Hitting the Top 500

A few years ago I started reviewing books (and a few movies on) Amazon.com® Official Site. I noticed they a 'reviewer rank' and as I added a few reviews and received some favorable votes I noticed that my ranking improved from 2,873,402 to 1,653,418 to 867,237 to 127,564. Ding. I was hooked and set a goal to make the Top 1000.

Well, 287 reviews later, I made it and then some - because Amazon changed the way they rank reviewers yesterday, I jumped from number 1315 to 389.

This ridiculous link will take you to my profile:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A37GRFP6VMUXKT/ref=cm_aya_bb_pdp

I'd like to thank the Academy, my parents, my colleagues, my librarians - in the words of Grace Kelly, "This is one night I wish I smoked and drank."



Here's a few of my favorite books and reviews from 2008:

Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz

The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel by Alan Furst

Darkness at Noon: A Novel by Arthur Koestler

Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer

The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare


2007 Favorites:

Rumpole Misbehaves: A Novel (Rumpole Novels) by John Mortimer

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

Under Enemy Colors by S. Thomas Russell

Artemus Ward, his book. With many comic illustrations. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War (The Otto Prohaska Novels) by John Biggins