I'm back after a long absence. I opened my own law practice in the summer and I was greatly surprised at the amount of creative energy it took to get that up and running properly. So I did very little writing. I did, however, keep up with my reading. I even got my first Kindle and am working on discovering how I best like to read books.
As it came to the end of the year I realized I miss having a platform like this to record my thoughts and ideas on writing and reading. I also realized I do have the energy to put into blogging again. Listing my favorite books of 2011 seems like the right way to come back to this.
These are not all published this year, just ones I got around to reading this year. I had great difficulty cutting the list to 17 from the 102 books I read this year. In no particular order:
The Guards -- Ken Bruen
The Mistress of Nothing - Kate Pullinger
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion - Joan DeJean
Nature Lessons - Lynette Brasfield
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty - Sebastian Barry
The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Just Kids -- Patti Smith
The Line - Olga Grushin
The House in France - Gully Wells
You Are Free -- Danzy Senna
Birds of Paradise - Diana Abu-Jaber
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgiveness -- Alexandra Fuller
Life - Keith Richards
Bravura: Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre - Alex Ewing
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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