So, you ask, why didn’t Weezie post much this year? Apparently because I couldn’t manage to finish a book. Oh, I started plenty of fantastic books. To wit, here are the books I began to read in 2007 (in no particular order):

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
• You Suck, Christopher Moore
• Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
• Saturday, Ian McEwan
• The Nasty Bits, Tony Bourdain
• The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
• I Like You, Amy Sedaris
• Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone), Jenni Ferrari-Adler, ed.
• Native Guard, Natasha Tretheway (I almost finished this one, and I’m sure I will soon. If a collection of poetry can be described as a “page-turner,” this Pulitzer Prize winner is it. I promise I’ll post on it early next year.)
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan (I’m in the middle of this one, and I just might finish it, although probably not until 2008.)

A diverse collection of books, but not a clunker among them, I would venture. So why didn’t I finish any of them? Who the hell knows. Adult-onset ADD? The fact that I picked up my life and moved it to California? And then took the California bar exam? And discovered that going out on a date was (often, but not always) more fun than staying home alone and reading a book? In any event, a resolution for 2008 is to actually read – beginning to end – more books. “More” being relative, of course. Two would be more than one. One being the number of books I finished in 2007. And what a great one it was: The Raw Shark Texts, by BGB rock star Steven Hall. The book has been blogged to death, so I won’t say any more than this – if it captured my attention sufficiently to finish it, it must be an amazing, just-can’t-put-it-down read.

Since we’re in list-making mode, I thought I would put one together. I did manage to listen to quite a lot of great music in 2007, so here’s my list of my 10 favorite albums of the year:

• Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha
• The Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
• Earlimart, Mentor Tormentor
• The Fratellis, Costello Music
• Radiohead, In Rainbows
• The Shins, Wincing the Night Away
• Sondre Lerche, Phantom Punch
• Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Bruce Springsteen, Magic
• Amy Winehouse, Back to Black

Compare my list to the list of the best 25 albums of the year as voted by listeners of the NPR program “All Things Considered.” Am I a cliché of a demographic or what? On the other hand, compare it to the list of the 20 best albums of 2007 compiled by friend-of-BGB Frank, who could never be called cliché.

Anyway, thanks Tim, for keeping the blog so interesting and timely and fun. I promise there will be more reading – and posting – by Weezie in 2008.