Currently physically on my bedtable: Susanna Kaysen,
The Camera My Mother Gave Me
26 December 2001
J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
(reread)
25 December 2001
Anita Diamant,
The Red Tent
Maria Perry,
The Sisters of Henry VIII
Alison Weir,
The Wars of the Roses and The Princes in the Tower
Lemony Snickett,
The Wide Window and The Miserable Mill
Fast Food
Nation
Gregory Maguire,
Lost
I have been reading, just going along. Truth to tell, I haven't been so very
in love with it, perhaps out of disappointment that, contrary to the blurb in
the bookstore newsletter, it seems to be not at all in the tradition of Possession.
I just got to within 50 pages of the end (280 of 330) and suddenly, in a paragraph,
in a sentence, hints of this and that fell together and I was, tardily, swept
into the tale and its telling. I found myself in> the book, finally,
and coming up from it--reading at your desk during your lunch hour is a bad
idea, even with head in hands and book in front of you and eyes on page--was
physically painful, like being woken from near-sleep.
Plus it winds up at le Mont St. Michel. This trip will never end.
31 October 2001
Tracey Chevalier,
Falling Angels
21 October 2001
Nick Bantock,
The Gryphon
16 October 2001
Tracey Chevalier,
The Girl with a Pearl Earring
Wonderful
8 October 2001
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