Birth of the Fiog Blog: December 2009

Why don't they make sad pop songs like they used to?

Lea Salonga's cover is not bad too.

Books Read 2007-21

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog - Bruce D. Perry M.D.
Invictus: Nelson Mandela & the Game that made a Nation - John Carlin
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Bend, Not Break - Ping Fu
The 100 Year Old Man (Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared) - Jonas Jonasson
Supernatural Stories - Charles Dickens
The Small Hand - Susan Hill
The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
The Death & Life of Sylvia Plath - Ronald Hayman
Beloved - Toni Morrison
From Elephant to Hollywood - Michael Caine
Complete Short Stories - Muriel Spark
Fine Just the Way It Is - Annie Proulx
Heart Songs and Other Stories - Annie Proulx
Amexica - Ed Vulliamy
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill
One Child - Torey Hayden
Into the Darkest Corner -Elizabeth Haynes
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
Factory Girls - Leslie T. Chang
Wild Swans -Jung Chang
River Town - Peter Hessler
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
Collected Stories - Paul Theroux
Passage - Justin Cronin
The Hare with the Amber Eyes - Edmund De Waal
Dark Matter - Michelle Paver
The Pan Book of Horrors Stories - Edited by Herbert Van Thal
Never the Bride - Paul Magrs
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Dreams from my Father - Barack Obama
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark
Middlesex - Jeffrey Euginedes
Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
True Tales of American Life - Paul Aster
The Good Women of China - Xinran
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Olivia Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Jennifer Government - Max Barry
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Cosmopolis - Don Delilo
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Half of a Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half and Half : Writers on Growing up Bi-racial and Bi-cultural - Claudine C. O'Hearn
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
One Day - David Nicholls
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan - Will Ferguson
The Silent Roar: A Decade of Change - Raja Petra Kamarudin
Kabuki:The Alchemy - David Mack
The Alcoholic - Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel
Coraline: The Graphic Novel - Neil Gaiman
After the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Good to Great - James C. Collins
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Rob Pirsig
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
Post-Mortem - Patricia Cornwell
The Secret of Crickley Hall - James Herbert
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
By the Time You Read This - Lola Jaye
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Seance - John Harwood
The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution by Laurence Rees
Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Sky Burial by Xinran
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Philips
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Jia by Hyejin Kim
Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Marley and Me by John Grogan
God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
I Am My Own Wife by Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf
Being Dead by Jim Crace
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The Red Widow Murders by John Dickson Carr
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
Gifts by Ursula Le Guin
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
A Wizard from Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Who do We Think We Are by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Birds of Passage by Brian Castro
Cutting the Night in Two: Short Stories - Edited by Evelyn Conlon and Hans Christian Oeser
Big Hair - Grant McCraken
Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach - Paul Gardiner
The Handbook of Project Based Managment - R J Turner
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Until I Find You - John Irving
The Royal Ghosts - Samrat Upadhyay
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Naming the Dead - Ian Rankin
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruis Zafon
The Patriots Club - Christopher Reich
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
1984 - George Orwell
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Animal Stories - Jack London
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Five Stories High edited by Jonathan Oliver
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonso Lee
First Ladies of Running by Amby Burfoot

Monday, December 14, 2009

Promise Me - Beverly Craven