I have to share the list of the Best Books of 2007 according to Bookmarks Magazine. In the Literary category the following were some of the Favorites of 2007
The Aeneid – Virgil
After Dark – Haruki Murakami
Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
American Youth – Phil LaMache
Black Girl/White Girl – Joyce Carol Oates
I’ll Steal You Away – Nicolo Ammaniti
In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar
Lost City Radio – Daniel Alarcon
Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin
My Holocaust – Tova Reich
Nada – Carmen Laforet
Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
Only Revolutions – Mark Z. Danielewski
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall
Then We Came to The End – Joshua Ferris
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
What Is The Want – The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng – Dave Eggers
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Only three of these titles are on my To Be Read list. I have already read one of them, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Since I am listing books here, I might as well share the titles that interested me out of the New Book Guide. These might not be at our library yet, but generally they are on order already. I also listed behind the book how many stars Bookmarks Magazine gave it.
Away – Amy Bloom ****1/2
First Among Sequels – A Thursday Next Novel – Jasper Fforde ****
The Rest of Her LIfe – Laura Moriatry ****
Run – Ann Patchett ****
The September of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer – ****
Forgive Me – Amanda Eyre Ward ****
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I turned on my heating blanket about 15 minutes ago so I am sure my bed is warm and toasty for me by now. Time for me to snuggle into bed and read for a bit. Hope you all have a great night. Let me know if you have read any of the above books. I would love to hear your review of the book!
i haven;t read any of those, though i’d probably like to read them all – and the only one i’ve seen down here is a 1000 splendid suns – if i could shose any, i’d begin with “The Rest of Her LIfe – Laura Moriatry” – because that’s such an interesting surname – (if you can;t judge books by their covers you have to go by the words themselves
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i haven;t read any of those, though i’d probably like to read them all – and the only one i’ve seen down here is a 1000 splendid suns – if i could shose any, i’d begin with “The Rest of Her LIfe – Laura Moriatry” – because that’s such an interesting surname – (if you can;t judge books by their covers you have to go by the words themselves
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