I read these ones
The 2007 book lists are doing the rounds on my friends list this evening so I thought I'd add mine. But jeez was it already a year since i did this last time???
Affinity - Sarah Waters
Beijing doll: a novel - Chun Sue
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
The hottest day of the year - Brinda Charry
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
European women and the second British Empire - Margaret Strobel
Fruit of the lemon - Andrea Levy
Water for elephants - Sara Gruen
This wild silence - Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
The blind assassin - Margaret Atwood
Working parts - Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The haunting of L. - Howard Norman
The story of my face - Kathy Page
The life of hunger - Amelie Nothomb
The new Turkey: the quiet revolution on the edge of Europe - Chris Morris
Alphabet - Kathy Page
Back in the first person - Kathy Page
Strangeland - Tracey Emin
Varying degrees of hopelessness - Lucy Ellmann
The unborn dreams of Clara Riley - Kathy Page
Property - Valerie Martin
Tide running - Oonya Kempadoo
The red moon - Kuwana Haulsey
Sula - Toni Morrison
Restitution - Maureen Duffy
The price of salt - Claire Morgan
Young Turk - Moris Farhi
Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian women in Britain - Amrit Wilson
The algebra of infinite justice - Arundhati Roy
The caged virgin - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The world to come - Dara Horn
In the time of the butterflies - Julia Alvarez
The bone people - Keri Hulme
The lady and the unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
Just like tomorrow - Faïza Guène
White like me: Reflections on race from a privileged son - Tim Wise
Tales of the city - Armistead Maupin
Assata: an autobiography - Assata Shakur
Purple hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Slow man - J.M. Coetzee
Empathy - Sarah Schulman
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Moonlight on the avenue of faith - Gina B. Nahai
Tea - Stacey D'erasmo
Sex Wars - Marge Piercy
Unrooted childhoods: memoirs of growing up global - ed. by Faithe Eidse & Nina Sichel
The ones in bold are the ones that stood out as the ones I most enjoyed or otherwise having made the greatest impression on me when i was going through the list just now (on the other hand one of them I actually had to just look up on amazon to remember what the hell it was, obviously not a very lasting impression!)
The caged virgin is highlighted because it did make a big impression on me, but I'm not sure what to make of it or take from it, it's really complicated. I'd like to write about it more sometime, but not tonight...
I'm feeling hopeful and excited about 2008 right now, in a kind of simple and possibly naive way that I haven't really let myself feel at this time of year before (I've always been the kill joy pointing out that the start of new year means nothing and that we kid ourselves if we think it does, everything will go on just as it were before).
Anyway, hopefully I'll write some more concrete updates soon. Hope everyone is well and happy new year! :-)
Affinity - Sarah Waters
Beijing doll: a novel - Chun Sue
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
The hottest day of the year - Brinda Charry
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
European women and the second British Empire - Margaret Strobel
Fruit of the lemon - Andrea Levy
Water for elephants - Sara Gruen
This wild silence - Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
The blind assassin - Margaret Atwood
Working parts - Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The haunting of L. - Howard Norman
The story of my face - Kathy Page
The life of hunger - Amelie Nothomb
The new Turkey: the quiet revolution on the edge of Europe - Chris Morris
Alphabet - Kathy Page
Back in the first person - Kathy Page
Strangeland - Tracey Emin
Varying degrees of hopelessness - Lucy Ellmann
The unborn dreams of Clara Riley - Kathy Page
Property - Valerie Martin
Tide running - Oonya Kempadoo
The red moon - Kuwana Haulsey
Sula - Toni Morrison
Restitution - Maureen Duffy
The price of salt - Claire Morgan
Young Turk - Moris Farhi
Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian women in Britain - Amrit Wilson
The algebra of infinite justice - Arundhati Roy
The caged virgin - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The world to come - Dara Horn
In the time of the butterflies - Julia Alvarez
The bone people - Keri Hulme
The lady and the unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
Just like tomorrow - Faïza Guène
White like me: Reflections on race from a privileged son - Tim Wise
Tales of the city - Armistead Maupin
Assata: an autobiography - Assata Shakur
Purple hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Slow man - J.M. Coetzee
Empathy - Sarah Schulman
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Moonlight on the avenue of faith - Gina B. Nahai
Tea - Stacey D'erasmo
Sex Wars - Marge Piercy
Unrooted childhoods: memoirs of growing up global - ed. by Faithe Eidse & Nina Sichel
The ones in bold are the ones that stood out as the ones I most enjoyed or otherwise having made the greatest impression on me when i was going through the list just now (on the other hand one of them I actually had to just look up on amazon to remember what the hell it was, obviously not a very lasting impression!)
The caged virgin is highlighted because it did make a big impression on me, but I'm not sure what to make of it or take from it, it's really complicated. I'd like to write about it more sometime, but not tonight...
I'm feeling hopeful and excited about 2008 right now, in a kind of simple and possibly naive way that I haven't really let myself feel at this time of year before (I've always been the kill joy pointing out that the start of new year means nothing and that we kid ourselves if we think it does, everything will go on just as it were before).
Anyway, hopefully I'll write some more concrete updates soon. Hope everyone is well and happy new year! :-)