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These are the books (excluding profession, technical, and reference works) I finished reading in 2011, ranked here in order of how memorable I found them.

1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
2. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
3. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
4. The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs
5. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
6. On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda
7. They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
8. The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr
9. He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
10. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
11. The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
12. Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout
13. Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout
14. Before Midnight by Rex Stout

I'm going to try to make more time to read in 2012.

The Grand Game Volume One: 1902-1959 by Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger The Grand Game is based on the lovely fantasy played by scholars and Sherlockians that Sherlock Holmes was a real person, and that the sixty Canonical tales were actually written by Dr. Watson and ref…

The Grand Game Volume Two: 1960-2010 by Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger The second volume of The Grand Game, covering the past half-century (1960�2010), will be published in January 2012.  It completes the carefully selected sampling of the best and most important pi…

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I recently started considering Chesterton as an author of the fantastic (with Borges as the fulcrum between Chesterton and Lovecraft). I haven't gotten far enough with it to form any definite conclusions, but the stories The Blast of the Book and The Angry Street may be of interest.

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When asked what he thought of Propertius as literature, Barber replied: ‘I have no idea. I didn’t bother with the guff side of it.’

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Year after year, we print and re-print fairy tales. What is it that makes them valuable? [...] surely the tales do not teach morality. Remember the egregious brutality of that spoiled princess in The Frog King who, after hurling the little animal who helped her against the wall, gets rewarded. [...] Nor do the tales psychologize or philosophize. What they do, instead, is what all great children’s literature does: they literalize metaphor. They lower their glittering buckets deep into the psyche’s well. [...] Not quite like ancient myths, which use nymphs and satyrs to explain recurring natural phenomena; nor like fables, whose timeless moral lessons are parlayed through the escapades of animal characters; nor like legends, which exude the pungent aromas of one particular locale and its history, fairy tales are [...] stories made to summon wonder, horror, enchantment—and not necessarily anything more. Uncanny in the purest sense of the word, which is to say, both bizarre and familiar at once[....] the Grimms’ tales match, with an almost miraculous precision, children’s own ways of thinking. They transform contiguity into causality, and they maximize contrast.

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I'm currently reading James Wood's How Fiction Words, which I've so far found to be excellent and well worth reading, though I don't always agree with Wood's specific judgments. I ran across this humorous assessment in a review of Wood's book:

But, like many public figures who are so reliably excellent they risk monotony, Wood is saved from his abilities by his fascinating limitations. He is, in spite of his prodigious gifts, mystifyingly, perversely, delightfully limited. His sensibility—high-minded, self-serious, evangelical—seems to have been pickled back in 1863, so that he appears to be carrying out a Borgesian experiment of restaging Matthew Arnold’s entire career in an era that has learned to ignore Victorian sagery. Among our book blogs and digital libraries and metacritical review-collating hyperlinked global salons, Wood remains provocatively analog. His pronouncements arrive walnut-paneled, camphor-sprinkled, and attended by retinues of white-gloved footmen. (As the journal n+1 once put it, it’s like he seems “to want to be his own grandfather.”) I recently suffered a moment of deep existential disorientation when I realized that Wood, at 43, is actually three years younger than David Foster Wallace, who radiates a generational energy to which Wood is apparently totally immune. Wood’s rare and cursory references to pop culture—Seinfeld, Amazon, Ricky Gervais—are always jarring, like a videotaped hostage holding a copy of today’s newspaper to prove he’s still alive.

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Soft Skull: The Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet by Mickey Z., ed.

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The Best Albums, Movies, TV & More From the 2000s :: Books :: Features :: Paste When this decade began, Paste’s website was barely a year old, and the magazine was still a twinkle in its daddies’ eyes. So looking back over the first 10 years of the 2000s feels like lo…

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Book Review - 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made,' by Anne C.�Heller - Review - NYTimes.com A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand’s libertarian epic “Atlas Shrugged,” Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collect…