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Diagram Prize
Six finalists have been announced by The Bookseller for the Diagram Prize, the literary award given annually to the book with the oddest title. This year’s eccentricities are: Afterthoughts of a Worm...
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Freedom to Read: 50th Anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird
Please take a moment and look at this video from the CBS Sunday Morning News from July 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird Turns 50 “The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop....
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Latest Additions
Weee! It’s up! It’s down! This weather is like a crazy roller-coaster ride! We’re having the craziest weather ever! I’m glad to see some leaves turn colors, perhaps promising some true fall weather,...
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2011 Thriller Awards
Last Saturday the International Thriller Writers announced their 2011 awards at their annual ThrillerFest in New York City. The best hardcover novel award went to John Sandford for Bad Blood. J.T....
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Poetry in America
On the evening of Wednesday, November 16th, the National Book Award winners will be announced at the NBA Benefit Dinner in NYC. The awards are given by the book publishing industry and honor the very...
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March Madness is Coming!!
Sorry sports fans, this isn’t about basketball – we’re talking books, man, books! The chance to get in on some bracket and betting fever is here for those who aren’t motivated by college ball, but...
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Latest Additions
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Today we celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon -and this looks to be a pretty fabulous occurrence! Strength, originality, and notable might be three words I...
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Even Being Nominated is an Honor!
It’s true for all those acting awards -and it’s true for all these book awards too! The latest books to be honored by nomination are the books chosen by the National Book Critics Circle and show an...
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Children have spoken!
They just announced the winners of the Children’s and Teen Choice awards last Wednesday night, and apparently a few of us here had our pulse on the picture book market. It was on the top books of 2013...
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Give This Book an Award!
Such an easy category to define: Award Winners! It could be any award, in any year, in any format, or in any age range, all the book needs is to have won some sort of prize by a recognized...
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I was there! -at The 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
It’s true! I was one of the lucky attendees at this year’s Anisfield-Wolf award ceremony -and it was incredible. The opener? A young man in the fifth grade read his winning, original poem “Am I...
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Lots of Wordy Books (aka Literary Fiction!)
We’re starting off the year with the Literary fiction challenge -were you able to find something that was characterized by a distinctive writing style, focused more on character than plot, or prompted...
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Award Winning Books!
So many awards, so many choices! As you can see from what everyone said about the book they chose, it was also a crowd pleaser, plus we really covered a whole bunch of genres in this one discussion!...
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2016 Favorites – Top 12 Edition
2016 was a book lover’s dream – I was like a kid in a candy store. Between reading and listening, I managed to finish a lot of literary fiction, and a few science fiction and suspense titles, but I...
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Greg’s Top 10 for 2017
1. Books Of Blood : Volumes One To Three by Clive Barker First off is a book I previously reviewed, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three. As the title describes this is a three books of short stories...
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Top of the List 2017
I must admit that I did not read as many books as is my norm this year. I will not offer up a bunch of excuses (except 2017 was a whopper of a year, wasn’t it?), but will share the best of those I did...
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How Do You Listen to Audio Books
Are you seeing a pattern here? My third post about audio books. I will admit that this year I am committing myself to more books, and audio books have helped me inch toward my goal. Did you know that...
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Reading With My Boys
One of my favorite things to do with my boys is read together. We are well beyond the picture books, but my boys & I enjoyed reading together until they hit their teens. Summer vacation is right...
View ArticleWhat exactly is the New York Times Bestseller List?
The first New York Times Bestseller List was published on October 12, 1931. It only contained five fiction and four non-fiction books for New York City only. Over time it was expanded and lists for...
View ArticleBookTalk for Adults
In case you missed the BookTalk for Adults program today at the library, here is what we talked about…. The Best Books of 2018 So Far. While there are many excellent books that have been penned thus...
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