Bibliography, April 2009

Books bought (0)

Books read (11)
BOTM: J. Lees-Milne, Another Self

I. Allende,The House of Spirits
I. Asimov, The Gods Themselves
P.F. Browne, Rambling on the road to Rome
N. Gordimer, The Conservationist
K. Hulme, The Bone People
C. Maier, Bonjour paresse
T. Mackintosh - Smith, The Hall of 1000 Columns
A. Powell, Books do furnish a room
A. Powell, Temporary Kings
A. Powell, Hearing secret harmonies

Not a vintage month, partly because I had to wade through Powell, which was dull, and partly because a number of other books were tedious or flawed. Lees-Milne early autobiography was silky and luxurious and all the better for being small (and perfectly formed). Of course, Lees-Milne always write wonderfully, but this (unlike his diaries) has the benefit of being polished into its final form by him rather than his editor, revealing a touching level of amusing self-depreciation, and (much more importantly), a real hatred of communists.