Tapioca Dance

You can also look over to your right for the list of books I read in 2007, and which ones are on my shelf waiting to be read.

My top three books in 2007 are:

1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri…I didn’t want this one to end! I would have read another 300 pages of the Gogol story. Rarely do I hope for sequels, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed on this one.
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy…definitely the creepiest book of the year! I still shudder thinking about specific scenes. It’s also so fun to discuss - pessimistic view? Optimistic view? I love it!
3. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi…so eye opening and clever. It only took an hour to read, and I highly recommend it. We’ll be showing the film at the Moxie in February, so keep your eyes open for that.

The ones that I wasn’t too impressed with are:

1. French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano…baloney! If only everyone could have champagne and fresh markets on a daily basis. Psh.
2. The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith…cute, but too cute. I can’t quite see how there’s a whole series of these books! And a movie adaptation in the works.
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan…I feel robbed. The plot and concept were clever (too clever? too meta?), but the writing and pace were, in my opinion, so slow. I almost want my time back so I could have squeezed in an extra couple books before the year ended! It will make a worthy discussion at our inaugural Finer Things Club, though, because I am alone in my feelings toward this book.