apothegm: Beckett on Failure
"Fail again, fail better."
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
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Books Read in 2006
- Phil Baker The Daedalus Book of Absinthe
- Banana Yoshimoto Hardboiled/Hard Luck
- Matthew Sweeny A Smell of Fish
- Susan Clancy Abbducted: How people came to believe they were kidnapped by aliens
- Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation
- Orhan Pamuk Snow
- Peter Carey Wrong About Japan
- Charles Dickens Bleak House
- Joy Williams Honored Guest
- James Meek The Peoples Act of Love
- Dorianne Laux Facts About the Moon
- August Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock
- Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
- Sinead Morrisey The State of the Prisons
- Killarney Clary Potential Stranger
- Peter Hobbs I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 1: The Assassin's Road
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 1: The Assassin's Road
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 2: The Gateless Barrier
- David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 3:The Flute of the Fallen Tiger
- Deren Rees-Jones Quiver
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 4: The Bell Warden
- John Burnside The Good Neighbour
- Polly Clark Take Me With You
- Dubravka Ugresic Thank You for Not Reading
- Scott Wolvern Controlled Burn
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 5: Black Wind
- Victor Nabokov Lolita
- Gerald Woodward We Were Pedestrians
- Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima Lone Wolf and Cub 5: Lanterns for the Dead
- Daisy Fried My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
- Kate Bingham Quicksand Beach
Books Read in 2005
- John Burnside The Light Trap
- Sigmund Freud Civilisation & Its Discontents
- Colette Bryce The Full Indian Rope Trick
- Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing
- Aimee Bender The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
- Ciaran Carson Breaking News
- Deborah Levy Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
- Jeannette Winterson Written on the Body
- Ali Smith The Whole Story and other stories
- David B. Epileptic
- Julia Copus In Defence of Adultery
- William Gibson Pattern Recognition
- Rachel Seiffert Field Study
- Linh Dinh Blood and Soap
- Michael Symons Roberts Corpus
- David Means Assorted Fire Events
- Nin Andrews The Book of Orgasms
- Junchiro Tanizaki In Praise of Shadows
- Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
- Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit
- A.S. Byatt Little Black Book of Stories
- Pietro Aretino The School of Whoredom
- Leontia Flynn These Days
- John Stammers Stolen Love Behaviour
- Heather McGowan Schooling
- Robin Robertson Slow Air
- Javier Marías A Heart So White
- Jessica Abel Mirror, Window
- Lavina Greenlaw Minsk
- Lionel Shriver We Need To Talk About Kevin
- Matthew Hollis Groundwater
- Banana Yoshimoto Asleep
- Helen Farish Intimates
- A.L. Kennedy Paradise
- T.C. Boyle After the Plague
- Adam Phillips Monogamy
- Henry Shukman In Doctor No's Garden
- Christopher Browning The Origins of the Final Solution
- Aldo Buzi The Perfect Egg
- David Truer Little
- Sally Read The Point of Splitting
- Charles Burns Black Hole
- Phillip Gross Wasting Game
- Ander Monson Other Electricities
- James Meek The People's Act of Love
- Ali Smith The Accidental
- David Harsent Legion
- Michelle Tea Rent Girl
- Hilary Mantel Beyond Black
- Harry Matthews My Life in CIA
- August Kleinzahler The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
- Jason Lutes Berlin: City of Stones
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