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Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner.
Hello! I'm a virtual sharer based in London Town - here is my best read of the year....Parade's End by Ford Maddox Ford
Rachel wrote: "Hello! I'm a virtual sharer based in London Town - here is my best read of the year....Parade's End by Ford Maddox Ford"
Great book. Also loved the TV adaptation. Usually a travesty to say such a thing, but I thought it was very well done indeed.
If pushed to choose then it would come down to a photo finish between the posthumously published "The Broken Road - from The Iron Gates to Mount Athos" by Patrick Leigh Fermor (completing the tale of his epic 1930's walk across Europe - begun with "A Time of Gifts" and continued with "Between the Woods and the Water") - travel writing at its most colourful, imaginative and evocative (yes okay I do wish I had lived the life of Paddy Leigh Fermor!!), and the first volume of "Alms for Oblivion" (the first four novels in his 10 novel sequence of that name) by Simon Raven (who lived in Deal/Walmer between the early 1960's and the mid 1990's. A bit of a rogue. Google the Guardian obituary to get a flavour of the old cad that he was. Amusement guaranteed). Book is a real gem. Do I really have to choose just one?!! Hell's teeth I am no good at this!! I can't - you will have to accept the result of the Steward's Enquiry - Dead Heat!!
I've read so much this year I really had to think about this, but I think American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld wins it for me
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Animal Farm, George Orwell
Dominion, CJ Sansom
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Shaffer
Pleeeeease don't make me choose one!
2013 was a great reading year for me and I'm sure 2014 will be too -plenty on my bookshelves to keep me entertained.
Very hard to pin one down but one that certainly made an impact over the ongoing questions about excecution in the US was "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions" by Helen Prejean the author of Dead Man Walking.
Bee wrote: "I am torn! I read a host of good 'uns in 2013... So I've gone for top 3:
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Dominion, CJ Sansom
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Shaffer
Pleeeeease don't make..."
Oh! I forgot I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - that's got to be one of my top reads for 2013 too. It's made me want to visit the island... Thanks for the reminder of the book!
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Dominion, CJ Sansom
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Shaffer
Pleeeeease don't make..."
Oh! I forgot I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - that's got to be one of my top reads for 2013 too. It's made me want to visit the island... Thanks for the reminder of the book!
Lots of variety here and many I've not even heard of.
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And yes David - many I didn't even know existed
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No ifs or buts. No qualifying comments or excuses. Just what book did you like most of all those you read last year?
Mine was Stella Duffy's "The Room of Lost Things".