Books Purchased:
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2003 edited by Dave Eggers
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Best American Essays 2003 edited by Anne Fadiman
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
The Book of Other People edited by Zadie Smith
The Fun of It – Stories from The Talk of the Town edited by Lillian Ross
Books Read:
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
Beginner’s Greek by James Collins
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
I finished the last book (so far) in the Thursday Next series – Thursday Next: First Among Sequels. Now I have to try to wait patiently for Jasper Fforde to write the next one. According to him, there will be at least 3 more. I read Sideways Stories From Wayside School aloud to my brother while I was home for Christmas. That was very fun, I hadn’t read any in a while. I may need to read the other two on my own here.
I’ve already written about how much I enjoyed At Large and at Small, and there’s a great interview with Anne Fadiman on Powell’s. I also loved The Braindead Megaphone, and there’s an incredible interview with him on KCRW’s Bookworm, which you can listen to here. He has a great conversation with Michael Silverblatt about writing and editing, and also reads aloud a short essay from the book.
The Uncommon Reader is a short little novella, and highly enjoyable. The story of what happens when the Queen of England discovers books and becomes an avid reader.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Vocies from a Medieval Village was this year’s Newbery Medal winner, and I’ll write more about it in a future post.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being was 15 pages away from making it into this month’s post. But I got really tired and wanted to read the ending when I was actually awake. So the last 15 pages were finished on the train into work on Feb 1. Oh well, it will help give a good start to February’s list.
My complete Polysyllabic Spree can be found here.
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