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Frank McCourt has passed away at the age of 78 after recently falling ill. Angela’s Ashes was one of the very fist memoirs that I ever read (in fact, I’ve given it away more than once here on my blog), and it was because of it that I now count memoirs among [...]
What can I possible say about To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the world’s most beloved books of all time? I don’t feel adequate enough to tackle reviewing this book, so I’m not even going to try. I will say that I’m so glad that I was able to read this book [...]
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced just moments ago! The winners are:
FICTION
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
DRAMA
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
HISTORY
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY
Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
POETRY
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
POETRY
Failure by Philip [...]
