Last night I finished The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. (Whom I loved at first read.) This book was a delight from beginning to end. I was so often looking up from it to tell Mrs. Chaka what I had just read that I might as well have read the whole thing aloud to her.
After finishing it, I realized that I've read quite a few spectacular books recently. The following are my recent reads that I do not hesitate to call Works of Genius (the star means it was a re-read):
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Planet Narnia by Michael Ward
*Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
*The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
*The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Recently read books that I'd place just shy of genius include:
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Word Myths by David Wilton
The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers
Becket by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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I've wanted to read that book since I read his article in the NYT. I should get it from the library.
I have Planet Narnia on ILL right now. I'm pretty stoked about it.
I've just started the Aubrey/Maturin series of books, upon which the movie Master and Commander is based, by Patrick O'Brian. So far it's good. Not many pirates though.
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