Lisa's Notebook

Books Read in 2006 continued (from May 2006)

I quit working at the beginning of May and have spent very little time reading. I hope to remedy that soon.

48) The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago (I couldn't finish it)
49) A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
50) According to Mark by Penelope Lively

51) The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
52) Destroy, She Said by Marguerite Duras
53) My Forbidden Face, Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa
54) Sweet Hostage by Nathanael Benchley
55) Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen bin Ladin
56) The Observation Deck: A Toolkit for Writers by Naomi Epel
57) Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Suddam Hussein by Jean Sasson
58) Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
59) Men In The Sun & Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
60) Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg
61) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

 

Books I've read so far in 2006

The links are to interviews, personal websites, reviews or synopsis

01) Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
02) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
03) The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
04) Literary Feuds by Anthony Arthur
05) The Piikani Blackfeet by John C. Jackson
06) The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
07) Sister India by Peggy Payne
08) Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
09) The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
10) My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
11) Hope's White Shoes by Ziggy Edwards
12) Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
13) Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham
14) Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
15) Harry & Catherine by Frederick Busch
16) He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
17) Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
18) Tangled Vines: A Collection of Mother & Daughter Poems edited by Lyn Lifshin
19) The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
20) The Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer
21) Dune by Frank Herbert
22) The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine
23) Where or When by Anita Shreve
24) Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
25) Shopping for Buddhas by Jeff Greenwald
26) Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
27) Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
28) The Story-Teller: 13 Tales by Saki
29) Darkness Visable: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
30) Girls by Frederick Busch
31) Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora by James R. Ross
32) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
33) Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch
34) The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha Jin
35) Trailer Girl & Other Stories by Terese Svoboda
36) The Royal Ghosts: Stories by Samrat Upadhyay
37) Taming the Brat by Sean O'Kane
38) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
39) House of Windows by Adina Hoffman
40) Up Above the World by Paul Bowles
41) The Cave by José Saramago
42) The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
43) My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
44) Marriage Made in Heaven: A Love Story in Letters by Vatsala & Ehud Sperling
45) My Enemy, My Self by Yoram Binur
46) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

47) Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively