1) What was the best book recommended to you this year? There were so many good ones! My husband recommended the fiction of Sherman Alexie and Cormac McCarthy, and the plays of Martin McDonagh and David Mamet. He also suggested my favourite non-fiction read of the year. cat63 told me that I wouldn't like Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong series because it was teen angsty, unwittingly setting this lover of teen angst novels off on a trail of fantasy in which to revel. trishtrash suggested I read Hey Nostradamus! which was one of my favourite books of the year. 2) What was the best book you found by yourself this year? I literally found a Graham Greene novel on my bookshelf with the rest of my Graham Greene novels - one that I always thought that I'd read, but really, I hadn't. Surprised beyond belief, as I've owned that book for over a decade, I read The Human Factor, was unutterably moved, and it was one of the best books of the year. 3) Who was the best new author you discovered? Terry Pratchett. No doubt about that! 4) Did you make any other
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1) What was the best book recommended to you this year? The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (recommended by a random gent in Oxfam) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, sent to me by a friend in the states. I’ve had other great books recommended by more than one person, many of them here.
2) What was the best book you found by yourself this year? Regeneration by Pat Barker.
3) Who was the best new author you discovered? Cormac McCarthy
4) Did you make any other interesting reading discoveries this year? A new bookstore, comfy place to sit and read, friends to share books with...? Lots of new book-minded friends, here in this community!
5) Do you have a count of how many books your read? 94.
6) What was the good/okay/awful ratio? A quarter were excellent, new favourites. The other three quarters were very readable, okayish, and barely finishable respectively.
7) Was there a particular theme to your reading? Did you begin the year knowing this would emerge? I’ve been reading
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There were so many good ones! My husband recommended the fiction of Sherman Alexie and Cormac McCarthy, and the plays of Martin McDonagh and David Mamet. He also suggested my favourite non-fiction read of the year. cat63 told me that I wouldn't like Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong series because it was teen angsty, unwittingly setting this lover of teen angst novels off on a trail of fantasy in which to revel. trishtrash suggested I read Hey Nostradamus! which was one of my favourite books of the year.
2) What was the best book you found by yourself this year? I literally found a Graham Greene novel on my bookshelf with the rest of my Graham Greene novels - one that I always thought that I'd read, but really, I hadn't. Surprised beyond belief, as I've owned that book for over a decade, I read The Human Factor, was unutterably moved, and it was one of the best books of the year.
3) Who was the best new author you discovered? Terry Pratchett. No doubt about that!
4) Did you make any other ( ... )
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I don't think I read any recommended ones. At least not that I recall - memory like a sieve for some things, alas.
2) What was the best book you found by yourself this year?
Well, I found all of them myself, but the best one that wasn't advertised at all was probably Small Island by Andrea Levy.
3) Who was the best new author you discovered?
Andrea Levy.
Oddly, most of the books I've read this year are by authors I've read before. Not all, but a majority.
4) Did you make any other interesting reading discoveries this year? A new bookstore, comfy place to sit and read, friend to share books with...?
No :-(
5) Do you have a count of how many books your read?
65, but I may finish another today if I'm quick.
6) What was the good/okay/awful ratio?
Probably about 20/60/20
7) Was there a particular theme to your reading? Did you begin the year knowing this would emerge?
No, not really. There was a lot of fantasy and sf, but those are my preferred genres.
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (recommended by a random gent in Oxfam) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, sent to me by a friend in the states. I’ve had other great books recommended by more than one person, many of them here.
2) What was the best book you found by yourself this year?
Regeneration by Pat Barker.
3) Who was the best new author you discovered?
Cormac McCarthy
4) Did you make any other interesting reading discoveries this year? A new bookstore, comfy place to sit and read, friends to share books with...?
Lots of new book-minded friends, here in this community!
5) Do you have a count of how many books your read?
94.
6) What was the good/okay/awful ratio?
A quarter were excellent, new favourites. The other three quarters were very readable, okayish, and barely finishable respectively.
7) Was there a particular theme to your reading? Did you begin the year knowing this would emerge? I’ve been reading ( ... )
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