12 Month Book Challenge

My new years resolution for 2016 is to read 26 books from the 'BBC good book list'. That's one book every two weeks. Time to start reading!

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Challenge Your Shelf | November | Reading Aloud

Puss in Boots and I take it in turns to read to each other

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This is the best thing EVER

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Coffee time

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Always winter but never Christmas.

C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (via wordsnquotes)

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hope was over, entirely over pride and prejudice / jane austen

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Always important to remind ourselves 💕

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Important to remember at this time of year ❤️

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Ebenezer Scrooge

A Christmas Carol  by Charles Dickens

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Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to Clara brought me more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon

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 Sylvia Plath. 1932-1963

 “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I  want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the  skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades,  tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in  life. And I am horribly limited.” 

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Book Number 25

I can’t believe I’m on my second-to-last book for the year! Crazy.

Well my next book is Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I drove to the library to collect it yesterday - it takes ages to get there after work - and it was flaming well closed! I’m not sure why. What a pain. I don’t know when I’ll get back there before Monday now. Oh well. Will continue reading the Painted Man until I get hold of it but I am quite busy the next few days.

N.B. I just checked the library website and they are closed on Wednesdays so I guess that would be why :’)

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I like big books and I cannot lie...

So I’m running quite behind because Dune is a gigantic book. I’ve actually finished it which is quite good progress considering how big it is!  Plus the book required concentration so I couldn’t read it when I was drifting off to sleep, or I would have had no clue what was going on. 

I enjoyed Dune. It’s actually the first book off of the BBC Good Book List which I've read this year that I would have picked out myself. Not that I haven’t enjoyed the other books, and would have chosen them retrospectively, but Dune is the kind of book I normally read. Probably why I got through it so quickly. 

Frank Herbert did such an amazing job with Dune. He created a whole world with it’s own ecology, own religion, own political system. Everything had such detail it was amazing. And it was interesting how the Fremen had adapted to living in such a harsh environment; a blend of cave-age living and futuristic technology. There was so much detail included which didn’t have any relevance to the plot but made the world seem so much more real. This definitely deserved to be on the Good Book List.

Although I am now running behind, it’s not too bad because I am off for two weeks at Christmas. I can catch up with my last two books then. Also potentially the rest of the Dune series! What else better to do at Christmas than sit around eating, with hot chocolate, and reading. Obviously got to watch Love Actually and Elf at some point but other than that, reading galore.

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Who’s got their christmas decs up?! 

We put ours up at the weekend. Sadly, living in England, we have no snow.  Only two weeks left to go!