We have been reminded of an old Eons tradition of celebrating the best and worst selection of your reading effort in the past year
Feel free to laud your favorites and pan the ones you hated
My favorite is Joe Nesbo's The Redbreast
There were many bad ones that I barely remember but I disliked The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras the author kept showing off his vocabulary of obscure words
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I had planned to start this discussion if no one else did... I really missed it last year as I get many new reads from others favorites... lol
So Thank You Lip Service and since you didn't insist that there be only one, I will list the top 4 of my 70+ books for 2015. They were all read in the first 1/2 of the year & I have been searching for another as good since then.
BEST: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (edged out the other 3 by 2 points)
The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Sellek
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
There were about 1/2 dozen that I started and didn't finish... not worth listing them.
Though not a very scientific analysis with a forced ranking discipline, a glancing look at the 125 or so books I read this year resulted in the following:
Best: "The Martian" Andy Weir
Probably the best sci-fi book I have read in a while, with great technical description and angst on every page. The motion picture may also vie for the Academy Awards.
Worst: "The Silkworm" Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
This attempt at an English detective novel was drenched in unnecessary filthy words, the likes of which would have burned another scar in Harry Potters' forehead. IMHO, it was just a bad book but others may have liked it.
I'm in the midst of "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis. This true account of the traders who helped to almost bring down the US economy just eight years ago, is scary. That "young Turk" traders shorting the mortgage-backed derivative market could have gotten away with the stunts they pulled to make billions by betting against people paying their bills on time or ever, is a story of Wall Street and banks out of control. A major movie is also being made on this story.
I'm 3/4 way through 'Grandmother' right now and having a hard time with it... what a strange story... I keep reading because I loved 'Ove' so much. I was hoping for some grand finish but I guess that's not gonna happen.
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