The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery has been on the bestseller list and piqued my interest. Several months ago at book club, Jan brought it along wanting to know if anyone wanted to read it. She just couldn't get into it. I took it, but it sat around for awhile. Then another friend told me that it was actually good, once you got past the first third of the book. With nothing else lying around, I picked it up on Sunday and finished it today.It's the kind of book that gets better as it goes along, which I find unusual. Many start out strong and flounder in the middle.
That being said, as I look over my list for 2009, I think my favorite reads were: Hallelujah Junction by John Adams (the composer, not the president), Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow, and Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Wall.
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