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March

14

Robert Jackson Bennett

Joy Williams

Nicholas Royle

The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery

Richard Elliott Friedman

The Physiognomy

Jeffrey Ford

The Nice and the Good

Iris Murdoch

Lovecraft Country: A Novel

Matt Ruff

John Banville

Kate Danley

December2017

07

updated shelf:

The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan

updated shelf:

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody

Begging to Differ on "The Little Friend"

This is not a proper "review" of the book The Little Friend, but I do want to register with all possible emphasis and enthusiasm what is clearly a minority view of it: This is...

The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

December2017

06

updated shelf:

The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

started following:

August2017

13

finished reading:

The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan

The Invisible Circus Jennifer Egan

August2017

5

finished reading:

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody

The Ice Storm Rick Moody

August2017

03

updated shelf:

The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan

text: Knocking at the Door; More Interface Issues

Both Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land) and Bajo (The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri) are clamoring for my attention, however. Am I an idiot? Or should it be easier for me to...

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri - David Bajo

text: New Dance Partners

In the meantime, I have made nontrivial progress in all six of the above books, but it's anybody's guess which if any of them will get finished in the next several days. Is th...

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan

The Mighty Walzer - Howard Jacobson

In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien

text: Books Finished SInce Last Post

So would I have predicted which books I was actually going to READ (as in "finish") from my last couple of posts? Not really. Only two out of these five books were even "on th...

Shroud - John Banville

Woman No. 17 - Edan Lepucki

That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo

Bad Mommy - Tarryn Fisher

The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth

started reading:

The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan

The Invisible Circus Jennifer Egan

July2017

30

started reading:

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody

The Ice Storm Rick Moody

July2017

14

text: BookDance #1717

Woman No. 17 - Edan Lepucki : So I almost forgot that I'd starting dancing with this book a few days ago, then set it aside ... only to have it "call to me" again today. The g...

Woman No. 17 - Edan Lepucki

currently reading:

City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Changeling - Joy Williams

Quilt - Nicholas Royle

The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery - Richard Elliott Friedman

text: "Dancing" With the Books

The Changeling - Joy Williams : One of the books I'm "dancing" with these days is Joy Williams's The Changeling, a book that apparently fell into obscurity on the strength of ...

The Changeling - Joy Williams

The Arrangement: A Novel - Sarah Dunn

Quilt - Nicholas Royle

City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennett

Lovecraft Country: A Novel - Matt Ruff

July2017

11

started reading:

Shroud - John Banville

Shroud John Banville

finished reading:

Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers

Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers

Currently reading

City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Changeling by Joy Williams

Quilt by Nicholas Royle

The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery by Richard Elliott Friedman

The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford

The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch

Lovecraft Country: A Novel by Matt Ruff

Shroud by John Banville

The Woodcutter by Kate Danley

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