Via my Goodreads profile, these are (most of) the books I read in 2011:
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Via my Goodreads profile, these are (most of) the books I read in 2011:
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2011 is, in terms of reading, off to a good start. I’m two novels in, just over one week into the year. Here’s a list of the books that I’ll try to make sure I read in 2011. I think this list of 13 ‘must-reads’ leaves plenty of room for impulse purchases, new publications and [...]
Filed under: books | Tagged: 2011, Angela Carter, China Mieville, Cormac McCarthy, Gilbert Hernandez, J M Coetzee, Jonathan Franzen, Jorge Luis Borges, Kingsley Amis, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Stewart Lee, Thomas Mann, Thornton Wilder | Leave a Comment »
I saw a similar list on the blog Worlds in a Grain of Sand, and couldn’t resist. These are the books I read in 2010, in the order I read them. The Victorian Chaise-Longue (Marghanita Laski, 1953) A young mother recuperates from tuberculosis in 1950s London, lying upon a Victorian chaise-longue, and dreams, or perhaps [...]
Filed under: books, lists & playlists, Uncategorized | Tagged: 2010, Agatha Christie, Alice Sebold, Angela Carter, Bernard Schlink, Bret Easton Ellis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Clowes, Erskine Childers, Evelyn Waugh, Igort, J G Ballard, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jim Dodge, John Wyndham, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Medley, Margaret Atwood, Marghanita Laski, Melissa Katsoulis, Nick Hornby, Patricia Highsmith, Paul Auster, Philip K Dick, Richard Matheson, Richard Milward, Russell Hoban, Thornton Wilder, Walter M Miller Jr, William Gibson | 3 Comments »