Rabih Alameddine, Christian Kracht, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Our Year in Reading 2016

[caption id="attachment_2443" align="alignleft" width="300"]Rabih Alameddine, Christian Kracht, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Books we both read & loved[/caption] This was the year my husband read more—a lot more—than I did. There were two simple reasons for this: He read more, and I read less. He joined two book clubs in 2016, which explains, at least in part, his impressive list. He read so many books this year that he spent over an hour typing up and annotating his list. Then, after handing me the notebook where we record our completed books, he suddenly cried out, “Wait! I need that back. I skipped a whole page.” Show-off. ...

Our Year in Reading 2015

In under the wire, my annual round-up of the books my husband and I read over the year. My book-loving guy and I read two books in common this year: Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, which we both loved (a rare event for us), and Alice McDermott’s Someone, which I loved and warned him he wouldn’t. I was right, alas. The other thing I’ll say about Dan’s list is that he’s shown his usual penchant, both for reading work in translation and for finding an author he loves and reading a lot of their work. ...