Too often, people give bad books for holiday presents. Thusly, too many people start the new year with a pile of oddball gifts: Chicken Soup for the Starving Writer's Soul or the latest bestseller you never wanted to read in the first place.
That's sad, because we are all flush from New Year's resolutions to write more and read more. Who wants to read fluff as we set out on our new literary paths?
Luckily, Maud Newton came to our rescue with a best of 2006 book list. Go exchange one of your gifted copies of 100 Christmas Stories About Dogs and buy one of these books instead. Your writing can only improve with these new books. Check it out...
"My year-end books piece for Newsday ran over the weekend. Supplementing it here, in 2007, seems fitting, since two of the novels I admired — Calvin Baker’s Dominion and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt — have inspired me to set up a public discussion between the authors this spring."
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