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"Here's a trick I found for how to finally get some sleep. I sleep in my husband's bed. That way the empty bed I look at is my own."
- The collected stories, Amy Hempel

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2014: READING LIST

What I've read and re-read in 2014 (the ones in bold are the ones that I loved, loved, loved):

Doris Lessing - A proper marriage
Margaret Drabble - The pure gold baby
Ian McEwan - The child in time
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Muriel Spark - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
Zoê Heller - Notes on a scandal
Lydia Davis - Can't and won't
Lisa Alther - Kinflicks
Elsa Morante - History
J.D. Salinger - Raise high the roof beam, carpenters
Aravind Adiga - The white tiger
Curtis Sittenfeld - The man of my dreams
Curtis Sittenfeld - American wife
Anne Brontë - The tenant of Wildfell Hall
Sue Miller - While I was gone
Suzanne Rindell - The other typist
Denise Mina - The end of the wasp season
Caitlin Moran - How to be a woman
Maggie O´Farell - After you'd gone
Maggie O'Farell - The hand that first held mine
Jung Chang - Wild swans: three daughters of China
Iris Murdoch - The unicorn
Sophie Hannah - The point of rescue
Sophie Hannah - The carrier
Samantha Hayes - Until you're mine
Louise Doughty - Whatever you love
Alan Hollinghurst - The stranger's child
Siri Hustvedt - The blazing world
Lauren Beukes - The shining girls
Melissa Bank - The wonder spot
Sidney Sheldon - The best laid plans
Sidney Sheldon - Tell me your dreams
A.M. Homes - May we be forgiven
Douglas Kennedy - The moment
Barbara Demick - Nothing to envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea