I made my first choice for favorite Book of the Year in August
2015. So, for consistency, my year will continue to run from August to July. My book
selections this year:
August 2015: The Winter Sea- Susannah Kearsley & Dream Lover- Elizabeth Berg
September 2015: Minnow- James E. McTeer
October 2015: Shine Shine Shine- Lydia Netzer
November 2015: A Spool of Blue Thread- Anne Tyler
December 2015: A Tale For The
Time Being- Ruth Ozeki
January 2016: The Secret Place- Tana French
February 2016: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Sijie Dai
March 2016: My Name Is Lucy Barton- Elizabeth Strout
April 2016: The Rake’s Tale-
Bettie Williams & The Killing Floor-
Lee Child
May 2016: The Secret Chord
& The People of the Book- (both by)
Geraldine Brooks
June 2016: The Short Drop- Matthew Fitzsimmons
July 2016: Eligible- Curtis
Sittenfeld
This has been a good year. Lots of good books made this a difficult
choice. As usual, more books were read or listened to on tape than I reviewed,
but the ones above made the cut. I decided a while ago that I was not going to disparage
another author’s work. If I don’t like it , I won’t review it. That being said,
my favorite book this year was, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki.
This novel has stayed with me. Truly beautifully written, the
finely drawn characters and unique story are memorable and haunting.
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