A prompt
Here's this week's topic:
List at least one book you read last year, whether you would recommend it and why. If you didn't read anything good, outline your reading goals for 2007 (mine, for instance, is to read more fiction).
Books I read in 2006:
* means I read it for the 2nd time, + means it's especially awesome and you should read it
Sula, Toni Morrison*
Bone, Fae Ng
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt +
Up the Down Staircase, Bel Kauffman
Betsy and the Great World, Maud Hart Lovelace*
Harry Potter y el misterio del principe, J.K. Rowling*
East of Eden, John Steinbeck +
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman +
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Braniac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, Ken Jennings +
Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman
posted by Emilia @ 1/15/2007 11:15:00 PM
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2 Comments:
I also read Freakonomics, East of Eden, Teacher Man, and The Kite Runner - all worthy reads (but have to confess that Freakonomics and East of Eden were audiobooks while traveling to the East Coast). Others:
"Until I Find You," by John Irving
"In Cold Blood," Truman Capote
"Falling Leaves," Adeline Yen Mah
"This Boy's Life," Tobias Wolff
"Running With Scissors," Augusten Burroughs
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Mark Haddon
"Schema Therapy," Steven Young.
Sorry, though - not up to Emily's task of writing a condensed book review of each item.
life of pi- Y. Martel
Everyman-P. Roth
Interpreter of maladies- J. Lahiri
The curious incident of the dog.....
Beware of falling angels-J. Berendt Consider the lobster and Oblivion-D. Foster Wallace
In cold blood- T.Capote
Brooklyn Follies-P. Auster
Possible side effects- A. Burroughs
Of the books I have read this year- these are some I would want to share
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