BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

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Fresh off the presses
More on new Obama biography
Kingsolver and more nominated for PEN/Faulkner
10 Rules for Writing
What Everyone’s Reading
Historical Novels about Strong Women
First children’s book by Grisham
Huffington’s take on book reviews
Really cool libraries
Sedaris’s next project

Welcome back!

Yesterday I received an email from the Pulitzer First Edition website with an updated short-list:

1.
My Father’s Tears: And Other Stories by John Updike

2.
Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

3.
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow

4.
The Humbling by Philip Roth

5.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

6.
The Maple Stories by John Updike

7.
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell

8.
Spooner [...]

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Final installment of Hunger Games triology scheduled (and titled)
Locus Online Recommended Reading list for 2009
Literary classics that should be video games
What’s getting reviewed

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Here’s what hip, hot and happening in the world of books this week…

What the Lakers’ are reading?
Where kids live can affect reading skills
What everyone’s reading right now…
What we’ll be reading soon?
Sean Penn in Water for Elephants?
Cool uses for books (other than reading)
Books about food – fiction and nonfiction
NBCC finalists announced

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Lots of great tidbits in the world of books right now!!

Best Books for Boys courtesy of Book Club Girl
The next Twilight??
NPR’s Best Gift Books of 2009
What Really Killed Jane Austen…  clues from a painting?
How Our Brains Learned to Read
How to Run a Short Story Book Club
Time for literate people to boycott [...]