Bloody exams.

So it's exam season now. Kill me now please?
Mine start on Wednesday which means I'm not going to be able to do any fun reading until the end of May. :(

I'm quite annoyed at myself. I've been re-reading. In the past week I've re-read all the Bartimaeus books and some Harry Potter books. I need to stop doing this!

Anyway, very small update.

55. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
56. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Myers (Sorry)
57. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell

Currently Reading: 
Birds, Beasts and Other Relatives  - Gerald Durrell
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling (Yeah, I know it doesn't count towards the list but I'm still reading it. :p )

Long time no see..

I completely forgot about this blog. I suppose I should do an update although it's going to be fun trying to remember all that I've read since the beginning of February.

I haven't actually read that much. I've been spending most of my time staying at a friend's house where I was separated from my books. I did read some of his though but only 3 or 4.

Anyhoo, so far:

29. The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell
30. Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell
31. Excalibur - Bernard Cornwell
32. The Ring of Soloman - Jonathan Stroud 
33. Equal Rights - Terry Pratchett
34. Jingo - Terry Pratchett

35. The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett

36. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett

37. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett

38. Divine by Mistake - P.C. Cast 

39. Divine by Choice- P.C. Cast

40. Divine by Blood - P.C. Cast

41. The Prophecy of the Sisters - Michelle Zink

42. The Wind Singer - William Nicholson

43. Slaves of the Mastery - William Nicholson

44. Firesong - William Nicholson

45. The Last Legion - Valerio Massimo Manfredi

46. Sharpe's Fury - Bernard Cornwell

47. Sharpe's Siege - Bernard Cornwell

48. Sharpe's Revenge- Bernard Cornwell 

49. Sharpe's Waterloo - Bernard Cornwell 

50. Sharpe's Devil - Bernard Cornwell

51. Shadow Kissed - Richelle Mead

52. Blood Promise - Richelle Mead

53. The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud

54. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 

That's most of them, I think. When I get back to my room at university I'll add on any that I've missed. (I'm at home right now so did this list from memory.) 

Currently Reading: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Amazon is evil.

I have come to the conclusion that amazon is evil. Especially as I'm a student. They make it so damn easy to buy books and I can't really afford them!

Oh well. New books from amazon are:

The Ring of Solomon - Jonathan Stroud
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Jingo - Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett

I should start getting them on Friday :D 

Anyway, update on the reading list: 

25. Lord and Ladies - Terry Pratchett

26. Maskerade - Terry Pratchett

27. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

28. The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud 

Yep, I'm having a bit of a Pratchett thing at the moment. Can't wait for all my new Discworld books to arrive! With the exception of Going Postal, I haven't read any of them. (Long story, my brother had nearly all of the Discworld books, I was working my way through them but they got stolen so now I'm attempting to re-build the collection. Although they are going to be my books but he can borrow them if he wants :P ) 

Currently Reading: The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell 

I read far too much..

Need to add some more books to the read-list. I read far too much. I was kept awake by my bloody flatmates yet AGAIN last night so I read instead of sleeping. Although it did mean that I missed my lecture because I was so tired I fell asleep about 10am. :o

So new books:
23. Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
24. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

Currently reading: Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett

365 days... 200 books.

So my main goal for 2011, apart from losing weight, is to read 200 different books. Not necessarily 200 new books that I haven't read before. I LOVE re-reading books but for this list I can only count one reading of all the books I like to read a lot. For example, I read the Harry Potter series about 9 or 10 times a year, and have actually already read it twice since the 1st but I can only count them once.

Considering that it's already 25 days into 2011, I have already read some books. I have read:
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
7. Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows.
8. Beyond the Deepwoods - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
9. Stormchaser - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
10. Midnight Over Sanctaphrax - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
11. Empire of Silver - Conn Iggulden
12. Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathan Stroud
13. Oath Breaker - Michelle Paver
14. Ghost Hunter - Michelle Paver
15. Heaven's Net is Wide - Lian Hearn
16. The Harsh Cry of the Heron - Lian Hearn
17. Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
18. Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
19. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
20. Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
21. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
22. From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris

So that's so far (not in order of how I read them BTW). Yeah I know, most of them are children's books but I like reading books that I enjoy and can read in about an hour. I must reiterate that the True Blood books (the ones by Charlaine Harris ) were read when I was very ill and I couldn't concentrate on much else. (Harry Potter got read twice when I was ill as well. :p )

There are some books that I definitely want to read this year.  Going to list them now. The ones with a * by them are books that I haven't read/have attempted before but didn't finish.

- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë *
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Villette - Charlotte Brontë *
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility -  Jane Austen
- Emma - Jane Austen *
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen *
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen *
- Lady Susan - Jane Austen *
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
- The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
- The Silmarillion - J.R.R Tolkien *
- Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - J.R.R Tolkien *
- Unfinished Tales - J.R.R Tolkien *
- The Children of Húrin - J.R.R Tolkien *
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún - J.R.R Tolkien *
- The Book of Lost Tales (Parts 1 and 2) - J.R.R Tolkien *
- The Lays of Beleriand - J.R.R Tolkien *
- The Peoples of Middle-earth - J.R.R Tolkien *
- Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle - M. C. Scott
- Boudica: Dreaming the Bull - M. C. Scott
- Boudica: Dreaming the Hound - M. C. Scott
- Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear - M. C. Scott
- Rome: The Emperor's Spy - M. C. Scott
- Rome: The Coming of the King - M. C. Scott * (Will be released 12th May :D)
- Night Mares - M. C. Scott *
- No Good Dead - M. C. Scott *
- Hen's Teeth - M. C. Scott *
- Stronger than Death - M. C. Scott *
- The Iliad - Homer *
- The Odyssey - Homer
- The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell
- Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell
- Excalibur - Bernard Cornwell
- Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden
- Lords of the Bow - Conn Iggulden
- Bones of the Hills - Conn Iggulden
- The Gates of Rome - Conn Iggulden
- The Death of Kings - Conn Iggulden
- The Field of Swords- Conn Iggulden *
- The Gods of War - Conn Iggulden *

And whatever Disworld books I can get my hands on. (I currently have 9, all of which I will be reading again sometime this year :p )
I also have to fit in reading for my degree and doing essays and all that fun stuff as well. (I'm not counting uni books in the 200 BTW.)

Anyhoo, I'm off :D

Currently Reading: Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett

Dorthach vi mar han?

Ho hum.. I have finally given into the craze and created a blog. Pity me. Please do.

Anyhoo, this is mainly a place for me to record all my insane ramblings (AKA bitching about the world) and also my goal of reading 200 books in 2011. I should probably explain that I mean 200 different books. I know I easily read over 200 books a year but I'm an avid re-reader of books so I probably only actually read about 80 or 90 books in a year but I read them usually at least twice.

As for the name of the blog; dorthach vi mar han? means are you part of this world? The language is Sindarian which is one of Tolkien's Elvish languages. Oh yeah, I am completely bonkers about Tolkien BUT with being dyslexic and dyspraxic I find his writing style really hard to read. This means that despite 5 years of trying I have yet to completely read The Silmarillion. That is going to change this year. I am going to read it. I AM! In the list of 200 books I'm going to try to read at least 9 of my Tolkien books. I'm going to state this here: The Lord of the Rings is one book. ONE! It is NOT a trilogy. If you want to know why read the wikipedia page. :P

Anyhoo, that is all for now. *crawls back into Hobbit hole*