Fiction Wishlist

Currently it's anything by David Liss, and I would like to get Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear, and all the books posted on the Asian Fiction board, my non fiction wish list to too long to post!

And I wish Carrie Asai would publish the next in her Samurai Girl series, and set up a website for herself.

I just saw this in the Bloggers group and am dying to get my hands on it!

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/1006427

I am positively salivating just looking at ALL the books in the Persephone Books catalogue.....

Oh you evil thing! (aluvalibri) Just what I needed... more books to want! :-)

I know, I know....I am incurably....WICKED...EHEH EHEH

My wish list is ridiculously long, so I'll just name one: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks. Has anyone read it?

I have an obsession with Diane Ackerman who I have only read excerpts of her books on sensation and love...

Has anyone read either?

I recently read Scott Westerfeld's vampire apocalypse novel, Peeps which was a wonderful book. I also just found out about the sequel The Last Days which sounds like it will be very interesting as well.

I just saw The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann on someone's wish list on a book blog, and I want it so bad...

I'm baaack. I bought Lust by Elfriede Jelinek... So now The Piano Teacher and Women as Lovers are on my wish list...

On my wish list I have the ENTIRE Persephone Books catalogue plus ALL the Virago Modern Classics I don't have in my library....
Do you think it is too much?

do have hear of reader catalog, it is a great source of
great book to read

Do tell...

Yes, amandameale, I've read Cloudsplitter and it was fantastic. I LOVED every bit of it partly because I've just discovered I love historical fiction that's based on real people and events and partly because it educated me about a period in history that I'm very ignorant about (still am in fact) The War of Independance, the Civil War, North and South, the Revolutionary War and all the other titles get mixed up in my head. I had just previously read Banished Children of Eve by Peter Quinn which I am told is so much more historically accurate than Gangs of New York which I haven't read yet, although I've watched the movie. Apparently although the events depicted in the movie actually happened over a 60 year period, the actual set of the 5 points neighbourhood was the most historically accurate reconstruction in films in many years. I can't recall where I read about it but the historians had only one quibble with the scenery/site/costumes/props was that one point they had them drinking from pewter tankards or maybe that they should have. But the historian gave kudos for everything else. So I often re-view the movie with that in mind. Since these two novels, I have really become obsessed with historical fiction mostly the last 2 centuries but I'm beginning to stray a bit. A good read that I gift to many friends is River Thieves by Michael Crummey Having had a daughter marry an man of the first nations has heightened my interest in historical fiction about what happened to the Canadian Indians in the recent past. Another great read Canadian History wise is The Last Crossing which has some important aboriginal history in it as well. How's that for a few recommendations. Sorry, I read a lot and become passionate about books that really touch me and these did.

Proust! I have officially added him to my wishlist! I want a nice vintage translation...

I read an article in this month's Vanity Fair, and saw this book which I now must have Picasso: Life with Dora Maar!

Fiso

i finally found a copy of stevie king's "On Writing" and while sitting at a very quiet Booksigning yesterday, dovered the first third of it. Wonderful! The best thing I've ever read! Now if I can steel myself up for these Harry Potter thingies........