Larsson, Stieg, The Girl Who Played With Fire
Larsson, Stieg, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Portis, Charles, Norwood
Portis, Charles, True Grit
November
Gilchrist, Ellen, Sarah Conley
October
Kelton, Elmer, The Day the Cowboys Quit
Lagerkvist, Par, The Dwarf Allegory too transparent and predictable. Nobel Prize 51
September
Golding, William, Pincher Martin This is pretty relentless, a man stranded on a rock, and ultimately dull. Nobel Prize 83
Izzi, Eugene, Prowlers This is the Chicago guy who either accidentally hung himself while trying out a murder scheme for a book or killed himself. This written just before that. Not bad but less caper than I thought it would be.
Fridegard, Jan, People of the Dawn Kind of a far left allegory set in Viking times. Fun. Good storyteller.
Fridegard, Jan, Land of Wooden Gods
August
Marias, Javier, Your Face Tomorrow, Poison, Shadow and Farewell
Sturgeon, Theodore, The Dreaming Jewels
Sturgeon, Theodore, The Cosmic Rape
This and That: One story by Ted Hughes; dipped into Vollman, Europe Central, Raj Kamal Jah, The Blue Bedspread, Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian and Sawyer, The Abiding of Ume.
July
Ambrose, Stephen E., The Wild Blue. Browsing through this for info relevant to Dad.
Marias, Javier, Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream
Camilleri, Andrea, The Shape of Water. Pretty mediocre police procedural.
Marias, Javier, Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
Lord Byron, Don Juan
April
O'Brien, Edna, Byron in Love. Best I suspect if you don't know much about Byron, which I didn't. EO is tough, smart. Got me reading Don Juan, which reads like a novel, a clever one.
March
Saramargo, Jose, The Stone Raft. High concept, to put it mildly. One of JS's most outrageous.
February
Mutis, Alvaro, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. This is seven novellas. AM is a well-known and highly touted Colombian poet. If you're in the mood for a long haul, Don Quixote type picaresque experience, and I was, this is a good one.
January
Colette, Duo and Toutounier
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