Swimming in an ocean of words....

.....that's really the best way to describe some of the books I read in the last year - The Jasper Fforde series starring Thursday Next are set in fiction {I know, it sounds very wierd when I type it but I have no other way to describe it}, with guest characters from all your favourite novels and even nursery rhymes. He easily wins 'Idea of the Year' much like J.K. Rowling did for Harry Potter - that kind of creativity amazes me.
All in all, I think I got a lot of reading done this year, inspite of having taking a hiatus since December - can't seem to get through one decent book - read loads of contemporary fiction but cannot get through new literature.
I just wanted to recap some of the things I read this year which have really stayed in memory:

• Jasper Fforde: Thursday Next and Nursery Crime
  
• Marian Keyes: Sushi for Beginners, Rachel's Holiday, This Charming Man -
  
• The Time Traveler's Wife
  
• The Painter of Shanghai
  
• The Zoya Factor
• Almost Single
• The Devil Wears Prada
• World according to Garp
• Lovely Bones
• David Baldacci's Camel Club series - The Camel Club, The Collectors and Stone Cold
  
• 3 Candace Bushnell Novels [did not like even one - tho I love all the TV shows]
• P.S. I love you
• Interpretation of Murder
• Sister of My Heart
• Princess Diaries [totally online!]
• Compulsive Confessor's cliterature: You Are Here
• Swati Kaushal - piece of Cake
• Chris Kuznieski - The Sign of the Cross and Sword of God
  
• Raymond Khoury - The Sanctuary
• Steve Berry - The Last Templar
• Jeffrey Archer - Prisoner of Birth
• John Grisham - Playing for Pizza
• Julia Navarro - Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
  

I've kind of started a swapping sytem with the BFF so that pretty much leads to an interesting stream of reading since he comes across different literature. All in all, this year has been quite heavy on the religious fiction, chick literature esp Indian cliterature and the off beat novels of which my personal favourite has been the Time Traveler's Wife - cannot explain why - just really liked the novel and the circle of life it represented.