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Currently reading:
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
*****
Books finished 2009:
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy by Maya Slater
Running In The Family by Michael Ondaatje
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Reel Spirituality: theology and film in dialogue by Robert K. Johnston
Poets’ Corner compiled by John Lithgow
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Associate by John Grisham
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Indignation by Philip Roth
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
*****
On the shelf waiting:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Away From Her: Stories by Alice Munro
Day of Empire by Amy Chua
The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
A Third Testament by Malcolm Muggeridge
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Self by Yann Martel
Humble Apologetics by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Reframing Theology and Film by Robert K. Johnston
Plus all the titles found here and here.
*****
Books finished 2008:
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
The Bible and The New York Times by Fleming Rutledge
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen, A Penguin Life by Carol Shields
Cassandra & Jane: A Jane Austen Novel by Jill Pitkeathley
Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
Up Till Now by William Shatner
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
A Walk With Jane Austen by Lori Smith
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Please write your thoughts when you read Tomalin’s biography of Austen. I’ve read her bios of Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft and found her to have a pretty strong bias, so I’ve hestitated reading her bio of Austen.
By: Robin on June 7, 2008
at 4:00 pm
Robin: It’ll probably be a while before I can get to it…but it’s on my list and I do intend to plough through it one of these days. Thanks for stopping by.
By: Arti on June 8, 2008
at 1:20 pm
Hi, Arti, I enjoyed your review of Mamma Mia! The audience did clap especially loudly when Streep jumped on the mattress, appreciating the limberness it required. I’ve started a blog for my book club (which is almost 30 years old….although I haven’t been in it since the beginning), so your list of books is very much appreciated. The address is http://www.blatherblog.wordpress.com I’m going to slooooooooowly list the books from each year on that blog. I got to your blog when I saw you stopped in mine to see More Mama Mia! I love the automatically generated feature.
Catherine: From your description of your blog on your “About” page, sounds like this is one swell group… I’m honored to be on your “reference” list. I’ll check back to see more of your reviews in the days ahead. Yes, this auto generated feature sure is helpful in linking us strangers on the blogosphere. Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comment!
Arti
By: Catherine Sherman on August 30, 2008
at 5:16 am
Reading Like a Writer by Prose is really good, Arti. Don’t put that off much longer.
I’m glad you worked out the piracy issue, scary stuff for us bloggers.
I put many hours at time into my posts also.
Jennifer
Jennifer, I’ll definitely move it up on my TBR list!
Arti
By: journeybooks on May 11, 2009
at 7:51 am
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By: Summer Reading 2009 « Ripple Effects on June 15, 2009
at 6:43 pm
I have recently been captured by Anita Diamant’s _The Red Tent_, which brings considerable anthropological insight into the sort of society capable of the beastliness shown in Genesis 34. I have long suspected that the male chauvinism of the Old Testament was probably in response to the power of female deities, and this book flatters my suspicions. May I recommend it to your attention?
Don,
Thanks for your recommendation.
Arti
By: Don Martin on July 31, 2009
at 8:36 am