A MONTH OF READING: April 2011:

Books Bought:
Voiceworks “Pulp”
The Ottoman Motel, by Christopher Currie

Books Borrowed/Received:
Library:
Kafka: A very short introduction, by Ritchie Robertson
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary terms & Literary theory, by J A Cuddon
number9dream, by David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
Ghostwritten, by David Mitchell

Gifted: (Winning KYD’s literary trivia and having one of the most bookish men I know move house has resulted in a large influx of gifted books this month. It’s lovely!)
The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan
The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht
Nine Lives: Postwar women writers making their mark, by Susan Sheridan
Infidel: My Life, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dune Road, by Jane Green
The Millstone, by Margaret Drabble
My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
The Gift of Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
Burmese Days, by George Orwell
The Acid House, by Irvine Welsh
Life, the universe and everything, by Douglas Adams
Tango Nine: Love & War
Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
Tess of the d’Ubervilles, by Thomas Hardy
The Horse’s Mouth, by Joyce Cary
Biggles of 266, by Capt W E Johns
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
Smiley’s People, by John le Carre
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carre
The Beautiful & The Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang
The Crystal Bucket, by Clive James
Dick For a Day, edited by Fiona Giles
Dear Me, by Peter Ustinov
Archy & Mehitabel, by Don Marquis
Visions Before Midnight, by Clive James
Great Classis Library (Great Expectations, Hard Times, The Cricket on the Hearth), by Charles Dickens

Borrowed:
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? By Padgett Powell
Books Read:
Disgrace, by J M Coetzee
ROOM, by Emma Donoghue
The Catcher In The Rye, by J D Salinger
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (yeah, I went there)

Reading:
Explorations in Creative Writing, by Kevin Brophy
Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
Marsden on Marsden, by John Marsden
The Ottoman Motel, by Christopher Currie