25.May.2008 Sunday Salon Week #3: Top Books 2007
I know I should’ve done my list of top books in 2007 ages ago, but here I go (since I just realized that I didn’t do it somewhere at the beginning of the year).
I read 20 books in 2007. So I’m gonna pick only my top 5.
1) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
2) The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
3) Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
4) Out by Natsuo Kirino
5) French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
A weird combination. The 3 fictions are by Japanese, 2 books by Murakami (obviously he was becoming one of my favorite authors), “Out” was a nice surprise. And the other 2 are non-fictions. “Leaving Microsoft” left a lasting impression on me, and “French Women” changed the way I see food and pleasure (also helped me to lose weight :).
The disappointment of the year was:
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
I despised the book. She’s blacklisted from my reading world forever.
Meanwhile I’m starting the 4th of Harry Potter book. I admit, the thickness of the book kinda put me off a bit. And the 5th one is even thicker. At the back of my mind I feel a bit cheated by an author so popular she didn’t get herself an editor. She must’ve rambled a lot.
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