My year started off slowly with full-time work and travel plans to attend to. Attending a monthly book-club inspired me to try different authors. I didn't start racing through the books until I settled down in France and began ploughing through the English language section at my local library. Due to a limited selection, 2009 was all about trying different genres and extending my reading horizons. I faithfully read some classics that I'd been meaning to read, as well as "hype" books that people had been talking about. I read books that had been passed on to me as well as stories found in hostels. Essentially, I read whatever I came across, and am proud to have completed 43 novels in 2009. Perhaps next year the total will be higher!
Loved: The History of Love, Nicole Krauss.
Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. Its big screen adaptation is set to be released in 2010!Didn't finish: The Book of Dave, Will Self.
I rarely, rarely give up on books. But I was 200 pages into this one and still not enjoying it one bit, so I put it down with no regrets.
Finally got around to reading: Twilight (to see what the hype was about); Lord of the Flies, William Golding; One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh.
Not my usual thing, but enjoyed nonetheless: When you are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris.
Discovered this "new" author: Zadie Smith. I read White Teeth but enjoyed On Beauty more.
Was indifferent to: Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert; Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts.
....but I would recommend: Hard Boiled/Hard Luck, Banana Yoshimoto; Style, Kate Spade (in fact check out all three Kate Spade's if you haven't already!); The History of Love, Nicole Krauss (now.)
Now, friends! What are you recommending to me for 2010? It's going to be a good year, I can tell.
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