Reads from Summer 2001

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Currently physically on my bedtable:

• A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale
• Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
• The Geography behind History
• Penelop Fitzgerald, At Freddie's
• Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
• Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
• Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
• Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Nzolo might mean, to Adah, who reads and thinks her words backward like Antonia Fremont in Robber Bride, the god of small potatoes. I love this book. Also, not a travesty but a tapestry of justice.

The only thing that's wrong so far is that the parrot Methesulah is fed avocado. Is the whole parrot + avocado = death a lie, or did Kingsolver not check her facts?

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

In preparation for Paris, aloud to RDC
6 September 2001

Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
I didn't like it at first but I do now.
8 August 2001

Penelope Fitzgerald, At Freddie's
Point, please? Anyone?
31 July 2001

John Steinbeck, East of Eden (again) and Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone (again)
26 July 2001

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
So, so good. Too happy an ending. But lists of five, obsessing on past relationships, complete narcissism, mix tapes, and every memory connected to music. It's me, me, me! Narcissism: something I can connect with.
25 July 2001

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon [again]
21 July 2001

Gail Carson Levine, The Wish and The Princesses of Bamarre
The former's great; the latter's merely so-so.
16 July 2001

Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road
Satire? Black portrait of Depression Appalachia? I'm hoping for satire. 15 July 2001

Lemony Snicket, A Bad Beginning
Hee!
14 July 2001

Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Wow.
13 July 2001

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebok

I need to discuss this with someone. I need to reread the introduction. I need to reread the "Free Women" sections. I liked how she segmented herself and brought it all together again.
I began to read it on my own in early March, and then the Dot Org book group decided to read it so I left it until early June. I read it throughout June with plenty of interruptions: it didn't grip me the way I wanted to be gripped.
5 July 2001

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