Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Atlantic is currently running a series called...

...The Best Book I Read This Year, by its editors. I've never heard of most of them and certainly don't expect to read War and Peace any time soon. (I read Les Miserables about twenty years ago and one big, scary classic is enough for me.)

But this morning they actually had a book that I'd read in the past year, Losing Mum and Pup, by Christopher Buckley. I would recommend it, too; I couldn't put it down. Buckley may be my favorite writer since Frank McCourt and (dare I say it?) even better than his father. I really enjoy his pieces in the Daily Beast and might even try some of his novels this year.

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