Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

13 February 2011

New Book


I picked this up off the shelf at my work placement, E.F.Schumacher is a name who cropped up when doing reserch for my dissertation, I never had the chance to read his book then. With all the commuting im doing at the moment now seem like the perfect time!

06 November 2010

25 August 2010

Reading material

Books read so far this year...

Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Brick Lane by
Monica Ali
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Mircale of Speedy Motors by
Alexander McCall Smith
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Other Bolyen Girl by Phillipa Gegory
The Delta of Venus by Anis Nin
A Million Little Pieces by James Fray
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
A Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon
The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffinger
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Harry Potter books 1 to 4
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Enduring Love by
Ian McEwan
The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl by Belle de Jour


So far Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance is by far the best if a little upsetting but thats what makes it a fantastic and belivable book, no happy endings for the sake of it. The same with the time travellers wife, everything could have carried on smoothly for them, but.....