Trying to work out what to read next.
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Barker, Nicola - Darkmans
Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell , The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Faulks, Sebastian - Human Traces
Guo, Xiaolu - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Haddon, Mark - A Spot of Bother
Hill, Reginald - The Last National Service Man
Kressman Taylor, Katherine - Address Unknown
Jones, Lloyd - Mister Pip
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
McEwan, Ian - On Chesil Beach
McGrath, Patrick - Dr Haggard's Disease
O'Farrell, Maggie - The Distance Between Us
Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead
Sinha, Indra - Animal's People
Tyler, Anne - Digging to America
Zola, Emile - L'Assomoir
I now don't have much time to read on the train, as I'm doing freelance work. I am sad about the reading but happy about the mind-numbingly tedious freelance work.
I bought this because I had left work and left A Gathering Light on my shelf there. I couldn't make it from Reading to Oxford with nothing to read so I nipped into the WHSmiths and bought this. It was this or Dan Brown. I've never read any Tom Wolfe, though I'd like to have a go at Bonfire of the Vanities.
Here ends the moratorium on buying books! Oops!
Because of this book I:
1) Moved my bag off the seat next to me on the train so that no one had to feel bad asking me to move it
2) Told the person blocking me in my seat at Ealing Broadway not to worry about letting me out in a hurry, cause there'd be loads of people getting off the train
3) Let four people off the train in front of me
4) Walked extra slowly behind the lady with a little boy, so she didn't feel hurried up the stairs
5) Was really nice to the people in Starbucks and tipped them
I am really tempted to start asking people to pick up the litter that they drop. Would this get me attacked?
Despite the hype that often puts me off these things, I managed to finally get round to reading Dan Brown. I expected to feel quite conflicted about it: that I would enjoy reading it immensely, whilst knowing that it was really a load of twaddle.
However, it's just a load of twaddle and I didn't enjoy it.
I may have been about ten years late jumping on the bandwagon, but at least I've read it now!
I got this earlier this year at London Book Fair; I'd already read Plain Truth, and been underwhelmed. This was a good read, and better than the former.
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