The Best Lists of 2013 … or 1976
The end of the year always brings us plenty of lists. Nowadays, with the advent of social media, the lists are more personalized, specialized: My favorite reads of 2013, my favorite movies of 2013, my favorite celebrity nip-slips, corporate mergers, whatever. Numerous requests on Facebook to name the ten books that stuck with me left me confused and wrung out. Synapses misfired, bad memories floated up. Did I really love that book? Or was I just starved for entertainment as I rode the buses all night with nowhere else to go? The talk of lists got me thinking. It reminded me of when I was young and the end-of-year programming on the big three networks was peppered with “best of”