Books I have read, January 2009
1. The Lion in the Valley, Elizabeth Peters. Fourth in the Amelia Peabody mystery series, still good fun. Amelia is still battling the forces of evil, armed with her trusty parasol.
2. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters. Wonderful stuff, Gothic Victorian back-stabbing thieves. Highly recommended to all.
3. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (read to Mr Bear). Sweet and charming. We read the book in preparation for the movie, and then missed the movie because Mr Bear got spoilers at school. Dagnabbit.
4. The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant. One of the short-listed books for the Booker Prize last year, an interesting look at emigrants in London following WW2. And fashion (yes, really).
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: and Six Other Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of the stories were unpleasantly macabre, but the title story was wonderful. I read this in preparation for seeing the movie, and then never got around to it...
6. The Middleman: The Collected Series Indispensability, Javier Grillo-Marxuach. My current TV addiction (only 12 episodes, *sob*) was originally a graphic novel. I think I preferred the TV series better, but it's still fun.
7. All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy. So, so blokey, yet so, so wonderful. A great writer, I'm tempted by the full trilogy ("The Border Trilogy", of which this is the first) at the bookshop, but I'm already swamped with books to read...
2. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters. Wonderful stuff, Gothic Victorian back-stabbing thieves. Highly recommended to all.
3. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (read to Mr Bear). Sweet and charming. We read the book in preparation for the movie, and then missed the movie because Mr Bear got spoilers at school. Dagnabbit.
4. The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant. One of the short-listed books for the Booker Prize last year, an interesting look at emigrants in London following WW2. And fashion (yes, really).
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: and Six Other Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of the stories were unpleasantly macabre, but the title story was wonderful. I read this in preparation for seeing the movie, and then never got around to it...
6. The Middleman: The Collected Series Indispensability, Javier Grillo-Marxuach. My current TV addiction (only 12 episodes, *sob*) was originally a graphic novel. I think I preferred the TV series better, but it's still fun.
7. All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy. So, so blokey, yet so, so wonderful. A great writer, I'm tempted by the full trilogy ("The Border Trilogy", of which this is the first) at the bookshop, but I'm already swamped with books to read...