Ann Archer's Top 10 list - Ottawa Public Library
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
Ann Archer is the coordinator of adult collections at Ottawa Public Library, dream job. Domestic bliss with new husband, trying to carve more time out for reading and knitting. Too bad one can't knit and read and sleep at the same time.....
Because I love literary biographies and memoirs:
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 by Katie Roiphe
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
Leonard Woolf by Victoria Glendinning
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, et al, by Susan Cheever
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
Some fiction that gave me pleasure in 2007:
Does Your Mother Know by Maureen Jennings
The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards
Septembers in Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Architects are Here by Michael Winter
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
And the must read book of the year:
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
Leonard Woolf by Victoria Glendinning
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, et al, by Susan Cheever
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
Some fiction that gave me pleasure in 2007:
Does Your Mother Know by Maureen Jennings
The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards
Septembers in Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Architects are Here by Michael Winter
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
And the must read book of the year:
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
Ann Archer is the coordinator of adult collections at Ottawa Public Library, dream job. Domestic bliss with new husband, trying to carve more time out for reading and knitting. Too bad one can't knit and read and sleep at the same time.....
Shonna Froebel's Top 10 List - Barrie Public Library
Many of the books I’ve chosen for this are ones that I had difficulty putting down when I was reading them. For fiction books, I was often struck by the characters, but the plot is important as well. It is a rare book that I like that doesn’t have a good plot to it. I’ve avoided some of the big hits (like A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini) as I feel readers are already aware of them. I’ve also limited myself to books aimed at adults although I’ve read some excellent children’s and teen books this year as well.
The nonfiction I’ve included here has all taught me interesting things (good for conversations) and often made me look at things in a new way. For more on the books I’ve read see my blog
In no particular order:
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truth in Small Things by Richard Wiseman (NonFiction)
Many of the books I’ve chosen for this are ones that I had difficulty putting down when I was reading them. For fiction books, I was often struck by the characters, but the plot is important as well. It is a rare book that I like that doesn’t have a good plot to it. I’ve avoided some of the big hits (like A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini) as I feel readers are already aware of them. I’ve also limited myself to books aimed at adults although I’ve read some excellent children’s and teen books this year as well.
The nonfiction I’ve included here has all taught me interesting things (good for conversations) and often made me look at things in a new way. For more on the books I’ve read see my blog
In no particular order:
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani
Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truth in Small Things by Richard Wiseman (NonFiction)
The U
nknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer (NonFiction)
A Good Death by Gil Courtmanche
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda (NonFiction)
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Shonna Froebel is the Manager of Adult Information Services at Barrie Public Library. Previous to that she worked in corporate libraries. She is on the CLA Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom and the OLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and OLA Evergreen Committee. She reads widely and voraciously thanks to the infinite patience of her husband, and the relaxing companionship of her two cats.
nknown Terrorist by Richard FlanaganBeing Caribou by Karsten Heuer (NonFiction)
A Good Death by Gil Courtmanche
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda (NonFiction)
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Shonna Froebel is the Manager of Adult Information Services at Barrie Public Library. Previous to that she worked in corporate libraries. She is on the CLA Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom and the OLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and OLA Evergreen Committee. She reads widely and voraciously thanks to the infinite patience of her husband, and the relaxing companionship of her two cats.
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Can I just say, YEA! WILD MARY!!!!
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