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Big Little Lies
Level 4: Mt. Ararat (48 books)
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Dec 16, 2017 11:01AM
I think I read 49 in 2017 so I'm back again for another round.
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Well done and happy reading!
Note to self (channeling Alan Alda in Crimes and Misdemeanors): TBR Pick: Tentative and subject to change depending on what I feel like reading
Left overs from decades
1) Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky (started)
2) Getting it Right: Elizabeth Jane Howard
5) The Wicked Boy: Kate Summerscale
6) Entry Island: Peter May
7) Murder at the Manor: ed. Martin Edwards
8) The Insect Farm: Stuart Prebble
9) The Fourth Secret: Andrea Camilleri
10) Fatherhood: Thomas Cook
11) The Moth: James Cain
12) Trouble Follows Me: Ross Macdonald
13) The Thicket: Joe R. Lansdale
14) The Man Who Loved Children: Christina Stead
15) Edge of Dark Water: Joe R. Lansdale
16) After Midnight: Irmgard Keun
20) A Few Days in the Country: Elizabeth Harrower
21) Martutene: Ramón Saizarbitoria
22) Yvegeny Onegin: Pushkin
23) Private Life: Josep Maria De Sagarra
24) Stalin's Daughter: Rosemary Sullivan
25) Quite Ugly One Morning: Chris Brookmyre
26) Black Run: Antonio Manzini
27) A Start in Life: Anita Brookner
28) All These Condemned: John D. MacDonald
30) Young Adolf: Beryl Bainbridge
31) Zerozerozero: Roberto Saviano
32) The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans: Balzac
33) Aunts Up the Cross: Robin Dalton
34) Forty Rooms: Olga Grushin
35) Ask For Me Tomorrow: Margaret Millar
36) H.M. Pulham Esq: Marquand
37) Dusty Answer: Rosamond Lehmann
38) Happy All the Time: Laurie Colwin
40) The Pigeon Tunnel: John Le Carre
49) Just Relations: Rodney Hall
52) The Devotion of Suspect x: Higashino
53) Winter Sleep: Kenzo Kitakata
54) The Assault on Tony's John O'Brien
56) Snake: Kate Jennings
57) Journey Under the Midnight Sun: Higashino
61) Life Drawing: Robin Black
62) We Are Not Ourselves: Matthew Thomas
63) A Friend From England: Brookner
65) In Times of Fading Light: Eugen Ruge
66) Altered States: Anita Brookner
67) The Cage: Kenzo Kitakata
68) A Start in Life: Brookner
69) Honeymoon to Nowhere: Akimitsu Takagi
70) Adam's Rib: Antonio Manzini
72) After the Death of the Prince: Philip Hensher
73) Miss Owen-Owen: Margaret Forster
74) The Third Tower: Antal Szerb
75) The Misalliance: Anita Brookner
76) Brief Lives: Anita Brookner
77) Providence: Anita Brookner
78) My Late Wives: John Dickson Carr
80) Bel Canto: Ann Patchett
81) Love Without Hope: Rodney Hall
82) Salvation of a Saint: Higashino
83) When I was Old: Simenon
84) The Ghostly Lover: Elizabeth Hardwick
85) My Name is Lucy Barton: Elizabeth Strout
87) Lovers and Murderers: Vladimir Parel
89) The Matter of Desire: Edmundo Paz Soldan
91) Mission London: Alek Popov
92) The Days of the King: Florian Filip
93) Judge on Trial: Ivan Klima
94) The Widow Killer: Pavel kahout
95) The Trail of the Serpent" Mary Elizabeth Braddon
96) I am Snowing: Pavel Kahout
97) Wonderful Women By the Sea: Monica Fagerholm
98) Stranded: Ester Tusquets
99) Death Puppet: Jim Nisbet
102) Perlmann's Silence: Pascal Mercier
103) The First Bad Man: Miranda July
104) In the Sky: Mirbeau
105) Disagreeable Tales: leon Bloy
106) The Upstairs People: jennifer Dawson
107) The Man in the High Castle: Philip Dick
108) Heed the thunder: Jim Thompson
109) Recoil: Jim Thompson
110) An Innocent Gentleman: Elizabeth Jolley
111) All I could Get: Scott Lasser
112) What remains of Me: Alison Gaylin
114) Country of the Blind: Brookmyre
116) The Tale: Joseph Conrad
117) Voyage Around My Room: Xavier de Maistre
118) A Small Town Marriage: Marchesa Colombi
119) The Princesse de Cleves: Madame de Lafayette
121) Colours and Years: Margitt Kafka
122) A Working Mother: Agnes Owen
126) The Matter of Desire: Edmundo Paz Soldan
127) The Darkness that Divides Us: Renate Dorrestein
129) The Assassination Bureau: London
130) Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: kate Summerscale
131) Nobody's Fool: Richard Russo
132) Weatherly Parade: Richmal Crompton
133) Master of the Day of Judgement: perutz
134) Shroud of Darkness: Lorac
135) The Sea, The Sea: iris Murdoch
136) You've Got it Coming: james Hadley Chase
137) Tiger by the Tail: james hadley Chase
138) Try This one for Size: James hadley Chase
Hilary S wrote: "Well done and happy reading!"Thanks Hilary
1. Just What Kind of Mother are You: Paula Daly (9/15)Enjoyed this one a lot but I could have done w/o the thoughts of the perv.
2) The Ice Harvest: Scott Phillips. (2/15)Well this one was a disappointment.
3) My Mortal Enemy: Willa Cather (10/13)
4) Badenheim 1939: Aharon Appelfeld (9/10)
I bought Badenheim 39 in a secondhand bookshop just before xmas. I hadn't heard of author or book before, it just looked interesting. Was it good?
Not an easy question to answer: was it good? Yes. Did I like it? No. I understand that the Nazis treated Jews like vermin, and the book approaches its subject that way. Sanitation inspectors arrive in the resort town and soon people are made to register (etc). Then jews are required to register with the dept. People who left Poland years ago start talking about being able to go back and how wonderful it will be ...
There's a lot of denial and wishful thinking. It's an allegorical satire.
Humour and the holocaust just doesn't work for me. Just like that film Life is Beautiful
5) Pedro Paramo: Juan Rulfo (2015?)
6) The Good House: Ann Leary (9/16)This one is going on my best of year list.
7) At the Hairdresser's: Anita Brookner (10/17)
8) Magnetism: F Scott Fitzgerald (2/11)
9) The Disassembled Man: Nate Flexer 12/13
10) The Gioconda Smile; Aldous Huxley (3/13)
11) Dirt: David Vann (5/17)depressing
12) I do not Come to Come To You By Chance: Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (11/12)
13) The Goalie's Anxiety At the Penalty Kick: Peter Handke (11/13)
14) The President's hat: Antoine Laurain (2013)
15) The New Woman: Jon Hassler (6/15)
16) The Violated: Bill Pronzini (2017) Hated the ending.
17) An Unattended Death: Victoria Jennings (11/16)
Good to see you're still on target. I'm managing to keep up as well.
At times I have to redirect myself so the group is a good motivator
18) Holloway Falls: Neil Cross (2010)
19) Too Close to Home: Linwood Barclay (1/15)
20) Life Sentences: Laura Lippman (10/09)
21) Twisted City: Jason Starr (8/11)
22) Bad Move: Linwood Barclay (6/14)
23) The Governess and other stories: Zweig (11/11)
24) The Empty Bed: Paul Thomas (12/14)
25) Headhunters: Jo Nesbo (3/14)
26) Pillion Riders: Elizabeth Russell Taylor (6/15)
27) Camera: Jean-Philippe Toussaint (7/15)
28)The House by the Lake: Thomas Harding (7/16)
29) Hunts in Dreams: Tom Drury (1/16)
30) New world in the Morning: Stephen Benatar (1/15)
31) fatal: John lescroart (1/17)
32) Iza's ballad: Magda Szabó (10/16)
33) Out of the Body Experiences: Celia Green (2/04)
34) A Little Love, A Little Learning: Nina Bawden (2/16)
35) Strangers When we Meet: Evan Hunter (3/13)
36) The Driftless Area: Tom Drury (1/16)
37) Come By Sunday: Damon Wise (2013?)
38) The Black Brook: Tom Drury (1/16)
39) A Crime in the Neighbourhood: Suzanne Berne (5/16)
40) Charles II and the Duke of Buckingham by David Hanrahan (2014)
41) Leaving Las Vegas: John O' Brien (2/16)
42) Helping With Inquiries: Celia Dale (5/15)
