I’ve been tagged by Susan at You Can Never Have Too Many Books with a book buzz meme. The meme originator is Amy at My Friend Amy. Here are the rules:
I am going to list three categories of books. 3 MUST Read Books, 3 Keep Your Eyes on These, and 3 Look For These Soon. Keeping with the theme, I am going to tag at least 3 bloggers. They should put these same lists on their blog but SUBTRACT one book from each list and ADD one of their own. Then they should tag at least 3 more bloggers. It will be fun to see how the lists change as they go around the blogosphere. Please come back to this post and leave a comment so I can see how the lists are changing. Since this is Book Buzz…please keep your lists to titles released in 2007-2009.
Here are my selections (stars are next to my additions):
3 MUST Read Books:
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Tin-Roof Blow-down – James Lee Burke
*Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici
3 Keep Your Eyes on These:
A Place Called Canterbury – Dudley Clendinen
Friend of the Devil – Peter Robinson
*Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates
3 Look For These Soon:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Private Patient – P.D. James
*Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
I’m supposed to tag three people but I don’t want to tag someone who might not want to play, so if you are reading this, and are in the mood, consider yourself tagged!
Wow! This sure has changed!
I’ve been reading this around and alas it is not helping my TBR situation!
Thanks for the names–I take them as recommendations! I am swimming in a pile of books already, but so many good ones come up on this blog. I may not get through them all by Christmas.
Pearl
Your additions look great — of course I like the Josipovici, but the other ones are interesting; I hadn’t heard of them. Must check them out!
I’ve not seen this meme before–it’s interesting to see how the titles change. I still want to read the Josipovici, and now I have to check out the others.
Amy, it was a good idea to have everyone link back to you so you could see the changes!
Litlove, I know what you mean!
Pearl, if you’re only piled up with books until the end of the year, then I’ll have to see what I can do to make the pile grow into next year and beyond
Dorothy, I have to confess I haven’t read two of the books I added, but they are on my to read pile and I want to get to them as soon as I am able!
Danielle, it’s a dangerous meme. I’ve not heard of a good many of the books on it.
Oh thank you: yet another easy post for some lazy day soon. Meanwhile, I agree with you on The Book of Lost Things. Haven’t read any of the others, but they’re on my list.
Emily, I suspected you would find this one fun and look forward to seeing it on your blog sometime in the near future