January 2014 Update

 

It's been a good month for my reading; some incredible books have been read. I've also made a pretty good start on my general book challenge, having read 33 books throughout the month. This puts me 17 books ahead of schedule apparently, which I'm pretty chuffed about. 

Less impressive is the headway I've made into my work based challenge.... I've not read anything towards this at all I'm afraid. However I do still have 11 months to go, so hardly a failure just yet. 

Throughout the month I have purchased or been sent 64 books, which is slightly crazy. I have read 17 of the books I've acquired this month, and will work my way through the rest given time. 

It is probably time to start looking for another bookcase......

Books aquired throughout January.....

The Goddess Chronicles	Natsuo Kirino	Black Moon	Kenneth Calhoun
The Red Knight	Miles Cameron	The Hunt for the Golden Mole	Richard Girling
Gormenghast	Melvyn Peake	Sanctuary Line	Jane Urquhart
My American	Stella Gibbons	Kingmaker	Toby Clements
By Light Alone	Adam Roberts	The Foundling Boy	Michel Deon
Alchemist of Souls	Anne Lyle	The Dig	Cynan Jones
Four Last Things	Hoffman	The Steady Running of the Hour	Justin Go
The Elder Edda	Anon	Quick	Lauren Owen
The Charioteer	Mary Renault	Panic	Lauren Oliver
The Hobbit	Tolkein	French Women Don't Get Facelifts	Mireille Guiliano
The Wanderer; elegies, epics, riddles	Anon	The Enchanted	Rene Denfield
The Gift of Rain	Tan Twan Eng	Gretel in the dark	Eliza Granville
The Man in the High Castle	Philip k Dick	Quarter Past Summer	Mandy Baldwin
The Bones of Avalon	Phil Rickman	Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase	Louise Walters
Dreams and Shadows	c robert cargill	Telling Room	Michael Paterniti
The Book of Fires	Jane Borodale	Collected works AJ Fikry	Gabrielle Zevin
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	Rachel Joyce	Campari for Breakfast	Sara Crowe
Franki and Stankie	Barbara Trapido	Descent	Ken Macleod
Murder Most Royal	Jean Plaidy	Red Rising	Pierce Brown
The Amulet of Sarkand	Jonathan Stroud	Tell tale heart	Jill Dawson
Bird Blood Snow	Cynan Jones	Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase	Louise Walters
Temeraire	Naomi Novik	Au Reservoir	Guy Fraser-Sampson
The Explorer	James Smythe	The Girl in the Road	Monica Byrne
Tooth and Claw	Jo Walton	Eat my Heart Out	Zoe Pilger
Mountains of the Moon	I J Kay	Saga Vol 1	Brian k Vaughan
Sacred Hunger	Barry Unsworth	Farthing	Jo Walton
Half Sick of Shadows	David Logan	Hapenny	Jo Walton
The Reivers	William Faulkner	Half a Crown	Jo Walton
Voyage to Venus	C S Lewis	The Bull From The Sea	Mary Renault
According to Mark	Penelope Lively	The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCullough
Three Score Years and Ten	R F Delderfield	The Four Swans	Winston Graham
Captains and the Kings	Taylor Caldwell	Sins of the Fathers	Susan Howatch