urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:girlklingon girlklingon girlklingon 2008-01-08T00:49:04Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:girlklingon:1054 2008-01-08T00:49:04Z 2008-01-08T00:49:04Z <b>Books read in 2007</b><br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4659662">Drop city</a> by T.C.Boyle<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4238763">Son of a witch</a> by Gregory Maguire<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4709195">After the quake</a> by Haruki Murakami<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4618918">Invisible cities</a> by Italo Calvino<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1761590">Les Enfants Terribles</a> by Jean Cocteau<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3613942">I am the clay</a> by Chaim Potok<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4627434">Norwegian wood</a> by Haruki Murakami<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3147510">Case histories</a> by Kate Atkinson<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4776449">Gastronaut</a> by Stefan Gates<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2047733">I, Claudius</a> by Robert Graves<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4669429">Remains of the day</a> by Kazuo Ishiguro<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4657695">A short history of tractors in Ukrainian</a> by Marina Lewycka<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4476804/J_7860491">The book thief</a> by Marcus Zusak<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4850241">Hard boiled, hard luck</a> by Banana Yoshimoto<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1800300">The Tale of Murasaki</a> by Liz Dalby<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4781622">Breakfast of champions</a> by Kurt Vonnegut<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4342025"> The virgin suicides</a> by Jeffrey Eugenides<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4875469"> The glory garage: growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia</a> by Nadia Jamal and Taghred Chandab<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1811022">Hey Nostradamus!</a> by Douglas Coupland<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3023939">The sirens of Titan</a> by Kurt Vonnegut<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3472353">Non-fiction</a> by Chuck Palahniuk<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4567106">Does my head look big in this?</a> by Randa Abdel-Fattah <br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4403695">No one you know: a collection of cartoons</a> by Bruce Eric Kaplan<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4734568">Saturday</a> by Ian McEwan<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4797543/J_8074467">The body artist</a> by Don Delillo<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4924828">Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World</a> by Haruki Murakami<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2252872">All quiet on the western front</a> by Erich Maria Remarque<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1968834">Pigs in heaven</a> by Barbara Kingsolver<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2764124">Conversations at Curlow Creek</a> by David Malouf<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4586400">Cat's craddle</a> by Kurt Vonnegut<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4924819">City of falling angels</a> by John Berandt<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4511523">Under the Tuscan sun</a> by Frances Mayes<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2900466">Life before man</a> by Margaret Atwood<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1333293">Falling slowly</a> by Anita Brookner<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4586399">Galapagos</a> by Kurt Vonnigut<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5016438">Emotionally weird </a> by Kate Atkinson<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1061209">Music for chameleons</a> by Truman Capote<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5064734">Zuckerman unbound</a> by Philip Roth<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4592136">The secret river</a> by Kate Grenville<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4472205">The fifth child</a> by Dorris Lessing<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2047726">Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions</a> by Martin Amis<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4743537">The crowded bed</a> by Mary Cavanagh<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4135602">Wilderness tips</a> by Margaret Atwood<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5125883">Night</a> by Elie Weisel<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2349146">The road to Wellville</a> by T.C. Boyle<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4583862">Tiger in the tiger pit</a> by Janette Turner Hospital<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4298024">Holy fools</a> by Joanne Harris<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4891716">The god of small things</a> by Arundhati Roy<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2950251">Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations</a> by Alexander McCall Smith<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4795218">The inner circle</a> by T.C. Boyle<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/885-4515308">Gather together in my name</a> by Maya Angelou<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3761565">A thousand orange trees</a> by Katherine Harrison<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4586164">Sacred country</a> by Rose Tremain<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2742017">Never let me go</a> by Kazuo Ishiguro<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2036464">The Rachel papers</a> by Martin Amis <br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1709005">Ben, in the world</a> by Dorris Lessing<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5239904/J_8684043">Unless</a> by Carol Shields<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5039159">Silk</a> by Alessandro Baricco<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5176753">The tin drum</a> by Gunter Grass<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5275633">Elizabeth Costello</a> by J.M. Coetzee<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5280516">Saturday night, Sunday morning</a> by Alan Sillitoe<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5235390">Amsterdam</a> by Ian McEwan<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5119439">An idea of perfection</a> by Kate Grenville<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4993580">Fireworks</a> by Angela Carter<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5205808">The road</a> by Cormac McCarthy<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5064741">Dead babies</a> by Martin Amis<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1182036">Lady Chatterley's lover</a> by D.H. Lawrence<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5254498">The sea</a> by John Banville<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5100968">Veronika decides to die</a> by Paolo Coelho<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4568319">Half the yellow sun</a> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4480030">The Inheritance of Loss</a> by Kiran Desai<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5249439">No one belongs here more then you</a> by Miranda July<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5443540">Timbuktu</a> by Paul Auster<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4730764">Underground</a> by Andrew McGahan<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5104528/J_8358885">Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now</a> by Maya Angelou<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4522480">A million little pieces</a> by James Frey<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5489639">The reluctant fundamentalist</a> by Mohsin Hamid<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5258632">Morvern Callar</a> by Alan Warner<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5501255">The gathering</a> by Anne Enright<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5160105">Mister Pip</a> by Lloyd Jones<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2771667">The things they carried</a> by Tim O'Brien<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2246222">Even the stars look lonesome</a> by Maya Angelou<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4888760">The sweetest dream</a> by Doris Lessing<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4531768">The courage consort</a> by Michael Faber<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1778288">At swim-two-birds</a> by Flann O'Brien<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5367779">The driver's seat</a> by Muriel Spark<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5537203">GIfted</a> by Nikita Lalwani<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5220440">The feast of the goat</a> by Mario Vargas LLosa<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4669427">An awfully big adventure</a> by Beryl Bainbridge<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4590042">Born on a blue day</a> by Daniel Tammet<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4822374">The romantics</a> by Pankaj Mishra<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5016416/J_8178360">The inheritors</a> by William Golding<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5683825">Side effects</a> by Woody Allen<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2628659">Chocolat</a> by Joanne Harris<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2301997">Oxygen</a> by Andrew Miller<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4183948">Shopgirl</a> by Steve Martin<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2329318">The amateur marriage</a> by Anne Tyler<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5605366">The lollipop shoes</a> by Joanne Harris<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3631320">Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance</a> by Robert M. Pirsig<br /><li type="DISC|CIRCLE|SQUARE"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1737974">Austerlitz</a> by W.G. Sebold urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:girlklingon:635 2006-07-21T10:50:16Z 2006-07-21T10:50:16Z After a long and draining week at work, we slogged our way across town (during a down-pour) to a little restaurant in Surry Hills called 'Bali on Bourke'. <br /><br />We had read in 'Good living' that they have a $23 banquet. And it was honest, authentic Indonesian (not that I am an authority on these things). There were the oldies - ran-dang curry, ga do ga do - and new things (for me), like the potato crouquet with beef and the dessert of the livid green egg pancake, containing coconut (amongst other things).<br /><br />I am still feeling full now. <br /><br />So, here I am, 8:45pm on a Friday night in my pjs, the footy on the telly and me in front of the computer... Living life in the fast lane!<br /><br />But, after my first week back at work after a two week holiday, I am wrecked.<br /><br />Might drag myself off to bed soon.<br /><br />Will journal about Orange (last weekend) soon too. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:girlklingon:452 2006-07-09T06:50:23Z 2006-07-09T06:50:23Z This is my very first entry.<br /><br />It is Sunday, and I am very much feeling it. While I have a list of domestic chores planned for this evening, today has been rather rewarding.<br /><br />I got to stay in bed until 12:15pm, then got dressed. We walked down and had a picnic with some of A's school friends, and watched all their kiddies run around, and destroy all the food put out on the picnic blankets.<br /><br />Then, we came home, chatted, potted, I went for a walk, and here I am.<br /><br />Sunday has been great.<br /><br />I am reading 'Zorro' by Isabel Allende.