Reviews of the 2012 National Book Award finalists (Poetry, YA, Non-Fiction, Fiction)
Larry Send a noteboard - 12/11/2012 08:39:13 PM
I'm currently in the midst of reviewing all 20 books that made the 2012 National Book Award shortlists for Poetry, Young People's Literature (YA), Non-Fiction, and Fiction (reviewing them in that categorical order - have 4 more fiction reviews to write today-Wednesday) in advance of the winners being announced on Wednesday, November 14.
I thought a few here might be interested in some of these (likely the latter two categories), so I'll take the time throughout the day today laboriously doing HTML conversions for the 16 reviews I've already written. I'll post them under subthreads devoted to each of the 4 categories, beginning with poetry.
I thought a few here might be interested in some of these (likely the latter two categories), so I'll take the time throughout the day today laboriously doing HTML conversions for the 16 reviews I've already written. I'll post them under subthreads devoted to each of the 4 categories, beginning with poetry.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Reviews of the 2012 National Book Award finalists (Poetry, YA, Non-Fiction, Fiction)
- 12/11/2012 08:39:13 PM
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Young People's Literature
- 12/11/2012 08:58:44 PM
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Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- 12/11/2012 09:07:32 PM
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Sounds very interesting. I may give it a go
- 18/11/2012 11:19:19 AM
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It's a good primer read, but I suspect there are more in-depth studies of the Manhattan Project
- 18/11/2012 08:44:09 PM
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Non-Fiction
- 12/11/2012 09:16:35 PM
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Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- 12/11/2012 09:23:30 PM
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Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- 12/11/2012 09:27:07 PM
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Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956
- 12/11/2012 09:29:59 PM
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Fiction
- 12/11/2012 09:34:43 PM
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Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
- 12/11/2012 09:37:02 PM
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I like him, and I want to read this. *NM*
- 15/11/2012 04:17:18 PM
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I've read all but one of his novels and this one is near the bottom in terms of interest/quality
- 18/11/2012 08:45:17 PM
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Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 13/11/2012 07:45:53 AM
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I loved it.
- 13/11/2012 05:16:13 PM
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I got to meet Fountain last month in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books
- 13/11/2012 10:56:43 PM
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Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her
- 14/11/2012 01:47:31 PM
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