First time favourites that you might be sick of hearing me rave about*: Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005) Trans. Lazer Lederhendler, French (2008) Michael Crummey's Galore (2009) Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault (2008) Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009) Cynthia Flood’s The English Stories (2009) *These
To understand my 2010 reading year, I have to think back to 2009. I'd started feeling driven to read; it had taken on the air of a chore rather than a pleasure. And so I declared 2009 "The Year of Reading Fun-gerously". In 2009, I set aside my reading lists.
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (1997) W.W. Norton & Company, 1999 If I had hesitated in including this amongst my reads for the Science Book Challenge, my doubts were laid to rest when I realized that Guns, Germs and Steel won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. (There must
Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing HarperCollins, 2009 "Examining everything from free lunches to military spending, from love to television, The Value of Nothing reveals the hidden social consequences of our global culture of 'freedom' and explains why prices are always at odds with the true value of what matters
Norman Doidge's The Brain that Changes Itself Penguin, 2007 As Olduvai suggests here, there is something different about writing a response to non-fiction, just as I have found a difference in the way that I approach reading it. She's right: it's not as though we are being graded. But, I want
