Late last week, the New York Times presented a batch of year-end roundups. Critics Janet Maslin, Dwight Garner, and Michiko Kakutani all pick their top books of 2009. And while I certainly have my disagreements with the critics, I do find lists like this helpful for reminding me of books I might have forgotten over the year.
For example, I’m ashamed to admit that I never got around to reading Wells Tower’s Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. It just got lost in the shuffle for me. But now that I finally have some reading time available again, I’m going to pick it up.
What about you? Feel free to voice your own favorite books of 2009.
Janet Maslin always bothered me. I think she gives more importance to her “New York Times” status of evidence that her criticism is its own form of literary art. It isn’t.
I loved Everything Ravaged. Read it now!