100 books of the year (NYT)


	100 books of the year (NYT)

anonymology

11-23-2006 1:21 PM

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anonymology says:

Might be of interest to some. I've read some of these titles.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/400354c8-889d-45d6-a018-54b429dc99c5/429FD4FE-B8EB-4B74-90EE-D4C94A737224/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html?ex=1322802000&en=e0057e33905289f6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html?ex=1322802000&en=e0057e33905289f6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html?ex=1322802000&en=e0057e33905289f6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P><SPAN class="bold"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/books/review/gray.html">AFTER THIS.</A></SPAN> By Alice McDermott. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) In her effectively elliptical novel, McDermott continues to scrutinize the lives of Irish Catholics on Long Island.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html?ex=1322802000&en=e0057e33905289f6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P><SPAN class="bold"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/books/review/Schillinger.t.html">AGAINST THE DAY.</A></SPAN> By Thomas Pynchon. (Penguin Press, $35.) In Pynchon's globe-trotting tale, set (mostly) on the eve of World War I, anarchic Americans collide with quasi-psychic European hedonists and a crew of boyish balloonists, anticipating the shocks to come.
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