Wow, you know, I hadn't realized quite how much of a dick V.S. Naipaul is: [link]

That interview, just the way he keeps repositioning himself and aggrandizing himself. He's a great man, he's above politics but thinks all Muslim countries will end in tyranny, he's bored with Obama. And the Austen comments. And the way he won't get another cat a year after his cat died, but the day after his wife was cremated he moved in with another (younger) woman. Bleargh.

Also: LeGuin is still writing, and she's older than Naipaul. Age by itself doesn't destroy creativity. But then he would probably hate LeGuin.

The kindle version of Terry Pratchett's Dodger is available for$2.99 today. link

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a Kindle Deal today for $1.99.

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I have a question for all of you. If you had to list a set of books (say 5-10, but no fixed number is required) of your favorite books you have READ in 2012, what would they be?

I have a question for all of you. If you had to list a set of books (say 5-10, but no fixed number is required) of your favorite books you have READ in 2012, what would they be?

In no particular order: Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, The Paris Wife by Paula McClain, Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann, and Aloha From Hell by Richard Kadrey. Lunatic Heroes by Anthony Martignetti would probably also be on the list, but I haven't finished reading it yet.

Ok, who has a recommendation for a book for my younger brother? He's 29, lives in Europe, and is vaguely libertarian about shit. I don't know what thrillers and stuff he's read, but I figure ill give him a book to go with an amazon gift card for his kindle.

Mine go to 11.

New Fiction: Gone Girl, The Song of Achilles, The Snow Child, The Night Circus
Classics: McTeague, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Grapes of Wrath
Non-Fiction: Season of the Witch, Quiet, Wild
Non-Fiction?: Let's Pretend This Never Happened

I think the favorite book I read this year is Caitlin Moran's "How To Be A Woman"....she kind of made me think of Fay.

The Girls Who Went Away ( re pregnant teens in the 50 's and 60's)

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch (Allison Arngrim)

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (The Bloggess)

The Wilder Life (about a woman and Little House)

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The 2 Montmarnay books

Murder in a Mill Town

Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Bitter in the Mouth

Shiver/linger

There are a bunch of books I want to read on Sophia's and megan's lists.

My best (favorite, I guess) for 2012:

The Chaperone, Laura Moriarty

A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick

Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein

The Fault In Our Stars, John Green

Imaginary Girls, Nova Ren Suma