Books read 2006

1The Thompson Gunner (I cheated and skimmed throught the 2nd half)(library copy)
2The private Life of the cat who (library copy)
3 peepshow
4 If only it were true (library copy)
5 A wrinkle in time
6 Rubdown
7 The sisterhood of the travelling pants
8 Laylas Story
9 The second summer of the sisterhood
10 Cell
11 Tully
12 Dear venny, Dear Saffron (library copy)
13 The man who ate a 747
14 Lost and found
15 Cloudstreet ARC
16 The True Green of Hope
17 The Prophecy of the gems ARC
18 The Bone people ARC
19 the tenko Club
20 Grace
21 My Story Riding with Thunderbolt
22 My Story A Marathon of her own
23 My Story Our Don Bradman
24 My Story Africa World war 2
25 Cocaine Blues
26 The Jerilderie Letter
27 We need to talk about Kevin
28 Behind the Scenes at the museum ARC
29 Stepford Wives
30 Tirra Lirra by the river ARC
31 The Orange Girl
32 Red Thread (library copy)
33 The year Nick McGowan came to stay
34 Usher
35 Njunjul the sun (library copy) ARC
36 Who killed Angelique
37 Who Killed Bianca
38 Who killed Camilla
39 Picnic at Hanging rock
40 Home from Home
41 Confessions of a reformed Dieter
42 The Shark Net ARC
43 The Secret History ARC
44 The idea Of Perfection ARC
45 In my fathers Den
46 Holes
47 Bush Oranges
48 Johnno
49 Flying High
50 My Story Darwin
51 Paper Nautilus
52 My story Outback
53 How I live Now
54 Three dog night
55 The Tenth Circle
56 The Alchemist
57 Firehouse
58 Romeo of the Underworld
59 Hotel Bellevue
60 The house on River Terrace
61 Little twist of texas
62 Monica Bloom
63 She's come Undone
64 The Tiger Project
65 Under the Mulberry tree
66 The Naked Heart
67 I know this much is true
68 Absolutely Faking It
69 Lisey's Story
70 The five people you meet in Hell
71 Never Let me go
72 Eucalyptus (quit half way due to inducing narcolepsy)
73 Dragonkeeper
74 New Zealand DK Guide
75 A guide to Fraser Island
76 Literary Trivia
77 The Good Web site Guide 2005 (Uk version and it lists bookcrossing as started in UK!)
78 Lonely Planet Adelaide and South Australia
79 101 things to do before you die
80 Story Bridge Idea to Icon
81 Signspotting
82 UntouristBrisbane
83 Kiwis might Fly
84 Blackwattle Road (Edited to add that I finished it 4 hours before 2007!)

Books read 2007

Books read 2007
One Sunday
Strange Rain
One More River to Cross
The Long Road of the Junkmailer
The Road
The Vintners Luck
Bookcrossing through Middleearth
Farewell my Ovaries
Journey To Eureka
Love,Shelley
Eragon
Odd One Out
The Bone Flute
Whale Rider
Booklover
Ella Minnow Pea
Bad Twin
Sharing Blood
Speak Softly, she'll hear
Chickenfeed ----20
Happy Birthday and all that
Caught in the Headlights
Each Way Bet
Stiff
Bones (tv series tie in)
Nights of rain and Stars
Shallows
Only a Mother could love him
Three weeks in Bali
Cherry Pie
The secret dreamworld of a shopoholic (I hate Bex)
Eldest
Nineteen Minutes
Under the Green Moon
A wedding in December
Baby Daze (read about 1/3 of it)
The Denniston Rose
To the boy in Berlin
Underground
Bend in the river ---40
My Story Refugee
Somehow form a family
Crime and Tide Brisbane River Mysteries
Murder Under the Mangoes
Peril under the Pandanus
The Motorcycle cafe
Heart of Coal
Catching the Current
Fly the Rebel Flag Battle at Eureka
Break No Bones ---50
Murder by Water
The lime bar (quit half way through as it sucked!)
Three dirty women and the garden of death (quit half way through as it is very badly written)
The book thief
Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows
Earthly Delights
One Book Many Brisbanes
Red Velvet Memoirs of a working girl
Bridge to Terabithia
Bubbles Ablaze
Heatwave
Joel and Cat set the Story Straight
For love and a Beetle
Bubbles in Trouble
Bubbles Unbound
Bad to the Bones Qld crimewriters
Light on Snow
The Phillip Island Murder
Ticket to Trouble
The Bizarre death of Karla Borsch (1/2) --70
The Nanny Diaries
Stiff
The boy in the striped Pajamas
The Three Pronged dagger
Ipod! therefore I am!
The Dragon man
Bones to Ashes
Grave Secrets
Bare Bones(Yep I spent a weekend with Tempe!)
Heartsick ----80
Cross Bones (Thanks L1nda for continuing my Tempe obsession!)
Inside out, upside down
Speedcleaning
The Kite Runner
Across the Nightingale floor The Otori episode 1
Hot Iron Corrugated sky, 100 years of Queensland writing
Mary Mary
Those Faraday Girls
The Form Guide
The Christmas Visitor ---90
Pop goes the Weasel
Hell Island
Q is for Quarry
Red Leaves
Badground
Shopaholic and baby (I still hate Bex but I'm curious how she can cope with a child)
Sunrise on Kusatsu harbour
Across the Nightingale floor --98
No shitting in the toilet

Blaze

Books Read 2008

Books Read 2008
Deja Dead (yahoo Tempe again!)
PS I Love you
It's my party and I'll knit if I want to
Life Expectancy
Death du jour
Deadly Decisions
Fatal Voyage
Touch Me I'm sick
Diary of a Married Call Girl
The Timewasters letters
Friday Night Knitting club
Cancervixen
A Spot of Bother
The showgirl and the Brumby
Betrayed
The Memory Keepers Daughter
The Road to paradise (mums)
A Thousand Splendid suns
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl
How to Kill your Husband 20
A Quality of Light
The Husband
Unlocking the meaning of LOST
Bed Rest
Real Wired Child
Postcards from the bed
Clan of the Cave Bear
Girlfriend in a coma
Rainbow Boys
Lonely Planet Sydney
Change of Heart
Danny Wallace and the Journey to the centre of the Universe
One for the Money
Broken
Almost French
Diaries of an Internet Lover
The Apricot Colonel
Sheer Abandon
In One Skin
Menace in the Mulga 40
One Book Many Brisbanes 3
The Front
Rex Granger
Tomaree
The Almost Moon
The Notebook
Bypass
My Horizontal Life
Pieces of Blue
The Broken Book 50
Au reviour
Last Drinks
The washerwomans Dream
Deadly Tide
Bubbles A Broad
Man Bites Dog
Head Over Heels
Amanda's Wedding
1st to Die
2nd Chance 60
3rd Degree
The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy
Secret Sydney
The Lucy Family Alphabet
Black Ice
Still Waters
Shopaholic ties the Knot
In Touch With Grace
Wife For Hire
Serendipity 70
Lovestruck
Life on the refrigerator door
The Wishlist
Bet Me
All my life for sale
Nights in Rodanthe
A Taste for It
When a Tree Falls
Homecoming
Wits End before Breakfast 80
Booklust
Fleeced!
17 Browning Street
Voodoo doll
More Booklust
Eat,Pray, Love
Odd Thomas
Forever Odd
Brother Odd
Odd Hours
Living the Good Life

RiverLife Brisbane River

A Different view of the River.
Minimum 8 years.

Things To D0:
Hire a kickbike, a regular bike or rollerblades
Guided Kayaking sessions
RockClimbing/Abseiling
Pumpabiking
Night Kayaking sessions with Wine and Canapes or Hahn and Prawns

Getting There:
Catch a ferry from Eagle Street to Thornton Street
Walk over the Goodwill Bridge

Don't Forget:
Hat,sunscreen and water

Check Out:
The Sand Tobogganing run through their sister company at Tangalooma.
The view from the top of the cliffs

Other Options:
After 2 guided Kayaking sessions you can hire a canoe on your own.

More Information:
http://www.riverlife.com.au/

Rocky Horror Picture Show With Live Floor show

Something different, 18+ event

Cards for Sorrow are a Brisbane group who host showings of RHPS with a live floorshow, at The Globe in the Valley, the same cinema RHPS screened at during the 70's.
Tickets are $15 and bookings are recommended 0733975847

Audience participation is encouraged (but no mess), sometimes prizes are given out for the best costume too.



More Information:
http://www.kristianfletcher.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rockyhorrorbrisbane

Woodford

Woodford is a lovely small country town to visit.

Things to Do:
Ride the Durundur Railway
Visit the Storeybrook Herb Cottage
In Dec-Jan the Woodford Folk Festival is on (free buses from Caboolture Train Station)

Getting There:
Brisbane Buslines runs a bus from Caboolture
http://www.brisbanebuslines.com.au/timetables/country/default.asp

Don't Forget:
Sunscreen and a hat

Check Out:
Elvis Parsley at Grapeland in the main street.
The Woodford Lions Country Markets are on the 3rd Sunday.

Warning:
The train line only operates on the 1st and 3rd Sundays

Other Options:
Storeybrook Cottage has a B&B.

More Information:
http://www.angrms.org.au/index.html
http://www.storeybrook.com.au/train.html
http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/

Ipswich

Ipswich has enough things to do to keep you busy for a few days or a few visits!

Things to Do:
Visit the Railway Workshops
Visit Queens Park and the Nature Centre
Visit Global Arts Centre at the Ipswich Art Gallery
Bushwalks at Denmark Hill Conservation Park
Follow the Ipswich Heritage Trail
Enjoy the new Riverwalk area and visit this area at night to see the creature light show

Getting There:
Catch a train to Ipswich

Don't Forget:
Sunscreen and Hats
Queens Park has a kiosk, BBQ facilities and a lookout

Check Out:
The old Railway Bridge remnants behind the shopping centre on the edge of the river.

Other Options:
Catch a train further on to Rosewood
Visit the grave of Dan Kelly in the Ipswich Cemetery

More Information:
http://www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/
http://www.ipswichcentral.com.au/river/
http://www.theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au/
http://www.heritagetrails.qld.gov.au/attractions/ipswich2.html
http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_ipswich/parks_reserves_precincts/parks_search/index.php?id=75
http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/writings_hall.html