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My birthday's coming up, and I like to send my family the link to my amazon wish list. So, fun-loving and literature-loving Freinds (sic), what books can you recommend that I might wish to add to this wish list?
Btw, I currently have nine wish lists on amazon, and only one of them is my public one... I use them as a sort of del.ici.ous type deposit box for odds and ends that I used to scribble down on bits and papers. I have a list for 'DVDs and CDs', for 'DVDs for teaching', for 'self-help' (I am addicted to self-help books!), for 'writing', for 'books I want to buy', for 'fantasy' (remember when I once got interested in fantasy round about May?), and oh, I can't remember for what else. :-)
I like literary novels, and genre only if it's practically a crossover to literary (like Ursula LeGuin). And I like stories with a complex plot structure (chronology all shook up, a mystery to be unveiled but it's in the past, not the 'and then', 'and then' structure unless it's Sophie Kinsella), interesting prose but a light touch, can have a hint of artsy-fartsiness but not too much, and it's always a bonus if written by a woman.
Novels I loved and read recently: Phil Hensher, The Northern Clemency, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, I quite liked Chuck Pahlaniuk's Fight Club and Paul Torday's The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, and I can't remember any others for the moment. :-)
Btw, I currently have nine wish lists on amazon, and only one of them is my public one... I use them as a sort of del.ici.ous type deposit box for odds and ends that I used to scribble down on bits and papers. I have a list for 'DVDs and CDs', for 'DVDs for teaching', for 'self-help' (I am addicted to self-help books!), for 'writing', for 'books I want to buy', for 'fantasy' (remember when I once got interested in fantasy round about May?), and oh, I can't remember for what else. :-)
I like literary novels, and genre only if it's practically a crossover to literary (like Ursula LeGuin). And I like stories with a complex plot structure (chronology all shook up, a mystery to be unveiled but it's in the past, not the 'and then', 'and then' structure unless it's Sophie Kinsella), interesting prose but a light touch, can have a hint of artsy-fartsiness but not too much, and it's always a bonus if written by a woman.
Novels I loved and read recently: Phil Hensher, The Northern Clemency, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, I quite liked Chuck Pahlaniuk's Fight Club and Paul Torday's The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, and I can't remember any others for the moment. :-)