100 Books in 2012
All posts will be tracked with 100Books and/or 100BooksIn2012.
Only rule is that it must be 100 pages long. If the book is 50-100 pages long, it can be paired with another of similar length to take up 1 spot on the list,
Hopefully reviews will be left for each - feel free to ask/give me recommendations in the ask box.
#9 of 100 Books in 2012 - Flour Babies
I’m 8 books into the 100 and not regretting starting. I don’t know if it’s being made easier by every other book being an Adrian Mole book.
However, my main concern, is that I can’t think of what books I want to read next so any suggestions are welcome!
After getting slightly ahead of the schedule,I’ve reduced the reading need from 1.9 a week to 1.8. LE SIGH.
#8 of 100
Wednesday August 13th
Here I am again - in my old bedroom. Older, wiser, but with less hair, unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line.
Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked (‘the sausage on my plate could have been a turd’ - AA Gill) and celebrated (will he be the nation’s first celebrity offal chef?). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch - one of ‘Blair’s Babes’. He is frustrated, disappointed and undersexed.
But a letter from Adrian’s past is about to change everything …
#7 of 100
I remember this being on the syllabus in school, and thought I’d revisit it to see if it was as good as I remembered. Terrifyingly the only none Penguin on the list so far.
Recommend it to anyone that enjoys sci-fi/dystopia novels.
#6 of 100
Thursday January 3rd
I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person.
Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped.
But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness …
Book #4 of 100
This was…alright. Nowhere near as good as the first in the series, but okay for a YA read.
Book #3
I’m ahead on the schedule of books, just not been updating, so expect a series of updates just now.
Again, loving the Mole series. Each Mole book is kept for just reading on the Tube, and other books in between. Met Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole, last week which was amazing. Total childhood hero of mine and she didn’t disappoint!
#2 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
It’s the 30th anniversary of Adrian Mole this year, and a few weeks back I received the anniversary editions and I promised myself I would work through them as part of 100 books.
Such an amazing series. Totally preferred this one to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4. If you’ve never read Adrian Mole, you really should. If you have read them? Reread them…especially if you originally read them when you were young.
Really looking forward to hitting the later years!!
» 1/100
Title: Stardust
Author: Neil Gaiman
Year: 1998
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
What Happened: Set in the 19th Century, the town of Wall is so named because of the stone wall that runs alongside it that marks where the mortal world ends and Faerie begins. Nobody is allowed to cross the wall. A seventeen year old named Tristran Thorn (who is incidentally half-faerie, raised on this side of the wall by his father and stepmother) promises to cross into Faerie to retrieve a fallen star for his “true love” Victoria Forester. Faerie proves more dangerous than he could have imagined, and the star is in fact a young Lady named Yvaine rather than a lump of rock. It’s a love story, and a magic story, and I really liked it a freaking lot.
A quote: “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars”
Extra: This was one of those rare books where I’d actually seen the movie before reading the book- it changed the reading experience a little, and the movie actually diverged away from the book a lot in some places- particularly the ending. In the movie it’s warm and fuzzy- in the book it’s beautiful and warm but sad at the same time. Plus i also want more books about Wall.
You need to read this book.
#3 Seriously … I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
My tweet sized summary: A bit of life, a bit of advice, all comedy.
All I want to say about this book is that it’s funny. But there was more. It also had a good message of finding happiness in life. That was surprising to me. I recently read another comedian’s book and it was all comedy. Overall, Ellen’s book was funny and an easy read. Thumbs up.
Ellen DeGeneres is cool.
