Favorite Author: Graham Greene

Graham Greene (1904 - 1991) has been a favorite of mine since I read The Heart of the Matter while working my way through the Modern Library's list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century.

Greene was a prolific author, writing novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, travel books, memoirs, essays, and criticism.  He wrestled with Catholic religious themes in much of his work, as well as political and moral issues.  He traveled widely and his books are set in all around the world.

Below is a list of Greene's novels and short story collections.  Those I have read are in red; those currently on my TBR shelves are in blue.

If anyone else is working through Greene's bibliography, and would like related posts listed here, please leave a comment with a link and I will add it.

The Man Within (1929)
The Name of Action (1930) (out of print)*
Rumour at Nightfall (1931) (out of print)*
Stamboul Train (1932) (also published as Orient Express)
It's a Battlefield (1934)
England Made Me (1935) (also published as The Shipwrecked)
The Bear Fell Free (1935) (short stories; out of print)
A Gun for Sale (1936) (also published as This Gun for Hire)
Brighton Rock (1938)
The Confidential Agent (1939)
The Power and the Glory (1940) (also published as The Labyrinthine Ways)
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
The Heart of the Matter (1948)
The Third Man (1949) (novella)
The End of the Affair (1951)
Twenty-One Stories (1954) (short stories)
The Quiet American (1955)
Loser Takes All (1955)
Our Man in Havana (1958)
A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
A Sense of Reality (1963) (short stories)
The Comedians (1966) (reviewed here)
May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967) (short stories; reviewed here)
Travels with My Aunt (1969)
The Honorary Consul (1973)
The Human Factor (1978)
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party (1980)
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
The Tenth Man (1985)
The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
The Last Word and Other Stories (1990) (short stories)
No Man's Land (2005) (posthumously published)


* Greene repudiated these two early novels and they were never reprinted. In his autobiography, he stated, "Both books are of a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke."

Teaser Tuesday: Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore

At darkfall, we all trip to the edge of the water, standing shoulder-to-shoulder on the sand, hoping to hear the fish sing. The breeze is warm and piney, sliding out of the forest onto the water, lifting our hair.

-- Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore, from an essay about the toadfish, also called the western singing fish.

Moore is an award-winning nature writer and professor of philosophy at Oregon State University.  This edition of Holdfast is part of the OSU Press Northwest Reprint series. It is available on amazon or direct from OSU Press. 

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts—the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales—she examines our connections to our own bedrock.

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading, where you can find the official rules for this weekly event. 

Mailbox Monday

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia, who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it into a touring event (details here).

Abi at 4 the Love of Books is hosting in May. Please visit her fun, inspirational blog.

I picked up two books last week from the "Adopt a Book" self at the Helena, Montana library.  It is their way of distributing withdrawn library copies.  I snagged one for myself and one for my hubby.



A Thousand Bells at Noon : A Roman's Guide to the Secret & Pleasures of His Native City by G. Franco Romagnoli. This looks wonderful! I know I read about it somewhere, but I can't remember where.



Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown by Maureen Waller.  This one is for my husband who has been in the mood for books on English history ever since watching The Tudors. 

Kitchen Remodel, Week Twelve: The Great Wall

Nothing visible happened in our kitchen last week. Electricians and plumbers did invisible things, so our appliances turn on.  And Ella Fitzgerald found a new hiding place.

We did make progress on the outside part of this project.  There are now walls outlining where the stairs will be from the garage up to the kitchen door.  Still no stairs, but we can now at least envision where they will be.

I've been reading Blood From a Stone, one of Donna Leon's mysteries set in Venice.  Even in the middle of a murder investigation, Commissario Guido Brunetti always goes home for lunch, where his wife -- a college professor with an apparently light work load -- makes him incredible lunches.  They eat pasta or risotto every day.  It's making me crazy!  Since I try to avoid carbs, I go for months without eating pasta or rice.  The Brunettis' lunches have me fantasizing about noodles!

WEEKEND COOKING

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Book Beginnings: Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore

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MY BOOK BEGINNING




In the green, light-shot sea along the Oregon coast, bullwhip kelp lean toward land on the incoming tides and swirl seaward as the water fall away, never letting go of their grip on the ocean floor.

-- Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World,  a much-appreciated reprint of collection of essays by award-winning nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore. This edition is part of the OSU Press Northwest Reprint series.

This is available on amazon or direct from OSU Press. 

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these twenty-one elegant, probing essays. Using the metaphor of holdfasts—the structures that attach seaweed to rocks with a grip strong enough to withstand winter gales—she examines our connections to our own bedrock.