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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Whipped cream on the Pumpkin Pie - the extras I read after meeting the 2009 goal of 75 books.		68	Whisper1, December 17
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999 Challenge : Sir Furboy's		24	sirfurboy, December 12
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 14, 2009?		178	slarsoncollins, November 23
50 Book Challenge : elliepotten's 50 book challenge 2009		223	elliepotten, November 13
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Listmania I -- Ten Novels Likeliest to Survive the Test of Time, Not Written Originally in English		42	Macumbeira, November 9
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Literary Snobs : Harold Bloom: Pro on con?		152	kswolff, September 19
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999 Challenge : Kettricken's 999 challenge		20	Kettricken, January 12
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BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: December 2008		72	freelunch, December 2008
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50 Book Challenge : Rosalind takes the plunge		9	Rosalind, June 2008
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... Slim by Richard Kadrey. However, on Boxing Day I visited a couple of discount book shops and picked up: Darkmans, Black Swan Green, The Lemur, The Fahrenheit Twins, Blood Meridian and Remains of the Day - all for about 99p each.

Stopping by to let you know I'm reading Black Swan Green and trying like anything to keep my spirits up. Not down because of the book, which is fine. I'm just tired and still sick. Ho ho ho.

... to go: a Shakespeare play already started, and one from the September tbr stack. I'm not sure which one that will be; Black Swan Green, The Red Tent and Wicked are beckoning me, and so are a couple of children's books. At the same time, though, I'm getting some pretty strong calls ...

I will be interested in seeing your review of Black Swan Green, one of the books I was supposed to get to this year but never did.

... take on mothers and daughters with the mother actually jealous of the daughter's romance. I love Elizabeth Strout. In Black Swan Green you'll meet another adolescent with growing pains but an entirely different approach. BTW I thumbed your review.

I finished reading Amy and Isabelle: A Novel and began, for the second time, to read Black Swan Green. Amy and Isabelle was a very interesting read, though the topic might be difficult for some readers who eschew reading about sexuality and human beings. The novel contains so many compelling ...

... ars. You can also see it on the books Main Page: http://www.librarything.com/work/5217 On to the next one, which is Black Swan Green. Lovely dawn sky this morning in Tallahassee, FL, BTW. Makes me feel s-o-o-o-o good to see Nature's beauty.

... about preparing and enjoying good food. Five stars. I have started Still Alice, Hillary Mantel's, Wolf Hall and Black Swan Green. Now here I am, in the middle of a dilemma. All of them will be read and savored, but which one will whisper seductively to me in the middle of the night ...

... shelves here at home that are over flowing with good reads ... The Lacuna, Still Alice, Last Night in Twisted River, Black Swan Green and Half Broke Horses. I need two of me ... one to read and one to take care of the other important things in my life. Don't you agree? I wish good ...

... bench. Not just Buddenbrooks in there vying for second but Doctor Faustus, too; little novels and Novellas like Black Swan and Transposed Heads (one of my personal favorites) and Felix Krull. Great essays. I've never even tackled Joseph, but it is high on my list of Alps ...

Black Swan Green is also in my tbr pile and your review just brought it closer to the top. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again - great review!

#46 Black Swan Green by David Mitchell From my review: The town of Black Swan Green in 1982 provides the setting for David Mitchell’s adolescent coming of age story that might just be autobiographical. Jason Taylor is thirteen years old and serves as narrator of the story that ...

#46 Black Swan Green by David Mitchell From my review: The town of Black Swan Green in 1982 provides the setting for David Mitchell’s adolescent coming of age story that might just be autobiographical. Jason Taylor is thirteen years old and serves as narrator of the story that ...

Cloud Atlas is one of my desert island books. It's very different from Black Swan Green, though.

Finished Black Swan Green and will write my review tonight (I hope). I've started on the early favorite for the Pulitzer Lark & Termite by Jayne Ann Phillips.

Thank you so much for the welcome, arubabookwoman. I enjoyed Black Swan Green (my review will be done tonight I hope) and have Cloud Atlas on my TBR. I will keep The Wilderness in mind. Thanks for the suggestion.

... reads for the rest of the year. David Mitchell is one of my favorite authors, so I'll be interested in your review of Black Swan Green. If you're interested in another book written from the pov of an Alzheimer's victim, I read The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey earlier this year, ...

>48: Oh, Brenda, I envy you. I too loved Black Swan Green when I read it several years ago. Lark & Termite is one of my favorite books read this year. Wish I could say the same about my current read, Lush Life. It is actually pretty good for crime fiction -- just not my favorite genre.

I finished Black Swan Green by David Mitchell which I absolutely loved and will write my review tomorrow sometime. I'm now on to the early favorite for this year's Pulitzer Prize Lark & Termite Jayne Ann Phillips.

I will be interested in seeing your thoughts on Black Swan Green. I had it on my list to read this year, but so far have not gotten to it.

Hey, co-founding member of the Bonnie Bunch! I'm picking up Still Alice from the library tomorrow. And I've read Black Swan Green and predict you'll like it!

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

... I like the sound of: the Mystic Rose How do you feel: Magyk Describe where you currently live: Magic Street Black Swan Green If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Stonehenge, although I was thinking of saying: Inside Grandad Your favourite form of ...

... Aravind Adiga The Book Thief - Markus Zusak A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones Black Swan Green - David Mitchell Lush Life - Richard Price The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur - Daoud Hari :-( touchstone The Robber Bride - Marga ...

I only have three, Bonnie: Black Swan Green, David Mitchell The Secret History Donna Tartt Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell - you were going to read this soon anyway I believe :) Awesome challenge, have fun!

... Burgess' EARTHLY POWERS does that for me: smashing great writing and an ambitious, energetic storyline. David Mitchell (BLACK SWAN GREEN and CLOUD ATLAS) is another writer who comes to mind...

... 2 1/2*) 5. Irregardless of Murder by Ellen Edwards Kennedy (December, 3 1/2*) ~~ Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Other possibilities, that may get transferred to the 1010: ~~ The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson ~~ 2666 by Roberto Bo ...

... / Favorite Authors) 8. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (November, Contemporary Fiction) 9. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

... pretty actors, but the cast of Maurice is super hot. :) I've pretty much done the Murakami tour, but I still have Black Swan Green left for Mitchell. And I hear we're getting a new novel from him next year, which is exciting. And of course Murakami has a new doorstopper out, so I ...

... You've already read an interesting mix of books and I notice that you've become a fan of David Mitchell. I have his Black Swan Green on my tbr pile but not part of my 999 challenge.

9. Contemporary Fiction i. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami ii. Wind up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami iii. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell iv. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell v. Number 9 Dream - David Mitchell vi. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell vii. After Dark - Haruki Mu ...

David Mitchell is one of my favourite authors. I agree with you about Black Swan Green. I hope his next book is more like his earlier ones. If you haven't read Ghostwritten you should give it a go.

... Fingersmith for something else, then thought I'd pick it up again for Orange July, so went ahead and read alternate Black Swan Green, which I really did have on my TBR list... not as good as Cloud Atlas (read maybe 2 yrs ago, or Number9dream - read even longer ago).

... I started Fingersmith, but then The Waste Lands came available at the library so I switched to that. Then I read Black Swan Green, as per the Group Read for June over on Babbling Books: http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/about3408.html I thought it was alright, but nowhere ...

I have decided to chuck the 'must-read' list. I am not getting them read and have decided a list approach is just not for me. I will eventually get to them, but probably not all this year. bonniebooks in 50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's 50 book challenge in 2009, chapter 2 (Jun 23, 2009, 10:39am)

... The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (3/14/09) 32. Housekeeping vs. Dirt - Nick Hornby (03/15/09) 33. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell (3/21/09) 34. Away - Amy Bloom (3/26/09) 35. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (4/04/09) 36. Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Philli ...

30. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. This was recommended on another thread in this group, and I loved it. I'm a similar age to the author, and this book seems semi-autobiographical book, so there is lots of nostalgia in there. Definitely recommended, and I'm going to check out some of his ...

... - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Avalon::The Return of the King - Stephen Lawhead The Basalisk - N M Browne Black Swan Green - David Mitchell Boy's life - Robert McCammon Bridge to Terabitha - Katherine Paterson Byzantium - Lawhead - Stephen Lawhead Chains of Darkness - ...

... arrive, Second Hand sits on a shelf in sight of where I am typing this, next to The Road to Wellville, Labyrinths, Black Swan Green and The Island of the Day Before... not bad company.

I haven't read Black Swan Green - it's one of those books I've heard lots about but I never seemed to get round to it, somehow... I'm not especially into bees, but I seem to be hankering after books on totally random subjects at the moment. On the pile of books right in front of me (my newest ...

My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.

... The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (3/14/09) 32. Housekeeping vs. Dirt - Nick Hornby (03/15/09) 33. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell (3/21/09) 34. Away - Amy Bloom (3/26/09) 35. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (4/04/09) 36. Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Philli ...

... set in 1950s Dublin and written under the name Benjamin Black are excellent, mainly for his descriptive writing, and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell is one of the best coming of age novels written.

... out of the Ice Special Topics in Calamity Physics Arms of Nemesis The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Black Swan Green Bard In the Shadows of War Penmarric Clockers The Heaven Tree Trilogy - Parts 2 and 3 I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company Shado ...

... - Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Avalon::The Return of the King Stephen Lawhead The Basalisk - N M Browne Black Swan Green - David Mitchell Boy's life - Robert McCammon Bridge to Terabitha - Katherine Paterson Byzantium - Stephen Lawhead Chains of Darkness - Michelle ...

... - Marisha Pessl (1/12/09) Gardens of Water - Alan Drew (2/09/09) Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones (2/18/09) Black Swan Green - David Mitchell - shortlisted, Costa Novel Award; LA Times Book Prize, 2006 (3/22/09) A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews (4/05/09) 26a - ...

... Mitchell, I want to read his Cloud Atlas first - as I've heard many many good things about it. And if I like it I'll get to Black Swan Green - thanks for the review!

... 200px; margin-right:10px;" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0340839260.01._SY190_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> 9. Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell A truly incredible book - the kind where as soon as I close it I itch to write to the author to tell him how impressed I am. A coming-of ...

David Mitchell's BLACK SWAN GREEN is another terrific book--kids would love it. Both my lads sure did.

... out of the Ice Special Topics in Calamity Physics Arms of Nemesis The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Black Swan Green Bard In the Shadows of War Penmarric Clockers The Heaven Tree Trilogy - Parts 2 and 3 I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company Shado ...

Continuing to read The Time Traveler's Wife (which I am really enjoying Ellie!) and listening to Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. I've also started reading The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield today.

re #146: And you make me think I'd better try Black Swan Green!

>141: I have been so in awe of David Mitchell since I read Cloud Atlas last year that I have been reluctant to try Black Swan Green for fear of disappointment!

Black Swan Green is one of my favorite books, so much so that I am reluctant to read anything else by David Mitchell because how could it possibly compare? I recently heard an interview with him and he was so charming and shy and intelligent that I plan to read something else by him soon.

#134 & #141. I don't know if you're finished with your review of Black Swan Green since its been fraught with interruptions, but it sounds good enough to read. So. Were you sitting at the computer, snoring perhaps, for those lost eight hours?

... - I'd suspected it was fictionalized autobiography, but hadn't done the research to be sure. Thanks! >34 - I also loved Black Swan Green! No Hangman in True Diary..., though...For Junior, "I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited."

28. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. Oh, the troubles of a very creative, but highly anxious 13-year-old boy who also stammers. By itself, a hilarious and disturbing tale--are boys really this bad?! This poor guy reminds me of Adrian Mole, but funnier and even more intense. The Falkl ...

I hadn't heard of Black Swan Green but it looks really good. That Split Enz song was indeed banned in the UK, but massively popular in New Zealand (where I lived then). A few years ago the Finn Brothers did a concert at the Albert Hall here in London and they played it, and the English people ...

I liked Cloud Atlas but haven't read Black Swan Green yet. I've just read some reviews and think the main character is nearly the same age as me - I was 11 when the Falklands War happened. (The only thing I remember about it was that "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", a fantastic song by one of ...

Oooh, I might have to try Black Swan Green then... I keep seeing David Mitchell's books around and I've heard good things, but I've never actually bothered to pick one up. I think you may just have changed that!

32. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. Actually read this book last week. Both hilarious and sad, and I found myself thinking Adrian Mole--only better--but then the last third of the book took on a more serious tone that I wanted to think about/wait to discuss. Now, a week later, I ...

... reading The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett which I'm finding fabulously funny. Also started a new audiobook - Black Swan Green by David Mitchell which is ace, as Jason would say.

#52: abw, I have not read Cloud Atlas so I cannot compare. I really have no expectations from Black Swan Green other than a good read.

#49--Stasia--Black Swan Green is a very good book, but be forewarned--it is NOTHING like Cloud Atlas, if that is what you are expecting.

22. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 371p Adolescent fiction A year in the life of a 13 year old boy in Britain, 1983. Against the backdrop of the Falklands War, Jason struggles to come to terms with the bullying he encounters as a result of his stuttering and the conflict at home between his ...

Have finished Black Swan Green now. Wasn't science fiction at all, sadly. But! It did mention science fiction in it, with reference to the main character reading Z for Zachariah, and books by Isaac Asimov and John Wyndham. :)

... KISS BEFORE DYING (the first third of that book is about as suspenseful as it gets); he's set to tackle David Mitchell's BLACK SWAN GREEN next. Sam finished BLACK SWAN GREEN and immediately dove into Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS. Monsieur Mitchell will soon have his most devoted 13-year old ...

... Fragile Eden by Angela Scott Metropolitan Murder by Lee Jackson Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd Black Swan Green by David Mitchell And from bookmooch: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

The stack before me includes: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam Jellicoe Road by Melina Marcheta. I'm trying to decide where to begin...

... 230 pages in, it doesn't seem terribly science-fictional at all. I'll probably have to take a break this week to read Black Swan Green for my book group. I understand David Mitchell has written some science fiction before, but I don't think this one is. I'll also be trying to read my ...

... and slang. Huckleberry Finn, Mason and Dixon, The Sot-Weed Factor, and books with modern or near-modern UK slang like Black Swan Green or Darkmans. With Kieron Smith, boy I was missing a lot and I'm sure I was 'mistranslating' parts of it. I'll give it another go sometime.

FlossieT has perfectly described the difference between Black Swan Green and Cloud Atlas. Black Swan Green is a straight-forward coming of age novel, and Cloud Atlas is what I call a "puzzle book." I much preferred Cloud Atlas--I thought it was amazing how everything fit together in the ...

... have strange points of commonality across their various points in history. I loved it, but know lots of people don't. Black Swan Green is a more straightforward read - the literary skill is focused in the quality of the prose itself. A note: it might help to brush up a little on the Falklan ...

... does not have it and I have not tracked down another copy as of yet. I eventually will get to it, though. How is Black Swan Green different though? Different style?

... it, as I'm now aging myself (but fortunately not solitary), and it was even better the second time around. Also, re Black Swan Green, if you haven't read any other David Mitchell, I think it's very different from his other books. Whether you like it or not, you should definitely ...

... many lives. 26. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. This is the first book by Mitchell.( I loved his Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.) The stories of nine characters from around the world are told and then linked in unlikely ways. The writing is first rate. The end does dip into a ...

... many lives. 26. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. This is the first book by Mitchell.( I loved his Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.) The stories of nine characters from around the world are told and then linked in unlikely ways. The writing is first rate. The end does dip into a ...

... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald *alternate 6. The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney 7. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell *alternate

... "want to read" books in your library - you've got some good things to pick from. Alias Grace, Curious Incident, and Black Swan Green were all very good - at least I thought so. I actually teach Curious Incident, so it'll be showing up on my list for '09 soon. Hey, it has some real ...

... Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald -JUNE: Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier, or Black Swan Green, David Mitchell - JULY: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, or Garden Spells, Sarah A Allen

... Calamity Physics Arms of Nemesis The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Excellent Women A Game of Thrones Black Swan Green Bard In the Shadows of War Penmarric Clockers The Heaven Tree Trilogy - Parts 2 and 3 Doctor Thorne - slated to read in February Inkspel ...

... and at the moment I'm reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Also, I'm going to read Black Swan Green by David Mitchell in the train to work.

... Kinney March 20. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 21. The invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik 22. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 23. Dewey: the small town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron 24. The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 25. Th ...

... ylit 19. The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney 20. The Lighthouse, P. D. James 21. The Waste Lands, S. King 22. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell 23. Lifeless, Mark Billingham 24. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson 25. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 26. The Acc ...

I look forward to Black Swan Green as well now! It's somewhere in the scarily high Mt TBR... Miss-Owl, have you read The Cement Garden? It was a McEwan I didn't particularly like - terribly gothic and tortured and just plain wierd ick. The 1970s have a lot to answer for. I'm not going to ...

Black Swan Green is excellent, and far more accessible than the other David Mitchell books I've read (Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas) - very highly recommended, particularly to anyone who was a teenager in the early 80's. next up for me: Adam Stemple's Steward Of Song, sequel to Sin ...

>65 - oh, good! Black Swan Green is somewhere in the depths of Mt Toobie - I look forward to reading it... someday :) >64 - totally agree with you, wookiebender, Enduring Love is a great read. I've only read Atonement and Saturday so can't rate it against Amsterdam either, but looking ...

... have a reliable cassette deck. I didn't get much reading done while away for Christmas. I'm currently halfway through Black Swan Green and loving it. ...and for Christmas I received Dilbert 2.0 and two Fantagraphics Peanuts collections, "1967-68" and "1969-70". not a bad haul :)

... to read and release one Christmas, but I never seem to make it... maybe next year. Freelunch: I have an audio book of Black Swan Green that you are most welcome to (cassette). The reader is Chris Nelson, and he's hilarious. According to The Telegraph newspaper in Britain David Mitchel ...

... Taltos series. I'm taking a break from Vlad now, for a month or so at least. next up for me will be David Mitchell's Black Swan Green, and in case I finish it while I'm off doing the family Christmas thing I'm taking along A Dog Called Demolition and Mike Nelson's Death Rat!

... on this list. Both are among the reasons I just joined LT! Anathem by Neal Stephenson What is the What Dave Eggers Black Swan Green by David Mitchell The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger All compelling and well written. Blac ...

... stuff; nothing in the new crop of horror need apply (Christ, a lot of it is absolutely abysmal). Sorry you didn't dig BLACK SWAN GREEN. I liked the voice and when you compare it to NUMBER 9 DREAM and CLOUD ATLAS, one finds a range in Mitchell's work that's absolutely mind-blowing.

>5 - Read Black Swan Green recently - found it well-written but ultimately pointless: too often it read like a bunch of notes for I Love the Eighties. Isn't Xmas a time for classic ghost stories - James, Le Fanu, etc?

Reading Black Swan Green, Romance on Three Legs, and Third Class Superhero.

I LOVED CLOUD ATLAS--I'm a David Mitchell fan. BLACK SWAN GREEN, though completely different in structure and voice, is equally brilliant. And ya can never go wrong with Mr. Crowley...

... The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (3/14/09) 32. Housekeeping vs. Dirt - Nick Hornby (03/15/09) 33. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell (3/21/09) 34. Away - Amy Bloom (3/26/09) 35. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (4/04/09) 36. Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Philli ...

Modern Literature 1. David Mitchell - Black Swan Green 2. Tommy Wieringa - Joe Speedboot 3. Kader Abdolah - Het huis van de moskee 4. Arthur Japin - De zwarte met het witte hart 5. A. F. Th. van der Heijden - De Movo-tapes 6. Ismail Kadare - Drie Rouwzangen ...

... my list of roughly one billion: 1. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg 2. Goldbug Variations by Richard Powers 3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 4. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt 5. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 7. Gate of ...

... the Millennium by A.B. Yehoshua Conceit by Mary Novik Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews The Last Train to Kazan by Stephen Miller Tree ...

REPLAY by Ken Grimwood. Very fast, very entertaining. BLACK SWAN GREEN by David Mitchell was practically unputdownable. LAND OF LAUGHS by Jonathan Carroll.

... I'm there. I'm taking four unread books with me: Modern Love by Paul Magrs Jennifer Government by Max Barry Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Caught In The Light by Robert Goddard and whichever of them I read I'll wild release while I'm there - I doubt I'll finish Na ...

... list my favourite books now- although I have trouble limiting my list to 5. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews Black Swan Green by David Mitchell The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones ...

While I was away taking care of my Dad, I finished Black Swan Green (England) and A Way of Life Like Any Other (California). I loved both books. Right now, I'm in Paris contemplating The Elegance of the Hedgehog. I highly recommend this contemplation for navel gazers everywhere.

... my late August splurge. I was so good all month! I had only bought 2 books, both on sale - Lucky by Alice Sebold and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - and every other book I received was free, including 2 brilliant cookbooks I was given for my birthday and The Winds of Tara which ...

the trumpet of the swan e.b. white black swan green david mitchell anne of green gables l.m. montgomery the house of the seven gables nathaniel hawthorne seven types of ambiguity elliot perman

... Noir edited by Janine Armin and Nathaniel G. Moore. This is a terrible book-please don't read it. I did finish Black Swan Green by David Mitchell which was terrific. Still reading Cultural Amnesia by Clive James and liking it.

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Swan Song by Edmund Crispin Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge by Edward Regis Appleby Plays Chicken by Michael Innes Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James

Hi Torontoc I hope you feel better. Black Swan Green sounds very interesting!

68. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell This is a very good reading day as I have a terrible cold. This book relates the story of a thirteen year old boy living with his family in a small English village. The narration chronicles Jason's life during the course of one year-with family tensions, ...

I have a bad cold and wandering among the following books. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell The Bernini Bust by Iain Pears Toronto Noir edited by Janine Armin and Nathaniel G. Moore

... href="http://www.librarything.com/author/obrienflann">Flann O'Brien John Fowles David Mitchell (haven't read Black Swan Green yet)

... more fantasy 11.Eragon and 12. Eldest. Fiction: 13. The Time Traveller's Wife, 14. Saving Fish from Drowning, 15. Black Swan Green and 16.Smoke and Mirrors. Hmm...been so long it's hard to remember. 17. Fat Girl, 18. How Soccer Explains the World, and 19. Screwball. In the ...

... and Deathstalker, then working through The Queen of Attolia, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Beloved Country, Black Swan Green, Cranford, The Monsters of Templeton, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Shattered Dreams, Lady Susan, and Cultural Amnesia.

Russo's BRIDGE OF SIGHS was brilliant. The most enjoyable novel I've read since David Mitchell's BLACK SWAN GREEN. If you're a fan of Russo's work (EMPIRE FALLS, STRAIGHT MAN, MOHAWK), don't miss BRIDGE OF SIGHS.

... The Queen of Attolia, Deathstalker, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Beloved Country, A Game of Thrones, and Black Swan Green. And yes, they are all library books.

2. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell This was extremely enjoyable. It brought back memories of 1982 and in a way put me in touch with what its like to grow up which, seems to be a theme of some of my recent reads (and I'm halfway through Huck Finn at the moment too). Enjoyable though and ...

... Pamuk 3-2. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess 3-3. Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3-4. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell 3-5. Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland 3-6. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 3-7. The White King, Györ ...

... by China Mieville Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg Chocolat by Joanne Harris Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels ...

... order): River of Gods by Ian McDonald Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon both Ghostwritten and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

... methods, but we tend to rotate a meeting chairperson for discussion, and poll for titles every 4 months. We loved "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell ; got polarised opinions on Melville's "Moby Dick"; and pretty universally panned "Almost French" from Sarah Turnbull. For ...

... (a book with decidedly BIG ideas) and then turn around and present us with a novel as (deceptively) simple and sublime as BLACK SWAN GREEN. Everyone who loves good writing, regardless of genre, should be reading this guy. As soon as I saw you cite Russo's STRAIGHT MAN as one of your ...

... and joyful ya-gotta-laugh overview make a fine insight into today's psyche. Also, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.

... by Yasmin Crowther (November 2008) VII Award Winners 1. The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy - Booker (Jan 2008) 2. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - Alex Award(May 2008) 3. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - Trillium (August 2008) 4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - B ...

35. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 36. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

... 5 - so many good books this year. Top 5 Fiction 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. Restless by William Boyd 3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 4. The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle 5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini I've loved looking through these lists and ...

... by Charles Dickens 45. The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel (Erdrich, Louise) by Louise Erdich 46. Black Swan Green: A Novel by David Mitchell 47. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah 48. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bront ...

... Half of a Yellow Sun, The Inheritance of Loss, The Road, Alentejo Blue, One Good Turn, Water for Elephants, Black Swan Green, The Tenderness of Wolves, and The Thirteenth Tale. I'd say Half of a Yellow Sun was my favorite. I didn't dislike any of them, but One Good Turn ...

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. 2007 Alex Award winner; I almost gave up on this about 30 pages in--the language is very slangy early-80s British, and the cultural references and ungrammatical sentence structures proved almost too frustrating. But I stuck with it and it ended up being a very ...

... - Asne Seierstad Poland – The Pianist – Wladislaw Szpilman United Kingdom - Black Swan Green - David Mitchell Middle East Lebanon - Gate of the Sun (review) - Elias Khoury ...

... by Michel Houellebecq Until I find you by John Irving We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver Black swan green by David Mitchell

Cow March Swan Blink Salt

I am now in Black Swan Green, Worcestershire, England.

Just about to start Noah's Ark by Barbara Trapido. Finished Black Swan Green by David Mitchell earlier today - a great read.

>155: happyanddandy1, I loved Black Swan Green! If you like it you might also like Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.

Just about to start Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

16. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

I saw this on an unrelated thread. How apropos. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell: "When will people realise that not hurting people is ten thousand times more important than being right."

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell: "When will people realise that not hurting people is ten thousand times more important than being right." This is a child's observation of his parents' meaningless victories during marital arguments, but is a pretty good universal sentiment.

... Steinbeck Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ******* Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

I just left Australia with Slow Man, and now I'm in England's Worcestershire in a little town called Black Swan Green. Next up I think I'll travel to Ireland with Talk of the Town aka Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon (touchstone not working on the US title) Anyone know why the title ...

number9dream by David Mitchell. I started reading it 2 months ago, and stopped for no reason at all. then i picked up black swan green and finished and loved it, so i'm giving number9green another go.

How did you like Ghostwritten? I read hisCloud Atlas and Black Swan Green and just loved them both. I've been thinking I need to read all of Mitchell's work.

... Road by Cormac McCarthy Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Anything by John Steinbeck The World According to Garp by John Irving To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Things ...

... are shut out of those specific years and authors yet to born didn't live through it. For a real world example look at Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. He captured a year in the 1980s in backwater UK including the slang and lifestyle of the local youth in a near perfect manner. Who ...

... Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears The Art of Card Making Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

... Season in Arctic Alaska,Water for Elephants,Floor of the Sky,Color of the Sea,The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game,Black Swan Green,The World Made Straight,The Thirteenth Tale

The Corrections - Jonathon Franzen Black Swan Green - David Mitchell Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino The Castle - Franz Kafka And almost everything by Nabokov

... Carroll 14. Between, Georgia - (3/24) Joshilyn Jackson 15. Not Quite One of the Boys - (3/25) Vincent Sakowski 16. Black Swan Green - (4/15) David Mitchell 17. The Dogs of Babel - (4/23) Carolyn Parkhurst 18. Cat's Cradle - (4/25) Kurt Vonnegut 19. The Road - (4/27) Cormac McC ...

... > I LOVED this book! It was my favorite read for the month of April. You might also want to try one of his other books, Black Swan Green.

... contains: Endless Things by John Crowley; Brasyl by Ian McDonald, Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: his Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Va ...

... an excellent book, a great idea cleverly brought off, and moving too. At least, in my opinion! Reminded me a little of Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. I am also looking forward to the new Nick Hornby teen fiction novel - I can't remember the name. Any ARCs around of _that_??

# 195 (Stensvaag) Isn't Black Swan Green fabulous!??! I loved this book. You might also like his book Cloud Atlas which I just finished. David Mitchell is a writer of rare brilliance!

From Black Swan Green by David Mitchell: “If you show somebody something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say ‘When you’re ready.’” As an author myself, I can relate to that!

... Sky, written by Pamela Carter Joern *The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, written by Michael Lewis * Black Swan Green, written by David Mitchell * The World Made Straight, written by Ron Rash * The Thirteenth Tale, written by Diane Setterfield

... Of A Yellow Sun...one of the best books of the year. #100 (HMOKeefe) how are you liking Ghostwritten? I have read Black Swan Green and am currently reading Cloud Atlas by this same author...both are wonderful books.

... (my dad), BUT it is fantastic. I am in awe of Mitchell. This is my second Mitchell book in the last month (I also read Black Swan Green). And now I will need to read his other two books as well. He is brilliant.

lindsad - I am SOOOOOO looking forward to diving into Cloud Atlas after reading Black Swan Green. I decided to read a short, quick read first (I was so exhausted after plodding through For Whom The Bell Tolls!!

... of the characters, set in 1931, has just met a Mrs. van Outryve de Crommelynck ... hmmm ... same character as in Mitchell's Black Swan Green? Needless to say, I'm hooked.

... 5 of that 10: 1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

... a novel (c) 9-May-2007 F 30. Laurence Gonzales: Deep Survival (c) 13-May-2007 NF 31. David Mitchell: Black Swan Green (c) 17-May-2007 F 32. James Barr : The Semantics of Biblical Language (c) 31-May-2007 NF 33. John Dalton : Heaven Lake (c) 01-June-200 ...

... to be believed, today I will be getting: * One Nation Under Therapy * The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell * Black Swan Green * Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

... reading the last of the Bloody Jack Adventures, In the Belly of the Bloodhound:, and planning on starting listening to Black Swan Green by David Mitchell tomorrow.

... they had it in stock, but apparently not. Strangely enough, three books jumped into my arms on my way through the store: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, newly out in paperback (hooray!) The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan A World on Fire by Joe Jackson (this one I'd ...

... like to read the real thing before I read the pastiche. Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier Because I loved Black Swan Green by David Mitchell! I will be reading it in English, though. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell Whatever happened to good old-fash ...

... include Half of a Yellow Sun, The Emperor's Children, The View From Castle Rock, Sacred Games, Carry Me Down, Black Swan Green, In the Country of Men, Theft: A Love Story.

I got Black Swan Green for Christmas but haven't touched it yet -- be sure to tell us what you think!

... finished Hilary McKay's Saffy's Angel-- I've not read McKay before and was instantly charmed. Next up: David Mitchell's Black Swan Green, which I've heard has YA crossover appeal (I loved his book Cloud Atlas).

... Moore Exiles Vol. 1: Down the Rabbit Hole by Judd Winick The Left-Handed Humming Bird by Kate Orman The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs ...

... right down the street from Duke. Krin re#61 -- did you like Cloud Atlas? It is on my list, but I was underwhelmed by Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green is a possibly little more linear than the previous three titles but was the book that made me finally bow down before the genius of David Mitchell

Black Swan Green is a possibly little more linear than the previous three titles but was the book that made me finally bow down before the genius of David Mitchell}}

I liked Black Swan Green very much too, though it fell a bit short of making my 10-Best list.

Five Tip top reads of 2006 is a challenge but Ghostwritten by David Mitchell and Black Swan Green, also David Mitchell The Observations by Jane Harris The rights of the reader by Daniel Pennac This should be required reading for anyone who wants to enthuse others with a ...

I'm unfamiliar with most of the books, but I read and loved Black Swan Green. I am planning to read The Emperor's Children.

... Matar : In the Country of Men (Viking) Claire Messud : The Emperor's Children (Picador) David Mitchell : Black Swan Green (Sceptre) Naeem Murr : The Perfect Man (William Heinemann) Andrew O'Hagan : Be Near Me (Faber & Faber) James Robertson : The Testament ...

... that Claire Messud's entry had received a fair bit of hype on this side of the Atlantic, and that David Mitchell's Black Swan Green had been bookmaker's favorite.

Looking forward to Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami, both are out now, but I am busy reading Tigana now.

Of the longlist the only two I have read are Theft: a love story by Peter Carey, and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. I thought both were fantastic books and would be happy to see either win. As an Australian I would obviously like Carey, or Kate Grenville to win. But Carey ...

... to Begin Hisham Matar's In the country of men Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children David Mitchell's Black Swan Green Naeem Murr's The Perfect Man Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me James Robertson's The Testament of Gideon Mack Edward St Aubyn's Mother' ...