2009--Books Reviewed

• Adichie--The Thing Around Your Neck--10.09-10.23.09 ****
• Akpan--Say You're One of Them*****+
• Allen-Getting Things Done--09.09--10.4.09 ***
• Arvida--The White Tiger--11/29/09 ****1/2
• Beckett--Waiting for Godot--09.09-10.7.09 ****
• Bowen--The Death of the Heart--11/09
• Brennan-The Visitor--10.28.09-10.29.09 *****
• Fitzgerald--The Means of Escape--10.09-10.30.09
• Gaiman--The Graveyard Book--11.08.09-11.09.09 *****
• Garner--The Spare Room--1/1/10 ****
• Goldengrove--Prose--12/3/09 ****
• Hansen--Exiles--8.09-11.2.09***
• Hemingway--A Moveable Feast--09.09-10.17.09 *****
• Ionesco--Rhinoceros--10.09-10.11.09 ****
• Ishiguro--Nocturnes--09.09--10.4.09 *****
• James--Talking About Detective Fiction--12/25/09 ****
• Kertész--Liquidation--11.09-11.06.09 *****
• Le Clézio--The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts 12/13/09 *****
• Li--A Thousand Years of Good Prayers--10.09-10.28.09****1/2
• Li--The Vagrants--9/23/09 *****
• Lipman--The Family Man--11.09-11.14.09 ****
• Melville--"Benito Cereno"--10.09-10.20.09 *****
• Melville--"Billy Budd"--10.090-10.21.09 ****
• Mueenuddin--In Other Rooms, Other Wonders--11/27/09 ****1/2
• Munro--Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship Marriage--09.09--10.3.09 ****
• Müller--The Passport--12/30/09 ****
• Nothomb--Fear and Trembling--11.14.09 *****
• Oates--The Faith of a Writer--10.09-10.18.09 *****
• Rice--Angel Time--11.3.09-11.4.09***1/2
• Stockett--The Help--Book Group--09.09 ****
• Trevor--Love and Summer--11.08.09-11.11.09*****
• Trevor--The Hill Bachelors--9.09-10.7.09 *****
• Vapnyar--Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love--10.14.09-10.14.09 ****

In order to relieve the side column oppression likely to occur with years of posts and to provide for myself, if for no one else a ready refernce to three or so months of reading in 2009, I compile this list of reviews.  Feel free to ignore it--it's really just a summary to help me find my way to the next year.