Fiction is in red.
(Have also decided at this late date to add years of publication, a la Captive Reader, who makes me feel like an illiterate slug.)
163. Lost for Words, Edward St Aubyn (2014) (not as good as On the Edge)
164. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy (1905)
165. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1895)
166. All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, Matt Bai (2014) (fairly disappointing) (also why the hell is Richard Ben Cramer so worshipped by this guy? And other writers? I tried reading What It Takes and the style was UNBEARABLE, it was like Early-Middle Norman Mailer but without the boorish 'charm')
167. The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House, Chuck Todd (2014) (MY GOD, that was horribly written. Really terrible, amazingly so)
168. Small Victories, Anne Lamott (2014) (more substantive than her last two or three books, but that's because it's mostly reprints)
169. The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Jonathan Alter (2013)
170. Revival, Stephen King (2014) (pretty good! rather literary)
171. Film After Film: Or, What Became of Twenty-first Century Cinema?, J. Hoberman (2012) (worthwhile, in the end, altho someone needs to rip the word "indexicality" right out of his vocabulary)
172. Penelope Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee (2013) (beautiful, stunning, graceful)
173. Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch (2014) (fairly limp -- looking forward to SOME plot resolution in the next one....?)
174. Flesh and Blood, Patricia Cornwell (2014)
175. Moonlight Mile, Dennis Lehane (2010)
176. The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald (1995) (superb. Sheer fucking genius. Not one word wasted)
177. A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii, Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, E Knight, Sophie Perinot, Kate Quinn, Vicky Alvear Shecter, and Michelle Moran (2014)
all 2014 booklist posts
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