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July 3, 2006
Largehearted 2006 Halftime Report
With the year half over, lists of favorite albums have started popping up. My lists have been in a state of flux for the past month, as I added and subtracted albums, EPs, and books almost daily. Books especially were hard to single out, especially as I read one amazing book after another for the "book notes" and "52 weeks" series.
All these lists consist of music and books already officially released this year, and the selections are presented alphabetically by artist and book title. It will be interesting to see what remains on my year-end lists in December, there is much more music to be released (and heard) in 2006, and many more books to read. Enjoy the free and legal music downloads listed after the music releases, and feel free to leave your own favorites in the comments.
Favorite Albums of 2006 (so far):
Camera Obscura: Let's Get Out of This Country
"I Need All the Friends I Can Get" [mp3]
"Let's get Out of This Country" [mp3]
Casey Dienel: Wind-up Canary
"Doctor Monroe" [mp3]
Destroyer: Destroyer's Rubies
"European Oils" [mp3]
"Painter in Your Pocket" [mp3]
Islands: Return to the Sea
"Rough Gem" [mp3]
Rose Melberg: Cast Away the Clouds
"The Time Has Come" [mp3]
Favorite EPs of 2006 (so far):
David Bazan: Fewer Moving Parts
Mountain Goats: Babylon Springs
2005 Albums That I Love Even More In 2006:
Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene
John Vanderslice: Pixel Revolt
Favorite Graphic Novels of 2006 (so far):
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel
La Perdida, by Jessica Abel
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, by Guy Delisle
Favorite Short Story Collections of 2006 (so far):
Come Together, Fall Apart, by Cristina Henriquez
Drowning in Gruel, by George Singleton
Instant Love, by Jamie Attenberg
Favorite Young Adult Novels of 2006 (so far):
King Dork, by Frank Portman
Rose of No Man's Land, by Michelle Tea
It's Kind of a Funny Story, by Ned Vizzini
see also:
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2006 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2005 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2004 Edition)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
