Because I had jury duty for the entire month of March, I did not get as much reading done as I would have liked. I usually finish one book before starting another, but I decided to set aside the book I was reading, on which I wanted to take notes, for one that I could […]
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Alexander Chee Alexander Chee’s second novel, the recently published The Queen of the Night, is about “famous opera singer Lilliet Berne, following her as she survives brothels, prisons, and imperial palaces in Second Empire and Third Republic France.” Here Nick Mancusi interviews Chee about Historical Fiction (“capital H capital F”), fiction in general, the source
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Related Posts: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved 6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread Like most of you, I have big, ambitious plans for my future reading. Here are the Big Books that currently reside on my TBR shelves. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy paperback, 1392 pages Isn’t this
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Anita Brookner, a British author of lean, elegiac and stylistically polished novels who was once labeled the “mistress of gloom” for her depiction of bleak and disappointed lives, usually of women, died on Thursday. Source: Anita Brookner, whose bleak fiction won the Booker Prize, dies at 87 – The Boston Globe
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Pat Conroy always managed to put South Carolina’s weirder qualities into gloriously humorous and scientific perspective. This is a rare art as it requires a brand of honesty most people run from before they have to think too hard about it. This honesty requires ownership of both the good and bad aspects of history, requires
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Novels by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante, Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk and a political novel banned in mainland China have all been longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International prize, celebrating the finest in global fiction translated to English. The 13-book longlist was whittled down from 155 and consists of authors from 12 countries,
Sorry, Science Says Speed Reading Doesn’t Work A report, recently published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, on a comprehensive review of the science behind speed reading: The team behind the research looked at decades of studies focused on all manner of techniques and apps that promise to help you devour words at an
9 WOMEN TO WATCH IN 2016 A list of “up-and-coming female writers [who] will have readers talking in 2016.” 115 READING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOOKS BY WOMEN From Bookriot’s Amanda Nelson: I jumped on the “One Book/One Like” Twitter bandwagon and decided to only recommend books by women for every like the tweet got. I made
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In honor of International Women’s Day, Women’s History Month, and all women everywhere, we asked the all-volunteer staff at VIDA to tell us about the books that changed their lives. Ran… Source: 33 Life-Changing Books in Honor of International Women’s Day | Literary Hub
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It’s time for The Classics Spin #12. Here are the directions: At your blog, by next Monday, March 7, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list — in a separate post. Next Monday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read
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