ISBN: 0140130934 I’m not quite sure why I picked this one up, I’ve never had all that great an interest in...
20 April 2005
The Masked Ball and other stories by Alexandre Dumas
Trans: A.Craig Bell ISBN: 075091467X Sticking with the French theme I picked up The Masked Ball and other stories by Alexandre...
11 April 2005
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
#1 in the Otherworld series Reread 1st April 2005: Grabbed it and Stolen from the shelves when I was home. Basically...
1 April 2005
These Old Shades & Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
Over the Easter I wasn’t online, but I was still reading. And two books that Ninemoons gave me were Sylvester and...
30 March 2005
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
0330327909 I read George’s Memoirs of Cleopatra a year or two ago, and really enjoyed it, so when I spotted this...
22 March 2005