Ann’s Top Ten of 2009
My end of year reading in 2008 of the newest Kate Atkinson book spurred my beginning year reading in 2009, and I went back to read the two older Atkinson books. Of these, Case Histories gets a nod for my…
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Mary’s Top Ten of 2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahisi Coates : This book is a written letter by the author to his teenage son about his feelings and realities of being black in the United States. Coates writes with a lot…
Top Ten of 2014! (plus four… or five?)
Yes! I believe I’ve mentioned this, but I’m happy to repeat myself -I love to see what makes onto any “Best of” list, especially when it’s reading related! And so we’re about to begin our own annual tradition of sharing…
Some Favorites from 2009
Compared to the voracious readers in this library, I complete a rather piddly number of books a year, especially since the recent addition of a couple little ones to my life. So this task of choosing my top books of the year had to be culled from…
My Favorite Books of 2009: All are Thrilling, But Not All are Thrillers
As I looked back over my 2009 reads, I realized that it would be hard to choose my top ten favorites, but here goes….. Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg is the true story of Pepperberg’s 30-year relationship with a…
Favorite Books of 2009
I read a lot of great books in 2009, but the ones that I chose to share were books that made me think, made me feel and that have stuck with me. Here goes… 1. Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan – a…
Stars of 2009
This year most of my favorite books are nonfiction titles. I loved reading Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor. As with any poetry anthology, the poems can be read over the course of one snowy day, or they can be…
Loved it-2009
What a challenge! I read and listened to so many books this year that I could make a Top 20 list. So, I am going to cheat a tiny bit and include entire series in my top ten list. In no…
Virtual Book Club – Readalikes for Where the Crawdads Sing
Still trying to get a copy of 2018’s smash hit novel Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens? Us too! Don’t know what Crawdads is about? We’ve got you there too: viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful…
Andrew’s Favorite Four Books for 2019
Dear Reader, I don’t know about you, but I love writing these kinds of things. Why? For many reasons – but one is the chance to see how one’s reading tastes change over time. Because after I scanned the books…
