Tuesday, December 07, 2010

What Have I Been Doing All Year? (and other lists)

Here is a link to the 100 Notable Books of 2010, from the New York Times? How does it happen that I have only read three of these titles (Angelology, The Privileges, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)? A few of them have been on my list for a while (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu, and Room, by Emma Donaghue) but others have completely escaped my notice, especially the non-fiction choices.

And here's a list of comfort reads, compiled by India Knight on her blog. I normally avoid lists like this, but this one spoke to me with its interesting combination of long-time personal favorites (Frenchman's Creek, Ballet Shoes, The Cazalet Chronicles, The Secret Garden) and books I've never heard of (The Towers of Trebizond, Riders and Rivals, Hens Dancing). Cool. I might try to get to some of these.

3 comments:

LINDA from EACH LITTLE WORLD said...

I am a sucker for lists. Have to go check these out right now.

Hope you can come to our Friends in Art get together on Saturday!

Amused said...

I too am a sucker for lists and am really intrigued by the second one - thanks for the links!

Anne said...

The second list looks WONDERFUL for this time of year in Portland! If I can just get my cats to grade all the Latin translations. . . . .

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