Happy Christmas to all the BTT mob!
This week's question:
- What fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?
(Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) - What non-fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?
(Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) - And, do “best of” lists influence your reading?
Best-of lists don't have much of an impact. I am frequently amazed at some of the dross included; but then they're usually all about sales.
I prefer to peruse titles recommended in the reading blogs I enjoy, and they invariably lead on to other things.
* I didn't answer last week's question, about online cataloguing, as I have only a few books here in the US; my collection (or what's left of it, after I culled it to move out of our house) is in storage in Australia. I am bereft!
* And I didn't answer the week before, about favourite books that are out of print, as I really don't have any I can think of.
3 comments:
There seem to be quite a few of us who aren't keeping up with this year's books - I buy and read lots of older books. Don't buy much new at all, so it's often a year or more after they are published that I get round to them, by which time I've read lots of other people commenting on them and know that I definitely want to read them. And you're right, the best-of lists seem to be about sales.
It must be hard, being without your books - suspect I'd be buying second copies of some things!
Ah but then that would mean that Les is thinking of reading a book for a second time - and that rarely happens!! I can't understand it Les, I feel I can't fully take in a book unless I re-read bits of it, or leave it to mull over then reread the whole book months later.
Its one of the dilemmas I have with buying new books - will I be interested in it enough to read it again, and get the cover price worth of entertainment/stimulation from it.
And then there are whole series /authors that I reread almost yearly (Harry, but that may change now that it has come to a most satisfying ending - it was so good to be with you when I did that!) I have truly enjoyed rereading the Time Traveller's Wife again this year. And the Philip Pulman trilogy.
So NEW 2007 books? Hmm, I must say I was immensely moved by 'Monique and the Mango Rains' by Kris Holloway, a book of non-fiction about Kris' time in Africa with the Peace Corps and her friendship with a Malian midwife. Its very big in midwiferey circles, but anyone could get alot out of it.
Merry Christmas :)
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