books i read this year.

into the wild - jon krakauer

is everyone hanging out without me? - mindy kaling

stoner - john williams

the wind-up bird chronicle - haruki murakami

brother of the more famous jack - barbara trapido

essays in love - alain de botton

infinite jest - david foster wallace **ON INFINITE HIATUS** 

consider the lobster - david foster wallace

modern romance - aziz ansari

the signature of all things - elizabeth gilbert

this sweet sickness - patricia highsmith

wind/pinball - haruki murakami

the girl on the train - paula hawkins 

room - emma donoghue

carol - patricia highsmith 

brooklyn - colm toibin 

from january til now.

i am still just finishing off carol, but highly likely i will do so before the year is out. 

not bad, for someone who reads almost entirely during her commutes. 

the one i am nowhere near finishing is DFW's infinite jest, which has been on infinite hold for who knows when. 

i, like many before me, gave up.

the ones i really loved?

stoner, brother of the more famous jack, the signature of all things, brooklyn.

so far anyway.

reading is an escape, one that holds my heart strings.

*addendum 29/12/2015

i made it - just completed 'a little life' - hanya yanagihara

what a novel to finish on.

harrowing, so harrowing - 

but the hope outshone the horror.

and made me long for those intense and pure and giving relationships, friendships.