Kate's Arty Bits Blog: Farmer's Wife blocks 9, 10, 11

What I've been reading

The Death Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld
The Travelling Horn Player, Barbara Trapido (re-read, pbg Jan 12)
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
Dark Assassin, Anne Perry
The Sealed Letter, Emma Donohue
Deadly Decisions, Kathy Reichs
The Whisperer, Donato Carrisi
God of the Hive, Laurie King
Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
The Help, Kathryn Stockett (half)
The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht (pbc Dec 11)
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick de Witt
Death du Jour, Kathy Reichs
Blue Poppies, Jonathan Falla
The Piano Teacher, Janice Y K Lee
Cage of Stars, Jacquelyn Mitchard (pbg Nov 11)
Deja Dead, Kathy Reichs
A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh
The Shifting Tide, Anne Perry
The Riddle and the Knight, Giles Milton
The Great Lover, Jill Dawson
December, Elizabeth Winthrop
The Mathematics of Love, Emma Darwin
The Brutal Art, Jesse Kellerman
When God Was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman
The School of Night, Louis Bayard
The Long Song, Andrea Levy
The Winter Ghosts, Kate Mosse
The Lake Shore Limited, Sue Miller
Waiting for Columbus, Thomas Trofimuk
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Year of Eating Dangerously, Tom Parker Bowles
Underfoot in Show Business, Helene Hanff (pbg July 11)
The Summer of the Bear, Bella Pollen
Grace Williams Says it Loud, Emma Henderson
Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
The Red House Mystery, A A Milne
Luncheon of the Boating Party, Susan Vreeland
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Steig Larsson
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (part)
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
Dancing Backwards, Salley Vickers
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson
City of the Mind, Penelope Fitzgerald
Clare, Janice Galloway
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Twisted Root, Anne Perry (re-read)
Whited Sepulchres, Anne Perry (re-read)
Weighed in the Balance, Anne Perry (re-read)
The Silent Cry, Anne Perry (re-read)
Cain his Brother, Anne Perry (re-read)
Sins of the Wolf, Anne Perry (re-read)
A Sudden Fearful Death, Anne Perry (re-read)
Solar, Ian MacEwan
One Day, David Nicholls (pbg Mar 11)
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Rector's Daughter, F.M. Mayer
The Other Hand, Chris Cleave (pbg Feb 11)
Defend and Betray, Anne Perry (re-read)
A Dangerous Mourning, Anne Perry (re-read)
Face of a Stranger, Anne Perry (re-read)
Howard's End is on the Landing, Susan Hill
C, Tom McCarthy
The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Louis de Berniers
Goldengrove Unleaving, Jill Paton Walsh
Room, Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room, Damon Galgut
Duplicate Keys, Jane Smiley
Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Margaret Forster
Noah's Compass, Anne Tyler
Ella Minnow Pea (reread), Mark Dunn (pbg Nov 10)
The Savage Garden, Mark Mills
Crown of Dust, Mary Volmer
Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
The Food of Love, Anthony Capella
A Buyer's Market, Anthony Powell
Waltzing through Flaws, Paula Sharp
The Marriage Bed, Regina McBride
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
Swift as Desire, Laura Esquivel
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi, Russell Hoban (pbg Sept 10)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland
Bel Canto (reread), Ann Patchett
The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
The Language of Bees, Laurie R King
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
the Resurrectionist, James Bradley
The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Incendiary, Chris Cleve (pbg, summer '10)
A Question of Upbringing, Anthony Powell
Journeys in the Dead Season, Spencer Jordan
A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
Remember Me, Trezza Azzopardi
The Middle Kingdom, Andrea Barrett
The Passion of Artemesia, Susan Vreeland
The Boy Next Door, Irene Sabatini
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamshie
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
My Dream of You, Nuala O'Faolain
The Dark Room, Rachel Seifert
When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson
The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies
The Outcast, Sadie Jones
Steal you Away, Niccolo Ammaniti
Fly in the Ointment, Anne Fine
The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
The Conjuror's Bird, Martin Davies (pbg, Apr 10)
Inkedeath, Cornelia Funke
The Lighthouse, PD James
Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland (re-read)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith
Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
The Probable Future, Alice Hoffman
American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva Rice (pbg)
Lord Sunday, Garth Nix
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Return of John Macnab, Andrew Greig (pbg)
The Winter House, Nicci Gerard
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Rose of Sebastopol, Katharine Macmahon
The Private Patient, PD James
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (6 books in the series), Laurell K Hamilton
The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey
Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian
The Gathering, Anne Enright
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt
Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Poppyland, Raffaela Barker
Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
Other Eden, Sarah Bryant
The Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
Run, Ann Patchett (pbg - Sept 09)
Shadow Catcher, Michelle Paver
The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
Home, Marilynne Robinson
The Dark is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper
A Painted House, John Grisham (pbg - Aug 09)
Painting Mona Lisa, Jeanne Kalogridis
The Pirate's Daughter, Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Bitter Sweets, Roopa Farooki
The Distant Land of my Father, Bo Caldwell
Random Acts of Heroic Love, Danny Scheinmann
Mr Toppit, Charles Elton
First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
The Unfortunates, Laurie Graham
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan (pbg - Jun 09)
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth (finally!)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Reading the Oxford English Dictionary, Ammon Shea
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, Ann Weisgarber
Heaven's Edge, Romesh Gunesekera
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (re-read)
The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck (pbg - May 09)
Enduring Love, Ian MacEwan
Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Scapegoat, Daphne duMaurier (pbg - Apr 09)
Empire Falls, Richard Russo (pbg - Apr 09)
In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant (pbg - Mar 09)
Twilight (jfic), Stephenie Meyer
North Child (jfic), Edith Pattou
The Last Girls, Lee Smith (pbg- Mar 09)
The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
In her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill (pbg - Jan 09)
Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (pbg - Dec 08)
The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie (most of it)
Property, Valerie Martin
I'm Not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti (pbg - Nov 08)
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
The Daughters of Egalia, Gerd Brantenberg (pbg - Oct 08)
A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, Liz Jensen (pbg - Sept 08)
East of the Sun, Julia Gregson
The Other Side of the Bridge, Mary Lawson
The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
A Wedding in December, Anita Shreve (pbg - Jul 08)
Crow Lake, Mary Lawson
The Mysteries of Glass, Sue Gee (pbg)
The Friday Night Knitting Club, Kate Jacobs
Eve Green, Susan Fletcher
Mother Country, Jeremy Harding (pbg - Apr 08)
O, Jerusalem (reread) Laurie R King
The Moor (reread), Laurie R King
A Letter of Mary (reread), Laurie R King
A Monstrous Regiment of Women (reread), Laurie R King
The Beekeeper''s Apprentice (reread), Laurie R King
Back when we were Grownups (reread), Anne Tyler (pbg - Mar 08)
Uniform Justice, Donna Leon
Bloodlines, Jan Burke
The Cross Country Quilters, Jennifer Chiaverini
What was lost, Catherine O'Flynn
Hey, Nostradamus, Douglas Coupland
Nella Last's War (diary) (pbg - Feb 08)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Restoring Grace, Katie Fforde
The Silver Pigs, Lindsay Davis (pbg- Jan 08)
Lighthousekeeping, Jeannette Winterson (pbg- Jan 08)
N is for Noose, Sue Grafton (pbg - Dec 07)
City of Light, Lauren Belfer
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
The Grenadillo Box, Janet Gleeson
Lirael (reread), Garth Nix
Watership Down (reread), Richard Adams
The Half Life of Stars, Louise Wener
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Snow, Orhan Pamuk (pbg - Oct 07)
Now in November, Josephine Johnson (pbg - Oct 07)
Digging to America, Anne Tyler (pbg - Sep 07)
Practically Perfect, Katie Fforde
All 7 Harry Potter novels (the first six are re-reads)
Dorothy L Sayers: All the rest of the Lord Peter books (again - yes, a binge!)
Spring Sonata, Bernice Rubens (pbg - Aug 07)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards (pbg - Jul 07)
The Foundling, Georgette Heyer
The Untelling, Tayari Jones
Keeping the World Away, Margaret Forster
Tennis and the Masai, Nicholas Best (pbg- Jun 07)
The Secret River, Kate Grenville
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel (pbg- May 07)
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (pbg - Apr 07)
Dorothy L Sayers: all the Peter & Harriet novels
Disobedience, Naomi Alderman
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Locked Rooms, Laurie R King
Eldest, Christopher Paolini
The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld
Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson
The Sea, John Banville
How to be Lost, Amanda Eyre Ward (pbg)
The Colour, Rose Tremain (pbg)
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Neffenegger
These Foolish Things, Deborah Moggach (postal book group)
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai

Hypothetical playlist (what songs I might be listening to right now)

Rolling in the Deep (Adele)
Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
Drumming Song (Florence and the Machine)
Starlings (Elbow)
Dance me to the end of love (Leonard Cohen)
How to Save a Life (The Fray)
Dream Catch Me (Newton Faulkner)
Marlene on the Wall (Suzanne Vega)
Hey There Delilah (Plain White Tees)
Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
The Obvious Child (Paul Simon)
Til the Sun Turns Black (Ray La Montagne)
Rehab (Amy Winehouse)
Moondance (Van Morrisson)
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)
New Shoes (Paolo Nutini)
Mrs Potter's Lullaby (Counting Crows)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Late Night Radio (Mary Black)
Town Called Malice (Paul Weller/Jam)
Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)
When you were Young (the Killers)
In the Morning (Razorlight)
Nettie Moore (Dylan)
Caravan of Love (Housemartins)
Chelsea Dagger (Fratellis)
Ziggy Stardust (Bowie)
America (Razorlight)
Under the Bridge (RHCP)
I Try (Macy Gray)
Many Rivers to Cross (UB40)
River (Joni Mitchell)
Fragile (Sting)
Tangled up in Blue (Dylan)
Chasing Cars (Snowpatrol)
Anna Begins (Counting Crows)
Long Black Veil (Dave Matthews Band)
To Lay me Down (Cowboy Junkies)
Yellow (Coldplay)

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Farmer's Wife blocks 9, 10, 11

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