Favorite Books I Have Never Reviewed

Some of my favorite books are books I've never reviewed.

I loved Green Eggs and Ham when I first read it in 1960, but, at four years old, I wasn't much of a writer, and I did not have a blogging platform. That's understandable, right?

Many of the books on my list are books I read before I had a spot to review books. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. 

Reasons why I did not review other favorites (I currently have 202) are less clear. By 2005, when I first read Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, I was committed to reviewing every book I read. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2006. How did these books slip through?

And Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya? It was a book I loved so much when I read it that I mailed a copy to my brother overseas and urged him to read it. So why no review?

I've recommended Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder to many, many people. Where is my review? 

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron Foer left me in actual tears. Maybe I was too emotionally drained to write a review?

I tell a whole story about the first time I read and fell in love with Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief at a library conference in Austin. Couldn't I at least put that story in my review?

Some of the books on my list are books I've read tens of times, sharing them out loud with students. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull. Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. Window by Jeannie Baker. Rotten Island by William Steig. Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin. Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox. Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. The Napping House by Audrey Wood. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. 

Good grief. The book I often tell people is my favorite picture book, The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton? No review.

I fully intend to go back and reread and review all of these books. 

Books I Loved, but Never Reviewed (August 11, 2020).

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