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The tick-tock of our watches is so mechanically jerky that we no longer have subtle enough ears to hear the passage of time. Gaston Bachelard

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Books 2012

This is a list of books I’ve read this year. Will add to it as I read them. Books which I’ve re-read are marked with an asterix (*). I also have a GoodReads Account.

Winston Churchill - Birth of Britain (on hold)
Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island

  1. Moris Farhi - The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (TLS)
  2. Moris Farhi - Doctor Who: Farewell Great Macedon (TLS)
  3. Jacqueline Rayner - Doctor Who: Transit of Venus (TCC)
  4. Rui Zink - Cititorul din Pestera
  5. David Whitaker - Doctor Who and the Crusaders
  6. Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
  7. Brian Selznik - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  8. Amelia Earhart - Last Flight
  9. John Hawkesworth - Upstairs, Downstairs
  10. Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
  11. James M. Cain - The Embezzler
  12. James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
  13. Isak Dinesen - The Angelic Avengers
  14. Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy
  15. Agatha Christie - Death in the Clouds
  16. Beryl Markham - West With The Night
  17. Amelia Earhart - The Fun Of It
  18. Agatha Christie - Murder in Mesopotamia
  19. Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road *
  20. Bouvard & Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert
  21. Helene Hanff - Q’s Legacy
  22. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien *
  23. Love in Bloomsbury - Frances Partridge
  24. Crooked House - Agatha Christie
  25. Why Read the Classics - Italo Calvino
  26. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino
  27. Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis