Wednesday, January 11, 2006
aphorism: Questions That Need an Answer
Why is it that women in sofa adverts never wear shoes? It is as if these adverts form a distinct class of their own — what we might call pseudo-pornography: pornography that dares not mention sex.
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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
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Joy Williams
Honored Guest
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The Peoples Act of Love
Dorianne Laux
Facts About the Moon
August Kleinzahler
Cutty, One Rock
Alice Munro
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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
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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
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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