April Reading

Just finished:

• In Praise of Men and Other People, Ann Sansom
• Come Closer and Listen, Charles Simic
• Exit Management, Naomi Booth

On the go:

• Word Perfect, Susie Dent, (reading a chapter a day, but I’m falling behind)
• The Nanny State Made Me, Stuart Maconie, (I keep intending to prioritise this, but always pick up something else)
• Racing Hard, Willian Fotheringham, (this is an ebook, which I only tend to read when I’m eating)
• Selected Poems, Tony Harrison, (I keep dipping in and out of this one, mainly out)
• A Taste for Death, PD James
• The Good Ancestor, Roman Krznaric
• The Illustrated History of Football, David Squires, (I read this when I’m in the kitchen, waiting for something to boil, though the new dog takes most of my time and attention these days)
• The Crucible, Arthur Miller
• Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
• Antarctica, Clair Keegan

Recently acquired but not started:

• The Secret Barrister, (I’d already got it)
• The Creative Writing Coursebook, ed Julia Bell and Paul Magrs
• The Echo Chamber, Luke Williams
• Ways of Seeing, John Berger
• First Person Singular, Haruki Murakami (this was bought for me. I’m a bit of a Murakami completist)
• Life Studies, Robert Lowell

Bought for my wife for Mother’s Day, only to find it was the wrong Mother’s Day:

• Ruth Baden Ginsberg, Jane Sherron De Hart