Membro: amandameale

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Sobre mimPrivate teacher of piano and guitar. In my musical life I have worked as a lecturer, a secondary school teacher, choir director, band director, accompanist,copyist and writer. My career coincided with the raising of three children and I mostly chose to work part-time.
These days my main pleasure is reading books and reading about books.

PHOTO: Currently reading...

Sobre a minha bibliotecaI have always been a reader but only started collecting books in 1994. Prior to that I was indiscriminate about lending them out and so lost quite a few. (I have a lot of music books which are not catalogued here.)

I do not keep every book that I read. My house can only cope with about 700 books so from time to time I give books away.

Favourite Book of 2003: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Favourite Book of 2004: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell AND Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Favourite Book of 2005: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Favourite Book of 2006: Saturday by Ian McEwan AND Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Favourite Book of 2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Runners-up: The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald and The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Favourite Book of 2008: Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Runners-up: The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Fifth Business by Robertson Davies; Sorry by Gail Jones; By The Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

PLANS FOR 2009
To stop avoiding BIG books.
Favourites so far: The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (BIG); Netherland by Joseph O'Neill; Ransom by David Malouf; The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (BIG); The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (BIG); A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul; The Great Gatsby (RE-READ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald; In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniel Mueenuddin; The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf; The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll; Semaphore by G.W.Hawkes; The Assistant by Bernard Malamud; Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami: The Quiet American by Graham Greene; The Orchard Thieves by Elizabeth Jolley; The Virtuoso by Sonia Orchard; The Outcast by Sadie Jones; The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield; Julie and Julia by Julie Powell; If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor; Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi; My Driver by Maggie Gee; The Outlander by Gil Adamson; The Glass Room by Simon Mawer; Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf; The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness; Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Nome realamanda

Localizaçãosydney, australia

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