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Books


"A book is a gift you can open again and again." 

-- Garrison Keillor



This blog includes notes on many of the books we have been reading up here on The Hill. There's no TV, so we read a lot! Here's a quick list of links.

Ackroyd, Peter : The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein 
Atwood, Margaret : The Penelopiad
de Bernières, Louis : A Partisan's Daughter
Calvino, Italo : The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Carey, Peter : Parrot & Olivier in America

Chua, Amy : Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Clare, Alys : Heart of Ice
Coelho, Paulo : Veronika Decides to Die

Currie, Ron : God is Dead
Dahlquist, G.W. : 
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Deledda, Grazia : Reeds in the Wind
Dunant, Sarah : In the Company of the Courtesan

Erskine, Barbara : The Warrior's Princess
Fermine, Maxence : The Black Violin
Gaiman, Neil : Neverwhere
Gregory, Philippa : The Little House
Haddon, Mark : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Harris, Joanne : Runemarks
Hunt, Stephen : The Court of the Air

Khoury, Raymond : The Last Templar
Kundera, Milan : Farewell Waltz

Lambert, Angela : The Constant Mistress
Le Clézio, J.M. : Onitsha
Mantel, Hilary : Fludd
Mawer, Simon : The Gospel of Judas
Moore, Clement C. : 
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Morton, Kate : The Forgotten Garden
Murkoff, Eisenburg & Hathaway : What to Expect When You're Expecting
Oates, Joyce Carol : A Fair Maiden

Porter, Henry : The Dying Light
Pullman, Philip : The Firework Maker's Daughter
Pullman, Philip : The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Ray, Jane : The Story of Christmas
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos : The Angel's Game
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos : The Shadow of the Wind
Rushdie, Salman : The Enchantress of Florence
Sansom, C.J. : Revelation

Setiawan, Erick : Of Bees and Mist
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr : The Gulag Archipelago
Sussman, Paul : The Last Secret of the Temple

Trapido, Barbara : Brother of the More Famous Jack
Turgeon, Carolyn : Godmother, the Secret Cinderella Story
Updike, John : The Widows of Eastwick
Vargas Llosa, Mario : The Bad Girl
Wardley & More : 
The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers and Children
Winterson, Jeanette : The Stone Gods

Zusak, Marcus : The Book Thief

              









Books


"A book is a gift you can open again and again." 

-- Garrison Keillor



This blog includes notes on many of the books we have been reading up here on The Hill. There's no TV, so we read a lot! Here's a quick list of links.

Ackroyd, Peter : The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein 
Atwood, Margaret : The Penelopiad
de Bernières, Louis : A Partisan's Daughter
Calvino, Italo : The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Carey, Peter : Parrot & Olivier in America

Chua, Amy : Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Clare, Alys : Heart of Ice
Coelho, Paulo : Veronika Decides to Die

Currie, Ron : God is Dead
Dahlquist, G.W. : 
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Deledda, Grazia : Reeds in the Wind
Dunant, Sarah : In the Company of the Courtesan

Erskine, Barbara : The Warrior's Princess
Fermine, Maxence : The Black Violin
Gaiman, Neil : Neverwhere
Gregory, Philippa : The Little House
Haddon, Mark : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Harris, Joanne : Runemarks
Hunt, Stephen : The Court of the Air

Khoury, Raymond : The Last Templar
Kundera, Milan : Farewell Waltz

Lambert, Angela : The Constant Mistress
Le Clézio, J.M. : Onitsha
Mantel, Hilary : Fludd
Mawer, Simon : The Gospel of Judas
Moore, Clement C. : 
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Morton, Kate : The Forgotten Garden
Murkoff, Eisenburg & Hathaway : What to Expect When You're Expecting
Oates, Joyce Carol : A Fair Maiden

Porter, Henry : The Dying Light
Pullman, Philip : The Firework Maker's Daughter
Pullman, Philip : The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Ray, Jane : The Story of Christmas
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos : The Angel's Game
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos : The Shadow of the Wind
Rushdie, Salman : The Enchantress of Florence
Sansom, C.J. : Revelation

Setiawan, Erick : Of Bees and Mist
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr : The Gulag Archipelago
Sussman, Paul : The Last Secret of the Temple

Trapido, Barbara : Brother of the More Famous Jack
Turgeon, Carolyn : Godmother, the Secret Cinderella Story
Updike, John : The Widows of Eastwick
Vargas Llosa, Mario : The Bad Girl
Wardley & More : 
The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers and Children
Winterson, Jeanette : The Stone Gods

Zusak, Marcus : The Book Thief