The following are the books I hope to read by the end of 2009. My aim is to read around 40 books a year, depending on length, and of course work and family commitments! These are all sitting on the (heaving) bookshelves at home, calling to me...
Camus, Albert - The Outsider
Chabon, Michael - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The Long Goodbye
Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's Prey / Sharpe's Rifles
Dickens, Charles - The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Fforde, Jasper - Lost In A Good Book
Grossmith, George & Weedon - The Diary Of A Nobody
Ibsen, Henrik - Hedda Gabler
Irving, John - The 158 Pound Marriage
Le Carre, John - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
McEwan, Ian - The Cement Garden
Mitchell, David - Ghostwritten
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying Of Lot 49
Trollope, Anthony - He Knew He Was Right
Turgenev, Ivan - First Love
Sansom, CJ - Dark Fire
Shakespeare, William - The Winter's Tale
Spark, Muriel - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Updike, John - Rabbit Redux
Wodehouse, PG - Leave It To Psmith
About Me
- CJ Garwood
- I'm a thirty-something, fiction-loving, head-in-the-clouds, former actor training to be a teacher. This blog will record my thoughts on all the books I'm reading and - eventually - all those I've read, at least as far back as I can remember! Here you'll be able to navigate your way through a depository of books both classic and modern, that has enabled me to travel all over the planet and beyond: from the battlefield at Waterloo to an English country house; from the American West to newly independent India; from the varied tropical climes of (Graham) Greeneland to the far reaches of Middle-Earth. Fiction has the potential to teach us more about the world we live in - and about ourselves - than any history book or newspaper. And, of course, it's fun! Read and learn.
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