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Not suprisingly, after winning this year’s Hugo Award for best novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won in the same category for this year’s World Fantasy Awards. (Via SF Signal). The book is still sitting on the bedside bookshelf with a bookmark about one quarter of the way in. Slate chimes in with an […]
The finalists for the National Book Awards were announced today. If literati means being part of literary intelligentsia, the finalist list evidently makes me an illerati.
I have not read any of the finalists in fiction or poetry. Of the five non-fiction finalists, 102 Minutes still sits on the “to be read” shelf by the […]
Even though it doesn’t evidently air on television for another 10 days, The Quill Awards were announced and the ceremony held Tuesday. The awards were promoted as “a consumer-driven celebration of the written word created to inspire reading while promoting literacy” and voting could be done over the Internet. The news story linked above says […]
My Blogcritics review of Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country has prompted a fairly heated and at times nasty comment war at that site. Of course, it seems many of the comments have nothing to do with the book itself. Perhaps it is a reflection of some of the points Vonnegut was making with […]
The shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize was announced today. The prize goes to “the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the [British] Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.” The six books emerging from the 17 on the longlist are: The Sea by John Banville; Arthur & George by Julian […]
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