![]() It's a pretty amazing Vietnam novel about a woman whose brother has disappeared in Vietnam. ![]() NANCY I think it would be The Lotus Eaters. MARCIE Now picking your favorite child of those two. Fiction: Tatjana Soli's The Lotus Eaters. 2010 Nonfiction: Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes. We're going to start at the beginning of the decade. MARCIE Well, as I mentioned, we don't have time to talk about everything that you did read, but we're going to run down the top picks for each year - and granted, some of them have more than a nonfiction and fiction category. And if you didn't like it, that's a good clue, if you understand your own reading. All you'd need to know is why someone would like this book. Which I think is important especially for a librarian, when you're recommending books. ![]() And so I have a lot of books that I know what they're about, and I can talk about them, but not with any enthusiasm. NANCY No, because, you know, I do not finish books that I'm not enjoying. MARCIE So it's sort of like one in 10 people writes a letter of complaint to public radio, one in 10 books you remember? What I'm trying to get at is are we talking about thousands of books? ![]() But I do so much public speaking about books to various organizations that I have records going back to, in some cases, the 1990s of what books I talked about at that presentation. ![]()
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