• Agatha Christie Mysteries
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : The Lost World and Other Stories
• Lael Morgan: Good Time Girls  (A secret history of the far north)
  
  Margaret Frazer: Historical mysteries about a group of travelling players
• Dame Frevisse mysteries
• Alex Kershaw:  The Few (American pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain)
• David A. Wilson: The History of the Future
• George Erickson: Back to the Barrens (Exploring the north by bush plane)
• Robert A. F. Thurman:  Essential Tibetan Buddhism
• Alan Morantz:  Where is here? Canada’s Maps and the Stories They Tell
• Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
• L. Sprague Decamp: The Complete Enchanter.  The Magical Misadventures of Harold  Shea
• Peter Dickenson:  The Old English Peep Show
• W. Somerset Maughm:  Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
• Marcus Aurelius:  Meditations
• Elliot Snow (Captain): Adventures at Sean in the Great Age of Sail
• Joseph Conrad:  Heart of Darkness
• Alistair MacLeod:  No Great Mischief
• Frederich Nietzsche:  Beyond Good and Evil
• P. G. Wodehouse:  Eggs, Beans & Crumpets
• J. K Rowling:  The Harry Potter Series
• Harry Kemelman:  Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
• Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on a Bummel
• Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Detective Agency series
• Kingsley Amis:  Collected Short Stories
• H. R. F. Keating:  Inspector Ghote, His Lie and Crimes
• Stephen Leacock: Literary Lapses
• Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein: Plato and a Platypus Walked Into a Bar
• Aldous Huxley:  Brave New World

Oh — and Greyfriars Bobby!

(book/series/author)

1.Masquerade/Blue Bloods No.2/Melissa De la Cruz

2.Vampire Academy/Vampire Academy No.1/Richelle Mead

3.Pretty Little Liars/Pretty Little Liars No.1/Sara Shepard

4.Eclipse/Twilight Saga No.3/Stephenie Meyer

5.Blue Bloods/Blue Bloods No.1/Melissa De la Cruz

6.The Naming/Pellinor Quartet No.1/Alsion Croggon

7.Twilight/Twilight Saga No.1/Stephenie Meyer

8.Brisingr/Inheritance Cycle No.3/Christopher Paolini

9.East/Edith Pattou

10.Prophecy of the Stones/Flavia Bujor

Favourite Series In Order

(series/author)

1.Blue Bloods/Melissa De la Cruz

2.Vampire Academy/Richelle Mead

3.Twilight Saga/Stephenie Meyer

4.Pretty Little Liars/Sara Shepard

5.Pellinor Quartet/Alison Croggon

6.Inheritance Cycle/Christopher Paolini

7.Harry Potter/J.K.Rowling

Reviews (in no particular order)

With the Blue Bloods series you start the first book (Blue Bloods) and you feel like you have been placed right in the story. Melissa De la Cruz is a wonderful author, who has written many other books.  She puts so much detail into her writing but you still have room for imagination.  Set in modern day Manhattan Scuyler Van Alen attends a private prep school called Duchesne where she has never fit in.  But it is when Schuyler discovers she is one of the many Blue Blood vampires, European settlers who came to America aboard the Mayflower that her world really turns upside down.  Schuyler’s journey continues along with her friend Oliver in “Masquerade” and then on in “The Van Alen Legacy” (August 31).  If you enjoyed the Twilight Saga then here is another series for you!!



Pretty Little Liars is the first instalment in the Pretty Little Liars Series. This the story of five girls; Spencer, Emily, Alison, Aria and Hanna.  But three years after Alison disappears strange things start to happen to the remaining girls.  Things such as mysterious text messages and IM’s. They are all signed by a mysterious A.  But Alison has been gone for years, so it couldn’t really be her.  Or could it??? Sara Shepard is a very descriptive author and this novel will leave you hanging, wanting more.  But don’t worry, four other Pretty Little Liars books have already been published so you will be set for a while.

Written by Flavia Bujor, originally in French and translated to English by Linda Coverdale, the Prophecy of the Stones is a brilliant fantasy meets real life in this marvellously written story about three girls and the magical realm of Fairytale.  Jade, Amber and Opal fight to protect Fairytale from evil creatures and dark magic.  Their success or failure will determine the fate of a young girl named Joa fighting for her life in a Paris hospital.  Ribbed with magic this novel will capture you interest the moment you pick it up and after that you won’t be able to put it down.

In the first book in the Pellinor Quartet, The Naming, Mearad works as a slave in Gilman’s Cot, a well guarded settlement where she was taken after the sack of Pellinor.  From here she is rescued by the bard Cadvan who becomes the mentor of her newly discovered bardic powers.  Mearad discovers the comfort and wonders of the bard’s school from where Mearad is sent on a quest to find the Tree Song, which will explain all of her history.  But before she realises it she is being perused by the dark master, The Nameless One.  Cadvan and Mearad flee and are soon not only pursued by the dark but by the light also.  Mearad’s journey continues in The Riddle (second book of Pellinor) and The Crow (second book of Pellinor). Coming soon is the fourth and final book in the Pellinor series, The Singing.  Alison Croggon is a wonderful author that spins the story right before your eyes.

I LOVE, love, love many of the <fill in the blank> for Dummies and the <fill in the blank> for Idiots books. They’re fun and I always learn something!

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens I know, a lot of folks were TORTURED by having to read this novel in literature classes, but I adored it, and went on to read several other of Dickens’ novels.  His imagery  is so realistic  and accurate that I could feel the cold murky fog as I read and when I came to the end of the novel, I felt cheated because I wanted more, so much more.

Orys & Crake, Margaret Atwood

The protagonist of Oryx and Crake is Snowman, clad only in a bed sheet and a Red Sox cap, who appears to be the last human being on Earth. He’s not entirely alone, however; strange hybrid beasts such as wolvogs, pigoons and rakunks are roaming freely. As well, a group of what he calls Crakers—strange human-like creatures—lives nearby. They bring Snowman food and consult him on matters that surpass their understanding; thus, Snowman comes across as a post-apocalyptic hermit guru. As the story develops, these assorted lifeforms are revealed to be the products of genetic engineering.

Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in the Republic of Gilead, a country formed within the borders of what was originally the United States of America after nuclear, biological, and chemical pollution rendered a large portion of the population sterile and a staged terrorist attack killed the President and Congress. After the attack, a revolution occurred which deposed the United States government and abolished the US Constitution. New theocratic governments, including the Republic of Gilead, were formed under the rule of a military dictatorship.

Almost  everything written by Maya Angelou…here are a few:

AND finally…

Sunday at the Pool in Kilgall by Gil Countemanche
Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish
Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Tudor Books by Philippa Gregory:
The Constant Princess
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Queen’s Fool
The Virgin’s Lover
The Other Queen