sign of the times
Saturday, January 12, 2008
For someone who loves books, I'm a slow reader. Here's what I read in 2007: not counting the revision for the lecturing I did in September, on average, it amounts just over a book per fortnight. And my to-read pile for 2008 is already beginning to teeter. Have included the Wilfred Owen biog* even though I've only just finished it, because I started it in 2007. Which shows you how much time I have for reading these days.
*Rodger, thanks for your patience!
Fiction
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (reread)
Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder
Iain Banks, Espedair Street
Iain Banks, The Crow Road
Anton Chekhov, The Fiancée and other stories
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel (reread)
Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (reread)
Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers (reread)
Margaret Laurence, Bird in the House
Graeme Lay, ed., 100 NZ Short Short Stories
Alice Munro, Runaway
Alice Munro, Selected Stories (reread)
Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid
Alice Munro, Moons of Jupiter
Non-fiction
Richard Bradford, First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
Dominic Hibberd, Wilfred Owen
Chrissie Gallagher-Mundy, Caesarean Recovery
Tim Moore, Frost On My Moustache (reread)
Tim Moore, French Revolutions (reread)
Poetry
Fleur Adcock, Poems 1960-2000
Janet Frame, The Goose Bath Poems
Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
Tanis MacDonald, Holding Ground
Sharon Olds, The Father
Sharon Olds, The Wellspring
1 Comments:
Yeah, you're doing better than me http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading: I didn't even average one a fortnight last year, and most of those I did read were of the trashy thriller genre.
