Comments on: Booking Through Thursday: Favourite Books from 2008

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:08:21 +0000

Thanks for all of your great comments guys, and for all of the ‘degree congratulation’ messages. All of you, quite simply rock! )
See you next Thursday
Rob

By: claire

claire — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:42:01 +0000

The Road is one of my most fave books of all time.

By: Amy @ My Friend Amy

Amy @ My Friend Amy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:35:49 +0000

I’m sad to say I haven’t read any of these but I do hope to at some point. Enjoy your new liberated reading.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:09:55 +0000

I’ve got A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon in my pile.
I have posted my selections for 2008 on New Year’s Eve.

Best New Fiction 2008

The Future of Love, Shirley Abbott
Letter from Point Clear, Dennis McFarland
Finding Nouf, Zoë Ferraris
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein

Best Backlist Fiction

The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
The Dreyfus Affair, Peter Lefcourt
Kansas in August, Patrick Gale

By: The Social Frog

The Social Frog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:33:07 +0000

I have heard of Water For Elephants, but none of the others. Congrats on finishing your degree

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:15:50 +0000

You’ve had a good year. Wasn’t Hunger great? I read it over thirty years ago and I still remember the power of it, and his other books too. I have Water for Elephants and The Curious Incident on my shelves, it looks like it’s time to get to them. I like your new blog look by the way. Happy reading in 2009.

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:41:39 +0000

I have read The Road! I need to check out the other three!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:00:26 +0000

I enjoyed water for elephants also. You did some heavy reading last year. I’m impressed. =)
Hope you have a great day.

By: Beth F

Beth F — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:20:24 +0000

Congrats on finishing up your joint degree. Wow!! Something to be proud of. I know it’s a lot of hard work. Both your chronicles books sound fascinating (I have degrees in anthropology, too, and I love medieval history). Not sure I’ll be reading them anytime soon, but they do sound interesting.

By: tuesday

tuesday — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:43:37 +0000

Thanks for reminding me that I have to read ‘Water for Elephants’; I’ve been meaning to forever. And ‘Chronicles’ sounds wonderful. By the way, a week or so ago, my library’s copy of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’ finally came in, but I’m sorry to say I was disappointed by the book. It was much darker in tone than I expected it to be, and I wasn’t all that impressed with Toltz’s showy repartees.

ps. the new site layout looks great