The 10 Best Books of 2012 The venerable New York Times has declared its choices for the year’s 10 (5 fiction, 5 nonfiction) books. New York Times Best Of 2012: Alternative Reads But the folks at Huffington Post take issue with the New York Times‘s choices, calling its list “pretty dull” and also, apparently, pretty […]
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It’s been a good week for literature-relating reading. The Top 10 Charles Dickens Books Robert Gottlieb, author of Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, explains why he thinks these are Dickens’s 10 best books: Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend David Copperfield Bleak House Little Dorrit Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby Dombey and Son
Here’s quite a variety of new lists of the best books of 2012. The Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide Returns Next Monday Author John Scalzi will offer a shopping guide to which you can contribute: So: Starting Monday, December 3rd, the Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide Returns! If you’re a writer or other creator, this will be an
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Over on my other blog I wrote recently about the fate of women who are lucky enough to reach older adulthood. Here, in no particular order, are some books that portray older women. Fiction All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe As We
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For Your Holiday Gift-Giving Now that the winter holiday gift-giving season has officially arrived, here are a couple of items to keep in mind: Holidaze, Book Riot’s Pinterest Board 100 books for holiday gift-giving, courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Media Elite: The Best Literary Cameos Ever Committed to Film Though an author’s film cameo
Here are a few more entries for this year’s list of lists: The 10 best books of 2012 From The Washington Post. Presents five selections each in fiction and nonfiction. There are also links to other lists: best graphic novels of 2012, 50 notable works of fiction, 50 notable works of nonfiction, best audiobooks of
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I am not a morning person. But there seems to be something sacred about 4:30 AM. That’s when my best thoughts gently shake me awake. This Thanksgiving morning greeted me with the realization of how much online existence has increased the quality of my life. We talk and read a lot about how the electronic
Happy Thanksgiving to all friends here in the U. S. I’m thankful for all of you.
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Some interesting takes on the literary world this week. Out of Touch: E-reading isn’t reading Slate caused quite a stir recently with its publication of this excerpt from Andrew Piper’s recent book Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times (University of Chicago Press, 2012): Amid the seemingly endless debates today about the future of reading,
Louise Erdrich’s Novel ‘The Round House’ Wins National Book Award – NYTimes.com Beating out an unusually competitive field, Louise Erdrich won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for “The Round House,” a novel about a teenage boy’s effort to investigate an attack on his mother on a North Dakota reservation, and his
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