The year in books, 2010

[snoophuntyhunt]

Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom (non-fiction)
Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
No Time to Wave Goodbye, Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened, Don Robertson
The Sum and Total of Now, Don Robertson
How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill (non-fiction)
The Bird Room, Chris Killen

Comments

[snoophuntyhunt]

When I posted something on Facebook last year about reading A Child Called It, I remember a girl I went to high school with who I think is now a teacher left a comment adamantly stating, "Don't read this book! It's awful! It's terrible! It gave me nightmares and I wish I never read it!" It is pretty difficult to get through, but I was planning on reading the follow-up books he wrote and then I went online and read some articles casting doubt on how much of the story he embellished (I believe it's one of his brothers who says a lot of his abuse claims are exaggerated) and a profile of the guy in some magazine in which the guy writing the article makes him out to be a little loony and out to make as much money as he can off his story .... in the end, who knows, the guy probably did go through a pretty effed-up childhood, but as of now I haven't gone on to read his other books.

Yeah, I remember also being a little disappointed by The Abstinence Teacher .... I enjoyed it, but at the end it felt like there were a lot of loose ends that didn't really get wrapped up to my satisfaction.

[canadianchia]

Hmm, that's interesting. I didn't realize there were disputes about what he wrote. It's interesting though, that the brother would deny the claims, or say that they were exaggerated. If any of the abuse is true, the brother would have plenty of reasons to want to deny it, even to himself. I mean, obviously, I have no idea what really happened in that house, but I wouldn't necessarily take either brother's word over the other's.