It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Marlon James
The Top 50 from the Best Books of 2019 List of Lists
This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 56 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2019 – A List of Lists. Continue reading
Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts
1. Man Booker 2015 shortlist time. I’m in the middle of A Little Life. It’s brilliant but harrowing. I also have Brief History and will probably read Spool (although I don’t love Tyler the way I feel I ought…). Thoughts on the others? Continue reading
Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts
A few notable bookish things –
1. This brilliant round-up of the best book covers for 2014 (tweeted by Jenny).
2. This list of books that made us cry in 2014. I do love a good cry over a book.
3. NPR’s Book Concierge – a gimmick but fun.
4. Scott’s crap book of the year list made me laugh. Out loud. Especially this bit – Continue reading
The Top 22 from the Best Books of 2014 – A List of Lists
So before someone yells at me “Enough with the lists!”, I took that list of Best Books of 2014 – A List of Lists and I made another list – the books that appear most frequently on all of those lists.
Trawl through all the lists or save time by simply adding the 2014 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2014-Book-Lists-in-November top 22 books to your To-Be-Read stack. Continue reading