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2011 Pulitzer Winner for Fiction

April 18, 2011

The 2011 Pulitzers were just announced. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan I’m dying to read this one! But I’ve never heard of the two finalists: The Privileges, by Jonathan Dee and The Surrendered, by Chang Rae Lee Have you read any [...]

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Table of Contents Giveaway Winner

March 30, 2011

And the winner of a copy of Table of Contents is Lorren from The Story Girl! Congratulations, Lorren. And thank you to everyone who entered.

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Table of Contents Review & Giveaway

March 22, 2011

Title: Table of Contents Author: Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp Pages: 288 Originally Published: 2011 Format: Paperback Publisher: Adams Media ____________________________ When I host one of my book clubs, I like to try and prepare some food that is related to the book. But the best I usually come up with is something like [...]

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Utah Book Bloggers Bash: Winter 2011

February 25, 2011

Calling all Utah book bloggers! You’re invited to a party. Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Midvale Golden Corral (665 Fort Union Boulevard) If you are a Utah book blogger and would like to come: RSVP to utahbookbloggers AT gmail DOT com. Help spread the word about this event! Bring a paperback [...]

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Cool Stuff You Should Know About

January 29, 2011

Does the rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition also apply to blog headings? I hope not. Anyway, I have two cool things that I think you should check out. (Ugg. Those prepositions just won’t go away today!) First, Pam at Bookalicio.us is having a major giveaway – including a new color Nook [...]

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2011 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

January 10, 2011

And the 2011 John Newbery Medal goes to: Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool And the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award goes to: Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi (I’ve already updated the Printz Project with the winner and honor books. Head on over to check it out.) And the 2011 Caldecott Medal goes to: A [...]

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Holiday Giveaway Winners

December 18, 2010

Okay, we have our winners! Here are the books I’m offering up: The paperback of The Winter Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly goes to Erin at Erin Reads! The hardback of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, by C.W. Gortner goes to my internet twin, Brooke “Bluestocking” at The Bluestocking Guide! Since I didn’t have any [...]

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A Holiday Giveaway

December 10, 2010

I’m feeling a holiday-ish need to give stuff away. So I dug through my stash and decided to have a giveaway. Here are the books I’m offering up: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, by C.W. Gortner – Hardback Substitute Me, by Lori L. Tharps – Paperback The Winter Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly – Paperback [...]

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