Maw Books Blog

For those of you who have been with my blog longer than just the last three months already realize how much Darfur means to me.  During September, I organized the Reading and Blogging for Darfur campaign which raised funds and awareness about the current genocide taking place in Darfur, Sudan.  That project is among one [...]

This is worth mentioning because I know I have a lot of readers who follow Stephenie Meyer and Twilight news.  Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight, has been fired.  Deadline Hollywood (which is updating their page with new announcements) says “Summit Entertainment Co-Chairman/CEO Rob Friedman just phoned me to say: ‘Catherine and Summit have agreed to [...]

The book blogging community has lost one of its finest.  Dewey from Hidden Side of a Leaf passed away this past week.  To say that she leaves behind a huge void is a understatement.  Not only was she a prolific reader, reviewer and blogger but she was also the founder and organizer of Weekly Geeks, [...]

The National Book Award Winners were announced today.
Fiction
Winner:
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Finalists:
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The End by Savatore Scibona
Non-Fiction
WINNER:
The Hemingses of Monticello:  An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Finalists:
This Republic of Suffering:  Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Dark Side:  The Inside [...]

For all the Stephenie Meyer fans, another Twilight movie trailer premiered today, but I’m sure you already knew that.  I think they are probably showing us all the best parts.  My husband finished reading all four books!  I hope to have a guest review up whenever I can get him to sit down and write [...]