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Member: dylanwolf

CollectionsYour library (913), To read (252), All collections (913)

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Favorite authorsFleur Adcock, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Peter Carey, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Don DeLillo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roddy Doyle, Bob Dylan, Timothy Findley, Philip Hensher, Henrik Ibsen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Franz Kafka, James Kelman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Stanisław Lem, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Gabriel García Márquez, Andrew Miller, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Muriel Spark, Graham Swift, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

About meExactly sixty years ago, in 1949, Wolverhampton Wanderers won the FA Cup with this team:
Back row: Billy Crook, Roy Pritchard, Bert Williams, Bill Shorthouse, Terry Springthorpe.
Front row: Johnny Hancocks, Sammy Smyth, Stan Cullis, Billy Wright, Jesse Pye, Jimmy Dunn and Jimmy Mullen.

Fifty years ago, in 1959, Wolves became Champions of England for the third time.

Today, the 18th April 2009, the team won promotion back to the Premier League after a five year absence.

Early November now and Wolves haven't gone from bad to worse, it has just become apparent how mediocre to poor our initial results were. We might well expect to lose 1-4 at home to Arsenal, even though we were the better side for the first thirty minutes. But West Ham came back from two down to draw with Arsenal and also beat Villa where we could only draw. We will lose at Chelsea and then it will be critical to beat both Bolton and Birmingham at home if we are to come to Christmas clear of the three relegation places.

Currently Reading
The Conversations at Curlow Creek - David Malouf

Last 100 books read (starting with most recently read):
01 You Have To Be Careful In The Land Of The Free - James Kelman (****)
02 Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro (****)
03 The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry (****)
04 Dreams of Violence - Stella Feehily (play)(**)
05 Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (*****)
06 All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (*****)
07 All My Sons - Arthur Miller (play) (****)
08 Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje (***)
09 Mirage - Bandula Chandraratna (****)
10 Modern Baptists - James Wilcox (**)
11 Shakespeare on Toast - David Crystal (**)
12 Downriver - Iain Sinclair (***)
13 Orphans - Dennis Kelly (play) (****)
14 Shambles Corner - Edward Toman (*****)
15 The Progressive Patriot - Billy Bragg (***)
16 A Mercy - Toni Morrison (****)
17 Art & Lies - Jeanette Winterson (**)
18 Engleby - Sebastian Faulks (****)
19 Faith Healer - Brian Friel (play)(****)
20 The Book of Chameleons - Jose Eduardo Agualusa (*****)
21 A British Subject - Nicola McAuliffe (play)(***)
22 Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene (***)
23 The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms - JP Donleavy (****)
24 The Snapper - Roddy Doyle (****)
25 Ulysses - James Joyce (***)
26 Ulysses and Us - Declan Kiberd (****)
27 Blackbird - David Harrower (play) (*****)
28 Nothing to be Frightened Of - Julian Barnes (****)
29 Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn (***)
30 Karoo - Steve Tesich (****)
31 Somewhere Towards the End - Diana Athill (**)
32 Gagarin Way - Gregory Burke (play) (****)
33 The Siege of Krishnapor - JG Farrell (****)
34 We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver (**)
35 Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (***)
36 The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett (***)
37 The Art of Fiction - David Lodge (***)
38 Martha Quest - Doris Lessing (****)
39 Necropolis Railway - Andrew Martin (*)
40 The Gathering - Anne Enright (***)
41 Counting Sheep - Paul Martin (***)
42 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale (***)
43 Be Near Me - Andrew O'Hagan (****)
44 The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru (****)
45 The Paper Men - William Golding (***)
46 How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman (*****)
47 The Angry Island - AA Gill (**)
48 Why the Whales Came - Michael Morpurgo (**)
49 The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker (****)
50 The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (***)
51 Damage - Josephine Hart (*)
52 The Road Home - Rose Tremain (*****)
53 The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan (**)
54 Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey (****)
55 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (****)
56 Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion (***)
57 Felicia's Journey - William Trevor (*****)
58 Falling Man - Don DeLillo (****) (2007)
59 Natural History - Juan Perucho (***)
60 The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (**)
61 Blood - Janice Galloway (***)
62 House of Meetings - Martin Amis (****)
63 Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (**)
64 To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (***)
65 Reading In The Dark - Seamus Deane (****)
66 Freud's Alphabet - Jonathan Tel (***)
67 Not Not While The Giro - James Kelman (****)
68 Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood (**)
69 Mary Reilly - Valerie Martin (***)
70 The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (****)
71 Coming Up For Air - George Orwell (*****)
72 Dreamers - Knut Hamsun (**)
73 Eucalyptus - Murray Bail (***)
74 The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (***)
75 The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (****)
76 Morality Play - Barry Unsworth (***)
77 The Bridge at San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (**)
78 Day - A.L.Kennedy (****)
79 Brazzaville Beach - William Boyd (***)
80 Docherty - William McIlvanney (****)
81 Human Voices - Penelope Fitzgerald (**)
82 Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobsen (*****)
83 Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh (**)
84 The Known World - Edward P Jones (****)
85 Trumpet - Jackie Kay (**)
86 Homestead - Rosina Lippi (***)
87 Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton (****)
88 Empire of the Sun - J.G.Ballard (***)
89 How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World - Francis Wheen (**)
90 Young Adam - Alexander Trocchi (**)
91 The Ghost Writer - John Harwood (***)
92 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (****)
93 The Reader - Bernard Schlink (***)
94 Double Vision - Pat Barker (**)
95 Scar Tissue - Michael Ignaeff (***)
96 The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden (**)
97 Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene (**)
98 Arthur and George - Julian Barnes (****)
99 The Last Station - Jay Parini (**)
100 A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby (***)

The star system indicates how much I personally enjoyed the experience of reading it at that time. It is emphatically not a measure of the quality of the book itself; sometimes books chime with your mood or circumstance - sometimes they jar.

Ideally, I enjoy a melancholic book in a melancholic mood, but the realities of domestic, social and familial responsibilities, work and fatigue all intervene.

About my libraryMy library is almost exclusively paperbacks and predominantly those you might think of as popular literary novels. I add to my library unimaginatively from Waterstones but also from charity shops, where it's fun to browse because you never know what you are going to find. Over a decade ago I had a, now much regretted, purge of my library in a futile gesture of self-sacrifice. Ah, life! I haven't yet replaced the Dostoyevsky, Nabakov and Solzhenitsyn.

Homepagehttp://dylanwolf.blogspot.com/

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