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There's been so much talk about reading deliberately this year. For me, the focus has been on the awards lists, but I've also tried to balance those with other new releases I think are award-worthy.  As a true list-lover, my first plans for 2011 reading are to read the Best of the Year lists. As a liberal, academic northeasterner, my go-to list is, of course, The New York Times . When their Top 10 Reads of 2010 were announced earlier this week, I was amazed. The Top 5 Fiction are: Freedom  by Jonathan Franzen The New Yorker Stories  by Ann Beattie Room  by Emma Donoghue Selected Stories  by William Trevor A Visit from the Goon Squad  by Jennifer Egan As someone who used to begin her goals with the New York Times  Top5 Fiction list, it feels amazing to have already read the three novels on the list. I'm rather ambivalent about short stories collections, so those may not even make it onto my list of books to read. As rewarding as it is ...

The big news: I got a Kindle for Christmas! I was surprised; I cried. I profusely thanked nomadreaderboy! To no one's surprise, I love it! It has already changed my reading. First, I read the New York Times  again. It's delivered automatically each morning when it hits the newsstand. It's wonderful to roll over and start reading the paper in bed each morning. Then, when the paper is finished, I click into the book I'm reading. As someone who used to carry at least one book (what if I finished it? I had to have something else to read) along with the paper and the New Yorker  around, it's amazing to have all three in one place.  In honor of my Kindle, here are a few bookish articles I read and enjoyed: Small Publisher Found It's Mission in Translation  (12/26/09) - a fascinating look at Open Letter Books , a small publisher who only publishes translated works, which is a dying industry in the U.S. I have a copy of Season of Ash  by Jorge Volpi, which is p...