Comments on: One-Minute Book Reviews 10 Best Books of 2007 – The Year’s Top Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-8230 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:08:27 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-8230 Thanks, anthropologist! Very glad that Peter Godwin is said to have a new book coming out this spring …
Jan

]]> By: anthropologist http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-8229 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:47:39 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-8229 I love this list, even though I’ve only read two of the authors on it (Atul Gawande; and Peter Godwin: I loved WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN, which I only got around to reading last year).

Yes, I agree with the earlier comment that it’s so nice to see a book list that isn’t about “buzz” (Malcolm?)

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5035 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:22:19 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5035 You’re very welcome. Even after so many years of reviewing, I still learn from reading other critics’ work. And often I learn the most from criticism of the classic authors whose work I think I know best.

I’ll think, say, “Oh, I’ve read so much about Jane Austen, I should read about an author I don’t know as well.” But great scholars and critics, like those in “Literary Genius,” can make you see new things even in the authors who are the literary equivalent of your best friends.

]]> By: mystic wanderer http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5032 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:32:27 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5032 Thank you for the list. I’ve been wanting to read a book on literary criticism for some time. Having read your review earlier, I think I will give “Literary Genius” a try.
BTW, I have come to appreciate your precise, to the point style of reviewing. Very effective!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5031 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:19:09 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5031 Much appreciated, Malcolm. That’s almost the whole point of my site — to try to screen out the buzz and focus on what is actually in the books.

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5030 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:01:13 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5030 It’s so nice seeing a list that wasn’t arranged based on the amount of buzz each of the books attained by its prior appearance on somebody else’s list.

Good stuff here, including several that are going to end up in my To Be Read stack after the first of the year.

Malcolm

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5028 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:44:46 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5028 Thanks so much for the comment. These lists are harder to compile than it might seem, because you have to leave off a lot of good books that were close calls …

]]> By: yourmitra http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5027 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:08:54 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/one-minute-book-reviews-10-best-books-of-2007-%e2%80%93-the-year%e2%80%99s-top-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/#comment-5027 good, unbiased review.

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