Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Fourth Estate, 2009 With a Big Book like this one, everything to do with reading is More. And, so, I have resisted reading this one MORE determinedly than any of the other books on this year's Orange Prize list. This despite having heard Hilary Mantel read
Hiromi Goto's Half World Penguin Books, 2009 I hope you're not disappointed to see another instance of Spelling It Out here, so soon after that on Sarah Waters, but I have fallen under yet another BookSpell. I admit, I do tend to respond positively to an author's work when I
Matthew Battles' Library: An Unquiet History W.W. Norton & Company, 2003 Welcome to my second bookish Friday. I've got notes that will take this theme halfway through July and I am thrilled; some of these are books I've meant to read for years, whereas others, like next Friday's choices, are
Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna Harper Collins, 2008 Both Kingsolver and Waters are on my MRE lists. Some of their books are amongst my ATF (All Time Favourites) and even when I'm less fond of a theme or a set of characters in their works I still enjoy the books because
Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child Red Deer Press, 2001 The Kappa Child is definitely the Hiromi Goto novel that I'll be recommending most often, although I'm starting to get the feeling that this author is going to be of the sort that I enjoy so solidly that I end up
