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snoophuntyhunt

The year in books, 2010

Jan 10, 2011 01:32

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 ( Read more... )

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aminallauren January 10 2011, 14:07:51 UTC

My friend loved "The History of Love." Did you like this one?

snoophuntyhunt January 10 2011, 18:44:34 UTC

Yup, that was a recommendation from someone and I read most of it while lounging on the beach in Mexico. :)

Not sure if you knew but it's by the wife of Jonathan Safran Foer, who wrote Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and it's weird, but they have very similar writing styles, or at least I thought so from this book of hers.

cheekybaby January 10 2011, 18:50:10 UTC

I've heard that, too. And by the way, don't read Eating Animals by JSF. Trauma in book form. :)

snoophuntyhunt January 10 2011, 18:52:45 UTC

Yeah, I remember you saying that and I'm taking your word on it. If I can't eat Famous Dave's and Five Guys then I've lost my will to live. :)

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cheekybaby January 10 2011, 15:24:56 UTC

So weird. Andrew's mother loaned me The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society like a year ago. I am a horrible person and have not yet read it. Your recommendation just bumped it up on my priorities list. (Do you like how NOT being an asshole who keeps books for a year is NOT high on my priorities list?) :)

cheekybaby January 10 2011, 15:26:22 UTC

Also, how was the Nick Hornby? I got a promo copy and never read it. Let us reiterate how much I suck at life.

snoophuntyhunt January 10 2011, 18:47:11 UTC

Didn't you lend me your promo copy? Haha, I know I didn't buy the book so someone must have loaned it to me and I'm assuming it was you. It was the second book I read in 2010 so it's basically been a year, but I remember enjoying it basically as much as I've enjoyed his other stuff. I think About a Boy was probably my favorite and I don't know if it was as good as that one, but worth reading.

cheekybaby January 10 2011, 18:48:50 UTC

Actually, yes, I think I did. Wow. I forgot all about that. :)

snoophuntyhunt January 10 2011, 18:53:59 UTC

I'd read Potato Peel Pie first, though, definitely. It's easy to pick up and put down because of the style in which it's written, which for me made it a good train book.

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canadianchia January 11 2011, 01:25:58 UTC

I just recently read The History of Love (got it at a holiday book swap in the beginning of December), and I really liked it. Not my favorite book ever, but definitely a good read. Thoughts on A Child Called It? I know the basic premise of the book, and I think my sister read it ages ago, but I don't think I ever have. Was it good? Also, what'd you think of The Abstinence Teacher? I read it last year or the year before, and did not like it as much as I thought I was going to based on the description of the book.

snoophuntyhunt January 11 2011, 02:17:26 UTC

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 ( ... )

canadianchia January 11 2011, 02:31:54 UTC

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.

pytmm January 13 2011, 02:34:32 UTC

Wow, it's been a while since I've seen you post, but it did remind me that our livejournal friendship was probably based on our reading preferences, hehe ( ... )