Through Readerbuzz, I got to know of this interesting End-of-the-Year survey @ The Perpetual Page Turner and thought that it would be fun to look at 2013 in this manner.
1. Best Book You Read In 2013? (If you have to cheat — you can break it down by genre if you want or 2013 release vs. backlist)
Mystery:
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Non-Mystery:
The Sunday I Became World Champion by Friedrich Christian Delius
The Last Musha’irah of Dehli by Mirza Farhatullah Baig
2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?
Arun Joshi, Ed Mcbain, F. C. Delius, Hisham Matar, Keigo Higashino, Robert Barnard, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay.
I don’t really like reading books set in rural India but this was a wonderful read and made me quite ashamed of my (reading) prejudices.
9. Book you read in 2013 that you are most likely to reread next year?
Colonol Haki in Eric Ambler’s Light of the Day. He doesn’t appear in the book but casts a long shadow.
Both incidentally were first published in 1986.
What can match the grandeur of such an image?
“Everything I loved and all of what was lost was once here. And now I was arriving into absence, after everyone had gone.”
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar.
I was satisfied with my review of Josephine Bell’s Death in Retirement.
On discovering a mysterious author: Death Whispers by Joseph B. Carr.
The Social Justice Theme Read hosted by Resistance is Futile.
7. Most popular post this year on your blog (whether it be by comments or views)?
Review of Manini Chatterjee’s Do and Die because I am feel strongly about people sidelined by the official documentation of the past.
Open Library. I didn’t discover but rather re-discovered it this year since after participating in the lending library programe it has become a treasure-trove for book lovers.
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Wishing Everybody A Very Happy 2014.
Happy New Year, need.I really enjoyed your list and the categories. I'm sorry you had to experience so much loss. I wish you all the best for this year.
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Neer, great list and categories. I'd fail on all counts, though, not having read enough books in each of the categories. Here's wishing you and your family a wonderful new year.
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Thanks Caroline. The last couple of years have been tough. Hope this year things will be better.A very happy new year to you too.
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Thanks Prashant. And I wish you and your loved ones a very happy new year too.
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A Happy New Year . . . . I hope 2014 goes well for you.
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Neeru – What a terrific list you have there, and so eclectic. I hope that 2014 is a better year for you. Here's wishing you the best.
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I tried to comment earlier and blogger or my computer were acting weird. So here goes…Great post, sounds like your reading was good this year. I just finished a book by Anthony Gilbert, A Case for Mr. Crook, and I did not enjoy it as much as you liked the ones you have read. I will have to find some of the ones you have reviewed. Review to come soon, but I am behind on reviews.
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Happy New Year to you too Neeru – and you better believe that I am going to get myself a copy of the Keigo Higashino!
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Thank you Rob and I wish you, Mom, Dad, the Dog, the Ghost-Writer, and (now apparently) Mrs. Ghost Writer a very happy 2014 too.
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Thanks Margot and I wish you a very happy new year too.
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