I read 42 books during 2012, for a total of 5,852 pages of print and just slightly more than 137 hours of unabridged audiobooks. Most best books of 2012 lists include only books issued this year. But my list includes anything I read during the year, regardless of when it was published. The oldest book […]
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The writing and publishing world lost way too many people in 2012. Here’s a list of names, with, if available, date of death and a link to an obituary. Sam Levin 1/2 Josef Skvorecky 1/3 Mary C. Henderson 1/3 Charles W. Bailey 1/3 Milburn Calhoun 1/7 Wislawa Szymborska 2/1 Basil Payne John Turner Sargent, Sr.
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What’s better than a “best of 2012 books list”? Why, a list of “best of 2012 books” lists. Here are two such lists of lists: Online “Best of 2012” Book Lists From Largehearted Boy. The Best of the Book Lists 2012 From Random House
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Close Out The Year With Some Best-Selling Last Words : NPR People often make lists of the greatest opening lines in fiction, but closing lines really appeal to me. They’re your final moments with a book and can help you remember and treasure it forever. The last weekend of the year seems an appropriate time
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And for those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, best wishes for health and happiness in the future.
I am taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays. Monday Miscellany will return on January 7, 2013.
Book Riot Readers’ Top 25 Books of 2012 A couple weeks ago, we invited you to join in the end-of-year list making fun and share your favorite books of 2012. 530 of you answered the call, listing 572 individual titles. Click here to see all titles submitted and their corresponding vote counts. (Note: 33 entries were thrown
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‘Tis the season! Since we’re in the final countdown to Christmas, some of this week’s miscellanea have a definite holiday flair. A Half-Dozen Literary Gingerbread Houses Feast your eyes on these! Book Riot has collected photos of some gingerbread houses inspired by books. See reproductions of Hogwarts, The House of the Seven Gables, and Alice
Yes, they just keep rolling in. The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012 Maria Popova of Brain Pickings (and if you haven’t yet subscribed to her site in some format, you’ll definitely want to) chooses the best of the year’s books in psychology and philosophy—plus a bonus choice. And, as an added bonus,
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A Fixation with Endings There has been a lot of discussion lately about how novels end. On Bad Endings On The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog Joan Acocella declares: Many of the world’s best novels have bad endings. I don’t mean that they end sadly, or on a back-to-work, all-is-forgiven note (e.g. “War and Peace,” “The
