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Cathie, thanks for the news. It is really helpful while picking new reads :)
I recently bought Canada hardback at Goodwill. I also want to read the other two finalists for fiction. But maybe next year?
Six books were named to the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist on the morning of September 10. The finalists are:We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulwayo (Little, Brown)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Little, Brown)
Harvest by Jim Crace (Nan A. Talese)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin (Scribner)
The six remaining books were pared down from the 13 books on the longlist. The winner will be announced on October 15 and win a prize of £50,000.
Last year's winner was Hilary Mantel for Bring Up the Bodies.
Author Tom Clancy has died at age 66 http://t.co/0On0sf0rF4
A great storyteller has passed away. Tom Clancy. Remembered for his thrillers and great characters including Jack Ryan.
"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read." RIP Tom Clancy.
Oh, that is a really sas news, I like his writing style and read some of his books with great pleasure :(
Didn't know about it.....sad news indeed...
Alice Munro won this year's Nobel Prize, Cathie congrats, as she a Canadian :)
There's a nice article on Munro's winning the NP on Publisher's Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by...Her latest book (and probably her last one)
is excellentMy review and thoughts (last year) of it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Luminaries". Here is a link to the article in New York Times:http://nyti.ms/18jpQne
Another Canadian :-). We're on a roll!
I can usually find it, normally at the bottom it shows how many pages long the discussion is and you hit 1 to go to the original post that started the thread. I cannot find it here. I would like to go back and see what was said before the people that won their award. If anyone can help, thanks in advance.
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Lynn wrote: "Hi Mollydee - currently this thread is only 1 page long, therefore there is no 1 to hit."It brought me to the bottom, to the July post, but then I saw that there was only one page, but thank you. I hate missing discussions. In fact I wrote goodreads because I know I am not the only one with this problem, sometimes you get all of your notifications when you open it up, most of the time you just get 10, even if you have 24. They said they are working on it. :)
Excited to see that Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Thunderstruck) has a new book coming out:Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Release date: 3/10/15
Kirsten wrote: "Excited to see that Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, [book:In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, an..."That does sound interesting :)
Found a list of the best Children's Books of 2014: http://brainpickings.us2.list-manage1...Great quotes:
Maurice Sendak "I don’t write for children. I write – and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’"
J.R.R. Tolkien: "It is an error, to think of children as a special kind of creature, almost a different race, rather than as normal, if immature, members of a particular family, and of the human family at large."
Maddie Crum and Claire Fallon posted an article on HuffPo of the "2015 Book We Can't Wait to Read"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12...
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Bustle.com has a list of the Top 25 YA Books of 2014. Do you agree?http://www.bustle.com/articles/51394-...
Euphoria
by Lily King - one of the finalists for Goodreads Choice Awards 2014 - is on sale at Audible today only for $2.95.http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Eup...
Judy Blume has a new novel for adults titled In the Unlikely Event
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12...
J.K. Rowling only feels guilty for one Harry Potter death. Remember Florean Fortescue, the owner of the ice cream parlor in Diagon Alley whom we met briefly in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12...
The Most-Recommended Novel Of All Time Is To Kill a Mockingbirdhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12...
The Atlantic has a list of the Best Food Books of 2014:http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainm...
Do you agree?
Not my Top 10, but The Guardian (UK) has listed their Top 10 Thrillers for 2014: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014...Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
The Secret Place by Tana French
The Three by Sarah Lotz
Someone Else's Skin by Sarah Hilary
The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Benjamin Black
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
What have we read and loved this year? David Marr, Bridie Jabour, Paul Daley, Brigid Delaney and Jeff Sparrow on the best Australian books of 2014 from Guardian Australia:http://www.theguardian.com/books/aust...
What Days are For - A Memoir by Robert Dessaix
Triumph and Demise: The broken promise of a Labor generation by Paul Kelly
This House of Grief by Helen Garner
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
Wild Things by Brigid Delaney
First Victory: 1914 by Mike Carlton
The Golden Age by Joan London
Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
The Snow Kimono by Mark Henshaw
N by John A Scott
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee by Chloe Hooper
10:04 by Ben Lerner
A Bone of Fact by David Walsh
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
Here Come The Dogs by Omar Musa
The Bush by Don Watson
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
Challenge by Paul Daley
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Lovey Award nominees announced: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com...Categories:
- best first novel
- best traditional / amateur sleuth
- best suspense
- best police procedural / PI
- best historical
- best thriller
- best paranormal / sci-fi
- best series
- best short story
Winners will be announced in February 2015.
Just found this listing of "9 Books With Endings That Will Shock You": https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/9...What do you think? Can you think of books with shocking or dissatisfying endings?
I'm starting A Little Life Today . Now I can't wait !
It's had really good press, Angela M. Here's a link to a book review on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2015/03/19/3940501...
Kirstin , thanks . I saw some other good reviews as well but hadn't read the one from NPR . I'm looking forward to it even though it's 700+ pages !
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Both Ford and Egan were there to accept their medals, and $5,000 prizes.
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In addition, the remaining finalists received certificates and $1,500. Fiction finalists include The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper)The Round House and This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz (Riverhead)This is How You Lose Her. (Again another Goodreads Award Challenge book).
Nonfiction finalists included The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore (Knopf)The Mansion of Happiness and Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (W.W.Norton & Company)Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.
The awards, established in 2012, recognize the best of the best in fiction and nonfiction for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year and "serve as a guide to help adults select quality reading material." They are the first single-book awards for adult books given by the American Library Association and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers. Publishers Weekly contributing editor Nancy Pearl, librarian, NPR commentator, and best-selling author of “Booklust,” serves as chair of the awards’ selection committee.