Zanna Campanula of the revolutionary trousers
here begin the 2010 entries
Bookclub books
- An education – Lynn Barber
- Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
- The comforts of a muddy Saturday – Alexander McCall Smith (guh)
- The rain before it falls – Jonathan Coe
- Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín
- One day – David Nicholls
- The other side of the bridge – Mary Lawson BRILLIANT! I LOVE THIS BOOK WITH ALL MY SOUL!
- Love and summer – William Trevor (also ace)
- A lesson before dying Ernest J. Gaines (wow)
- The diary of a nobody George & Weedon Grossmith (whahahaha!)
- The ninth life of Louis Drax – Liz Jensen
- Miss Garnet’s angel – Sally Vickers (bah, didn’t like that AT ALL)
- The Welsh girl – Peter Ho Davies
- We are all made of glue – Monika Lewycka (naja)
- The palace of strange girls – Sallie Day
- Invisible – Paul Auster
- Hurting distance – Sophie Hannah
- Little face – Sophie Hannah
- The complaints – Ian Rankin
- Isa & May – Margaret Forster
- The cryptologist – Tobias Hill (ugh, amazed i even bothered to finish that. totally unbelievable and i really didn’t care anyway.)
- Liza’s England – Pat Barker (enjoyed that!)
- Everything you know – Zoe Heller (yay!)
- The very thought of you – Rosie Alison (i have no idea how this book got shortlisted for the orange prize. i found it cringingly dreadful from start to finish. read it purely as a how-not-to. there were several great stories in there somewhere … but none of them moved me in any way. invisible thread here, invisible thread there. oh, and would it not have been a better idea to cut 90% of the rhetorical questions?)
- Return to Akenfield – Craig Taylor (had been languishing on my shelves for years. BUT WHAT AN EXCELLENT BOOK. i loved it. and have ordered the original Akenfield. yay.)
- Keeping the world away – Margaret Forster. (yay)
- Juliet, naked – Nick Hornby. (also yay: perfect holiday reading)
- Crow Lake – Mary Lawson (i love Mary Lawson!)
- Started early, took my dog – Kate Atkinson (i love Jackson Brodie!)
- Blaming – Elizabeth Taylor (oooh, ace new discovery for me!)
- People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
- A question of attribution – Alan Bennett
- Airswimming – Charlotte Jones
- In Flame – Charlotte Jones
- Das weiße Band – Michael Haneke
- Tissue – Louise Page
