A year in books - 2006

Books I enjoyed in 2006, in no particular order:

• Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham
• Love Rules by Freya North
• Where or When by Anita Shreve
• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
• The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
• The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook by Matt Dunn
• The A to Z of Us by Jim Keeble (sadly, not as good as the brilliant My Fat Brother)
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Kaz Cooke
• Your Pregnancy Bible by Anne Deans
• Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult (but now I'm done - one Jodi Picoult is quite enough for any one year)
• The Chronicles of Llyr (again) by Lloyd Alexander
• The Magician's Guild trilogy by Trudi Canavan

Best book of 2006:

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Worst book finished in 2006:

• Some dire thing that Sue left behind (in disgust, I believe - and I've now inflicted it on someone else through the CancerResearch shop on Kilburn High Rd) involving a little girl being 'kidnapped' by her father during a marriage meltdown

Books started and abandoned:

• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (just could not go on after page 3)
• Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres (actually this is really interesting but too big for handbag and reading on tube - will come back to it)
• Perfume by Patrick Suskind - really oddly written and fascinating but too dark for my mood at New Year - will come back to it)

Books written to second draft: 0.4 as at end of 2005, no progress in 2006 (a secondary project for 2007!)