A propos of nothing in particular .....: I've been feeling pretty much like this....

Monday, 11 February 2008

I've been feeling pretty much like this....

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Lorna F said...: Brilliant cartoon, Muvva! And I saw it only after I'd written my own blogpost this morning, honest!; 14 February 2008 at 02:19

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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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Monday, 11 February 2008

I've been feeling pretty much like this....

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