Books read 2008

[viedma]

Books in bold are ones that I would recommend without hesitation to another human being who reads

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
The Game by Laurie King
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
The Body in the Transept by Jeanne Dams
Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love by Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Meconis (in case the title isn't warning enough, this one is very upsetting)
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (just wasn't in the mood for bleak)
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Behind the Curtain by Peter Abrahams
Larklight by Philip Reeve
Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare the Pants Off America by William Castle
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
Size 14 is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Affinity by Sarah Waters
A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 by Annie Liebowitz
Starcross by Philip Reeve
A Taste for Death by P. D. James
The Empress's Tomb by Kirsten Miller
Maison Ikkoku vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (fuck off & die, kid)
When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Saving Lilly by Peg Kehret
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965 by Taylor Branch
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Winter of Discontent by Jeanne Dams
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Farm Sanctuary by Gene Baur
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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Comments

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Somebody used the phrase, "I think he chose the wire mommy" somewhere recently, and I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.

In a horrified way, of course.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Of course! Using that particular phrase is a very...um, illustrative? Way to describe a person.