The lending library list

As 2012 is over...

...I hit the 'Loans History' button at the electronic library page. These were my loans last year:

Nicholson Baker – House of Holes: magic realism, just set at the Hedonism holiday resort.

John Lanchester – Whoops!: why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay: insane logic and mad maths, nothing stacks up in a world based on paper and data. No wonder their bonuses remain mental.

Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy: it's a dark place, the big city.

Hannu Rajaiemi – The Quantum Thief: wherever you go, in all space and time, people are the same and little makes sense.

John Lanchester – Capital: the banking crisis encapsulated in one (now very, very expensive; once not so) London street.

William Hjortsberg – Falling Angel: the devil will take us all. Whatever we do.

Peter Carey – The Chemistry of Tears: life, love and relationships. At the robot museum.

Iain Banks – Stonemouth: do any homecomings ever work out well?

Irvine Welsh – Skag Boys: Trainspotting prequel. In Scoash, y'wide-o.

Timothy Mo – Pure: fundamentalist ladyboys at work and play.

Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding: striving for perfection can only lead to obsession and disappointment. And it does.

Martin Amis – Lionel Asbo: State of England: a state of the chav-nation novel.

Adam Roberts – By Light Alone: photosynthesis in human hair. Is that my long lost daughter back? Or someone else?

Joseph Anjali – Saraswati Park: a marriage under stress, in India.

Jasper Fforde – The Woman Who Died a Lot: what if, in the near future, things got seriously weird. And very funny?

Ian McEwan – Sweet Tooth: MI5, older men, and a second look at the spy business.

Twan Eng Tang – The Garden of Evening Mists: Japanese gardens, tattoos, Malaya POWs.

Alison Moore – The Lighthouse: looking for a lost childhood. Never a good idea to waste time looking for a lost anything. Best to move on.

Alan Warner – Deadman's Pedal: young love, families, posh folk...oh... and trains.

Will Self – Umbrella: Oliver Sacks Awakenings as a stream of consciousness novel. The best book of the year.

Yan Mo – The Garlic Ballads: some lives are unbelievably hard, and, no, life isn't fair.