Scribe’s Bookshelf
Welcome to my bookshelf. Below are three lists:
1. The books that I plan to read soon.
2. The book I am reading now.
3. The books I have read in the past.
Many of the listings will have a My Review link. If you follow the link, you will be taken to the post I wrote upon completion of the book. As I’m a slow reader, it makes more sense to group the books into years instead of months.
Plan to Read
None planned at present
Currently Reading
Odd One Out
by Monica McInerney
Sylvie has always been the odd one out in her family. She’s about to turn 30 and she’s stuck in a major rut. Then her brother steps in with a rescue plan. Within days, she’s doing things she’s never done before and she mets a lovely man. But then her brother reveal one final challenge…
Genre: Mainstream, Chick Lit
Started: 24 October 2007
Finished Reading
2007
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden - Wizard. Harry is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. The police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, but where there’s black magic, there’s a black mage behind it. Magic. It can get a guy killed.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Finished: 21 October 2007
No Plot? No Problem!
by Chris Baty
You’ve always wanted to write, but…just haven’t gotten around to it. No Plot? No Problem! is the kick in the pants you’ve been waiting for. At midnight on 31st October the train departs. Fifty thousand words. Thirty days. An unforgettable ride.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Writing, How-to
Finished: 7 September 2007 | My Review
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J K Rowling
Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing - if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous task Professor Dumbledore has left him?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Finished: 12 August 2007 | My Review
Eglantine (Ghost Story)
by Catherine Jinks
We moved into our new house because my brother and I wanted rooms of our own. So what happened? Bethan’s room turned out to be haunted, and we ended up having to share again! Ray tried painting over the ghostly writings on the walls, but it kept coming back, so I took matters into my own hands…
Genre: Young Adult
Finished: 26 July 2007 | My Review
Left Behind
by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear. Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror stricken as loved ones vanish before their eyes. In the midst of global chaos, Rayford Steele searches for his family, for answers, for truth.
Genre: Christain
Finished: 22 July 2007 | My Review
Illusion
by Paula Volsky
For centuries the magical aristocracy of the Exalted has ruled over the land of Vonahr. But the powers are fading and this has not escaped the notice of the populace. Eliste’s, maid of honour to the queen, world is ripped apart by the mayhem of revolution and the violent mystical weapons of the past.
Genre: Fantasy
Finished: 26 June 2007 | My Review
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
If you had the chance to go back and fix what you did wrong in life, would you take it? For One More Day will make you smile. It will make you wistful. It will make you blink back tears of nostalgia. But most of all, it will make you believe in the eternal power of a mother’s love.
Genre: Mainstream
Finished: 26 May 2007 | My Review
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J K Rowling
The last Harry saw of Dumbledore was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldemort. Why did the Headmaster want to see him before he returned to Hogwarts? The year has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine…
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Finished: 21 May 2007 | My Review
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
by Jenny Nimmo
Charlie Bone hoped the new term at Bloor’s Academy would hold no nasty surprises. But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from 1916 into the present day. With malicious Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, and the Bloors out to catch him, Henry will need Charlie’s help to stay alive.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Finished: 31 March 2007 | My Review
Leaving Early: Youth Suicide by Bronwyn Donaghy
For us surviving parents, this grief is ever after. The isolation, guilt, despair and frustration that most of us feel is the legacy our children have left us. Now, too late, we understand what they must have been going through in the days and hours leading up to their death.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Suicide
Finished: 3 March 2007 | My Review
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Harold S Kushner
Filled with compassion, this book will give you comfort and strength when tragedy threatens to take away your faith, and help you understand that God can fill the deepest needs of an anguished heart.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Inspirational
Finished: 11 February 2007 | My Review
Midnight for Charlie Bone
by Jenny Nimmo
Charlie doesn’t want to believe he can hear thoughts of people in photographs. But his horrible aunts are delighted - it means he is one of the chosen and must attend Bloor’s Academy. Once there, he finds his classmates have mystical powers too, but that’s not all…
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Finished: 18 January 2007 | My Review