60 Going On 16: Time for a break

Thought for life

'We are the carriers of lives and legends - who knows the unseen frescoes on the private walls of the skull?' The House of Breath William Goyen, 1975

Post-It Quote of the Day

"I hear the noise of the chambers, and other things of the fire-works, which are now playing upon the Thames before the King; and I wish myself with them, being sorry not to see them. So to bed." Samuel Pepys

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READ 2009

Barbara Kingsolver: Small Wonder (*****)
Irene Nemirovsky: David Golder (*****)
Alan Bennett: The Laying on of Hands (****)
Petina Gappah: An Elegy for Easterly (****)
Tiziano Scarpa: Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide (*****)
Kressmann Taylor: Address Unknown (*****)
Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson: Inside Notting Hill (*****)
Amitav Ghosh: In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (*****)
Sarah Anderson: Halfway to Venus: A One-armed Journey (*****)
Deborah Cadbury: The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII (*****)
Helen Garner: The Spare Room (*****)
Marina Benjamin: Last Days in Babylon: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad (*****)
Shena Mackay: The Artist's Widow (***)
Carol Shields: Happenstance: The Husband's Story - The Wife's Story (****)
James Cameron: An Indian Summer: A Personal Experience of India (*****)
Hilary Mantel: A Change of Climate (*****)
Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs (****)
Anita Shreve: Resistance (***)
E. H. Young: Miss Mole (*****)
Miriam Toews: The Flying Troutmans (****)
Edith Wharton: A Son at the Front (***)
Pen Farthing: One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand (*****)
Christina Lamb: The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years (*****)
Simon Garfield: Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain (*****)
Andrew Greig: That Summer (*****)
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies (*****)
Bragi Ólafsson: The Pets (**)
Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road (*****)
John Cornwell: Seminary Boy (*****)
Sue Gee: Thin Air (**)
Carol Shields: Larry's Party (*****)

On the shelf

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Read 2008

The Virago Book of Love Letters (****)
Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life (*****)
Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage (***)
Andreï Makine: The Woman Who Waited (*****)
Anita Shreve: All He Ever Wanted (****)
Anita Shreve: Body Surfing (***)
Anita Shreve: A Wedding in December (***)
Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water (****)
Anna Quindlen: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City (***)
Anne Donovan: Buddha Da (****)
Anne Enright: The Gathering (****)
Anne Tyler: If Morning Ever Comes (****)
Anzia Yezierska: Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (*****)
Barbara Comyns: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Virago Modern Classics) (****)
Brian Moore: The Magician's Wife (**)
Carol Shields: Mary Swann (*****)
Carol Shields: Unless (****)
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (****)
Charlotte Mosley (Editor): Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (*****)
Dan Rhodes: Timoleon Vieta Come Home (***)
David Profumo: Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir (****)
Dorothy Whipple: Someone at a Distance (*)
Dorothy Whipple: The Closed Door and Other Stories (**)
Edna Fernandes: The Last Jews of Kerala (****)
Eileen Chang: Lust, Caution: And Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) (****)
Elizabeth Cambridge: Hostages to Fortune (****)
Finuala Dowling: Flyleaf (****)
Gerard Donovan: Country of the Grand (**)
Gore Vidal: Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (*****)
Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black (***)
Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach (*****)
Ian McEwan: Saturday (****)
Irene Nemirovsky: Suite Francaise (*****)
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Manor (*****)
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Estate (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (*****)
Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Family Moskat (Vintage Classics) (*****)
Isabel Allende: Zorro (****)
J.M. Coetzee: Youth (*****)
Jane Urquhart: The Underpainter (*****)
Janet Fitch: White Oleander (*****)
John Lanchester: The Debt to Pleasure (****)
John Saumarez Smith: The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-1973 (*****)
John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley: In Search of America (*****)
Kate Atkinson: One Good Turn (***)
Lalita Tademy: Cane River (*****)
Libby Cone: War on the Margins: A Novel (****)
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success (****)
Margaret Forster: Over (***)
Marghanita Laski: The Victorian Chaise-longue (**)
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead (*****)
Mark Doty: Dog Years (*****)
Mark Shand: River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra (****)
Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (****)
Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost (*****)
Michael Ondaatje: In the Skin of a Lion (*****)
Miranda Seymour: In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love (****)
Natalie Goldberg: The Great Failure: My Unexpected Path to Truth (*****)
Natalie Goldberg: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up In America (*****)
Nicole Krauss: The History of Love (****)
Penelope Fitzgerald: The Blue Flower (*****)
Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop (*****)
Peter Godwin: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (*****)
Peter Y. Sussman (Editor): Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (*****)
Richard Benson: The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside (****)
Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters (*****)
Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (*****)
Salman Rushdie: The Moor's Last Sigh (*****)
Tobias Wolff: Old School (*****)
Vita Sackville-West: No Signposts in the Sea (****)

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May 08, 2008

Time for a break

Back soon. Don't go away.

Posted at 04:19 PM in Feeding the inner woman | Permalink

Comments

Don't stay away too long!

Lovely pic - reminds me of one I have of my grandmother!

Posted by: Jay | May 08, 2008 at 07:01 PM

We never left, honest!

Posted by: Maureen | May 09, 2008 at 04:43 PM

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