2010/31: The Bridge -- Zoran Živković

The Bridge -- Zoran Živković

It would be years before her son was born. She wasn't married, and had yet to meet the boy's father. She knew nothing about him except what she'd just found out. Her future husband would be a redhead. Her son couldn't have inherited that fiery-coloured hair from her. (p. 65)

( slightly spoilery review )

An A-Z of reading

Back in January I decided to kickstart the year's reading by taking an alphabetical approach. (I have a lot of unread books, and if there's nothing in particular I want to read, it can be hard to decide on next book).

Below is my first sweep through the alphabet. (Click to enlarge.) All are reviewed on the book blog and on this LJ.



Next up -- with some excursions for enthusiasms, e.g. being hooked on Laurie King's Mary Russell books -- I'm thinking A-Z of women writers. (Now, if only Eva Ibbotson would write something new ...)

2010/32: The City and the City -- China Mieville

The City and the City -- China Mieville

... pass through Copula Hall and he or she might leave Beszel, and at the end of the hall come back to exactly (corporeally) where they had just been, but in another country, a tourist, a marvelling visitor, to a street that shared the latitude and longitude of their own address, a street they had never visited before, whose architecture they had always unseen, to the Ul Qoman house sitting next to and a whole city away from their own building, unvisible there now that they had come through, all the way across the Breach, back home. (p.86)

( not obviously spoilery review )