Senin, 04 April 2011

Revisiting A thru' Z

Just stumbled across this old book meme on the blog and I thought I'd give it a second go. First time round was nearly three years ago, and I have caught the reading bug again in recent years.

A recap of rules for those too bastard lazy to click on the above link:

"A book meme - I guess - that I shamelessly nicked from Normski over at Normblog. It "involves going through the alphabet and picking, for each letter, a novelist and one of his or her novels that you've read.""

Take a Q:

  • Archer, Jeffrey - First Among Equals
  • Bainbridge, Beryl - Young Adolf
  • Calvino, Italo - The Path to the Spiders' Nest
  • Doctorow, E.L. - World's Fair
  • Ellroy, James - L.A. Confidential
  • Fante, John - Ask The Dust
  • Gibbon, Lewis Grassic - Spartacus
  • Hird, Laura - Born Free
  • Irving, John - Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
  • Jenkins, Robin - The Thistle and the Grail
  • Kelman, James - The Busconductor Hines
  • Litt, Toby - Beatniks
  • McCabe, Brian - The Other McCoy
  • Nobbs, David - Second From Last in the Sack Race
  • Owens, Agnes - Gentlemen of the West
  • Pennac, Daniel - The Fairy Gunmother
  • Q - passed (again)
  • Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet On The Western Front
  • Spence, Alan - The Magic Flute
  • Tey, Josephine - The Daughter of TIme
  • Unsworth, Barry - Sugar and Rum
  • Vonnegut, Kurt - Hocus Pocus
  • Williams, Gordon M - From Scenes Like These
  • X - passed (again)
  • Yurick, Sol - The Warriors
  • Z - pass
  • Once again I fail with the letters Q and X. There are about 20 Quinns' listed over at Fantastic Fiction. I'll just have to do a smash and grab. And the only way I'll be able to fill out the X if and when I do the meme for the third time - pencilled in for sometime in 2014 - is if I develop a taste for Chinese literature between now and then. The Z is sorted. Just have to hunt down a copy of The Islanders.

    I'd love to tag someone with this meme but everyone's buggered off to Facebook or have the attention span of a tweet. So it goes.

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