- Author:
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Publisher:
- Flamingo
- Note:
- Quietly fascinating, rendered with much charm and witty off-beat humor in near flawlessly elegant prose.
- Rating:
- ***
- URL:
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book: "The Beginning of Spring"
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Books
- David Landes – The Wealth and Poverty of Nations *****
- J M Coetzee – Disgrace *****
- Philip Roth – American Pastoral *****
- Don DeLillo – Underworld *****
- Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping ****
- Mark Helprin – Winter's Tale ****
- Tim O'Brien – The Things They Carried *****
- Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West *****
- William Golding – Rites of Passage ***
- Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero **
- Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance ****
- Penelope Fitzgerald – The Blue Flower ***
- W. Somerset Maugham – The Painted Veil **
- Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go ****
- Denis Johnson – Jesus' Son ***
- James Kelman – A Disaffection ****
- Raymond Carver – Where I'm Calling From *****
- Jeanette Winterson – The Passion ****
- A S Byatt – Possession ****
- Ward Just – Echo House **
- Michael Cunningham – A Home at the End of the World ***
- Irene Nemirovsky – Suite Francaise ****
- Claire Messud – The Emperor's Children **
- Saul Bellow – Seize the Day ****
- Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey **
- Albert Camus – The Outsider ****
- Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang ****
- James Baldwin – Giovanni's Room ***
- Ian McEwan – The Comfort of Strangers ***
- Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited *****
- Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty *****
- John Fowles – The French Lieutenant's Woman *****
- Penelope Fitzgerald – The Beginning of Spring ***
- Shirley Hazzard – The Great Fire **
- J M Coetzee – The Master of Petersburg ****
- Philip Roth – The Human Stain ****
- Jack Kerouac – On the Road *****
- John Berger – To the Wedding ***
- Nadine Gordimer – A World of Strangers ***
- Kobo Abe – Woman in the Dunes ****
- Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin ****
- Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy ****
- Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49 ***
- Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory ***
- Yasunari Kawabata – Snow Country *****
- Lao She – Teahouse ****
- Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human **
- John Banville – The Untouchable ****
- J M Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians ****
- Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook *****
- Graham Greene – The End of the Affair ***
- Iris Murdoch – The Bell ****
- Ian McEwan – Amsterdam ***
- Andre Gide – The Immoralist ***
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ***
- Peter Ackroyd – Hawksmoor **
- Philip Pullman – Northern Lights ***
- V.S. Naipaul – Half a Life **
- Martin Amis – London Fields **
- Edmund White – The Beautiful Room is Empty ***
- Anita Brookner – Hotel du Lac ****
- Doris Lessing – Love, Again **
- Cormac McCarthy – No Country for Old Men ***
- D M Thomas – The White Hotel ****
- Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness ****
- Yevgeny Zamyatin – We *****
- Martin Amis – Time's Arrow **
- Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie *****
- Ann Patchett – Run **
- Anderson Cooper – Dispatches from the Edge *
- Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach ****
- Colm Toibin – Mothers and Sons ***
- Andre Aciman – Call Me By Your Name ***
- Richard Ford – A Multitude of Sins *
- J D Salinger – Franny and Zooey ***
- Yoko Ogawa – The Diving Pool (Three Novellas) ***
- Ted Hughes – Tales from Ovid ****
- Muriel Spark – The Girls of Slender Means ****
- Joyce Carol Oates – Rape, A Love Story **
- Paul Bowles – The Spider's House ****
- V S Naipaul – In A Free State ***
- Raymond Carver – Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? ***
- Muriel Spark – All the Stories of Muriel Spark ****
- Anais Nin – Little Birds ***
- Joshua Ferris – Then We Came to the End ***
- John McGahern – Amongst Women ****
- John Steinbeck – Cannery Row ****
- Jane Austen – Mansfield Park ***
- Tom Hodgkinson – The Freedom Manifesto *
- Alan Bennett – The Clothes They Stood Up In ***
- D H Lawrence – Lady Chatterley's Lover *****
- James Frey – Bright Shiny Morning *
- Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence ***
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World *****
- Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front ****
- Primo Levi – If This is a Man ****
- Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road ****
- Maritta Wolff – Sudden Rain ***
- Don DeLillo – Falling Man ***
Books II
- Nathanael West – The Day of the Locust ****
- David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas ***
- Harlan Coben – Tell No One **
- Paul Auster – The Brooklyn Follies *
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five *****
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera *****
- Guiseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa – The Leopard *****
- Robert Graves – Goodbye to All That ****
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov *****
- James Dickey – Deliverance ***
- Jack Kerouac – Vanity of Duluoz (An Adventurous Education) ***
- Evan Thomas – Robert Kennedy: His Life ****
- Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky ****
- Edmund White – Skinned Alive (Stories) *
- Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children *****
- Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea ****
- Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger ****
- Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries ****
- Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake **
- Philip Roth – Indignation **
- E M Forster – Maurice ***
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude *****
- Doris Lessing – Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 (George Sherban E ****
- Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose ****
- Edna O'Brien – Girls in their Married Bliss ***
- Richard Yates – A Good School ***
- Philip Roth – Portnoy's Compaint ***
- Roberto Bolaņo – 2666 *****
- Peter Gay – Modernism: The Lure of Heresy ***
- Bernhard Schlink – The Reader ***
- Andre Gide – Urien's Voyage ***
- William Styron – Darkness Visible ***
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Venus in Furs ****
- James Joyce – Ulysses *****
- John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath *****
- John McGahern – That They May Face The Rising Sun ***
- Penelope Fitzgerald – Offshore ***
- Anthony Burgess – Earthly Powers ****
- Robert Graves – I, Claudius ****
- Samuel Beckett – Dream of Fair to Middling Women ***
- Donald Barthelme – Sixty Stories ****
- Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm ****
- Colm Toibin – The Heather Blazing ***
- Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything Is Illuminated ****
- Sarah Waters – The Night Watch ***
- Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ***
- Marilynne Robinson – Home *****
- Choderlos De Laclos – Dangerous Liaisons *****
Movies
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) *****
- Happy Endings (2005) **
- Transamerica (2005) *
- Sin City (2005) ****
- Le Grand Voyage (2004) ****
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) ****
- The New World (2005) *****
- Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) ****
- Crash (2004) **
- Mysterious Skin (2004) ***
- A Very Long Engagement (2004) ****
- Three Times (2005) ****
- Hard Candy (2005) ***
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) *****
- Syriana (2005) ****
- Match Point (2005) ***
- The Banquet (2006) **
- The Prestige (2006) ***
- The Departed (2006) **
- Being Julia (2004) ***
- Thank You for Smoking (2005) ***
- Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) ***
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006) **
- Miami Vice (2006) **
- United 93 (2006) ****
- Hollywoodland (2006) ***
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) ****
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make... (2006) ***
- Water (2005) ****
- Apocalypto (2006) **
- The Painted Veil (2006) ***
- Babel (2006) ***
- The Queen (2006) **
- The Illusionist (2006) **
- Brick (2005) **
- Quinceanera (2006) ***
- Half Nelson (2006) ****
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) ****
- Little Children (2006) *****
- Notes on a Scandal (2006) **
- Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) ***
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006) ***
- Volver (2006) *****
- 300 (2006) **
- The History Boys (2006) ***
- Paris, je t'aime (2006) ****
- The Last King of Scotland (2006) **
- The Fountain (2006) ***
- Cache (2005) ****
- Born into Brothels (2004) ***
- Lords of Dogtown (2005) **
- Blood Diamond (2006) ***
- Children of Men (2006) *****
- Infamous (2006) **
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) *
- Breaking and Entering (2006) **
- Breakfast on Pluto (2006) *****
- Munich (2005) ***
- Zodiac (2007) ****
- Ocean's Thirteen (2007) ***
- Fracture (2007) ***
- Marie Antoinette (2006) *****
- A Mighty Heart (2007) ****
- Clubland (2007) **
- Ratatouille (2007) *****
- Inland Empire (2006) ****
- The Flying Scotsman (2006) ***
- Hairspray (2007) ***
- The Invasion (2007) **
- Eternal Summer (2006) ***
- Across the Universe (2007) *****
- American Gangster (2007) ***
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) ****
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) ****
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007) ***
- Knocked Up (2007) ***
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob (2007) *****
- Eastern Promises (2007) ****
- Atonement (2007) ***
- Casanova (2005) **
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) ***
- The Amityville Horror (2005) **
- La Vie En Rose (2007) ****
- There Will Be Blood (2007) *****
- Rendition (2007) **
- In the Valley of Elah (2007) ****
- The Darjeeling Limited (2007) ***
- The 11th Hour (2007) ***
- Into the Wild (2007) *****
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) **
- August Rush (2007) **
- Lars and the Real Girl (2007) ****
- Just My Luck (2006) *
- The Home Song Stories (2007) ***
- Smokin' Aces (2006) **
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) *****
- Casino Royale (2006) ****
- No Country for Old Men (2007) *****
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) *****
Movies II
- Control (2007) ****
- Hunting and Gathering (2007) *
- Love Me If You Dare (2003) **
- The Keys to the House (2004) ****
- Be Kind Rewind (2008) ****
- Pleasure Factory (2007) *
- Michael Clayton (2007) ****
- The Dark Knight (2008) ***
- Venus (2006) ***
- The Lives of Others (2006) ****
- Sleuth (2007) **
- WALL.E (2008) ***
- Away From Her (2007) ***
- I'm Not There (2007) ****
- Tell No One (2006) ***
- Black Book (2006) ***
- Wanted (2008) *
- Iron Man (2008) **
- Juno (2007) ***
- Persepolis (2007) ****
- Breach (2007) **
- Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) ****
- Australia (2008) ****
- Changeling (2008) ***
- Milk (2008) ****
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) ***
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) ****
- The Reader (2008) ***
- Tropic Thunder (2008) ***
- Of Time and the City (2008) ****
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) ***
- In Bruges (2008) **
- Serbis (2008) ***
- The Wrestler (2008) ****
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) *
- Star Trek (2009) **
- Doubt (2008) ****
- Boy A (2007) ***
- Rachel Getting Married (2008) **
- Frost/Nixon (2008) ****
- The Counterfeiters (2007) *****
- Once (2006) ***
- Let the Right One In (2008) *****
- Penelope (2006) **
Music
- – Ben Harper: Both Sides of the Gun *****
- – Bob Dylan: Modern Times *****
- – Beck: The Information ****
- – Lambchop: Damaged *****
- – British Sea Power: Open Season ****
- – John Mayer: Continuum ***
- – Thom Yorke: The Eraser ****
- – Neil Young: Living with War ***
- – Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium *****
- – Johnny Cash: Walking the Line *****
- – Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans ****
- – Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's W ****
- – Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped ****
- – Jamie Cullum: Catching Tales ****
- – Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome ***
- – Muse: Black Holes and Revelations ****
- – Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds ***
- – The Reconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers ***
- – Johnny Cash: American V: A Hundred Highways *****
- – The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love ****
- – TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain ****
- – Cat Power: The Greatest *****
- – Mastodon: Blood Mountain *****
- – The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America ***
- – Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero *****
- – Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards *****
- – Arcade Fire: Neon Bible ****
- – Amy Winehouse: Back to Black ****
- – Kings of Leon: Because of the Times ***
- – Rufus Wainwright: Release the Stars ****
- – Silverchair: Young Modern ****
- – Maroon 5: It Won't Be Soon Before Long ****
- – The National: Boxer *****
- – Arctic Monkeys: Favorite Worst Nightmare ****
- – Lucinda Williams: West ****
- – The Decemberists: The Crane Wife ****
- – The Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur ****
- – The Shins: Wincing the Night Away ****
- – Anjani: Blue Alert ****
- – Linkin Park: Minutes to Midnight ****
- – Mark Ronson: Version ***
- – Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger ***
- – Bill Withers: 1972 Live at Carnegie Hall *****
- – Interpol: Our Love to Admire ****
- – Goldfrapp: Supernature ***
- – The Thrills: Teenager **
- – Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight ***
- – KanYe West: Graduation ****
- – John Lennon: Remember *****
- – Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist ****
- – Elliot Smith: New Moon *****
- – Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace **
- – Gogol Bordello: Super Tarantula ***
- – P J Harvey: White Chalk **
- – Bruce Springsteen: Magic *****
- – Turin Brakes: Dark on Fire ****
- – Shout Out Louds: Our Ill Wills **
- – Kevin Drew: Spirit If... ****
- – Kid Rock: Rock N Roll Jesus *****
- – Wyclef Jean: Carnival Vol. II Memoirs of an Immigr ****
- – Jens Lekman: "Night Falls Over Kortedala" *****
- – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand ****
- – Sigur Rios: Hvarf/Heim *****
- – Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova: The Swell Season ****
- – Jamie Scott and The Town: Park Bench Theories ***
- – Radiohead: In/Rainbows *****
- – Lily Allen: Alright, Still... ***
- – Cat Power: Jukebox ***
- – Jack Johnson: Sleep through the Static **
- – Daft Punk: ALIVE 2007 ***
- – Alicia Keys: As I Am ***
- – Chris Brown: Exclusive ****
- – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool ***
- – Aiden John Moffat: I Can Hear Your Heart ****
- – Bright Eyes: Cassadaga ****
- – Edith Piaf 35 Anniversaire *****
- – Lizz Wright: The Orchard **
- – Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend *****
- – R.E.M.: Accelerate ***
- – Against Me!: New Wave ***
- – Portishead: Third ****
- – My Morning Jacket: Okonokos ****
- – Michael Jackson: Thriller (25th Anniversary Editio *****
- – Jason Mraz: We sing, we dance, we steal things ***
- – Carrie Underwood: Carnival Ride ***
- – The Kills: Midnight Boom **
- – Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch ***
- – British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music? ****
- – The Raveonettes: Lust Lust Lust **
- – Switchfoot: The Beautiful Letdown ***
- – The Offspring: Greatest Hits ****
- – Natalie Merchant: Retrospective 1990-2005 *****
- – Coldplay: Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friend *****
- – Collective Soul: 7even Year Itch *****
- – One Republic: Dreaming Out Loud **
- – Herbie Hancock: River (The Joni Letters) ****
- – Madonna: Hard Candy ***
- – Stereophonics: Pull the Pin **
- – Sigur Rios: Med Sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust *****
Music II
- – Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV ****
- – Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III *****
- – Jay-Z: American Gangster ***
- – The John Butler Trio: Grand National ***
- – Lightspeed Champion: Falling off the Lavender Brid ***
- – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Baby 81 **
- – The Hold Steady: Stay Positive ***
- – Chris Cornell: Carry On ***
- – The Bridges: Limits of the Sky ***
- – Spiritualized: Songs in A & E *****
- – The Verve: Forth ***
- – Our Lady Peace: Gravity ***
- – Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid ****
- – Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad ****
- – Beck: Modern Guilt ****
- – TV on the Radio: Dear Science *****
- – Lambchop: OH (ohio) ****
- – Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads ****
- – The Cure: 4:13 Dream ***
- – The Killers: Day and Age *****
- – Music from the motion picture Juno ****
- – Beyonce Knowles: I am... Sasha Fierce ****
- – Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman ****
- – Kanye West: 808s & Heartbreak *****
- – Kings of Leon: Only by the Night ****
- – Leona Lewis: Spirit **
- – LCD Sound System: Sound of Silver ****
- – Katy Perry: One of the Boys ***
- – Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer ***
- – My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges ****
- – Santogold: Santogold *****
- – David Bryne and Brian Eno: Everything That Happens ****
- – M.I.A.: Kala ****
- – Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come Easy Go ****
- – Music from the motion picture Slumdog Millionaire *****
- – Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology ***
- – Belle and Sebastian: The BBC Sessions ****
- – M. Ward: Hold Time ****
- – U2: No Line on the Horizon *****
- – Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career ***
- – Mastodon: Crack the Skye ****
- – Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown *****
- – Bob Dylan: Together Through Life ****
- – Emmylou Harris: All I Intended to Be **
- – Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications ***
- – Eminem: Relapse *****
- – Daniel Merriweather: Love and War ***
- – The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love ***
- – Elvis Costello: Secret, Profane and Sugarcane **
- – The Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. ****
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