Books read, 2008
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dreamer_easyMy recommendations from the year's reading:
Ben Aaronovitch. Genius Loci. I can't believe how long to took me to get around to reading this. Ben writes one of the rarest kinds of Doctor Who-related stuff: honest-to-God SF. Plus it's as funny as hell.
Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France. I rarely read history; this was a terrific read.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read. Cheeky little book full of serious insights on writing, reading, and publishing.
Russell T. Davies. The Writer's Tale. Entertaining and enlightening - plus hopeful writers (and old hacks like me) get an invaluable glimpse of a master works.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. My first ever Dickens! Now I see what all the fuss is about! I hope to give Our Mutual Friend a stab this year.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. Suddenly so much makes sense that never did before. (Don Watson's On Indignation was similarly enlightening. :)
Gita Mehta. Karma Cola. Knockout collection of anecdotes about clueless Westeners visiting India in the sixties, with no idea of what was waiting for them. I picked this up completely by chance in an op shop. I would read a shopping list written by this woman. Instead, though, I'll read her novel Raj.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note. So clever, so funny, so twisty.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Holy flaming cow. I'm still reeling from the final line. Cancer Ward is on the shelf for this year.
Ben Aaronovitch. Genius Loci.
Douglas Adams. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France.
Trezza Azzopardi. The Hiding Place.
Iain M. Banks. Matter.
John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman. Anything Goes: The Autobiography.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read.
Billie T. Chandler. Crafts and trades of Japan, with doll-and-flower arrangements.
Julian Clary. Murder Most Fab.
Frank Close. The Void.
Russell T. Davies. The Writer's Tale.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Phil Drabble. A Weasel in my Meatsafe.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.
Neil Gaiman. Anansi Boys.
Jody Gehrman. Tart.
Steven Hall. The Raw Shark Texts.
Patrick F. Houlihan. Wit and Humour in Ancient Egypt.
Senei Ikenobo. Ikebana.
Damien Keown. Buddhist Ethics: a Very Short Introduction.
Bruce Kinloch. Sauce for the Mongoose.
Naduki Koujima. Great Place High School.
Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood.
Gita Mehta. Karma Cola.
Magnus Mills. All Quiet on the Orient Express.
Elizabeth Moon. Speed of Dark.
Clive Moore (ed). The Forgotten People: a history of the Australian South Sea Island community.
Kiriko Nananan. Blue.
Sara Nelson. So Many Books, So Little Time.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note.
Francine Patterson and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko.
William Poundstone. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb.
V.S. Ramachandran. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
Oliver Sacks. The Island of the Colour-blind.
Charles Siebert. Wickerby.
Charles Seife. Decoding the Universe: how the new science of information is explaining everything in the Cosmos, from our brains to Black Holes.
Byron E. Shafer (ed). Religion in Ancient Egypt.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha.
Don Watson. On Indignation.
John Williams. Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub.
Diane Yapko. Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Ben Aaronovitch. Genius Loci. I can't believe how long to took me to get around to reading this. Ben writes one of the rarest kinds of Doctor Who-related stuff: honest-to-God SF. Plus it's as funny as hell.
Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France. I rarely read history; this was a terrific read.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read. Cheeky little book full of serious insights on writing, reading, and publishing.
Russell T. Davies. The Writer's Tale. Entertaining and enlightening - plus hopeful writers (and old hacks like me) get an invaluable glimpse of a master works.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. My first ever Dickens! Now I see what all the fuss is about! I hope to give Our Mutual Friend a stab this year.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. Suddenly so much makes sense that never did before. (Don Watson's On Indignation was similarly enlightening. :)
Gita Mehta. Karma Cola. Knockout collection of anecdotes about clueless Westeners visiting India in the sixties, with no idea of what was waiting for them. I picked this up completely by chance in an op shop. I would read a shopping list written by this woman. Instead, though, I'll read her novel Raj.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note. So clever, so funny, so twisty.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Holy flaming cow. I'm still reeling from the final line. Cancer Ward is on the shelf for this year.
Ben Aaronovitch. Genius Loci.
Douglas Adams. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France.
Trezza Azzopardi. The Hiding Place.
Iain M. Banks. Matter.
John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman. Anything Goes: The Autobiography.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read.
Billie T. Chandler. Crafts and trades of Japan, with doll-and-flower arrangements.
Julian Clary. Murder Most Fab.
Frank Close. The Void.
Russell T. Davies. The Writer's Tale.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Phil Drabble. A Weasel in my Meatsafe.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.
Neil Gaiman. Anansi Boys.
Jody Gehrman. Tart.
Steven Hall. The Raw Shark Texts.
Patrick F. Houlihan. Wit and Humour in Ancient Egypt.
Senei Ikenobo. Ikebana.
Damien Keown. Buddhist Ethics: a Very Short Introduction.
Bruce Kinloch. Sauce for the Mongoose.
Naduki Koujima. Great Place High School.
Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood.
Gita Mehta. Karma Cola.
Magnus Mills. All Quiet on the Orient Express.
Elizabeth Moon. Speed of Dark.
Clive Moore (ed). The Forgotten People: a history of the Australian South Sea Island community.
Kiriko Nananan. Blue.
Sara Nelson. So Many Books, So Little Time.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note.
Francine Patterson and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko.
William Poundstone. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb.
V.S. Ramachandran. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
Oliver Sacks. The Island of the Colour-blind.
Charles Siebert. Wickerby.
Charles Seife. Decoding the Universe: how the new science of information is explaining everything in the Cosmos, from our brains to Black Holes.
Byron E. Shafer (ed). Religion in Ancient Egypt.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha.
Don Watson. On Indignation.
John Williams. Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub.
Diane Yapko. Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders.
