Books which have touched me
It feels good to be back to LJ.
To honour the occasion, a list: favourite books. In compiling this it occurs to me how few books I really do love, but these I do (in no particular order - and it will be supplemented):
The God of Small Things _ Arundathi Roy
Shame - Salman Rushdie (and Midnight's Children and some sections of The Countess of Florence to a lesser degree)
Weight - Jeanette Winterson
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Alexandria Quartet (of course) - Lawrence Durrell
Astonishing the Gods - (but yet to find another Ben Okri of note) (thanks to Tess Corino)
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (thanks Dad)
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe (superb!)
Wild Ways (anthology of stories of women on the road) - Margot Daly (ed)
Enchanting Love - Marion Williamson
The Power of Now and The (a?) New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth (thanks to Anne Barton)
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels (thanks to Rachael Vincent)
Burning Your Boats, Angela Carter 's collected short stories
A sci-fi thing called something like 'The women of shora' (? Thanks to Sonia Lawless)
The Four Quartets - TS Eliot
Paradise Lost - John Milton
oh ok, while I'm thinking poetry I have to say Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, and lots more ...
Bios
Anything by Richard Holmes (the literary, not the military historian), especially the Coleridge volumes, and Footsteps, and Sidesteps
Patrick White, A Life - David Marr
Patrick White, Letters - David Marr
TS Eliot - Peter Ackroyd
James Joyce - Richard Ellman
Passage to Juneau - Jonathan Raban
Smiling in Slow Motion - derek Jarman
Rupert Brooke bio (Faber - by ???)
I know I've forgotten some but I'll add them later.
So: .... to be continued ....
To honour the occasion, a list: favourite books. In compiling this it occurs to me how few books I really do love, but these I do (in no particular order - and it will be supplemented):
The God of Small Things _ Arundathi Roy
Shame - Salman Rushdie (and Midnight's Children and some sections of The Countess of Florence to a lesser degree)
Weight - Jeanette Winterson
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Alexandria Quartet (of course) - Lawrence Durrell
Astonishing the Gods - (but yet to find another Ben Okri of note) (thanks to Tess Corino)
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (thanks Dad)
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe (superb!)
Wild Ways (anthology of stories of women on the road) - Margot Daly (ed)
Enchanting Love - Marion Williamson
The Power of Now and The (a?) New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth (thanks to Anne Barton)
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels (thanks to Rachael Vincent)
Burning Your Boats, Angela Carter 's collected short stories
A sci-fi thing called something like 'The women of shora' (? Thanks to Sonia Lawless)
The Four Quartets - TS Eliot
Paradise Lost - John Milton
oh ok, while I'm thinking poetry I have to say Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, and lots more ...
Bios
Anything by Richard Holmes (the literary, not the military historian), especially the Coleridge volumes, and Footsteps, and Sidesteps
Patrick White, A Life - David Marr
Patrick White, Letters - David Marr
TS Eliot - Peter Ackroyd
James Joyce - Richard Ellman
Passage to Juneau - Jonathan Raban
Smiling in Slow Motion - derek Jarman
Rupert Brooke bio (Faber - by ???)
I know I've forgotten some but I'll add them later.
So: .... to be continued ....