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Rants, reviews, comments, whinges, experiences, memories. Perhaps even the occasional item of interest.
Currently reading....
- "People or Not People" Lauren Wiesberger
- "Dancing Backwards" Salley Vickers
- "Housekeeping" Marilynne Robinson
- "The Power of Now" Eckhart Tolle
- "The Angry Heart" Joseph Santoro
- "The Zen of Recovery" Mel Ash
About Me
- Muvva
- What do you want to know? OK, the facts: I'm 47, mother of four, ex-journalist/writer (British nationals, but just got fed up with it; otherwise publication credits include one picture book and about half a dozen non-fiction books for teenagers, the kind you find lingering unread on the shelves of school libraries). Now would-be fiction writer, currently cohabiting with my partner J on the Devon/Dorset border.
Blog Archive
Heavily biased towards writers, but still....
Most of the books I read in 2009
- "A Son of the Circus" John Irving ****
- "Oryx and Crake" *****
- "Case Histories" Kate Atkinson ****
- "The Good Mayor" Andrew Nicoll ****
- "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" Mike Resnick ****
- "A Fraction of the Whole" Steve Toltz *****
- "Matilda Savitch" Victor Lodato ****
- "Les Amours de Laura Quick" Isabel Wolff ****
- "The Uncommon Reader" Alan Bennett *****
- "Calculating God" Robert J Sawyer ****
- "The Quincunx" Charles Palliser ****
- "A New Earth" Eckhart Tolle ****
- "The Road Home" Rose Tremain ****
- "Black Rock" Amanda Smyth ***
- "Meditation for Dummies" Stephen Bodian ****
- "The Cassandra Chronicles" Ariel Leve ****
- "The Secret Life of France" Lucy Wadham ***
- "Working on Yourself Doesn't Work" Ariel & Shya Kane ***
- "Norwegian Wood" Haruki Murakami ****
- "The Translucent Revolution" Arjuna Ardagh ****
- "The Forgotten Garden" Kate Morton ***
- "The Wisdom of Insecurity" Alan Watts ***
- "Being Here" Ariel & Shya Kane ***
- "Les Petits Secrets D'Emma" Sophie Kinsella ****
- "The Places That Scare You" Pema Chodron ****
- "The Glass of Time" Michael Cox ****
- "The Little Stranger" Sarah Waters *****
- "Meditation for Beginners" Jack Kornfield ****
- "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Stephen Chbosky ****
- "Awakening to the Dream" Leo Hartong *****
- "As It Is" Tony Parsons ****
- "After the Ecstasy, The Laundry" Jack Kornfield ****
- "A Thousand Names for Joy" Byron Katie ****
- "When Things Fall Apart" Pema Chodron
- "The Sea Lady" Margaret Drabble ****
- "Clear" Nicola Barker ***
- "The Birthday Present" Barbara Vine ***
- "About Grace" Anthony Doerr ****
- "The Testament of Gideon Mack" James Robertson ****
- "Wives and Daughters" Elizabeth Gaskell *****
- "The Glass Bead Game" Herman Hesse ****
- "The Wave Theory of Angels" Alison MacLeod ****
- "The House at Riverton" Kate Morton ****
- "Zero Limits" Joe Vitale *
- "The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History" Steven Taylor *****
- "The Secret Scripture" Sebastian Barry ****
- "The Love of My Life" Louise Douglas ***
- "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life" James Hollis *****
- "Then We Came To The End" Joshua Ferris *****
- "Night Work" Thomas Glavinic ***
- "The Gone-Away World" Nick Harkaway *****
- "Et Si C'Etait Vrai?" Marc Levy ***
- "Engleby" Sebastian Faulks *****
- "She's Come Undone" Wally Lamb ***
- "The Light of Day" Graham Swift ****
- "Kafka Sur Le Rivage" Haruki Murakami *****
- "A Fine Balance" Rohinton Mistry **
Most of the books I read in 2008
- "A Spot of Bother" Mark Haddon ****
- "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox" Maggie O'Farrell ****
- "Les Tribulations de Tiffany Trott" Isabel Wolff ***
- "The Various Haunts of Men" Susan Hill ***
- "The Next Big Thing" Anita Brookner ****
- "Fingersmith" Sarah Waters *****
- "A Quiet Belief in Angels" R J Ellory ****
- "Wide Open" Nicola Barker ****
- "The Deadly Space Between" Patricia Duncker ****
- "Nothing Natural" Jenny Diski ***
- "Twenty Two Boyfriends to Happiness" Catherine Buchan ***
- "The Girl in Times Square" Paullina Simons ****
- "When Parents Hurt" Joshua Coleman ****
- "Get Me Out of Here" Rachel Reiland ***
- "Children of the Self-Absorbed" Nina W Brown ****
- "More, Now, Again" Elizabeth Wurtzel ****
- "Les Desarrois de Ned Allen" Douglas Kennedy ***
- "A Million Little Pieces" James Frey *****
- "Why is it Always About You?" Sandy Hotchkiss ***
- "Invisible Monsters" Chuck Palahniuk ***
- "Gods Behaving Badly" Marie Phillips ***
- "Cocaine Nights" J G Ballard **
- "Running with Scissors" Augusten Burroughs *****
- "The Promise of Happiness" Justin Cartwright ****
- "Strangers on a Train" Jenny Diski ****
- "L'Accro du Shopping Dit Oui" Sophie Kinsella ***
- "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" Jon McGregor *****
- "Losing You" Nicci French ***
- "Body Surfing" Anita Shreve ***
- "The Post Birthday World" Lionel Shriver *****
- "Stepping into the Magic" Gill Edwards *****
- "Facing the Light" Adele Geras **
- "Travelling Mercies" Anne Lamott ****
- "The Savage Garden" Mark Miller **
- "The Intention Experiment" Lynne McTaggart ****
- "Kept" D J Taylor **
- "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert *****
- "The Good Life" Jay McInerney ****
- "The Field" Lynne McTaggart *****
- "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" Steven Lane Taylor ****
- "The Sea, The Sea" Iris Murdoch *****
- "The Colour" Rose Tremain ***
- "Your Sacred Self" Wayne D Dyer *****
- "Anatomy of the Spirit" Caroline Myss ***
- "The Art of Effortless Living" Ingrid Bacci ***
- "Rise and Shine" Anna Quinlan **
- "The Ice Queen" Alice Hoffman ****
- "Trapped in the Mirror" Elan Golumb **
- "The Magician's Nephew" Ann Patchett *****
- "The Age of Innocence" Edith Wharton *****
- "The Secret" Rhonda Byrne **
- "Brightness Falls" Jay McInerney ****
- "A Gathering Light" Jennifer Donnelly ****
- "Instances of the Number Three" Salley Vickers ***
- "Tomorrow" Graham Swift ****
- "The Chase" Lorna Fergusson ****
- "Falling" Elizabeth Jane Howard *****
- "Arlington Park" Rachel Cusk ***
- "I Know This Much Is True" Wally Lamb *****
- "Out" Natsuo Kirino ***
- "The Ice Queen" Alice Hoffman ****
- "The Magician's Assistant" Anne Patchett ****
Most of the books I read in 2007
- "Affinity" Sarah Waters ****
- "The War of Art" Steven Pressfield *****
- "Mastery" George Leonard ***
- "Getting the Love You Want" Harville Hendrix ****
- "Bright Lights, Big City" Jay McInerney *****
- "Some Hope" Edward St Aubyn ****
- "Missing" Karin Alvtegen ***
- "Healing the Shame That Binds You" John Bradshaw ****
- "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" Haruki Murakami *****
- "The History of Love" Nicole Krauss *****
- "Healing Your Emotional Self" Beverly Engel *****
- "Darkmans" Nicola Barker *****
- "The Girls" Lori Lansens ****
- "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" Iain Banks ****
- "The Story of You" Julie Myerson ****
- "Wannabe a Writer?" Jane Wenham-Jones ***
- "The Emperor's Children" Clare Messud ****
- "Second Glance" Jodi Picoult ***
- "Plot and Structure" James Scott Bell ***
- "Restless" William Boyd ***
- "On Chesil Beach" Ian McEwan ***
- "Weathercock" Glen Duncan ****
- "Bird by Bird" Anne Lamott *****
- "Seven Steps on the Writer's Path" Nancy Pickard & Lynn Lott ****
- "Choosing Happiness" Stephanie Dowrick ****
- "Writing the Breakout Novel" Donald Maass ***
- "This Book Will Save Your Life" A M Homes ***
- "What Was Lost" Catherine O'Flynn ***
- "Solutions for Writers" Sol Stein ****
- "The Wild Sheep Chase" Haruki Murakami *****
- "No Second Chance" Harlan Coben **
- "The Clay Machine Gun" Victor Pelevin *****
- "Little Face" Sophie Hannah **
- "Atomised" Michael Houellebecq **
- "The Thirteenth Tale" Diane Setterfield *****
- "Relentless" Simon Kernick *
- "Missing Abby" Lee Weatherly ***
- "Noughts and Crosses" Malorie Blackman ***
- "Kat Got Your Tongue" Lee Weatherly ***
- "The Weeping Women Hotel" Alexei Sayle *
- "When Marnie was There" Joan G Robinson ****
- "The Seducer" Jan Kjaerstad ****
- "Self-Editing for Writers" Renni Browne and Dave King ****
- " The Seven Basic Plots" Christopher Booker ****
- "The Sixth Lamentation" William Brodrick ***
- "Suite Francaise" Irene Nemirovsky ***
- "The Book of Dave" Will Self ****
- "Love Remains" Glen Duncan ***
- "Black Swan Green" David Mitchell *****
- "Fearless Creating" Eric Maisel ****
- "The House of Mirth" Edith Wharton *****
- "X20" Richard Beard ***
- "The Observations" Jane Harris ****
- "Raking the Ashes" Anne Fine ***
- "How to be Lost" Amanda Eyre Ward ****
- "Indelible Acts" AL Kennedy ***
- "The Position" Meg Wollitzer ****
- "A Brief History of the Dead" Kevin Brockmeier *****
- "Envy" Kathryn Harrison ****
- "A Year of Magical Thinking" Joan Didion ****
- "The Shadow of the Wind" Carlos Ruiz Zafon *
- 'Lunar Park' Brett Easton Ellis ****
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