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NOBODY, SHE CONCLUDED BITTERLY, CARES ABOUT DECORUM ANYMORE.

Books I've read and re-read this year (the ones in bold are the books I loved, loved, loved):

Margaret Atwood - Life before man
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Margaret Drabble - The seven sisters
Margaret Drabble - The Garrick year
Margaret Drabble - A summer bird-cage
Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden
Doris Lessing - Love, again
Doris Lessing - The golden notebook
Marilyn French - The women's room
Joan Didion - The year of magical thinking
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-shaped room
A.M. Homes - In a country of mothers
Tim Lott - The scent of dried roses
Joyce Carol Oates - A fair maiden
Curtis Sittenfeld - The man of my dreams
William Styron - Sophie's choice
Jeffrey Eugenides - The marriage plot
Amor Towles - Rules of civility
Harper Lee - To kill a mockingbird
Richard Yates - The Easter parade
Lionel Shriver - The post-birthday world
Elaine Dundy - The old man and me
Agatha Christie - Sad cypress
Ruth Rendell - A judgement in stone
Ruth Rendell - Adam and Eve and Pinch me
Anita Loos - Gentlemen prefer blondes
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
Anita Shreve - Testimony
S.J. Watson - Before I go to sleep
Tawni O'Dell - Back roads
Scarlett Thomas - Bright young things
Carol Goodman - The lake of dead languages
Ira Levin - Rosemary's baby
Hans Fallada - Alone in Berlin
Simone de Beauvoir - The age of discretion
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca

See you in 2013, book blog!
















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Reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

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ALIAS GRACE

Finished reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood earlier today.
It was so good.