My favorite reads for 2007
I maintain a separate log of all the books that I read and in honor of cracking 100 books this year (thank you Big Blue Bus), I decided to go back over the list and note my favorite reads for 2007, so here they are, in alphabetical order by title.
- Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade
An interesting look at what genetic research can tell us about human history. - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
A beautifully written book from an author who's become one of my new favorites. - A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
I've been re-reading all of Greene's works and I've found this book, which Greene had intended to be his final novel, to be even better on re-reading. - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
A wonderful voice in a novel, Guo manages to make broken English something truly exquisite. "I don't like plural because they no stable. I don't like nouns too, as they change all the time like verbs. I like only adjectives and adverbs. They don't change. If I can, I will speak only adjectives and adverbs." - The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
A very well written book on writing, written by a literary agent, so he knows what sort of mistakes come in the mail and is able to provide informed advice on how to fix them. - Graham Greene: The Novelist by J. P. Kulshrestha
A book which renewed my faith in literary criticism. - Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman with Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates
A great book for people who want to develop solid object-oriented design and programming skills.
NP: Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? for December 22, 2007
WC: 60, ECD: 4 Dec 2009.
