Smoke's 2006 Book List
- Rings of Saturn - W.B. Sebold
very good, but dense - Authenticity - Diedre Madden
good - Fearless Jones - Walter Mosley
pretty good, not his best - Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry
highly recommended - see my full review on amazon.com - The Street - Ann Petry
highly recommended, very disturbing - What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Thomas Frank
good - Self-Made Man - Norah Vincent
disappointing -- see my full review on amazon.com - The Healing - Gayle Jones
highly recommended, very originial, I'll reread this every few years to learn more about writing. - The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir - Dave Van Ronk and Elijah Wald
very interesting, recommended - Booking Passage - Thomas Lynch
good, not as good as I expected though - Ice, Mouth, Song: A Collection of Poems - Rachel Contreni Flynn
highly recommended - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller
very good - The Shadow of a Gunman: The Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey - Sean O'Casey
I loved it ... but I think it's for folks that are really interested in Irish history. - Time to Murder and Create - Lawrence Block
I love Block. Good. - When the Sacred Ginmill Closes - Lawrence Block
Good. - Irish on the Inside - Thomas Hayden
Very interesting. His writing is wooden. - Grief - Andrew Holleran
Good, but I expected great. - The Other Side - Mary Gordon
Very good. - A Little Yellow Dog - Walter Mosley
Good. - Irish New York - Bob Swacker, Leslie Jenkins
Interesting. - Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era - Elizabeth Pepin, Lewis Watts
Very interesting. - Contact Sheet 101: South to West Oakland - Lewis Watts
Photographs. Good. - Gone Fishin' - Walter Mosley
Good. - Blessing of the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988 - 2000 - Lucille Clifton
Very good. - Bad Boy Brawly Brown - Walter Mosley
Good. - Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography - Chester Brown
Very good. But Im into Manitoba history. - The Short Fall from Grace: Poems - Stewart Florsheim
Very good. Disclosure: I know the author. - Almost There - Nuala O'Faolain
Highly recommended. I really liked this. - Triangle - Katherine Weber
Good. - Murder on the Prowl - Rita Mae Brown
Fluffy. - A Ticket to the Boneyard - Lawrence Block
Very good. - The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
Loved it. Love his humor. - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
Chilling. Warning: You must read something hopeful about the world right after you read this. - The Niagara River - Kay Ryan
Highly recommended. - Bones and Silence - Reginald Hill
Highly recommended. I love him. - The Night of the Burning - Linda Wulf
Really really good. Disclosure: I know the author. - The Commute: an extended poem in XXVI parts - Patricia Edith
Highly recommended. These are rich rich poems. She is an inspiration to me -- in many ways. Disclosure: The author is one of my best friends. - Pictures of Perfection - Reginald Hill
Highly recommended. - Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger (re-read)
Still love it.
Note: Tried to re-read The Catcher in the Rye and couldn't. Could not relate to the middle-class juvenile. When I was younger, I could. What does that say? I kept thinking "Quit all the complaining!" Wanted to shake him. - The Skeleton Man - Tony Hillerman
So-so. - Catch as Catch Can - Rita Mae Brown
Fluffy. I used to think of her as such a deep person. - Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - by Alexander McCall Smith
Good. Later ones are much better though. - Hope in the Dark, 2006 edition - Rebecca Solnit
Very good. - Mules of Love: Poems - Ellen Bass
Great ... I love her poetry. - Grayson - Lynne Cox
Calming. Should have read this after Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Right as Rain - George Pelecanos
So good. Good solid mystery writer. - The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
Very good but it took me a while to really get into it.
Note: I've forgotten all the poetry and children's books I've read. Determined to keep better track in 2007.
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