Tuesday, February 28, 2012

MRE: Kate Atkinson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)
Human Croquet (1997)
Emotionally Weird (2000) 2019
Not the End of the World (2002) 2014
Life After Life (2013) 2013
A God in Ruin (2015) 2016
Transciption (2018) 2018



Featuring Jackson Brodie
Case Histories (2004)
One Good Turn (2006)
When Will There Be Good News? (2008)
Started Early, Took My Dog (2010)
Big Sky (2020) 2021

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Commissario Guido Brunetti

by Donna Leon

1. Death at La Fenice
2. Death in a Strange Country
3. The Anonymous Venetian / Dressed for Death
4. A Venetian Reckoning / Death and Judgement
5. Acqua Alta / Death in High Water
6. The Death of Faith / Quietly in Their Sleep
7. A Noble Radiance
8. Fatal Remedies
9. Friends in High Places
10. A Sea of Troubles
11. Wilful Behaviour
12. Uniform Justice
13. Doctored evidence
14. Blood from a Stone
15. Through a glass, darkly
16. Suffer the Little Children
17. The Girl of His Dreams
18. About Face
19. A Question of Belief
20. Drawing Conclusions

Sunday, February 12, 2012

MRE: Douglas Coupland

Fiction
Generation X (1991) slight review
Shampoo Planet (1992)
Life After God (1994)
Microserfs (1995)
Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
Miss Wyoming (2000)
All Families are Psychotic (2001) before blogging
God Hates Japan (2001) only in Japanese
Hey Nostradamus! (2003) before blogging (loved!)
Eleanor Rigby (2004) review
jPod (2006) longlisted Giller
The Gum Thief (2007) review
Generation A (2009) review
Player One (2010)
Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People (2011) (with Graham Roumieou)

Non-Fiction
Polaroids from the Dead (1996)
Lara's Book:Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenom
City of Glass (2001) updated version (2010)
Souvenir of Canada (2002) review
School Spirit (2002)
Souvenir of Canada 2 (2004)
Terry (2005)
Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan (2009)

MRE: Tracy Chevalier

The Virgin Blue (1997) review
The Girl With the Pearl Earring (1999) read before blogging
Falling Angels (2001) revie
The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) read before blogging
Burning Bright (2007) read in 2013
Remarkable Creatures (2009) read in 2015
The Last Runaway (2012)
At the Edge of the Orchard (2016) read in 2016
New Boy 2017
A Single Thread 2019