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Aug 16, 2015 02:42PM
C: Kate Chopin, currently reading The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
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Helen Fielding. I am sad to say I read Bridget Jones's Diary and I think I read a sequel too when I was in hospital
G: Graham Greene - one of my favorite authors! This Gun for Hire is just one title...Stef wrote: "Helen Fielding. I am sad to say I read Bridget Jones's Diary and I think I read a sequel too when I was in hospital"
Why "sad to say"? I thought it was a fun book - not great literature but decent writing.
K - Mark KurlanskyAuthor of Salt: A World History and Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Both of which I have read.
N - Vladimir NabokovAuthor of Lolita (which I have read) & Pale Fire (which I hope to get to this year).
Q - Spencer Quinnauthor of the Chet and Bernie series which my son and I read (not for y/a, but he really liked the humour and action plus the dog POV). The first book in the series is Dog on It
R - Mary RoachAuthor of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, &Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (among others) - I have only read the first mentioned so far.
V -- Barbara Vine (pen name of Ruth Rendell)
X Why is it always X when I check this thread?
At the risk of repeating myself I will name
Xinran
What the Chinese Don't Eatj
I love that name.... Is he/ she for real or is that a pseudonym?
Tweedledum wrote: "I love that name.... Is he/ she for real or is that a pseudonym?"Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto, she adopted the pseudonym Banana while in college, after her love of banana flowers.
C: G.K. ChestertonA prolific English author from the early 20th century, probably best known today for The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare and his Father Brown series.
Dave Eggers author of the circle which I want to read so baddd
H: Khaled HosseiniAuthor of A Thousand Splendid Suns, which I cannot say enough wonderful things about, though it does cover some difficult subject matter.
Susan IsaacsLove this author who writes Lily White, Shining Through and Compromising Positions.
M: David McCollough David McCullough Pulitzer prize winning author that writes in a style that even people who don't like history can read.
P: Samuel Pepys English Parliamentarian and naval administrator; famous for his Diary which covered major events of 1660's London, especially the Great Fire.
Q: Ellery Queen, The Roman Hat Mystery
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