Friday 6 January 2012

Charlie Harper

Being reminded of Charlie Harper's genius from all angles today.

Tuesday 3 January 2012

2011: over already

52 weeks, 32 books. slacking, obviously...

Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Black Sea - Neil Acherson
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
An Island in Time - Geert Mak
Portugal: a companion history - Jose Haermano Saraiwa
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
A Concise History of Bulgaria - R J Crampton
The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
Absolute Friends - John le Carre
Paradise Lost: the destruction of Islam's city of tolerance - Giles Milton
Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
Red Dust - Ma Jian
Luke and John - Robert Williams
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Our Kind of Traitor - John le Carre
The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
The Story of the Night - Colm Toibin
Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Hackney, That Rose Red Empire - Iain Sinclair
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
Number 9 Dream - David Mitchell
Germania - Simon Winder
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Dead Europe - Christos Tsiolkas