BOOKS READ IN 2011
Beginning of the new year: the right time to have a look at what I read during 2011, here is the list in the order I read them and some comments at the end:
1. The Twelve - Stuart Neville
2. One Day - David Nicholls
3. A cold day for murder - Dana Stabenow
4. 90 classic books for people in a hurry - Henrik Lange
5. The Monster in the Box - Ruth Rendell
6. The Eight - Katherine Neville
7. The Reversal - Michael Connelly
8. Mister Pip - Lloyd James
9. Angelology - Danielle Trussoni
10. Maybe the Moon - Armistead Maupin
11. Clean Cut - Lynda La Plante
12. The Man from Bejing - Henning Mankell
13. Dune - Frank Herbert
14. Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane
15. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
16. Prayers for rain - Dennis Lehane
17. A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane
18. Sacred - Dennis Lehane
19. Angelica e il nuovo mondo - Anne Serge Golon
20. The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Devereux
21. Volevo essere una farfalla - Michela Marzano
22. L'amico di infanzia di Maigret - George Simenon
23. Angelica a Quebec - Anne Serge Golon
So that's it, 23 books and quite a few that I started and I didn't finish. Top of the list as my favourite book last year was definitely "One Day" by David Nicholls, for the characterization (Emma particularly), the language, so modern and vivid, and the story (although I also hated Nicholls at times for reasons perhaps clear to those who read the book). Second is "Dune", the SF classic, which I never read for some reasons, (maybe I was influenced by the bad reviews of the film) but which was also very good in an epic way and in the third place all the books in the Gennaro-Kenzie series by Dennis Lehane, I love these characters and I hope that the author will continue with them. I also liked "A Visit from the Goon Squad" and "Maybe the Moon", more in the "I see that they are good books but I cannot warm completely to them". The mystic thriller "Angeloloy" was a lot of fun and also partly "The Eight". I was disappointed by Ruth Rendell's mystery (strange as I normally love Ruth Rendell's stories) and the Henning Mankell's (it started well but then it got lost in a kind of complicated international intrigue....) and also the books in the Angelique series lost a bit of their shine. Truly awful was the Jude Devereux's romance, the kind where I want to hit the characters over the head for their silliness! All the rest were Ok more or less.
1. The Twelve - Stuart Neville
2. One Day - David Nicholls
3. A cold day for murder - Dana Stabenow
4. 90 classic books for people in a hurry - Henrik Lange
5. The Monster in the Box - Ruth Rendell
6. The Eight - Katherine Neville
7. The Reversal - Michael Connelly
8. Mister Pip - Lloyd James
9. Angelology - Danielle Trussoni
10. Maybe the Moon - Armistead Maupin
11. Clean Cut - Lynda La Plante
12. The Man from Bejing - Henning Mankell
13. Dune - Frank Herbert
14. Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane
15. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
16. Prayers for rain - Dennis Lehane
17. A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane
18. Sacred - Dennis Lehane
19. Angelica e il nuovo mondo - Anne Serge Golon
20. The Scent of Jasmine - Jude Devereux
21. Volevo essere una farfalla - Michela Marzano
22. L'amico di infanzia di Maigret - George Simenon
23. Angelica a Quebec - Anne Serge Golon
So that's it, 23 books and quite a few that I started and I didn't finish. Top of the list as my favourite book last year was definitely "One Day" by David Nicholls, for the characterization (Emma particularly), the language, so modern and vivid, and the story (although I also hated Nicholls at times for reasons perhaps clear to those who read the book). Second is "Dune", the SF classic, which I never read for some reasons, (maybe I was influenced by the bad reviews of the film) but which was also very good in an epic way and in the third place all the books in the Gennaro-Kenzie series by Dennis Lehane, I love these characters and I hope that the author will continue with them. I also liked "A Visit from the Goon Squad" and "Maybe the Moon", more in the "I see that they are good books but I cannot warm completely to them". The mystic thriller "Angeloloy" was a lot of fun and also partly "The Eight". I was disappointed by Ruth Rendell's mystery (strange as I normally love Ruth Rendell's stories) and the Henning Mankell's (it started well but then it got lost in a kind of complicated international intrigue....) and also the books in the Angelique series lost a bit of their shine. Truly awful was the Jude Devereux's romance, the kind where I want to hit the characters over the head for their silliness! All the rest were Ok more or less.