As I’ve done in years past, I’m taking a look at the halfway point in the year at the books I’ve read so far, with links where they exist to books that I’ve reviewed (either here on this blog or briefly on Goodreads). As I’ve perpetually remarked – and really mean it – it’s a competition with no one but myself, but it is always useful and interesting to stop and reflect a bit where one is at with one’s reading, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Of the 22 books I’ve read so far this year, 3 were non-fiction, 5 were poetry and the balance of 14 were fiction (novels and short story collections). It’s kind of nice to reflect on this Canada Day holiday that 15 of those 22 books were written by Canadians.
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All the Rage
by A.L. Kennedy -
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson -
A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love
by Eufemia Fantetti -
how the gods pour tea
by Lynn Davies -
Maidenhead
by Tamara Faith Berger -
Crazy Town – The Rob Ford Story
by Robyn Doolittle -
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton -
Prairie Ostrich
by Tamai Kobayashi -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
by Hermione Lee -
Bark
by Lorrie Moore -
Waiting for the Man
by Arjun Basu -
The Lease
by Mathew Henderson -
Grayling
by Gillian Wigmore -
Sun Bear
by Matthew Zapruder -
Ocean
by Sue Goyette -
Cockroach
by Rawi Hage
(reviewed for bookgaga by Paul Whelan) -
Dog Ear
by Jim Johnstone -
New Tab
by Guillaume Morissette -
Congratulations, by the way
by George Saunders -
Based on a True Story
by Elizabeth Renzetti -
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews
Currently in progress:
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
by Tom Rachman -
Everyone Is CO2
by David James Brock
How is your reading going so far in 2014?