Another set of answers from one of our own: this time around Jennifer Pooley, editor of many fine titles here at HarperCollins, provides her insights into the year past and the year ahead:
Best Book:
The global event that was the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reminded me again of being a first grader and falling head over heels in love with the other series that no child should miss, The Little House on the Prairie series, which for me, was the formative reading experience that charted the course for where I find myself today. Additionally, the letters and essays of E.B. White, Katherine White’s Onwards and Upwards in the Garden, and Roger Angell’s Let Me Finish were the writings that I kept coming back to during the year.
Best Movie:
Once. I couldn’t stop talking about it, I couldn’t stop listening to the soundtrack. I adore it’s simple premise of how unexpected friendship and encounters can help us transform our lives. And just last weekend, Atonement absolutely captivated me, Joe Wright’s time-stands-still tracking shot of Dunkirk has inspired me to read all of the books Ian McEwan read in researching the novel beginning with Walter Lord’s The Miracle of Dunkirk.
Best Album:
Thirteen Cities by Richmond Fontaine, I listened to it everyday.
Favorite Blog:
“The Lo Zone” the site of Lolita Files, whose novel sex.lies.murder.fame. was published by Amistad.
Person of the Year:
Photojournalists.
New Years Resolutions:
To try to stay true to last year’s resolution which I quite liked, “leap more, look less.”
Prediction for 2008:
One million new members to the Facebook group “Pink Hats are Worse Than Yankee Fans” and “The Curse of A-Rod” lives on!
