More book reviews
I’m ploughing through the book backlog at a decent pace, with three more finished this evening. They are:
- The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
- The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Kuen
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Just as I thought there was some order returning to my piles of books, there was a book sale at work today where I picked up seven paperbacks for a pound. Reading is never-ending (I hope).
Book backlog
I’ve been remiss recently in writing up my reviews for 26 Books. Tonight, I caught up on three that were waiting - The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera and Exit Ghost by Philip Roth, which still leaves me with five on the pile, plus the half-dozen I have on the go at the moment. If work would get out of the way, I might be in with a fighting chance to finish them before the end of the year.
Book Backlog
I’ve been a very busy reader recently, but I’ve been less than disciplined in posting here. I promised reviews of the Booker nominees, and didn’t deliver. Since then, I’ve read the following books:
- Kingdom Come (J.G.Ballard)
- A Life’s Music (Andreï Makine)
- Travels in the Scriptorium (Paul Auster)
- The Berlin Wall (Frederick Taylor)
- April Fool’s Day (Josip Novakovich)
- The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
- Hotel Savoy (Joseph Roth)
- The Fugitive (Marcel Proust)
- House of Meetings (Martin Amis)
- A Sad Affair (Wolfgang Koeppen)
- Be Near Me (Andrew O’Hagan)
- Arlington Park (Rachel Cusk)
- Your Face Tomorrow - 2: Dance and Dream (Javier Marías)
- The Life of Hunger (Amélie Nothomb)
- Death in Danzig (Stefan Chwin)
I’ll tackle them one by one over the next few days. First, the long-awaited Booker reviews.
