Making it Up As I Go

Since my last post I’ve read 4 1/2 books, 2 by the hasn’t failed me yet Miss Agatha Christie- Taken by the Flood which had a slow beginning but turned out quite well, and Witness for the Prosecution a collection… Read more ›

I’m currently reading Double Sin and other Stories by Agatha Christie- I love Miss Agatha, she never dissapoints. And there were a few suprises too, as two of the stories so far haven’t been mysteries to be solved so much… Read more ›

So I’m through with the book paralysis- I think. I read 2 books yesterday, so thats a pretty good indicator. The first was The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan, which was incredibly interesting. Its a collection of her essays,… Read more ›

I just finished Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger- breaking with the habit I wrote of a couple of posts ago, I picked it up to read in the bath and actually continued reading it when I got out. I’ve… Read more ›

I started reading the book my friend loaned me and was a page in when I got distracted by Valley of the Dolls on TV. I’d had minimal interest in reading the book or seeing the movie until I saw… Read more ›

So when I started reading Tommy’s Tale, it was in the bathtub. In general, my bathtub books are only books that I’ve read before, that I know so well that I can start reading at any point and stop reading… Read more ›

A follow up to my comments about Namedropper – I was right about the language of the book being specific to the main character of the book. I picked up Emma Forrest’s next book Thin Skin – the language is… Read more ›

This is the final list of books I read in 2003- a total of 105. Books from January and February are bunched together as I didn’t decide to keep track of them until the middle of Feb., and I didn’t… Read more ›