Tuesday 29 January 2013

My favourite book of 2012

The books I've read in 2012

'Before I Go To Sleep'  by S J Watson
'The Help'  by Kathryn Stockett
'The Uncommon Reader'  by Alan Bennett
'The Thirteenth Tale'  by Diana Setterfield
'Brave New World'  by Aldous Huxley
'The Casual Vacancy'  by J K Rowling
'To Kill A Mockingbird'  by Haper Lee
'Twilight'  by Stephanie Meyer
'New Moon'
'Eclipse'
'Breaking Dawn'
'The short second life of Bree Tanner'
'The Handmaid's Tale'  by Margaret Atwood
'Fallen'  by Lauren Kate
'Torment'
'Passion'
'Fallen in Love'
'Rapture'
'The Bookseller of Kabual'  by Asne Seierstad
'The five people you meet in Heaven'  by Mitch Albom
'One Day'  by David Nicholls
'The Hunger Games'  by Suzanne Collins
'Catching Fire'
'Mocking Jay'
'Pregnancy in not an illness...Hyperemesis Gravidarum IS'  by Laura Burton
'The Time Traveler's Wife'  Audrey Niffenegger
'World War Z'  by Max Brooks

When thinking about my favourite book of 2012, I think straight away to two books - 'Before I Go To Sleep' and 'The Thirteenth Tale'. I really really enjoyed both of these books and would highly recommend them both. But if I have to pick just one, I would say 'Before I Go To Sleep'.  This book had me hooked all the way through - I just couldn't put it down. I am really looking forward to when the movie comes out. If you haven't read this book yet, READ IT!!!

So the worse of my 2012 read, has to be 'Brave New World' and 'The Casual Vacancy'. The Casual vacancy was the book I never finished and still have no desire to!!!! Brave new world was just like pulling my teeth out. I have to say I also wouldn't recommend 'The Uncommon Reader' and 'The five people you meet in Heaven' (I know my friends who read this would recommend though!)

I have learnt over this last year that even though I have read some books which I have loved, others that have read them do not agree, and vice-versa. Books (reading) is a personal thing and many of us stay within the kind of same books which we like to read - this is something I had always done in the pass, read the same historical romantic novel. If I haven't listened to others and joined a bookclub then my range of books would have stayed the same. Thank you to all those who have suggested books to me and made me change my mind set in reading, especially my two friends Jen and Frances. Now I will try and read any books, books I never would have picked up, books like 'The Handmaid's Tale', 'The Bookseller of Kabul', 'World War Z' and more!!

Check out their blogs
Jen - http://www.jenthousandwords.com/  (Jen read 77books last year - 2012 and recommends some really good books)
Frances - http://50percentsuepageturners.blogspot.co.uk/

So do you have a favourite and worse book? What would you recommend me to read?

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