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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 18 August 2007 | | 155 | cdyankeefan, August 2007 |
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Away by Jane Urquhart ... of my mind. I have a great storehouse of Jane Urquhart novels piled up here to tackle (I have read her poetry and her novel Away), and more Alice Munro to explore.
I hope to get to Carpentaria before leaving for Australia in August, but we'll see. Your recommendation of some of the ... Finished Winterton Blue by Trezza Azzopardi and was disappointed. Now reading Away by Amy Bloom, immediately better-written and interesting, thank goodness. I'm in New York City, 1924: Away by Amy Bloom. ... ada)**
47. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)**
48. Winterton Blue by Trezza Azzopardi (UK)
49. AWay by Amy Bloom (USA)
50.Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) by Henri Alain-Fournier (France) I finally got to my first Urquhart novel...Away, which was quite good - I think it evokes both Ireland and Canada quite well. I have been collecting Urquhart's writing for sometime but had previously only read her poetry (also quite good). Just picked up at Barnes & Noble: Away by Amy Bloom, On Agate Hill by Lee Smith, Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer and lastly Echo Maker by RIchard Powers. Echo Maker got very mixed reviews--I hope I didn't make a mistake by buying it. It sounded good and won the Nation ... I've finished Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch, Away by Jane Urquhart and The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany - all three - very different - were very good.
And I agree with rebeccanyc, that The Yacoubian Building is better than The Reluctant Fundamentalist ... 4 days but in that time I have been in Australia with Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch, in Ireland and Canada with Away by Jane Urquhart and in Cairo, Egypt with The Yacoubian Building - all very good. ... then, to hear about her other books.
I'm going away for a few days later this week and am taking Jane
Urquhart's Away with me. Perhaps I will finally tap into my collection of unread Urquhart novels! Then again, I'm taking at least 7 books with me:-) Early Leaving by Judy Goldman
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
You Went Away by Timothy Findley
Away by Jane Urquhart
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss
I think I was sort of 'pushing it' with a couple of ... ... Girls They Left Behind by Lilian Harry
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
A Necessary End by Peter Robinson
Away by Jane Urquhart
The Goodbye Summer by Patricia Gaffney ... I left Cairo on Friday having finished Naguib Mahfouz Cairo Trilogy. I then moved to New York with Amy Bloom's Away, which took me from Russia, to New York and then across that continent to Seattle and up to Alaska and towards Siberia. After that I came back to rural England for a ...
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