Category Archives: Reading

2018: My year of reading authors I’ve never read

Posted on 16/09/2019 by jacquelinedowns

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star by Tracey Thorn The Girls by … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged Emily St John Mandel; Kazuo Ishiguro; Katherine Heiny; Tracey Thorn; Emma Cline; Charlotte Bronte; Ottessa Moshfegh; China Miéville; Nicole Krauss; Joanne Walsh; Jamie Sexton; Jeffrey Eugenides; Edit | Leave a comment

Ten books that changed my life

Posted on 30/12/2018 by jacquelinedowns

So, in the summer of 2018, a friend of mine wondered if I had time to do this thing on Facebook where you talk about books that changed your life. I found the time, because I loved how it forced … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading, Reading and Writing | Tagged Art Institute of Chicago, As I Lay Dying, Bookseller Crow on the Hill, Enid Blyton, Fay Weldon, J D Salinger, New York, Oscar Wilde, Portland, Praxis, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Catcher in the Rye, The Picture of Dorian Gray, William Faulkner | 2 Comments

2017: My year of rereads and new non-fiction

Posted on 15/07/2018 by jacquelinedowns

2017 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger (reread) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (reread) Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema by Ian Cooper (new non-fiction) The Secret History by Donna Tartt (reread) My Old Man edited by Ted … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged Alice Munro, Antonia Fraser, Barbara Kingsolver, British Horror, Carrie Fisher, Daphne DuMaurier, Dirk Bogarde, Donna Tartt, F Scott Fitzgerald, Fay Weldon, George Orwell, Hilary Mantell, Ian Cooper, J D Salinger, Joan Didion, Julie Orringer, Max Porter, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, Miranda Sawyer, My Old Man, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, Philip Roth, Rebecca Skloot, Robin Black, Susanna Moore, Sylvia Plath, Ted Kessler, Will Ashon, William Falkner | Leave a comment

2016: My Year of Reading Women

Posted on 26/11/2017 by jacquelinedowns

2016 Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson The Story of a New Name … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged Barbara Kingsolver, Elena Ferrante, Kate Atkinson, Liars' League, Lucia Berlin, Olivia Laing, Patricia Highsmith, the Bechdel Test | Leave a comment

2015: Books I read

Posted on 14/05/2017 by jacquelinedowns

2015 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl by Wendy Jones Londoners by Craig Taylor We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Do No … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged Carol Morley, Dirk Bogarde, Jim Jarmush, Miriam Toews, Patricia Highsmith, Todd Haynes, Viv Albertine | Leave a comment

2014: Books I read

Posted on 14/05/2017 by jacquelinedowns

As I typed out lists of books read, starting below with 2014 and copied from yearly diaries, I realised how many memories were attached to them – to most of them anyway. More than music, it struck me that reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading | Tagged Bookseller Crow, Carol Shields, Donna Tartt, Evie Wyld, James Salter, Kristin Hersh, Patricia Highsmith, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Walters | Leave a comment