When Breath Becomes Air ~ Paul Kalanithi

This is a very sad book, but one well worth reading.

Snowpiercer

Bong Joon Ho (dir.), Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt

Every Book I Read in 2016

Here is every book I read last year, in order. Thirty-six books, well short of the target of 50 I had set myself. I hope to do better in 2017.

The Sense of an Ending ~ Julian Barnes

This is a wistful book about the fallibility and mutability of memory. The very first words in the novel are “I remember”, and throughout the book we are brought to consider the untrustworthiness of our recollections. “What you end up remembering isn’t always…

No Name ~ Wilkie Collins

I’ve long been a fan of the novels of the Victorian writer Wilkie Collins, a younger contemporary of Charles…

Fortunately, the Milk ~ Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell

Black Hole Blues (and Other Songs from Outer Space) ~ Janna Levin

The Lure of Books

Every year or so we visit the rural city of Bendigo. My wife loves to visit the bargain room of Bendigo Woollen Mills. For me, an essential part of each visit is a trip to my favourite second-hand bookstore, Book Now (1 Farmers Lane, Bendigo).