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December 5, 2012Day Seven – A Bottle of Hoxton Gin
December 7, 2012Behind todays advent calendar door is a beautiful illustrated Folio Society copy of All Quiet on the western front.
The Folio Society believe books should be as beautiful as they are interesting and produce gorgeous editions of all sorts of classic books that make beautiful gifts. This copy of All Quiet on the western front is bound in cloth and printed with a design based on a photograph of a bombed street at Fort Souville, 1916.
The book was published in 1929 and was based on the authors own experiences in the trenches during WWI. It is the most famous German anti war novel, and this edition is translated into English by Brian Murdoch.
For your chance to win the book leave me a comment telling me what your favourite book was that you’ve read this year (I’m always looking out for new reads!).
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My favourite book this year has been “The Kingmaker’s Daughter” by Philippa Gregory,it’s about Anne Neville,daughter of the Earl of Warwick and is the second in the Cousin’s War series.I love Philippa Gregory’s historical novels and always get her newest one for my birthday or Christmas (depending when it’s released).She writes from the point of view of the title female character and brings history to life through her.Definitely worth a read xx
Somme Mud by EPF Lynch. It’s a great book, not far behind this in the WW1 stakes. AQOTWF is still one of my favourite books ever.
It’s not fiction, but my favorite book this year was “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking.” A real eye-opener. But I also devoured EVERYTHING that Brandon Sanderson ever wrote this year; he’s a fantastic read.
My favourite book was the Night Circus. Beautiful imagery and a great story.
The Hunger Games Series
Shades of Grey
My favourite book is A Tale of two cities and I’m currently reading Vina Jacksons Eighty Days Yellow! Thanks for the comp.
My favourite book this year was the astonishing “The Hare with Amber Eyes” by (I think) Nicolas de Waal. An amazing true story of beautiful things and tragic events.
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
I’ve read lots of good books this year. I enjoyed ‘Alone in Berlin’ by Hans Fallada. It is a book about Germany in the Second World War and acts of resistance inside the country. ‘The Snow Child’ by Eowyn Ivey was also very atmospheric and a beautiful story.
My favourite is a re-read of The Hobbit. It was read to me when I was young, but I thought I’d re-visit it in preparation for the film!
The christmas store/ Read it every year at this time and always the best book so far!
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Africa Reich by Guy Saville
In praise of Savagery by Warwick Cairns.True tale of a young,modern day explorer meeting legendary traveller Thesiger at the end of his long,eventful life.
My favourite book I read this year is Great Expectations, can’t believe it took me so long to get round to reading it!
The best book I have read this year has been The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – really touching story.
Best read this year is rediscovering the John Jakes trilogy of the Civil War starting with “North and South!
Currently enjoying the wintry read that is ‘The Snow Child’ by Eowyn Ivey.
The Island by Victoria Hislop – I love Greece and could really realate to that book – loved the historical side of the story!
lee childs, wanted man…david eddings,
I really enjoyed reading “The Help” which was absolutely wonderful. I haven’t seen the film yet though.
i have started reading The Help-havent finished yet but it is fab so far.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling- fantastic book and was so hooked, read it in one sitting!
My favourite book this year has to be The Seance, its a Victorian Murder Mystery, a fantastic can’t put down book :0)
I have not read one single bit of fiction this year! I’ve been nose in books to help my son and for college, maybe the New Year will give me some time to relax and read for pleasure.
Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson, if you love fantasy then you need to read Erikson – he is Tolkein’s true heir and then goes one better. The best fantasy writer around, no contest ;o)
Any Human Heart – William Boyd
I love goodnight Mr Tom- I read it every year and it still makes me cry!
Great prizes retrochick- i enjoy entering every day
50 shades
I have two favourites! The Help and Eat, Pray, Love. One of my new year’s resolutions was to read more, think I’ll be making it again for 2013…. and possibly every year after…not sure you can ever read too much!
Death of Kings – Bernard Cornwell
i have read a few good ones, before i met you by lisa jewell was fantastic, also the nightmare by lars kepler was a really gripping read, i also enjoyed gone in seconds by aj cross .
The First Time I Saw Your Face by Hazel Osmond – life can change in a heartbeat, and it does. Lovely book I was lucky enough to win in a competiton and loved reading it.
Not my usual genre of books but I LOVED the Hunger Games Trilogy particularly the first book – so different and refreshing!
the affair by lee child – i love jack reacher!
Madam Bouvery, weirldy made me appreciate life more..
I love the Go Between it perfcetly captures the atmosphere of its era.
That’s easy – Miranda Hart’s new book “Is it me?” I giggled and snorted all the way through it. I rationed myself to a chapter a night because I knew I would be disappointed when I got to the end and couldn’t have my daily fix of Miranda any more. One of the things Miranda advocates in the book is ‘galloping’ as a way of relieving stress … I was staying in a hotel in Swansea with my husband the night I read that chapter, and yes, I did gallop down the hotel corridor the next morning, and yes, it was therapeutic and yes, my husband did capture the moment on video .. it was one of those times when I wish technology hadn’t come such a long way; whose bright idea was it to incorporate video recording capabilities into mobiles anyway? Silly idea!
My favourite book this year was Stephen King’s, The Long Walk
All of Dan Brown’s books.
I would have to say this – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yellow-Blue-Tibia-Adam-Roberts/dp/0575083581
– Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts. It is completely surreal. Aliens, atomic meltdowns, Russian secret service antics. I loved it.
Certain Shades of Gray
I read the Song of Ice and Fire series. Not normally what I’d go for but wow I loved them!
my favourite book this year is the lord of the rings
Cross Country Murder Song by Philip Wilding. It’s just brilliant full stop.
the hobbit
The Book Theif
loved P.S I Love you
my sisters keeper
All of the Song of Fire & Ice series
Wonder by R.J. Palacio – a fantastic book. A really well written YA book about what it’s like to be normal… really sweet and heartwarming – well worth the read.
Wuthering Heights
I loved Stephen Kings’ 11/22/63.
Anything by Georgette Heyer, I’ve re read hers so many times and I still love them
NICE
I enjoyed Days of Grace very much. Also set in war time but focusing on an evacuee.
I love history and I love reading!
Agent 6, I got it last christmas and have been rereading it on and off all year. It’s the final part of the Child 44 series but can be read on its own again.
I loved the Secret Garden when I was a child and it’s still one of my favourite books. In complete contrast I enjoyed reading the ‘Fifty Shades Trilogy’.
hunger games
Good book
Camilla Lackberg The ice princess
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
The Schemer by Kimberley Chambers…brilliant from page one right up to the last word! 🙂
great prize
The Hunger Games so far! Though I felt down when I saw the movie
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by far the best book I’ve read in a long time and is worthwhile rereading to pick up bits you’ve missed in the rush to get to the end.
My favourite book was The Paris Wife by Paula McLain which is about Ernest Hemingway wife. The descriptions of 1920s Paris are fabulous. I also loved the Hunger Game trilogy for the strong female lead and the Night Circus which was beautiful. (can you tell this was a hard question for me?!)
My favourite book i read this year was before i go to sleep, it kept me gripped all the way through with the twists and turns….
Fearney by James Long
My favourite book this year was the Hobbit, again! My favourite book from my childhood
Broken Harbour by Tana French
My favourite book this year and every year is dombey and Son by Charles dickens
The Rook by Daniel O’malley – really good read 🙂
The Hunger Games
Dina’s Book by Herbjørg Wassmo
The Hunger Games
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
You Before Me, loved it and shed a few tears while reading it 🙂
Trawler by Redmond O’Hanlon
Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. Absolutely brilliant and a beautiful cover design by Barbara Hulanicki.
The Hunger Games
My favourite book this year has to be Dame Vera Lynn’s autobiography. It was amazing what she went through just to put a smile on our fighting lads faces and to let them know that the amazing females in their lifes loved them to bits.
fearney by James long is a great read, worth a thumbs up and thumb through 🙂
My favourite book i read this year was The Kid brilliant true story which easily touches peoples hearts. Would highly reccomend
Currently reading the snow child which is good
I re read Washington Square and still think its great 🙂
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
My favourite books this year have been John Le Carre books (particularly Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Daphne du Maurier, especially her short stories 🙂 Beautiful, haunting writers! xxx
The 50 shades trilogy
Ash by james herbert, he only writes very few horrors now, but they seem to get better
Spider by Linda Strachan – I adored this book!
The Kingmaker’s Daughter by Phillipa Gregory – love her books. xoxo
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
50 Shades because every girl needs a little excitment
The Twelve – Justin Cronin
I worked my way through the Lyn MacDonald books about World War One, which are not fiction, but are fascinating accounts of what happened on the battlefields and are filled with the words of the soldiers themselves. I got them second hand – I’m not sure whether they are still in print.
My favourite book this year was probably Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories as I found it really easy to pick up and put down and the stories are just the right length for reading after a long day.
Has to be Jasper FForde – One of our Thursdays is Missing – but for best effect you’d need to start with The Eyre Affair and read through the series. Publisers Weekly described it as “James Bond meets Harry Potter in the Twilight Zone” – the series is clever, funny and absolutely addictive.
I really enjoyed Paper Towns by John Green. It was a Kindle 99p deal of the day thing and I found it really easy to read and couldn’t put it down. Totally different to my normal book choice but I recommend it!
50 shades of grey
My favourite this year was The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. I read all the Harry Hole novels this year and would recommend them to anyone.
I do Love Remarque, and I haven’t read this novel yet
I’ve been re-reading Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome and it became a take-it-everywhere book for the summer-2012
The Life of Pi – I can’t wait till see the film but I bet it won’t be as good as the book, it’s amazing & a must read!
I read Nella Last’s War and really enjoyed it, but her later ones are a bit sadder. And I’m ashamed to say I enjoyed the Hunger Games books, at least so I understand what people are talking about.
I’m another hunger games trilogy fan. I was given a kindle for christmas last year and since then I’ve read rather a lot of books – some great and some really awful. I’ve also found that I’m a fan of agatha raisin books, much to my surprise. Its certainly not my usual reading style but that the beauty of the kindle.
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder – a fantastic book, reread again!
Me before you by jojo moyes… Read it in 3 days!
I read a lovely book a few months ago called ‘The Borrower’ by Rebecca Makkai.
It’s a gorgeous book that really highlights how special books can be. A must read!
My favourite book that I have read this year is probably Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
My favorite book this year has been an old book that a friend let me borrow. His name is Elric and he’s named after the main character in the book. It’s called Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moor. It is set in a far away land much like The Lord of the Rings series and I couldn’t put it down! Tales of love that can not be, magic, a tortured soul, and a quest for revenge. The best part is they are short stories but they all slowly tie in with bits and pieces leading to the end of his quest. I’m on the second book right now and I’m not done with it yet but the first is amazing and the second is really living up to it too!
those mitford girls – is fab x
the Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
The hunger games
My fave book so far this year was Kushiels Scion.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light – full of political in-correctness and brilliant!
The bawdy, caddish adventures of Harry Flashman have entertained me for a few years now. They’re so crammed with history I’d never normally pick up on and this was an eye-opener on the facts of the Indian/British war in 1800s. It’s a book that makes you cry and laugh out loud – not at the same time though.
Great competition!
My fav book i’ve read this year was called the day the angels come. a real story about a wee boy who lost his mother very young and was having to deal with the prospect of his beloved dad dying of cancer
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, amazing, mind-bending short stories!
The Book Thief
50 shades of grey
I’m reading The best exotic Marigold hotel and throoughly enjoying it
A cat named Bob
The Sea, by John Banville!
Blood River by Tim Butcher – in the spirit of the original explorers!
“Village School” by Miss Read, or any of her other books. They’re perfect, easy-to-read escapism if you want to leave the modern world for a bit!
I think it was Passage to India by Forster or The Jewel in the crown by Scott (you know, the one the tv-series was based on) I read Remarque’s books at about 15 and I love(d) them dearly. He was a remarkable auther!
The best book I’ve read this year is probably ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ by Lionel Shriver. It’s really quite a scary book.
My favourite read this year was ‘The Little Stranger’ by Sarah Waters – a spooky tale set after WWII. A rambling old house is the perfect setting.
Porcelina xx
Whispers Under Ground. Harry Potter meets The Bill. After the watershed.
A to Z of how to do india on the cheap
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes – not a new book, but absolutely amazing.
I’m in love with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand this year!
has got to be 50 shades of grey
Dubliners by James Joyce. 🙂
Got to be eat, pray, love. Fantastic book
My favourite books this year have been the Game of Thrones series. A bit heavy going to get into but once you’re in, you can’t put them down.
My favourite book of all time is Blitz Cat by Robert Westall, I’ve read it a dozen times and it’s always good!
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake- a fantastic tale of greed, murder and fantasy
I know it’s a children’s book, but my favourite book of the year has been a boy in a dress by David Walliams
Jeffrey Deaver – Carte Blanche
Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan, joint winner of the Terry Pratchett Anywhere but Here Anywhen but Now award.
I’ve also enjoyed reading Douglas Adams Dirk Gently series. Douglas Adams is ace, always makes me laugh out loud!
Hello, I’ve been a long time stalker of your blog, so I feel a bit of a fraud for only commenting now.
My favourite book that I’ve read this year would have to be Irina Baronova’s ‘Ballet, Life and Love’. It’s pretty much unheard of, but it is the autobiography of a once well known Ballerina. The ballerina – Irina Baronova – had a pretty fascinating life – she lived through the Russian revolution and then two World wars, alongside civil wars in various countries – as well as being married twice, and all the while dancing professionally. A lot of famous faces make an appearance (Grace Kelly, Shirley Temple, Vivien Leigh… to name a few), alongside well known ballet dancers (think Baryshnikov et all). Overall it is a completely fascinating book, and it includes some lovely photos part way through.
Happy Christmas. 🙂
hunger games
The Beautiful and Damned by F.Scott Fitzgerald. :))))
Madeleine ~ Heartbreaking
My fave is Restless by Michael Boyd
I think my favorite book this year was the Mary Astor autobiography
50 sheds of grey
my fav book has to be call the midwife – the books are much better than the tv series with more depth and feeling
The Severn Bridge Railway by Ron Huxley
The best book I read this year was Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I found it a really compelling read.