Reads from Autumn 2002

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Currently physically on my bedtable:

• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
• Charles Dickens, Hard Times
• Margaret Drabble, The Peppered Moth
• W. Gordon East, Geography Behind History
• Antonia Fraser, Faith and Treason
• Geography Behind History
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Artist of the Floating World
• Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant and The Magicians of Caprona
• Ursula LeGuin, Unlocking the Air
• Irish Murdoch, A Severed Head
• V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
• James N. Powell, Postmodernism for Beginners
• George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society
• Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• José Saramago, All the Names and Balthazar and Blimunda

Ursula LeGuin, Unlocking the Air

Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea

Alison Weir, Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Kazuo Ishiguro, Artist of the Floating World

Glory, I do love how he dangles a protagonist just out of reach, though this is my least favorite of his so far.

Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

Her prose is amazing, engaging and a pleasure to read, and at first the story was a pleasure. But then it did this Turn of the Screw thing to the point I thought it was going to swallow its own tail.

Reread: Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

A pyrotechnic meld of pop culture, lyrical prose, and heartrending emotional twists.

Eric Houghton, Steps Out of Time

Diana Wynne Jones, The Lives of Christopher Chant and The Magicians of Caprona

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

José Saramago, Blindess

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