gotta do like shakespeare said

Friday, September 23, 2005

Don't ask how the sale of the house is going. I have not the words, so I will simply turn to those of a great man*: 'Destroy all lawyers.'

In lieu of a pointless rant, and because listmaking is a wonderful displacement activity, here's what I've read (and not read) so far this year. To be honest I'm amazed it runs into double figures.

• Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions


• Stephen Clarke, A Year in the Merde


• Al Davison, The Spiral Cage


• Don DeLillo, White Noise


• Don DeLillo, The Body Artist


• Patricia Grace, Tu


• Christopher Green, Toddler Taming


• Penney Hames, Toddler Tantrums


• Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal


• Ian McEwan, Enduring Love


• Andrey Kurkov, trans. George Bird, Death and the Penguin


• Jo Randerson The Keys to Hell


• Philip Roth Sabbath's Theatre


• Philip Roth Patrimony


• Gabrielle Roy, La route d'Altamont


• Carol Shields, Mary Swann


• Graham Swift, Waterland


• Paul Theroux, Kowloon Tong


• Jane and Mike Tomlinson, The Luxury of Time


• Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups


• Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist


• John Updike, Toward The End Of Time

Annual Jane Smilie Award for Unreadability

• E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

*In this instance, Mojo Nixon

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