I was going to write something sensible here tonight, but given that I seem to have spent much of the day writing, and breaking my head over academic work at that, I’m only in the mood for something frivolous. Quite a few books have made it into my house lately, through various means, and I thought I’d bring you up to date.
Books I’ve had recommended by other blogging friends:
Family Happiness and Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin
The Quest for Corvo by A. J. A. Symonds
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Books for the motherhood project:
Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf
In Search of our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker
Books I heard about via blogging and had to see what the fuss was all about:
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
Review copies:
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Literary fiction I picked up cheap:
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
The Orchard by Druscilla Modjeska
More Memoirs/Life-Writing
Toast by Nigel Slater
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
Surprise presents through the post:
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow (I won it at Stefanie’s site and had forgotten about it)
Tantalising Non-Fiction
Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson (about the post-war glut of women who never married)
Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey (about a coal mining dynasty)
I give them a little pat and a stroke every time I go past to assure them that I will get around to reading them all soon. Ah, the sight of them piled up is enough to make my heart skip a beat. Sorry technology fans, but a kindle would never lift my spirits the same way.
Tales from the Reading Room 