the best of 2007 (as supposed by kaylen)

top ten favourite things read this year
10. the crying of lot 49 thomas pynchon

9. kafka on the shore & the elephant vanishesharuki murakami

8. here is where we meet john berger

7. murphy samuel beckett

6. the body artist don delillo

5. no one belongs here more than you short stories by miranda july

4. mere anarchy short stories by woody allen

3. new york trilogy paul auster

2. cosmicomics italo calvino

1. moby dick herman melville

honorable mentions: only revolutions mark danielewski; the object stares back: on the nature of seeing by james elkins; varieties of disturbance by lydia davis.

worst/most disappointing of 2007:
the brooklyn follies by paul auster (just disappointing...)
the copwriter's handbook
neverwhere neil gaiman
white noise don delillo
pale fire nabokov (just not what i was expecting)

favourite places to read 2007:
. originally, higher ground
. for a stretch of time, i really enjoyed reading on our front step (back when the pear tree was still lovely)
. my bed
. standing at the kitchen counter on saturday morning (if you haven't tried reading and standing in the kitchen: it feels wonderful)




* catch up *

acquired:
new copy of swann's way (lydia davis translation)
the stranger albert camus
invisible cities italo calvino
cosmicomics italo calvino
consider the lobster david foster wallace
selected essays john berger
+
handfull of mcsweeny's collections.
handfull of chapbooks from jonathan.

{i'm sure there's more to it than that, but i forget...}

read:
beowulf (re-read before seeing hte awful awful movie in 3D IMAX)
pig earth john berger
murphy samuel beckett
exile & the kingom & the plague albert camus
selected essays john berger
cosmicomics, invisible cities , numbers in the dark
& six memos for the next millenium italo calvino
how to make love to a negro dany laferrière
the insanity defense collection by woody allen
to begin (+ many more) by jonathan ball.
thumbscrews natalie walschots

plan to read, but who knows for certain:
satanic verses
wind-up bird chronicles
consider the lobster
re-read swann's way (lydia davis translation)
lilac & flag