Yet another book meme

Ganked from kikibug13 and based on a Beeb "best reads" list from some years back. The Guardian has just been doing a series of  1000 "best reads" as well. I'm afraid I find many of their selections to be overly literary. The SFF section has some great choices, but too much magical realism, horror, alternate histories and "ghost stories", and some really annoying omissions. I'm sorry, Affinity by Sarah Waters is not a fantasy book. And nor is Naked Lunch.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the ones you're half way through.
4) For all the bold ones you have read, put a bit of commentary - be it snark, poetic, or just explaining what the book is - but no longer than a sentence.

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Silver linings

So Bush was so bad, the US was able to suck it up and elect a black president.

Now that Iceland has had a financial meltdown (and I remember those ads for Icelandic banks when I was living in England), they are going to appoint an out lesbian, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, as the caretaker prime minister until the next election. First openly gay head of government in the world. Yay.

So, yay for barriers being broken down in many places. (And yes, I realise these people were very much elected/appointed on their merits - facetiousness r us!)