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slemslempike) wrote2007-01-31 11:41 am
slemslempike) wrote2007-01-31 11:41 am
Entry tags:
Books, November/December and year end graph thingy
November Books
Pippa at Home - EE Ohlson
Intimate Politics - Bettina Aptheker
The Worst Witch Saves the Day - Jill Murphy
Out of Love - Leaf Books
When's it Coming Out - Maureen Lipman
The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
In Love - Leaf Books Anthology
A Time for Dancing - Davida Wills Hurwin
The Farther you Run - Davida Wills Hurwin
December
SVU 1: College Girls - Francine Pascal
Kristy and the Walking Disaster - Ann. M. Martin
SVU 2: - Francine Pascal
One Hit Wonderland - Tony Hawks
Spiderwick Chronicles 1: The Field Guide - Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
The Case of the Missing Books - Ian Sansom
Other People's Children - Joanna Trollope
98 Ways of Being - Clare Dudan
If You Can Walk, You Can Dance - Marion Molteno
The Island - Victoria Hislop
The Autobiography - Betty Boothroyd
Fire With Fire - Naomi Wolf
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Book on Namibian sexuality and HIV
Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel/Sheila Ravenscroft
44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
This is Your Life - John O'Farrell
A Pale View of the Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O'Toole
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
Never Follow the Wolf - Helao Shityuwele
Is There Anything You Want - Margarent Forster
The History of Love - Nicola Krauss
1st to Die - James Pattinson
Distant Music - Charlotte Bingham
Burning Bright - Helen Dunmore
Your Blue-Eyed Boy - Helen Dunmore
Christopher Paolini - Eragon
The Alchemist - Paul Coehlo
Your Crooked Heart - Helen Dunmore
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Home Truths - Freya North
The Namesake - Shumpa Lakin
Beverly Cleary - Ramona's World
I really loved the Rebecca West, so much that I copied bits out:
"Richard, who looked at Papa and spread out his arms and said simply 'O'. The meanest intelligence would have known at once that if that sound had to be put down on paper it would have to be spelled without an h." p75
"Then we went up iron steps that clanked under one's feet to a station right up on the air, on a level with the treetops, and took a train which ran high above parks in which boys were playing football, a sight which almost made me glad I was a girl and could do really interesting and adventurous things." p87
"When Rosamund came downstairs, we all exclaimed, she looked so grown-up. She was wearing her new winter coat for the first time, and coats meant much to us just then, for though one was manifestly a school-girl till one's skirt touched the ground, a coat could steal such adult privileges as a waist. This coat was cut close to her bust and had a full skirt, and it was the same blue as distance. We nodded our heads in grave admiration. She had proved that our generation could do it too, we could become grown-ups. We had need of the assurance." p331
'My black dress and my sealskin,' said Mamma confidently.
'Mamma,' said Richard Quin, 'that jacket is not sealskin any more, it is just a bit of dead seal. There is a difference.' p358
So, here's what I read last year: http://slemslempike.livejournal.com/258728.html
And then in handy table format.
20 books fewer than last year, but more children's and more rereads. Also I have been doing more work reading (honest) and lots of lying around doing abolutely nothing.
I am very snotty and a bit wobbly and unable to sleep because my body is doing hot and cold all at once, but I have to go onto campus and do workshops and supervision and somehow seem intelligent.
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