2010 books

I have been reading, and even keeping a vague track of what books I read.

September to December
Meg Cabot - Runaway
Lee Child - Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child - Nothing to Lose
Lee Child - 61 Hours
Lee Child - Worth Dying For
Stephenie Meyer - Breaking Dawn
Jacqueline Wilson - Love Lessons
Jane Duncan - My Friend Annie
Janet Evanovich - Hard Five
Janet Evanovich - Hot Six
Janet Evanovich - Seven Up
Janet Evanovich - Hard Eight
Stewart Lee - The Perfect Fool
Tim Butcher - Blood River
Jane Bussman - The Worst Date Ever
Jane Duncan - My Friend Martha's Aunt
Morris Gleitzman - Boy Overboard
Jeremy Hardy - My Family and Other Strangers
Morris Gleitzman - Teacher's Pet
Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles
Susan Howatch - Glittering Images
Patrick O'Brian - Treason's Harbour
Patrick O'Brian - The Far Side of the World
John Bucan - The 39 Steps
Ellen Conford - Strictly for Laughs
Noel Streatfeild - Pirouette
Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence
Constance M White - Cousins at Greycroft
Jean Ure - Pumpkin Pie
Helen Dunmore - Zillah and Me
Malcolm Saville - Mystery at Witchend
Tom Holt - Little People
Nina Bawden - Devil by the Sea
Rose Macaulay - Non-Combatants and Others
Rose Macaulay - Going Abroad
EM Foubert - Penny in Search of a School
Joanna Cannan - We Met Our Cousins
Josephine Elder - Erica Wins Through
Goscinny and Uderzo - Asterix in Belgium
Kenneth Williams - Just Williams

( Only things about some of them. )

And overall in 2010 I read 184 books, of which 13 were rereads.

2010 - 184
2009 - 123, 23 rereads
2008 - 126, 17 rereads
2007 - 134
2006 - 224
2005 - 244

I had thought that this represented climbing up again after the PhD slump, but then I have also started knitting, which cuts into reading time.

Attack the Block

I went to see Attack the Block and took my two remaining housemates along too. I think it's the first time we've actually done anything together, and it was nice.

The trailers beforehand were for the X-Men prequel, in which women did NOTHING except look sultry, undress/kiss; Super 8, in which there was ONE girl character, who didn't talk, and didn't do anything except operate as an object of a boy's desire (also, no female voices at all, but TWO shots of women's arses); and Cowboys and Aliens, where there was a woman who got to talk and do stuff, and then the last shot of her in the trailer is when she is naked in front of a large crowd of clothed people (seemed to be all men). Fucking Hollywood.

( Attack the Block. )