Breaking News: National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

And the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award are. . .
Criticism
Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays (Pantheon)
Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA (Viking)
Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and […]

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Category: Award Winning, Book Lists, Books, BookWise Business

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Although I’ve been enjoying all my books this last month, none of them made it to you MUST read it status. Finally! I’ve got one! The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was brilliant and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. Having read A Thousand Splendid Suns (see my […]

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Category: Fiction, Reading Group Guides, Book Reviews, Books

Young Adult Reading Challenge

Well, I might as well “officially” join this challenge because, heck, I’m already doing it! I’ve just never written a post to actually say I’m in. So, Joy (our host), I hope you don’t mind that I include the books that I’ve already read in 2008. Linked reviews are obviously the Young […]

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Category: Challenges, Book Lists, Books