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About my libraryI do not keep every book that I read. My house can only cope with a limited number of books so from time to time I give books away.

Favourite Book of 2012: Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Runners-up: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns; Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward; Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon.
Favourite Books of 2011: A Question of Power by Bessie Head; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Great House by Nicole Krauss; Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig; The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanaki; Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill by Dmitri Verhulst; Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; The Last Brother by Natacha Appanah; The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Favourite Book of 2010: Clara by Janice Galloway (Scotland,2002)
Runners-up: Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller; The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric; Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates; Ragtime by E.L.Doctorow; By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz.
Favourite Book of 2009: The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth (Austria,1932)
Runners-up: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon; Ransom by David Malouf; The Assistant by Bernard Malamud; The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf; Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Favourite Book of 2008: Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (USA,1936)
Runners-up: The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Fifth Business by Robertson Davies; Sorry by Gail Jones; By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Favourite Book of 2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria,2006)Runners-up: The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald and The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle

2013 READING SO FAR...
**Highly recommended
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies (Canada,1970)**
The Manticore, Robertson Davies (Canada,1972)**
World of Wonders, Robertson Davies (Canada,1975)**
The Marquis of Bolibar, Leo Perutz (Germany,1960)**
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett (USA,1896)**

*Recommended
Strait is the Gate, Andre Gide (France,1924)*
Lost Voices, Christopher Koch (Australia,2012)*
The Polish Boxer, Eduardo Halfon (Guatemela,2012)*
The Cat's Table, Michael Oondatje, (Canada/Sri Lanka,2011)*
Tell it to the Trees, Anita Rau Badami (Canada/India,2011)*
The Birds on the Trees, Nina Bawden (England,1970)*

Gone, Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Sound of the Mountain, Yasunari Kawabata (Japan,1970)

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2013, Author Theme Reads, Clarissa's Cottage, Club Read 2013, Literary Centennials, Needlearts, Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge, The Prizes, The Red Room

Real nameamanda

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Member sinceJul 8, 2006

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The Tuner of Silences (Biblioasis International Translation Series) by Mia Couto

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Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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The Chosen (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chaim Potok

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A Way Of Life, Like Any Other (NYRB Classics) by Darcy O'Brien

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The North China Lover (Flamingo original) by Marguerite Duras

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The Straight and Narrow Path by Honor Tracy

haha, I just de-archived what might have been your first post on my profile page—a few days after I joined. I must have asked you for book recommendations. I was still working at the bookstore then. We've been chatting for a LONG time! (you gave me your address on Oct 17th, a mere 11 days after I joined).

posted by avaland at 6:49 am (EST) on May 30, 2013

Hi Amanda--

I'm so sorry for the delay in responding to your post on my profile page--it was so long ago you may not even remember making it. :)

I see that you have just started a thread in Club Read, so I'll be following your reading there. Two of my favorite books from last year were David Copperfield and Salvage the Bones too.

I notice that you are in Sydney. My husband and I were fortunate enough to take a month-long tour of Australia and New Zealand last year. We went to Melbourne, Alice Springs, Uluru, Cairns, and of course Sydney in Australia. I loved Australia, and would love to go back someday.

You asked about my profile page picture. That is my first grandchild, Boden, and he is two years old now, so I really should update the picture. Grandchild #2 will be here in April, so maybe he's next.

I see we share over 300 books, so I'll be making you one of my interesting libraries too.

Deborah

posted by arubabookwoman at 1:22 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2013

Thanks!

posted by anzlitlovers at 4:17 am (EST) on Dec 30, 2012

Hello Amanda, I come by here so rarely that I almost forgot about the Patrick White Anniversary Challenge! I have added my review of Happy Valley here, but I don't know how to link it to your challenge page. Sorry!
Lisa, ANZ LitLovers

posted by anzlitlovers at 7:23 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2012

Hi Amanda,
The Vivisector is my favourite White novel so far, but I have still got two more to read, Eye of the Storm amd The Twyborn Affair,

Bas

posted by baswood at 6:30 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2012

Hi Amanda -- amazingly, as I was typing those words, I think, it slid into my mailbox. I found it there just moments ago!
thanks so much...
Suzanne

posted by Chatterbox at 1:07 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2012

Not as yet, Amanda -- I promise to let you know as soon as it does -- and again, thanks in advance!

cheers,
Suzanne

posted by Chatterbox at 11:38 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2012

Love the viragos you added!!

posted by bleuroses at 12:57 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2012