SarahMania: Five Skies, Ron Carlson

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Five Skies, Ron Carlson

I was somewhat disappointed by Five Skies, as I sometimes am when a really excellent short story writer turns his hand to longer formats. Carlson's story isn't constructed to have the same interest all the way through, so what would have made a very good novella becomes just a so-so novel.

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Books Read 2009

Five Skies, Ron Carlson (audiobook)
I Thought My Father Was God, edited by Paul Auster (audiobook)
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (audiobook)
Underworld, Don DeLillo
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (audiobook)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Schaffer (audiobook)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (audiobook)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
Broken Open, Elizabeth Lesser (audiobook)
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit, Yasmina Khadra
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Compulsion, Johnathan Kellerman
Olive Kitteridge, Elisabeth Strout
Get a Life, Nadine Gordimer
Time Will Darken It, WIlliam Maxwell
L'ile des sourciers, Anthony Horowitz
Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F Scott Fitzgerald
It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care, Stephen Rollnick
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, John Le Carré
The Logic of Life, Tim Hartford
The Year of the Hare, Arto Paasilinna
The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine, Melissa Bank
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Chess Story, Stefan Zwieg
The Secret Lives of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Dancer : A Novel, Colum McCann
The Road Home, Rose Tremain
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfeld
Back When We Were Grown Ups, Anne Tyler
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
Eight Stories, Dylan Thomas
The Invisible Man, HG Wells
Practical Photography, John Freeman
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon
The Other Hand, Chris Cleave
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Good Calorie, Bad Calorie, Gary Taubes
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John Le Carré
White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Confessions of a Fallen Angel, Ronan O'Brien
A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
If This is a Man, Primo Levi
The Truce, Primo Levi
The Secret Lives of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Sorrows of an American, Siri Hadsfeldt
The Gathering, Annie Enright
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer