November has seen a vast improvement on Pearl’s night-time sleep. Which is awesome but has really cut into my reading time. So this month’s list is a little shorter but there have been some good reads.
1. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James (Modern Library
2. Burial Rites – Hannah Kent (Little, Brown, & Company, 2013)
3. The Enchanted – Rene Denfeld (HarperCollins, 2014)
4. Abroad – Katie Crouch (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2014)
5. The People’s Act of Love – James Meek (Harper Perennial, 2005)
6. Immortality – Milan Kundera (Grove Weidenfeld, 1991)
(translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi)
7. Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler (Scribner, 1968)
(translated from the German by Daphne Hardy)
8. Fortune Smiles – Adam Johnson (Random House, 2015)
9. The Pearl – John Steinbeck (Penguin Books, 2000)
You could also look at November’s reading list like this:
- Young lady taken advantage of in Europe
- Death row prisoner in Iceland
- Death row prisoner in possibly magic prison
- Young lady murdered in Europe
- Escaped prisoner and extremist religious sect in Russia
- ???
- Political prisoner in Russia
Currently Reading:
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
(Yes, still. I am really enjoying it, as evidenced by how I keep telling Peter facts from what I’ve read. I’m just working away at it slowly. Very slowly.)
No Great Mischief – Alistair MacLeod
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