Lorelei V: January 2009

Books Recently Devoured

Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
The Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
The Misanthrope by Molière
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Letters of Madame de Sévigné
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Holy Cow by Sarah MacDonald
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Howards End by E M Forster
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Sesame and Lillies by John Ruskin
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

2008 was - if nothing else - the Year I Read Lots

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Paris Review Interviews 1
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Wasteland and other poems by T.S. Eliot
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
After Henry by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The White Album by Joan Didion
The Boat by Nam Le
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
Strangeland by Tracey Emin
Why I Write by George Orwell
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamotte
My Life by Anton Chekhov
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Will You Please Be Quiet Please by Raymond Carver
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Feel of Steel by Helen Garner
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens