It Happened on Thanksgiving | The Seattle Public Library | BiblioCommons. If you will have a bit of free time tomorrow, the Seattle Public Library has compiled a list of 11 books that take place on Thanksgiving.
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Amazon.com: 2011 Best Books of the Year. Amazon has offers several lists here. The first one is “Best Books of 2011,” of which the top ten are: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes In the Garden of Beasts by
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Goodreads Choice Awards 2011. Help choose the Goodreads winners in this first of three rounds of voting.
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The Best Books of 2011 « Genreville. Publishers Weekly’s editors’ choices of 2011’s top books in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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But wait, there’s more! In a follow-up to their earlier list of the year’s top 10 books, Publishers Weekly offers a more complete listing, separated by genre or by adult/children’s books. PW Best Books of 2011 Readers’ Poll And over here you can vote on your favorite of PW’s top 10. The choices are: The
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We all need a little variety in our lives, so this week’s Monday Miscellany is a bit different than usual. Instead of linking to specific articles, today I’m linking to web sites that provide information for bibliophiles. Los Angeles Review of Books The LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS is now in preview mode, while our
Book lovers rake in the reading as publishers release fall titles It’s time to trade in the beach reads for the usually longer and more serious fall reads. The Sacramento Bee‘s Allen Pierleoni lists upcoming new titles, some by big-name authors (think Joan Didion, Lee Child, Stephen King, Alice Hoffman, and Sue Grafton ) in
Lauren Myracle withdraws from National Book Award finalists – latimes.com. This story is all over Twitter this morning. Here’s just one newspaper’s account of why this mess occurred. Apparently, the National Book Foundation doesn’t like the subject matter of Lauren Myracle’s novel Shine, which deals with a hate crime. In requesting the withdrawal of the
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Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. The Seattle Times spotlights 92-year-old Grace Crecelius: For 61 years, Grace Crecelius has cracked the books. Not just any books, mind you, but the works of Plato, Descartes and Kant, Shakespeare, Marx and Freud. At 92, Crecelius is the oldest member of what may be one
Nine seems to be this week’s lucky number. Nine Pilgrimages For the Lover of Western Literature A pilgrimage is the focal point around which a journey wraps, not the raison d’etre per se (that is the journey itself) but rather the pulley on the far end of the rope that ratchets you out of your
