Books

At the start of 2002 my eldest girl said she was going to try and read 50 books over the course of the year. I took that as a challenge and said I'd try and do the same. In the end I read 52 -  mostly novels, a few music biographies, a smattering of novellas, a bunch of short story collections.

My good friend misterprime stuck up his list yesterday, I'm showing mine today. Here goes...

Nico Walker - Cherry
Benjamin Myers - Male Tears
Wendy Erskine - Sweet Home
Warren Ellis - Nina Simone's Gum
Jennifer Lucy Allan - The Foghorn's Lament
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived In The Castle
Shirley Jackson - The Sundial
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year Of Rest And Relaxation
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery And Other Stories
Jenni Fagan - Hex
Adelle Stripe - Black Teeth And A Brilliant Smile
Denise Mina - Rizzio
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales
Ottessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World
Mark Lanegan - Devil In A Coma
Donna McLean - Small Town Girl
Ottessa Moshfegh - Death In Her Hands
Tracey Thorn - Bedsit Disco Queen
Tracey Thorn - My Rock'N'Roll Friend
Tracey Thorn - Another Planet
David Keenan - This Is Memorial Device
Mark Lanegan - Sing Backwards And Weep
Lucia Berlin - Evening In Paradise
Ottessa Moshfegh - McGlue
Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
Adam Scovell - Mothlight
Lucia Berlin - A Manual For Cleaning Women
Don DeLillo - Zero K
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Jarvis Cocker - Good Pop Bad Pop
Benjamin Myers - The Perfect Golden Circle
Jude Rogers - The Sound Of Being Human
David Keenan - Industry Of Magic And Light
Shirley Jackson - Hangsaman
Jenni Fagan - The Panopticon
Iain Reid - I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
Benjamin Myers - The Gallows Pole
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
Ted Kessler - Paper Cuts
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
Katherine Dunn - Geek Love
Paul Beatty - Slumberland
Nan Shepherd - The Living Mountain
Stuart Braithwaite - Spaceships Over Glasgow
JD Salinger - Nine Stories
Don DeLillo - The Silence
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed
Iain Reid - We Spread


As for today,  I spent the morning catching up with the football on the telly and then went out for a short ride on the bike in the afternoon. It's been a while. It felt great to be out.

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