2006 Year In Review: Books

[ooglemonster]

I'm an extensive paper journal-er so it was no big thing to write down every time I finished a book along with all the rest of my obsessive memory collecting. This was 2006 for me, bookwise. Here goes:

1/27/06 In the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
2/11/06 Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
2/24/06 Patty Hearst: Her Own Story - Patricia Campbell

Comments

Re: a splode

[ooglemonster]

No, I'm not happy. Actually, I'm more confident, assertive, entitled--and more miserable than ever.

I thought a while before calling those books "pop-academic non-fiction" but I thought it accurately described the sort-of fun, easy to read, pseudo-academic non-fiction I read.

Re: a splode

[siciliandonkey]

I was hoping you were going to give extensive reviews of all the books you read. I've been cheated!

One time your dad was telling me about Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and he described it as "pop non-fiction"... I'd kind of like to think that all the non-fiction you or I would read could be called just "non-fiction" with no other qualifier necessary -- unless it's a textbook or a handbook or a catalog. It's not as if non-fiction such as The Botany of Desire is truly popular in the American Idol or Wendy's Bacon Cheeseburgers sense... (I just don't want my sense of superiority to be taken away, that's all.)

Re: a splode

[ooglemonster]

I kind of thought that reviewing all of them might be (more) wearisome to my readers (than usual).