Literary Awards

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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Room, by Emma Donoghue

November 20, 2010

Title: Room Author: Emma Donoghue Originally Published: 2010 Format I Read: Kindle eBook Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Rating: ____________________________ Room was shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, and it therefore made its way onto my short list (and almost every other blogger’s short list – just check out the list of reviews below). [...]

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2010 National Book Award Winners

November 19, 2010

Fiction – Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon Young People’s Literature – Mockingbird, by Kathryn Erskine Poetry – Lighthead, by Terrance Hayes Nonfiction – Just Kids, by Patti Smith I haven’t read any of these. Have you?

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Tinkers, by Paul Harding

October 22, 2010

Title: Tinkers Author: Paul Harding Pages: 191 Originally Published: 2009 Format I Read: Paperback Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press Rating: ____________________________ Okay, the first thing you should know about this book (other than the fact that it won this year’s Pultizer Prize for Fiction) is that the writing is amazing. Here, read these, if you don’t [...]

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The Queen’s Thief Series, by Megan Whalen Turner

October 14, 2010

We read this series as a “summer assignment” for my book club. And I’m really glad we did. It’s a delightful series, though some books worked better for me than others. Warning, some minor spoilers in the latter book summaries appear due to the nature of reviewing a series. Title: The Thief Author: Megan Whalen [...]

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2010 Booker Winner for Fiction

October 12, 2010

Have you read The Finkler Question? Do you think another of the shortlisted or longlisted books deserved to win?

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Booker Shortlist

September 17, 2010

I’m a bit late on the uptake, but the Booker Shortlist was announced last week. Here are the remaining six contenders: Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber) Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan – Picador) Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Books) Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury) Andrea Levy The Long Song [...]

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Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant

August 6, 2010

Title: Missing May Author: Cynthia Rylant Originally Published: 1992 Format I Read: Audio Publisher: Scholastic Rating: ____________________________ Missing May won the Newbery Medal in 1993. So, when I saw it on audio in my library, I had to pick it up. Summer, orphaned at a very young age, had been bounced around from inconvenienced relative [...]

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