Saturday Wishlist #7

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #7 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.

 I seem to be going through a Victorian ghost story phase. I read The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (my review is here) earlier this week and now I just want to read more!

The Woman in White is completely different, although the titles are similar. It was published in 1859 while Ms Hill's book is a modern title and this one features a female heroine.

Specifically, I am wishing for the Vintage edition to match all my other Vintage classics!

Well I did say I was going through a phase, did I not?

I think everybody has seen the film version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the one with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane. I used to love that film; we'd watch it at every sleepover when we were fourteen or so.

Now, at 22 years old, it's much less scary to me and I'm dying (hehe) to read the book version.

And now for something completely different...

I have Carolyn Turgeon's Godmother book on my TBR and I've been told by numerous people how brilliant it is. I'm sure that after reading it, I'll immediately want the next one... especially since I read a mermaidish book yesterday and loved it :)

Saturday Wishlist #6

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #6 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.

 I guarantee that this will be the very next book that I buy, I'm dying to read it. It's How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran and I can see that it looks amazing just from by brief flick through on Friday.

It's a semi-autobiography with a feminist slant. Apparently Ms Moran has a column somewhere, but I've never come across it.

I can't wait to get paid on Friday.

I'm going through a bit of a Grace Kelly phase - the beautiful 1950s movie star who ran off and married the Prince of Monaco. From movie star to Princess, it's every girl's dream!

The book is Grace Kelly Style: Fashion for Hollywood's Princess by Kristina Haugland. It's a big glossy book, published by the Victoria & Albert Museum to coincide with an exhibiton of Ms Kelley's clothes. It provides a nice biography of her life and work, with emphasis on her signature fashion style.

Right, Blogger has stubbornly decided that it doesn't actually want me to upload any images today, thank you very much, so you're all just going to have to picture Forgotten by Cat Patrick in your pretty little heads. 

I saw that one on my Waterstones too and as it's on a 3 for 2 offer with How To Be A Woman, it will probably also be working its way onto my shelves on Friday.


The rest of my wishlist can be found here.

Saturday Wishlist #5

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #5 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.

 
 This is the most recent addition to my wishlist - Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll by M. G. Lord. It was recommended in Cinderella Ate My Daughter as the best guide to the history of Barbie and so it hoppity skipped onto my Bottomless Pit of an Amazon Wishlist.

I loved Barbie as a child and I'm still interested in the impact of particular toys on children and feminism and so I can't wait to read this one.

I read Carrie Fisher's short autobiography, Wishful Drinking, last week (my review is here) and found that she was a hell of a lot funnier than I could possibly have imagined.

This book, Postcards From The Edge, is fiction but if it's even half as well-written as her autobiography,it should be brilliant.

Lastly, just to get away from books-I-want-to-read-because-of-other-books.... Delirium by Lauren Oliver.

I'm featuring this today because I was browsing through my Amazon wishlist a few minutes ago, saw this book... and realised that I dreamt about it last night. Seriously. I don't remember anything else, other than I was reading this book, but if that's not a Sign that I should write about it today, I don't know what is.


So those are my three wishlisted books this week, but you can see the rest of my wishlist here :)

Hanna's Saturday Wishlist #4

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #4 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.

 This is Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, and it's pretty much The Hunger Games for grown-ups.  I do suspect that Ms Collins got the general concept for her books from here, although obviously there are a huge number of differences.


A group of Japanese children are shipped off to an arena where they're forced to kill each other. The last one standing wins. Sound familiar?

I've seen the film and it's brutal. Definitely not YA!


Divergent by Veronica Roth


I've been seeing reviews of this on YA book blogs for a while now, but for some reason I just instantly decided it wasn't for me and skipped it without even reading the synopsis. Because, you know, it's always a good idea to judge a book on it's title.


For some reason though, I actually took the time to look at it the other day, and you know what? It looks damn good.


Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson


This is told from the POV of Grace, an eleven year old with severe disabilities who is packed off to the Briar Mental Institute. As Grace slowly realises she is not like other people, she adapts to life inside the Institute and helps her famly come to terms with her illness.


It does look like a misery memoir, but it's not - I have absolutely zero interest in those things. Apparently the author's sister was severely disabled and the book is based on her childhood memories of the struggles that accompanied accepting her illness.

Hanna's Saturday Wishlist #3

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #3 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.

 First up, Uglies by Scott Westerfield.


I wanted this when it first came out years ago, but apparently I hadn't developed the crazed obsession for book-buying that now defines my being. 


This would neatly slot into my current dystopian phase, so it might find it's way into my next book blow-out. I think there's a film/TV adaptation coming out (although I might have made that up...) and I'd like to have read it before then.

Sometimes I read things that haven't/won't be made into a film, I swear. But no, you're quite right, this isn't one of them.


I saw the trailer for the film with Amanda Siegfried a few months ago and wanted to see it immediately. I'm a sucker for wolves and fairy-tale retellings, and you can't get any closer to that than a Red Riding Hood story.


This is Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell - I wanted to read more about the artist after I finished The Swan Thieves a few weeks ago.


Honestly, I doubt I will ever, EVER buy this and it will fester unwanted on my wishlist until I eventually admit defeat and delete it. But hey, it's existence is recorded forever on my blog now, so maybe it won't feel quite as rejected.


I do want to read it, it's just not likely I'll actually get there.

Hanna's Saturday Wishlist #2

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #2 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.

Matched by Allie Condie

 It seems as though every blogger in the entire world has read this one but me. I can't wait to eventually get there though, as almost all of the afore-mentioned bloggers have given Matched glowing reviews. 

From Amazon - 'On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life.

Except he’s not. In Cassia’s society, Officials decide who people love. How many children they have. Where they work. When they die. But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make some choices of her own. And that’s when her whole world begins to unravel . . .'

Mm. Dystopia makes me happy.

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Now then. I'm really not much of a celebrity autobiography reader - I'd rather use Katie Price's book to make papier-mache sculptures than actually read the damn thing - but Carrie Fisher kind of surpasses 'celebrity' and goes straight through into 'legend.'

I first heard of this on Ellie's blog, Musings of a Bookshop Girl,  and I've been intrigued by it ever since. Ms Fisher has dealt with multiple issues, including her drinking problem, mental health and being a gold bikini-induced sex symbol.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch

 I'm a sucker for books about books, and this one sounds like a completely different take. It describes the life of Ms Sankovitch relating to the books she has devoured while sitting in a certain purple chair and how reading almost constantly for a year helped her with deal with the death of her sister.

So. What's on your wishlist?

Hanna's Saturday Wishlist

Like most of you, I have a wishlist the length of the Nile or, at the very least, the River Severn. It's long. Most of them will never see the light of day as they were added on a whim or a reading phase I've gotten bored of, or have been so trampled on by the newer additions that they languish on page eight, completely forgotten about.

However, Carolyn from Book Chick City has a solution to make all those neglected wishlistees feel loved again. Each week, she posts a few of those books that one day (one day, God damn it!) she will eventually buy.

I have as much guilt over not yet introducing those unloved tomes to my shelves as anyone, so here's part #1 of my now-weekly Wishlist. These are three books that I might have eventually got round to owning by 2019. Maybe.


Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein.

This book is supposed to examine the apparent pressure society puts on the little girls to wear pink, act like a princess and cover themselves in glitter. It's not an issue that's ever concerned me admittedly, but I do find the concept interesting.

I probably will be buying this soon as it's a recent (relatively!) addition to the wishlist so I'm waving it at you while I have the chance.

Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love by Judith Katzir.

This one, however, has been on my wishlist since The Dawn Of Time. I can't even remember where I found it, but I've had my interest re-awakened since rereading the Amazon page.

From Amazon - 'After reading Anne Frank's diary, young Rivi starts a series of writing notebooks that document the angst of growing up in rural Israel. The entries reveal how her crush on her literature teacher develops into a poignant and turbulent love affair that lasts for years before its scandalous end.'


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

I've been dying to read this for ages now, but I'm too poor to indulge in book-buying at the minute and there's a massive waiting list for it at the library. I might have to bite the bullet anyway though - I've heard it's amazing.

From Amazon - 'Katniss Everdeen is a survivor. She has to be; she's representing her District, number 12, in the 74th Hunger Games in the Capitol, the heart of Panem, a new land that rose from the ruins of a post-apocalyptic North America. To punish citizens for an early rebellion, the rulers require each district to provide one girl and one boy, 24 in all, to fight like gladiators in a futuristic arena. The event is broadcast like reality TV, and the winner returns with wealth for his or her district.'



So. Those are three of the books tempting me to empty out my already-crying-in-shame bank balance. What's on your wishlist?