Since I’m choosy about what I read and mostly read only books I’m interested in, it’s often difficult to choose the titles that belong on my year-end “best books I read this year” list. And this year the task was particularly difficult. After much adding and subtracting, I’ve finally hit on this list of the […]
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Thanks to Goodreads for the following statistics: I read 16,335 pages across 48 books. SHORTEST BOOK: 135 pages. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell LONGEST BOOK: 894 pages. Dune by Frank Herbert AVERAGE LENGTH: 340 pages MY AVERAGE RATING FOR 2017: really liked it: 4.0 stars © 2017 by Mary Daniels Brown
This is always my least favorite post of the year. Here’s a list of people the literary world lost in 2017, including, where available, a link to an obituary and the date of death. John Berger, 1/2 Nat Hentoff, 1/7 Clare Hollingworth, 1/10 William Peter Blatty, 1/12 William A. Hilliard, 1/16 Peter Abrahams, 1/18 Byron
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Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards The Best Books of 2017 From Amazon The Best Books of 2017 From Esquire. © 2017 by Mary Daniels Brown
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The winners of the 2017 National Book Awards in all four categories, as well as the presenters and the lifetime achievement award. Source: The Recipients of the 2017 National Book Awards in All Four Categories
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Seven books—six novels and a memoir—were named finalists for the 2017 BookLife Prize. Each book was selected by an award-winning or bestselling author who served as a guest judge in one of seven genres. Source: Seven Finalists for 2017 BookLife Prize Announced
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Source: Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to British author Kazuo Ishiguro – UPI.com
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Every December 31st I sit down with the list of books I read that year and choose the best ones. I usually end up with 10 bests plus 5 honorable mentions. I include this many because I’m fortunate enough to be in the time of life when I can choose to read whatever I want,
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Grafton, Sue. Y is for Yesterday Random House Audio, © 2017 (print edition also © 2017) Recommended I’m always eager to read the newest installment of Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone series. However, this time my pleasure in digging into it was bittersweet. Y is, after all, the penultimate letter of the alphabet. This time Kinsey is
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Since reading and writing about books is my primary activity, I’ve recently been reading some articles on reading and writing about books (1) 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader One of the biggest recent events among book people was the retirement of Michiko Kakutani, who had been the chief book critic of
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