My year in books

Books I read in 2010 (in the order that they were read)
(abandoned books not listed)

The True Deceiver – Tove Jansson
Brixton Beach – Roma Tearne*
The Griffin & Sabine books – Nick Bantock
Diary – Chuck Palaniuk
1000 Journals Project
Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
The Vagrants – Yiyun Li
The Locust & The Bird – Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
Stitches – David Small (a graphic memoir)
I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While – Taichi Yamada
Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan
The Sookie Stackhouse novels no’s 2 – 10 – Charlaine Harris
A Touch of Dead – Charlaine Harris
The Shiniest Jewel – Marian Henley (a graphic memoir)
One Day – David Nicholls

*I don't like to pick favourites for books, but I'm picking this one because even though I read it very early in the year, the story is still colourful and vivid in my mind and still moves me when I remember it. 

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Most recently abandoned: The Diary of Anne Frank and Middlemarch

Currently reading: Stephen King’s Under The Dome


Most recently bought or received:
A History of Love – Nicole Krauss
The Hand That First Held Mine – Maggie O’Farrell
Our Tragic Universe – Scarlett Thomas
Mrs Fry’s Diary – Mrs Stephen Fry

Currently Top of the Wishlist:
The Hare with Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell
The Devil at Large – Erica Jong on Henry Miller

The Gallery: A Novel Idea

I was a bit stumped for this week's The Gallery, until I took this photo today.  As soon as I uploaded it, I thought of three books:

1) Tove Jansson's The Summer Book which isn't strictly a novel, but I have read it and loved it.  

2) Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, which is a novel I haven't read, though I have seen the film.

3) Julie Myerson's Out of Breath, which is a novel I read last August when Jake was in hospital and was about a group of troubled children on the run.  It took place in the summer and there were loads of scenes of them running through fields.  Even though the scene that inspired this photo was peaceful, there were moments when I imagined I could suddenly discover a body or something sinister.  All I did see were a few crows and a pair of knickers.

Enjoying these...

We just received these...they are exquisite!  I'm so happy my bubba loves his books.