Comments on: Won’t you be my reading recommender?

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:09:25 +0000

Hey, please say who worstwordho is! Because she just looked at my website! I know only one editor at Workman, and haven’t talked with her for a while, but…maybe she hasn’t forgotten me.

By: marcy

marcy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:53:10 +0000

Some best books:

Sarah Waters, Night Watch
Jami Attenberg, Instant Love
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Ellis Avery, The Tea House Fire (actually, it comes out end of December and I haven’t read it yet, but I know it will be good.)
Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

I cant mention my own book, but it’s okay because my mother already did.

By: a cup of tea

a cup of tea — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:46:17 +0000

(Thanks Lizzie, for helping this technological illiterate. Of course, it works now…)

By: Cuppa Tea

Cuppa Tea — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:12:42 +0000

Non-fiction:
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA – Michael Pollan

Fiction:
EXPLORERS OF THE NEW CENTURY – Magnus Mills (though technically published in the UK in aught five)

As much as I love David Mitchell, I wouldn’t read BLACK SWAN GREEN if you’ve never read him before. Read CLOUD ATLAS or GHOSTWRITTEN first.

The absolute best stuff I read this year all came from one of the following: Joan Didion, Shirley Jackson, Rupert Thomson, or Louis Bromfield, none of whom published anything new this year (discounting Joan’s collected nonfiction).

Oh, and: I am nobody, really. I came here today to take my mind off my too-long bangs. Joyce Carol Oates takes the crown.

Welcome back to New York!

zan (a cup of tea)

By: altehaggen

altehaggen — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:40:37 +0000

Crap. I think I gave away my Black Swan Green to a lucky winner!!!!!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:37:53 +0000

Definitely Black Swan Green and definitely World War Z: The Oral History of the Zombie War. Oh yes.

By: Hande

Hande — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:02:17 +0000

The best book I read this year was The Man Without Qualities. Needless to say, subversively highbrow mitteleuropan quippery is in short supply these days, but Musil supplies many emergency pallets worth. The best book I read published this year was The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, which is both sweeping and intimate, tender, horrible, and strangely lovable. More novelistic and less stern than the 9-11 commission report (especially the footnotes), its attention to detail and its pathos make it seem incredibly precious.

By: ann

ann — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:37:07 +0000

Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind; A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas, Marcy Dermansky, Twins (the paperback!)
The black and whites and Shop Rite are pretty good too.

By: Jimmy Beck

Jimmy Beck — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:18:20 +0000

I have to go low brow:

One Train Later by Andy Summers. It may be the only rock memoir that, when I finished it, didn’t make me feel like I’d been mainlining Splenda. High praise, I know.

By: M. Kennedy

M. Kennedy — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:30:26 +0000

I’m limping through The Emperor’s Children right now but I don’t like it very much. Consider that a warning.

By: altehaggen

altehaggen — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:52:39 +0000

This is pathetic. Tampax or Tampons? Stones or Beatles? Lost or Top Chef? (That’s a trick; BOTH OF COURSE!!!!!!!) Be not ashamed; no one reads this blog.

Good recs though.

By: cinetrix

cinetrix — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:09:34 +0000

There is only one book, and it is Cooking with Fernet Branca. You’re welcome. As for the rest, you already know far too much, m’dear.

By: escapegrace

escapegrace — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:04:28 +0000

These books were not necessarily released this year – just read – but I’d say Black Swan Green, The Third Policeman, Saturday, The Death of the Heart, and if you’re feeling blue, When Things Fall Apart.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:55:03 +0000

And I should streess YOU MUST READ THE POWERS!

By: ed

ed — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:49:57 +0000

My faves (subject to change):

Richard Powers, THE ECHO MAKER
Dana Spiotta, EAT THE DOCUMENT
Scarlett Thomas, THE END OF MRS. Y (currently reading)
Jeff VanderMeer, SHRIEK
Alison Bechdel, FUN HOME
Mark Z. Danielewski, ONLY REVOLUTIONS
Sam Savage, FIRMIN

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:25:15 +0000

The Keep by Jennifer Egan
King Dork by Frank Portman

By: Jenny D

Jenny D — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:51:41 +0000

2 books you gotta read, neither of them (uncharacteristically for me) novels: toni schlesinger’s “five flights up” and alison bechdel’s “fun home.”