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Bookish Linkage Tim Winton’s Breath, which I reviewed last week, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Winton has won the award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, four times. China Miéville has plenty of interesting ideas, as usual, this time at Amazon’s book blog. C. Max takes an interesting look at what Amazon’s auto-complete feature may […] Bookish Notes The American Library Association has announced its 2009 Notable Books for Adults. I’ve read two books each in the fiction and nonfiction categories, in which 11 and 12 books, respectively, earned the honor. The finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, given for the best SF book of the year, have been […] Bulletin Board Although it’s appropriately being mentioned everywhere, it still would be wrong to have a post today without acknowledging the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Blogosphere Notes Commander Other has departed the Otherwhirled and his alter ego has embarked on a new mission at un:enslaved. Sincere congrats to and continuing appreciation of The Big Picture, […] Observations and Announcements Bob Schwartz evidently found political cold turkey a tough bird. Bob is now at South Dakota Humanist, which was added to the blogroll earlier this week. Love the new name, Bob. I’m not going to do much, if anything, on the Sotomayor nomination other than to observe she’s been confirmed by the […] Achievement Awards Blog headline of the week: Kindle Bloggers Become Amazon’s Bitches. Tell us what you really think: UK auto writer says of new Honda, “It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.” Bookish Linkage What would a trip be without […] |
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