Rabbit rabbit. 2007-01-01 - 11:17 a.m.
Happy New Year, everybody! As promised, the booklist is updated here. And here are my top 12 for the year:
* = stop what you're doing and go read this now!
Top 12, in no particular order
-The Clarinet Polka - Keith Maillard * -Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama -the His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman * -The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran * -Beowulf -The Epic of Gilgamesh -The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory (shut up, it was immensely entertaining) -An Equal Music - Vikram Seth * -Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire -Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison * -The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono - David Sheff (edited by G. Barry Golson) ******
Worst, most painful book of 2006
-Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Prize, Schmobel Prize!)
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That's all for now. I feel actual New Year's resolutions coming on... might work on that whilst watching football. Have a lovely day everyone. :)