Friday, September 29, 2006

Recent Reads
(Covers January through September, so read the term "recent" loosely)

Fiction:
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
The Attack, Yasmina Khadra
Book Doctor, Esther Cohen
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
July's People, Nadine Gordimer
Montana, 1948, Larry Watson
Nights in Rodanthe, Nicholas Sparks
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
Peach Cobbler Murder, Joanne Fluke
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch

Poetry:
Axe Handles, Gary Snyder

Nonfiction:
-environmental memoirs:
Body Toxic, Susanne Antonette
My Story As Told By Water, David James Duncan
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creative nonfiction, essays:
The Boys of My Youth, JoAnn Beard
Distance and Direction, Judith Kitchen
In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, ed. Judith Kitchen
Small Wonders, Barbara Kingsolver
-journal:
A Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton
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historical/journalism:
The Professor and the Madman,
Simon Winchester
-memoir/geographical journalism:
Walking the Bible,
Bruce Feiler
-on writing:
Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury


Note: Email me if you want the low-down on any of the above, or if you want to tell me what you're reading.

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