As the end of the year approaches (but, hey, it's still like almost seven weeks away ...) the 'best of the year'-lists begin to proliferate.
More fun than the institutional ones (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, etc.) are the ones where individual authors and critics select their favorites -- and , better yet, the ones they think are overrated. The Spectator offers some of that with the first batch of their Books of the Year: the best and most overrated of 2015, with a fine cast of selectors -- but far too few who are willing to go on record with what they think is overrated .....
More fun than the institutional ones (Publishers Weekly, Amazon, etc.) are the ones where individual authors and critics select their favorites -- and , better yet, the ones they think are overrated. The Spectator offers some of that with the first batch of their Books of the Year: the best and most overrated of 2015, with a fine cast of selectors -- but far too few who are willing to go on record with what they think is overrated .....