fiction

Sun - December 28, 2008

Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta

finished 12/28 ......... contemp fict......... rating 7

Posted at 12:24 PM Read More

Sat - December 27, 2008

Peter Victorious by E.M. Rolvaag

finished 12/27.......... 20th century US ............. rating 8

Posted at 07:05 PM Read More

Fri - December 26, 2008

Onitsha by JMG LeClezio

finished 12/26 ....... contemp French (Nobel).......... rating 10

Posted at 08:13 PM Read More

Thu - December 25, 2008

The Riders by Tim Winton

finished 12/25 .... contemp - (Booker) ........... rating 8

Posted at 08:39 PM Read More

Wed - December 24, 2008

The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar

finished 12/24.......... 20th cent. Euro/Amer "classic" ....... rating 8

Posted at 02:06 PM Read More

Sat - December 20, 2008

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

finished 12/20 ..... contemp Norwegian/ translated ........ rating 9

Posted at 09:49 AM Read More

Sun - December 14, 2008

Time Regained by Marcel Proust

finished 12/13 ......... 20th cent. classic (French) ....... rating 10

Posted at 11:00 AM Read More

Thu - December 11, 2008

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

finished 12/11 ...... 20th century British poet/play .......... rating 8.5

Posted at 09:19 PM Read More

Fri - November 28, 2008

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

finished 11/29 ...... 20th cent. US ....... rating 8.5

Posted at 07:01 PM Read More

Sun - November 16, 2008

The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua

finished 11/15 ........... 20th cent. Israeli ...... rating 8.5

Posted at 10:42 PM Read More

Sat - November 15, 2008

The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

finished 11/15 ........ French classic ....... rating 10

Posted at 08:30 PM Read More

Sat - November 8, 2008

The Captive by Marcel Proust

finished 11/8 ......... classic French (tr.) .......... rating 9

Posted at 09:19 AM Read More

Fri - October 24, 2008

Waterland by Graham Swift

finished 10/24........ 20th century (Booker) ...... rating 8

Posted at 11:27 PM Read More

Mon - October 20, 2008

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner

finished 10/20 ......... 20th century US .......... rating 7

Posted at 07:24 PM Read More

Sun - October 19, 2008

The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee

finished 10/20 ...... contemp. literary (Nobel) ....... rating 10

Posted at 03:41 PM Read More

Sodom and Gomorrah by M. Proust

finished 10/20 ....... classic French ......... rating 10

Posted at 03:35 PM Read More

Sun - October 12, 2008

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

finished 12/12 ...... 20th century French ...... rating 9

Posted at 12:56 PM Read More

The File on H by Ismail Kadare

finished 10/8 ..... contemp Albanian (ManBooker International) ..... rating 9.5

Posted at 10:11 AM Read More

Massacre River by Rene Philoctete

finished 10/11 ...... 20th century Haitian ...... rating 8,5

Posted at 10:06 AM Read More

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

finished September 20? .... contemp Br. (Booker) ..... rating 8

Posted at 10:02 AM Read More

Sat - September 27, 2008

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

finished 9/27 ........ 20th century Japanese classic ...... rating 7

Posted at 07:28 AM Read More

Sat - September 6, 2008

At Tikon's (Stavrogin's Confession) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

finished 9/6 ........... classic Russian ......... rating 9.5

Posted at 11:31 PM Read More

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

finished 9/1 ........ contemp fict. US ........ rating 8.5

Posted at 09:58 PM Read More

Sat - August 30, 2008

Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

finished 8/30 ......... contemp - (Nigerian/US) .......... rating 8.5

Posted at 01:07 PM Read More

Sun - August 24, 2008

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

finished 8/24 .......... contemp. Brit. (Booker).............. rating 6

Posted at 08:54 AM Read More

Sun - August 10, 2008

The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil

finished 8/2 ......... 20th century classic ....... rating 9

Posted at 12:51 PM Read More

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

finished 8/10 ........ contemp fiction (Brit) ......... rating 8.5

Posted at 12:38 PM Read More

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

finished 8/2 ....... contemp. British detective ...... rating 7

Posted at 12:28 PM Read More

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

finished 7/25 ....... 20th century classic ......... rating 10

Posted at 12:23 PM Read More

Fri - July 18, 2008

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

finished 7/15 ......... contemp US ......... rating 10

Posted at 08:07 PM Read More

Thu - July 17, 2008

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust

finished 7/16 ....... classic French ......... rating 10

Posted at 03:36 PM Read More

Sat - July 12, 2008

Restoration by Rose Tremain

finished 7/11 ......... contemp hist fic. - Booker........... rating 8

Posted at 01:53 PM Read More

Sat - June 28, 2008

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

finished 6/28 ........... contemp .............. rating 5

Posted at 05:02 PM Read More

Thu - June 26, 2008

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

finished 6/26 ......... classic Russian ........... rating 8

Posted at 11:57 AM Read More

Wed - June 25, 2008

La Cucina by Lily Prior

finished 6/25 ....... contemp. US ......... rating 7.5

Posted at 03:19 PM Read More

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

finished 6/25 ......... mid 20th century, early pomo ......... rating 6

Posted at 10:50 AM Read More

Fri - June 20, 2008

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

finished 6/20 ......... contemp fiction / Canada ........ rating 8.5

Posted at 08:55 PM Read More

Thu - June 19, 2008

Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

finished 6/19 ....... contemp fiction / US ...... rating 8.5

Posted at 04:44 PM Read More

Wed - June 18, 2008

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

finished 6/18...... classic post-colonial/Nigeria ....... 10

Posted at 08:16 PM Read More

Sun - June 15, 2008

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

finished 6/14 ....... classic Russian ......... rating 8

Posted at 05:39 PM Read More

The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol

finished 6/14 ........ classic Russian .......... rating 8.5

Posted at 03:42 PM Read More

Fri - June 13, 2008

The Sea by John Banville

finished 6/5 ........ contemp fiction / Booker Prize ........ rating 9

Posted at 10:56 AM Read More

Fri - June 6, 2008

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

finished 6/6....... French early 20th century ....... rating 8.5

Posted at 11:32 PM Read More

Sun - June 1, 2008

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

finished 6/1 ................... 20th cent. US .....................rating 8

Posted at 09:15 PM Read More

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

finished 5/08 ........... contemp US / historical ......... rating 9

Posted at 08:37 AM Read More

Mon - May 26, 2008

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

finished February ....... 20th century ... rating 7

Posted at 07:14 AM Read More

Ubik by Philip Dick

finished in February.... 20th century sci-fi ........ rating 7

Posted at 07:03 AM Read More

Gargantua and Pantagruel

finished February ........ 17th century ........ rating 6

Posted at 06:59 AM Read More

Another Country by James Baldwin

finished 5/19 .......... 20th century US ........ rating 8

Posted at 06:44 AM Read More

Sun - May 25, 2008

Manhattan Transfer

finished 5/13 ....... mid 20th century ........ rating 6

Posted at 05:24 PM Read More

Tue - April 15, 2008

Invisible Man by Ralph Elison

finished 4/13 ....... 20th cent. US ......... rating 9

Posted at 07:10 AM Read More

Sun - April 13, 2008

Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

finished 4/13 ............ contemp ................... rating 8

Posted at 08:19 PM Read More

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

finished 4/13 .......... contemp US ............... rating 8

Posted at 05:29 PM Read More

Fri - April 11, 2008

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny

finished 4/5 .... contemp Brit ...... rating 8.5

Posted at 06:28 AM Read More

Sat - March 29, 2008

The WInter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

finished 3/29 .......... 20th century fiction ....... rating 7

Posted at 04:12 PM Read More

Sun - March 23, 2008

The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

reading 3/23 .......... non-fiction history .........

Posted at 05:42 PM Read More

The Definitive Annotated Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol - Martin Gardiner

finished Alice 3/23 ......... classic ............. rating 9

Posted at 05:40 PM Read More

Thu - March 20, 2008

The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

cur. read. ................ 1970s British-India historical fiction rating ......8

Posted at 11:01 AM Read More

Mon - March 17, 2008

Old New York: Four Novellas by Edith Wharton

finished 3/17 ........ classic fiction ......... rating 8.5

Posted at 03:05 PM Read More

Consequences by Penelope Lively

finished 3/10 (or so)....... contemp fiction ....... rating 7.5

Posted at 03:01 PM Read More

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

finished 3/17 ...... contemp fiction ........ rating 9

Posted at 02:56 PM Read More

Sat - March 8, 2008

So Big by Edna Ferber

January reading (I forgot) - Pulitzer winner - rating 7.5