What's Buzzworthy? The Best Books of 2007

BuzzSugar — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:30:21 -0800

I love reading under any circumstances, but with the writers' strike likely to roll into next year, I'm going to be needing book recommendations more than ever. So before we flip the calendar to 2008, I wanted to ask you all about your favorite books of 2007.

One of my favorites: Will Allison's What You Have Left, a book I picked up almost by accident at my local library and ended up devouring in a weekend. The novel is essentially a set of interconnected short stories focusing on an estranged father and daughter trying to find their way back to each other, with side appearances from NASCAR, the Confederate flag, and poker machines. It's a small, spare book that manages to be incredibly affecting.

Others from the year that I'd recommend: Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which made me want to make my own cheese; Ann Patchett's Run, which had some of my favorite characters of the year; and Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, as good a follow-up as I could have imagined to The Kite Runner.

So now, what are yours? Just use BuzzSugar's cool bookmarking tool to find your favorites online, write a little blurb about why they stood out to you, and tag them with the phrase Best Books of 2007. Then, next week, I'll feature some of the books here so we can all get our reading lists ready for the coming year.

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What's Buzzworthy? Food Writing

BuzzSugar — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:00:00 -0700

All month, Yum has been posting some great food writing in the site's summer reading series. For this week's Buzzworthy challenge, I wanted to put Buzz readers to the test to see what other drool-worthy food books you had on your shelves.

Here are the parameters: Fiction and non-fiction are both OK, but no cookbooks - though books that include recipes within their chapters are certainly welcome. To start things off, I've bookmarked Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which Fit read recently and I just finished the other day. It's a well-written look at the very hot topic of eating locally, tracing Kingsolver's family's move to a farm where they raise much of their own food and buy the rest from their neighbors.

Just use Buzzsugar's cool bookmarking tool to bookmark your great reads online and tag them with the phrase food writing. I'll post some readers' picks here next week. You can also now make a list of your picks. Here are mine:

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