Ten bashful mermaids

Happy first day of blogjune! You can see all the participants on Flexnib’s list, she has also put together this blogjune file for your RSS reader.

I’m trying to keep better track my reading this year by following another librarian’s example …but I realise that I’ve already changed the list parameters. I wasn’t counting non-fiction books which would greatly expand my count, but it’d also mean I was including books I hadn’t read cover-to-cover. Brings to mind a Cathy cartoon where she started a new year’s resolution of keeping a diary, but used the wrong colour pen so it was ruined. I will continue and aim for a December 2014 list of my inhaled fiction books & movies.

Of the well-read books list from K, I have only read 6% which is a poor result:

63. Life of pi by Yann Martel

64. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

65. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

91. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

99. 1984 by George Orwell

100. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

I could work through the list, but so far I’ve focused on fun books like Tom Holt’s Doughnut, which is like a sweetly salted cookie packed with beautiful descriptive chocolate chips. My favourite quotes:

“She’d sort of ground to a halt, and was looking hopefully at him, like a dog that can see the biscuit in its owner’s hand.” p. 21

“That drip-drip noise you can hear is my heart bleeding.” p. 176

Pink mermaids

“He lay back and stared at his little pink toes,

which rose up out of the froth like ten bashful mermaids.” p. 328

You can even take a quiz on Holt’s site to find out the perfect love-match book for you. Spoiler: it seems to only choose between 2 of his titles! Doughnut is the first I’ve read by I’m happy to try out some bibliographic polyandry.