PECKERWOOD BOOK CLUB: Did You Have A Favorite Book This Year? Plus What Did All The Critics Think?
What was your favorite book this year? Something new? Something old which you encountered for the first time? As for what the critics think, I have to laugh whenever I read their year-end "Best Books" lists, because there are not a finite amount of mass-market books released each year (like there are similarly with movies), but scads upon scads of them. So how can anyone rightly pick "the best?" You can't, of course, though the old adage, "the cream rises to the top," has to be taken into account, and this year, the best book according to over 20 reputable "Best Of" lists, is, drumroll, please, " Yellowface " by R.F. Kuang, a novel I'm very much looking forward to digging into over the holiday break, even if I'm slightly wary, as it's yet another navel-gazing scenario which takes place in the publishing world. But, hey, it's the top pick of the year according to big cheese critics everywhere, so it's got to be go...