Decade: Some Books
Personally, I think everyone should post a list of the books that delighted or awed them over this past decade, without pretending it’s anything definitive. --Jeff VanderMeer Nobody ever gets over their first camel. --Bryher I love lists and am wary of them. They are a being that is half parlor game, half manifesto. And half a few other things, too, including whatever's in the dumpster outside my friend Maury's apartment in Detroit. (My arithmetic skills are impressive, I know. And I don't have a friend name Maury. I'm not sure I even know anybody who lives in Detroit.) The years 2000-2009 were important ones in my life as a reader, though, and I would like to memorialize them with something. I could spend the next decade making lists of books from the previous decade, but I've probably got better things to do. Instead, here's a list of books that come to mind this morning, Saturday, 13 February 2010, when I think about the previous ten years....
