{"id":697,"date":"2006-12-06T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2006-12-06T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T12:55:00","slug":"100-notable-books-from-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/100-notable-books-from-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Notable books from 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> recently highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/review\/20061203notable-books.html?ex=1322802000&#038;en=e0047e2b90e289f6&amp;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">100 notable books of 2006 <\/a>from their review archives. A few observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have read exactly none of them. I choose to think this says more about my preference for waiting for the cheaper paperback version, or for my name to float to the top of the library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s months-long queues, than it says about my relevance as a consumer of contemporary literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I was pleased to see Stephen King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest, <em>Lisey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Story<\/em>, make the list. He is so often denigrated as a populist writer, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d give my eyeteeth to be able to write like he does. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently about 60 pages into <em>Cell<\/em>, his penultimate book, and after reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9500EFDC103FF931A25752C1A9609C8B63&#038;n=Top%2fFeatures%2fBooks%2fBook%20Reviews\">NYT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s review<\/a> for <em>Lisey&#8217;s Story<\/em>, and especially this paragraph, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be able to hold out until it comes out in paperback:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a 1993 essay, King wrote: &#8221;The question which haunts and nags and won&#8217;t completely let go is this one: Who am I when I write?&#8221; The same question lies at the heart of his new novel. Scott Landon, the fragile, prize-winning novelist at the book&#8217;s core, answers it like this: &#8221;I am crazy. I have delusions and visions. &#8230; I write them down and people pay me to read them.&#8221; In &#8221;Lisey&#8217;s Story,&#8221; King once again finds terror in the creative act, but for the first time he sees beauty there, too.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Apparently, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to write a successful non-fiction book, you have to use a colon in your title. Forty-four out of fifty of the notable non-fiction books can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just added seven new books to my request list with the Ottawa Public Library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What have you read recently that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth recommending?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times recently highlighted 100 notable books of 2006 from their review archives. A few observations: I have read exactly none of them. I choose to think this says more about my preference for waiting for the cheaper paperback version, or for my name to float to the top of the library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s months-long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/100-notable-books-from-2006\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;100 Notable books from 2006&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}