I haven’t done this for awhile so I have a lot of books to cover! If you haven’t read my previous ratings retrospective posts, I am going back two years to revisit the books I read and determine whether or not I would rate any of them differently. Below is the list of books I read during the first quarter of 2007. In looking at the list, I am amazed to see that my Top 5 books of the year 2007 were all during this period. In addition 8 of my Top 10 were also read during this time.
In looking at my ratings, the only ones that I might rate higher today are The Road, Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver — three excellent books that were in my Top 10 for the year. That would give them all a 5 star rating. The book that I would perhaps rate lower is The Myth of You and Me, bringing it to just 3 stars. It was an okay book, but just okay.
The rest of the ratings I would stick with. Wow, I read a lot of great books the first quarter of 2007!!
January 2007
1. Angle of Repose**** by Wallace Stegner
2. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency****1/2 by Alexander McCall Smith
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan***** by Lisa See (Top 5)
4. Atonement***1/2 by Ian McEwan
5. Peace Like a River****1/2 by Leif Enger
6. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane****1/2 by Kate DiCamillo
February 2007
7. The Birds**1/2 by Arisophanes
8. The Black Pearl****1/2 by Scott O’Dell
9. Silas Marner****1/2 by George Eliot (Top 20)
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde***** by Robert Louis Stevenson (Top 5)
11. To Kill a Mockingbird***** by Harper Lee (Top 5)
12. Walking Across Egypt **** by Clyde Edgerton
13. The Woman in White****1/2 by Wilkie Collins
14. Heart of Darkness***** by Joseph Conrad (Top 5)
March 2007
15. The Book Thief ***** by Markus Zusak (Top 5)
16. The Echo Maker**** by Richard Powers
17. The Road ****1/2 by Cormac McCarthy (Top 10)
18. The Myth of You and Me***1/2 by Leah Stewart
19. Everyman* by Philip Roth (#1 Worst of 2007)
20. Fahrenheit 451****1/2 by Ray Bradbury (Top 10)
21. Inkheart**** by Cornelia Funke
22. The Giver****1/2 by Lois Lowry (Top 10) (#1 Children’s)
