Reads from Summer 2000

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Currently physically on my bedtable:

• A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale
• Douglar Cooper, Delirium
• gardening books

Also (but not close at hand)

• Martin Amis, The Information
• Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway

There were others in September and August. I'll remember them eventually.

I haven't been keeping good track, have I?

• Margaret Atwood, Blind Assassin
• Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter, The Door in the Hedge and The Outlaws of Sherwood
• Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week
• Richard Russo, Mohawk and Straight Man

Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

Oh, so this is what the fuss is all about! Okay, now I know. I like Diana Wynne Jones.
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Jean Little, Look Through My Window

One of the most wonderful books ever, just acquired through Apple Cart Books in West Henrietta NY, courtesy of bibliofind
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Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

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Paula Danziger, You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown

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Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

A strong start, and I'm glad that through the interconnectedness of all things I had just read the two versions of Tam Lin, but I interrupted it.

Susan Cooper, Tam Lin

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Patricia Yolen, Tam Lin, an Old Ballad

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Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool

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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

This time I got not quite as far as I did last August.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods

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Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

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John Irving, The Cider House Rules

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J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

000709, after rereading Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and Prisoner of Azkaban between after work on the fifth of July and midnight of the eighth.

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Really really good. Without mimicking or mocking Virginia Woolf, he evokes her tone, her stream of consciousness, the hypnotic rhythm of language. I read Mrs. Dalloway almost twelve years ago and I don't remember it; I think I would have gotten more out of The Hours if I knew Mrs. Dalloway better.
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Lois Lowry, Taking Care of Terrific

Made me homesick for Boston, as expected; rekindled my desire to ride the swanboats. I guess I can forgive A Summer to Die because it was her first book, and the Anastasia ones are fun without being meaningful (Number the Stars) or so wrought with structural problems I can't see straight (The Giver).

Lois Lowry, Anastasia on Her Own

Fun and fluff.

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