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trying to conceive/adoption/fostering blogs:
L'eggs upttc in Sydney. will make you laugh.
Julie's list: it's much better than mine, and more frequently updated

TTC (some already with kids):

Milenka's Place

'So, When are You Going to Have a Baby?'

Chez Miscarriage

A little pregnant

Waiting for Godel

Karla's IVF and weight lossjournal

indecisive

Janet

Seph's IVF pregnancy! journal (slow to load!)

Pregnancy:

Junegirl

Baby boo on the way

second-time mum

happily ever after

Gingerbreadwisdom

Adoption:

This woman's work; about writing and an adoption blog


a different road...(was MizJenna's Wishing on a Star)

Parenting:

DotMoms

suspenseful

Bubhubbub

Shebazzle

Kerry and Joe

an ex-IVF patient, now a "mom"

Thirty-three weeks (plus...)

Blog to a Baby

Gilli 22 weeks in September 2002

Happenings


Books read while feeding:

Will Self, Great Apes

Spike Milligan: the Biography

The Goon Show Scripts

Maria Montessori, The Child in the Family

Patrick White The Eye of the Storm

Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

Some Other Country(Assorted short stories from NZ.)

Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man

The Existential Imagination (Picador compilation, Satre, Kafka, Moravia - read all except the boring bits and excerpts from books I may want to read in full one day.)

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line(Essays)

J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Joseph Conrad, The N- of the Narcissus (this book was written in the 1800s by the author of Heart of Darkness, on which Apocalypse Now was partly based. I'm sorry about the title.)

William Gibson,Count Zero

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale (vol 1 of his biography)

Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes (should really be reading this one aloud so A. knows how lucky he is!


Salman Rushdie, Fury
Martin Amis, NightTrain

Keith Laumer, The Galaxy Builder (sci-fi slosh)

The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (ed. Fergus Barrowman)(the short stories only, not the extracts which bug me)

Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (second time.)

Andrew McGahan, The White Earth (much overrated, imho)

Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers

The Travels of Marco Polo

Will Self, How the Dead Live

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day


Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada

Christopher Green, Toddler Taming

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Janette Turner Hospital, Due Preparations for the Plague

R. Evans, The Pyjama Girl

Books read while recovering from breast cancer

DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

My Year of Meat, Ruth Ozeki

The Vivisector, Patrick White

William Gibson, Idoru

Martin Flanagan, The sound of one hand clapping
Lance Armstrong, It’s not about the bike

Murray Bail, Eucalyptus

Spike Milligan, The Looney

and literary mags: Going Down Swinging Overland Island Westerly Heat Meanjin Griffith Review

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Alexi Sayle, Overtaken

Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mt Improbable

Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Raymond Carver, What we talk about when we talk about love

Marion Halligan, The Fog Garden

Philip K. Dick, Flow my tears, the Policeman said

Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake

J.D.Salinger, Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters

Various, The Sleepers Almanac, 2005

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.

Various authors, Space, Verandah, Island, Meanjin, etc, etc etc(literary magazines)

Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe

Gail Bell, The Worried Well (Quarterly Essay)

Murakami HarukiThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Marion Halligan Wishbone

Lonely Planet's guide to Paris


Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Judah Waten, Alien Son

McSweeney's 2005

More journals: Wet Ink, Total Cardboard, Litmus, Westerly, Islan, Meanjin...

Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

Marion Halligan, The Apricot Colonel

Tony Birch, Shadowboxing

Best Australian Short Stories 2005

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


Kate Grenville, The Secret River

Verandah 21 (various)

Peter Temple, The Broken Shore

Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane, The Plains

Jonathon Franzen, The Corrections

J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costellowhich is terribly clever but ultimately is a series of lectures set as short stories, not a proper novel. so there. I don't care if he has a Nobel prize or not. )

Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots

Will Elliot, The Pilo Family Circus

Elizabeth Jolley, Woman in a Lampshade

Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales

J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Annie Proulx, Close Range (Wyoming Stories) (with Brokeback Mountain

Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father

Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Cancer Vixen

David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers

Don De Lillo, Falling Man

Henry Handel Richardson Australia Felix

Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts

Sei Shonagon The Pillow Book (trans. Meredith McKinney)

Sophie Cunningham Bird

Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

Geraldine Brooks, People of The Book,

Tim Winton, Breath

Aravind Adiga The White Tiger

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Dave Eggers, How We are Hungry

David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Shane Maloney, Stiff

Martin Boyd, The Cardboard Crown & A Difficult Young Man

Jenny Lee, Making Modern Melbourne

Lisa Lang, G.W Cole: Chasing the Rainbow

Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap

A.L. McCann, Subtopia

Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog

Jacob Rosenberg, East of Time

Frank Moorhouse, The Americans, Baby

Matt Condon, The Trout Opera

Robert Drewe, The Rip

Toni Jordan, Addition

L.M.Robinson, This Moral Pandemonium

Martin Boyd, Outbreak of Love

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

Helen Garner,Honour and Other People's Children.

Dave Eggers, Short Short Stories

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster

James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Readings and Writings, various.

The book of other people,various, ed. Zadie Smith

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

New Australian Stories

Catherine Deveny, It's not my fault they print them

Peter Temple, Truth

Ampersand magazine 2008-11

Haruki Murakami, After Dark

The Sleepers Almanac #4.


Cate Kennedy, The world Beneath

Barry Dickins, Unparalleled Sorrow

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Stamping Ground (anthology)

Haruki Murakami After Dark and What I talk about when I talk about running

David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground

Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch

Best Australian Stories 2007 (anthology)

Torpedo 6 (anthology)

Tony Birch, Father's Day

Louis Nowra, Ice

Andrew McGahan, Wonders of a Godless World

Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

Kate Grenville, Lilian's Story

Jessica Pallington WestWhat would Keith Richards do?

HemingwayThe Essential Hemingway(assorted stories and novels)

Bret Easton Ellis, Less than Zero

Patrick White, The Cockatoos

Robert Dessaix, (and so forth)

Phillipp Meyer, American Rust

Best Australian Stories 2007

Junot Diaz, Drown

Kill Your Darlings, issue one and two

The Norseman's Song, Joel Deane

Below the Styx, Michael Meehan

This is Shyness, Leanne Hall.

Ampersand Vol 2

Overheard Oslo Davis

Meanjin vol 69

Rocks in the Belly Jon Bauer

The Patron Saint of Eeels and Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds both Gregory Day
The Grand Hotel Gregory Day

The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald.

Having Cried Wolf, Gretchen Shirm

Nineteen Seventy Something, Barry Divola.
Come Inside, G.L. Osborne
1001 Australian nights, Dave Graney.

The Life, Malcolm Knox

Freedom,Jonathan Franzen

Capricornia Xavier Herbert

Blood, Tony Birch.

The Outlander, Gil Adamson.

The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein


Capricornia, Xavier Herbert.

Theft, Peter Carey.

Griffith Review 34 and 26 (fiction editions)

Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash Mark Twain

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti Mohammed Hanif

Granta, India

The Chemistry of Tears, Peter Carey.

Wanting, Richard Flanagan.

Midnight's Children Salman Rusdhie

Pattern Recognition William Gibson

A tiger in Eden Chris Flynn

The Commandant Jessica Anderson

Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones

Disasters that Changed Australia Richard Evans

Sufficient GraceAmy Espeseth

Sentinel Chickens Peter Doherty

Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos

The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites Judith Rodriguez

Bullet Park John Cheever

Bossypants Tina Fey

1835 James Boyce

Beyond Black Hilary Mantel

Queen of The Night Leanne Hall

It Chooses You Miranda July

The Hobbit Tolkein

I am Alive and you are Dead emmanuel carrere

Stories from the Warm Zone Jessica Anderson

The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrower

Griffith Review: The Tipping Point (Tasmania)


Griffith Review: Such is Life.



The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

The Secret Pulse of Time, Stefan Klein

Governor Bligh and the Short Man, Peter Cochrane

Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

The Newspaper of Claremont Street, Elizabeth Jolley.

Tarcutta Wake, Josephine Rowe Births Deaths Marriages, Georgia Blain

The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthRichard Flanagan

A Lifetime on Clouds Gerald Murnane

Last Man in Tower, Aravind Adiga

An Ordinary Lunacy, Jessica Anderson

Giovanni's Room James Baldwin

Double Indemnity James M. Cain

The Grifters Jim Thompson

Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer.

Chronicles of Amber Roger Zelazny

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James

Here Come the Dogs Omar Musa

Melbourne Sophie Cunningham

Cairo, Chris Womersley

The Way the World Works Nicholson Baker

How to be alone Jonathan Franzen

Underworld,, Don De Lillo

The First Bad Man, Miranda July

Ladies' Delight, Emile Zola

Merciless Gods,, Christos Tsiolkas

Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee

Fever of Animals, Miles Allinson

Blink, Malcolm Gladwell.

The Roving Party, Rohan Wilson

Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan

Van Diemen's Land,, James Boyce

spill simmer falter wither, Sara Baume

both ways is the only way I want it Maile Meloy

Germinal, Emile Zola

A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

Something for the Pain, Gerald Murnane

Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey

Desperate Characters, Paula Fox

The seven good years, Etgar Keret

Insomniac City, Bill Hayes.

Dr Woorreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World Mudrooroo/Colin Johnson

The Lieutenant,, Kate Grenville

Scarp, Nick Papadimitriou

A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James

Benang, Kim Scott.

Kayang and Me, Kim Scott.

That Deadman Dance,Kim Scott

>Pompeii, Mary Beard

Rome, Robert Hughes (audio).

The Underground Railroad, Coulson Whitehead.

Explore Everything Bradley L. Garrett

Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward

Griffith Review, First Things First

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion(

I am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes


The Dreaming and Other Essays, WEH Stanner

The Journal of Southern History, August 1989.

12 years a slave, Solomon Northrup

H is for Hawk, Helen McDonald

Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe

Griffith Review, Writing the Country

Granite and Rainbow, Virginia Woolf

The other Side of the Frontier, Henry Reynolds

Fate of a Free People, Henry Reynolds

Creativity, Kevin Brophy

Taboo, Kim Scott

Some Tests, Wayne Macauley

The Sympathiser,Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Railwayman's Wife, Ashley Hay. (audio)

The Killing Floor, Lee Child (audio)

The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton. (audio)

Barbarian Days (audio) William Finnegan

Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel.
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow. (third read)

The Timeless Land, Eleanor Dark.

The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel.

The Promise, Tony Birch

The Shepherd's Hut (audio), Tim Winton

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead.

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad.

Black Rock White City, A.S.Patric

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry

Yassmin's Story,Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Attwood.

Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson.

In Moonland, Miles Allinson

The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen

Still going on or unfinished:


Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People who can't be bothered to do it (probably abandoned)

The New Yorker (always)

Ulysses James Joyce (440 pages in!)

Best Australian Essays 2001

Saul Bellow, Him with His Foot in His Mouth

Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (another I may will not finish. I tried him again on G.G. Marquez's say-so, and he's technically wonderful at description, but I still don't really grok the stories.)

Ned Kelly,The Jerilderie Letter(ed. by Alex McDermott)

Modern Poets One (ed. Jim Hunter)

W.Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up (may well will! not finish this one)

Eric Yoshiaki Dando, Oink Oink Oink (abandoned)


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IVF connections

Men who think I'm an evil monster:

Jeff Miller

Nordog

John McG

Toongabbie Anglican Church

people who hate catholic hospitals

Antioch

ivf is bad, m'kay?

If you're looking for Gwen Harwood's motherhood poem In The Park,
it's here


Success rates for Melbourne IVF services

And my amateur ovulation-telling advice is here.


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