Currently reading! What an amazing cover. Sadly my edition does not have this amazing cover.

Currently also wheezing, which is dull.

  11:06 pm  |   January 15 2012   |  View comments  

and

There’s much to be said for a three-book day.

See what else I’ve read recently.

  9:49 am  |   November 30 2011   |  6 notes   |  View comments  

But happily, as I am at my parents’ home with access to my childhood library, I am currently reading this, one of the all-time favourites of my youth. 

  8:47 pm  |   November 23 2011   |  1 note   |  View comments  

No longer currently reading. I tried, I really did, but 2/3rds of the way through I must sadly declare that this book is a dud.

  8:44 pm  |   November 23 2011   |  View comments  

When you get an Amazon order you’d forgotten about.

  2:49 pm  |   November 7 2011   |  8 notes   |  View comments  

Currently reading.

  7:42 pm  |   October 2 2011   |  View comments  

Currently reading Recently read.

  7:41 pm  |   October 2 2011   |  View comments  

Currently reading. This is only the second book I’ve ever read by Don DeLillo, because after the first one was the greatest book of all time, I felt some concern that nothing else he wrote could live up to it. I didn’t want my faith that Don DeLillo is the greatest writer of all time to be shaken.

But then I bought this in a curious secondhand bookshop in Brixton where novels are grouped by ‘fiction: male authors’ and ‘fiction: female authors’; an approach to cataloguing that I found offensively sexist. But not so offensively sexist that I didn’t buy this and a book by Paul Auster. Which made me wonder if I’m offensively sexist, because it is impossible to deny that I read far more novels by men than by women. Not intentionally, but I do.

FALLING MAN is good, anyway.

  1:48 pm  |   August 31 2011   |  3 notes   |  View comments  

Read over the weekend! An excellent memoir, particularly for reading on the train up and down to Edinburgh.

  1:56 pm  |   August 8 2011   |  1 note   |  View comments  

Currently reading! I got through about half on the train today, which is notable because there are few pleasures greater than reading a book on a train while the sunny English countryside flies by.

This book is funny and weird and horrible and great. You know what I mean.

  6:20 pm  |   July 24 2011   |  5 notes   |  View comments  

Currently reading! A lovely birthday gift, among a number of books I received on topics reflecting many of my key interests: Jewish cooking, mid twentieth-century etiquette/entertaining, knitting, writing, and advertising. My friends are excellent.

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  12:35 pm  |   July 7 2011   |  View comments  

No longer reading! The writing and construction in this is excellent but one of the central plot twists was so unbelievable (in an otherwise realist novel) that I had to quit.

  10:27 pm  |   July 3 2011   |  1 note   |  View comments  

Read over the weekend! Great way to spend the journey to and from Cheltenham.

  10:20 pm  |   July 3 2011   |  View comments  

Currently reading!

  11:43 am  |   June 22 2011   |  View comments