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Critical Mick's shortlist for Best Book Read in 2008...
Critical Mick Review of In the Woods by Tana French

 
In the Woods by Tana French
Critical Mick Review of Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

 
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
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The Road to McCarthy by Pete McCarthy

 

 

 

 

  • Books are added to the shortlist whenever they goddamned well move me to.
  • Every bugsmacker read in the year 2008 is eligible, regardless of its year of publication.
  • Rather than an Edgar, an Agatha, a Shamus, these Critical Mick Best Book Read awards are called an "Oo," as in "book" or "unrooly." You know, the sound made when impressed?
  • The awards look like this: and the year's winner gets to tattoo it on their foot.
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    Past The Oo Award, given by Critical Mick to the Best Book Read that year. Winners
    The Last Place by Laura Lippman. Best book read in 2007 by Critical Mick Click for Critical Mick's 2007 Year in Unruly Review

    The Last Place's Tess Monaghan is a heroine of Buffy proportions, reinvigorating a stale genre- namely, serial killers- and taking Crime Fic somewhere it had never been before- Maryland!
     


     
    A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle. Best book read in 2006 by Critical Mick Click for Critical Mick's 2006 Year in Unruly Review

    This novel knocks into maggoty bits many inventions (dare Roddy say: fabrications) that have been guarded by long-standing Irish patents. Mad, wonderful and true.
     


     
    McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy. Best book read in 2005 by Critical Mick Click for Critical Mick's 2005 Year in Unruly Review

    Don't take it from me, what it means to be Irish. Take it from Pete McCarthy's McCarthy's Bar. The dude rocks!
     


     
    Cosi Fan Tutti by Michael Dibdin. Best book read in 2004 by Critical Mick Best Book Critical Mick Read in 2004

    Michael Dibdin's Cosi Fan Tutti does for crime fiction what O Brother, Where Art Thou? did to The Great Depression. Classic!
     


     
    Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Best book read in 2003 by Critical Mick Best Book Critical Mick Read in 2003

    The truths and tragedies of Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee have remained vivid, even years later. Tattoo-worthy.
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