Wednesday, January 08, 2003

Have decided to be lame and post the books i read in 2002.
long list. well not that long. could be much longer, if i wasn't glued to the TV/Computer!
January/02 A. S. Byatt - The Biographer's Tale (Unfinished)
January/02 Charles Dickens - A Tale of 2 Cities (Unfinished)
January/02 Garrison Keillor - Lake Woebegone Days (7)
January/02 Haruki Murakami - south of the border, West of the Sun (7)
January/02 Joanne Harris - Chocolat (8)
January/02 Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird (6 1/2)
January/02 Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (8 1/2)
January/02 Michael Chabon - The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (7)
January/02 Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose (7 1/2)
January/02 Wei Hui - Shanghai Baby (7)
February/02 Elizabeth Berg - Open House (7 1/2)
February/02 Ha Jin - In the Pond (8)
February/02 Jim Crace - Being dead (8 1/2)
February/02 Kate Walbert - Gardens of Kyoto (7)
February/02 Nick Hornby - How to be Good (7)
February/02 Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda (7)
February/02 William Gibson - Idoru (8)
March/02 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (8)
March/02 Ernest Hemmingway - A Moveable Feast (9)
March/02 Fannie Flagg - Welcome to the world baby girl! (7)
March/02 James Welch - The Heartsong of Charging Elk (6)
March/02 Peter Hoeg - Miss Smila's Feeling for Snow (7 1/2)
March/02 William Gibson - The Neuromancer (8)
March/02 Zadie Smith -White Teeth (7 1/2)
March/02 Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (8)
April/02 Anne Tyler The Clock Winder 8
April/02 Douglas Coupland Miss Wyoming 7 1/2
April/02 Graham Swift The Sweet Shop Owner 8
April/02 Helen Fielding Cause Celeb 7
April/02 James Eugenides The Virgin Suicides 8
April/02 Joyce Carol Oates Man Crazy 8
April/02 Milan Kundera Unbearable Lightness of Being 7 1/2
May/02 Andre Dubus III House of Sand and Fog 8 1/2
May/02 Charles Dickens The Prince and the Pauper 8
May/02 Richard Adams Watership Down 9 1/2
May/02 Alice Walker Local Girls 8
June/02 Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes 7 1/2
June/02 Hans Koning Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History 7 1/2
June/02 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 7 1/2
June/02 Richard Russo Empire Falls 8
June/02 Joseph Heller Catch 22 8 1/2
June/02 W. Somerset Maugham Don Fernando 9
June/02 Julian Barnes England England 6
July/02 Christina Schwarz Drowning Ruth 7 1/2
July/02 Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair 9
July/02 Julia Alvarez Yo! 8
July/02 Mona Simpson A Regular Guy 4
July/02 Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All 8
July/02 Kent Haruf Plainsong 8
July/02 W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence 9
July/02 Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace 8 1/2
August/02 Breena Clarke River Cross My Heart 7 1/2
August/02 Edmund White Forgetting Elena 4
August/02 Jonathon Lethem motherless brooklyn 7
August/02 Louis De Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin 8 1/2
August/02 Mo Yan Shifu You'll Do Anything for a Laugh 8
August/02 Peter Mayle A Dog' Life 8
August/02 Sinclair Lewis Babbitt 7 1/2
September/02 Deborah Moggach Porky 8
September/02 Haruki Murakami The Elephant Disappears 7 1/2
September/02 Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune 8 1/2
September/02 Willa Cather My Antonia 8
September/02 Terry Pratchett The Truth 8 1/2
September/02 Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes 7 1/2
September/02 Graham Swift Waterland 7
September/02 Louis Begley About Schmidt 8
October/02 Schlumer The Soul of a Chef 7 1/2
October/02 Alexander Dumas The Three Musketeers 8 1/2
October/02 J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 8 1/2
October/02 Laura Esquieval Swift as Desire 7 1/2
October/02 Jonathon Franzen The Corrections 8 1/2
October/02 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 9 1/2
October/02 Anita Brookner Altered States 8
October/02 Julian Barnes Metroland 8
October/02 Richard Rayner The Cloud Sketcher 9
October/02 Pat Barker Border Crossing 8 1/2
November/02 Julian Barnes Love Etc 5
November/02 Katie Singer The Wholeness of a Broken Heart 8 1/2
November/02 Greogry Maguire Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 8 1/2
November/02 Charles Baxter Feast of Love 8 1/2
November/02 Gail Anderson-Dargatz Recipe for Bees 6
November/02 Joyce Carol Oates Wonderland 6 1/2
November/02 Alice Adams Caroline's Daughters 5
November/02 Richard Russo - Nobody's Fool (9)
November/02 Hanif Kureishi - Gabriel's Gift (8 1/2)
December/02 Sebastian Faulks - Bird Song (7 1/2)
December/02 Glenn David Gold - Carter Beats the Devil (9)
December/02 Michael Chabon - The Mysteries of Pittsburg (8 1/2)
December/02 Saul Bellow - Ravelstein (8)
December/02 Elizabeth McCracken - The Giant's House (8)
December/02 Susan Orlean - The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup (8 1/2)
December/02 Terry Pratchett - Hogswatch (8 1/2)
December/02 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers (9 1/2)

Sunday, January 05, 2003

Currently reading: Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal. Her name might sound familiar to non-readers...but probably only if you are a fan of Goodness Gracious Me. I do believe she plays the wonderfully catty Smita Smitten.... the woman with the means to get into celebrity circles, or so she'd have us believe.
Delightful story bout 3 Asian women in the UK. her characters are funny and quite well-developed. Only about 1/5 of the way through though.
 
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