Mary Daniels Brown

My mother always insisted that, as soon as I was old enough to sit up, she’d find me in my crib after my nap babbling away, with a Little Golden Book on my lap. I’ve had my nose in a book ever since. I grew up in a small town, with the tiny town library literally in my backyard. As an only child in an unhappy home, I found comfort and companionship in books. As an adult I wanted to be Harry Potter, although I admit I’m more Hermione. My life has been a series of research projects. Reading has taught me that human lives are deliciously messy and that “it’s complicated” isn’t a punchline.

People Are Talking … About These Five Books

People Are Talking … About These Five Books : NPR: If your book group is looking for a good discussion book, this short article has five suggestions: four fiction and one nonfiction. And in the upper right corner of the page, you’ll find links to more “Best of 2010” book lists from NPR.

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100 Notable Books of 2010

100 Notable Books of 2010 – Holiday Gift Guide – NYTimes.com: Editors at the New York Times Book Review have compiled this list, which includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Best of 2010 book lists – CSMonitor.com

Best of 2010 book lists – CSMonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor compiles some of the earliest “Best Books of 2010” lists.

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Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2010 – The New York Times

Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2010 – The New York Times: And here’s another list that I found just after I finished the previous post.

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Best Books of 2010

The lists of the year’s best books have commenced. Here are a couple: PW Daily’s Ten Best Books of 2010 PW Daily is working on compiling several lists in all sorts of categories, but here’s something to whet our appetites: the 10 best books overall. Both fiction and nonfiction appear on this list. Amazon: Best

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Mystery Writers’ Awards

Bouchercon by the Bay PW Daily reports on awards given out at Bouchercon, the annual mystery writers’ convention: In addition to Tower’s win for Best Novel, Macavity Awards—voted on by members of Mystery Readers International—were also given to Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke (Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award); Hank Phillippi Ryan’s ‘On the House’

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Belva Plain, Novelist, Dies at 95

Belva Plain, Novelist, Dies at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Belva Plain, who became a best-selling author at age 59 and whose multigenerational family sagas of Jewish-American life won a loyal readership in the millions, died on Tuesday at her home in Short Hills, N.J. She was 95. OK, so her fiction wasn’t the

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Read My Book? Tour My House

Essay – Read My Book? Tour My House – NYTimes.com: Someday, I really would like to tour The Mount, Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, Massachusetts. In the meantime, here’s an essay from Anne Trubek about the whimsy of preserving writers’ living quarters.

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Top Ten Discussion Books

ReadingGroupGuides.com – 10th Anniversary Contest Results: In honor of its tenth anniversary, ReadingGroupGuides.com ran a contest asking book groups to submit a list of their favorite books. The results are now in, and here is the Top Ten list. There are also links here to results broken down into categories (e.g., classics, biographies/memoirs). How many

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Most Sought-After Out-of-Print Books, 2010

BookFinder.com Report Fall 2010 @ BookFinder.com: Every year BookFinder.com tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America. In this, the eighth edition, several books garnered enough attention for publishers to re-print them in the near future. We also find some out-of-print mainstays which are unlikely to see a printer again despite their popularity. But above

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