Happy Holidays!
And for those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, best wishes for health and happiness in the future.
Monday Miscellany
I am taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays. Monday Miscellany will return on January 7, 2013.
Even More Best Books of 2012 Lists
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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Monday Miscellany
‘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
Yet Another Batch of Best Books of 2012 Lists
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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Monday Miscellany
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
Still More Best Books of 2012 Lists
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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Monday Miscellany
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
More Best Books of 2012 Lists
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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Books About Older Women
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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