Powers makes Evers's 50 Best Books of the Decade List

Stuart Evers, author of the Dirty/Realistic blog, has placed The Time of Our Singing at number nine of his 50 best novels of the decade of the 2000's.

Richard Powers has defeated me so many times with his novels that though I was excited about The Time of Our Singing, I did worry that this was going to be another book of his that I admired without loving and once again didn’t finish. I needn’t have bothered worrying. This is just awesome stuff, truly spellbinding in every way. There’s a famous quote about writing about music being like dancing about architecture, which is made to look like sagging bollocks when you read about the music you can’t hear in The Time of Our Singing.