tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:25:03 +0000Jane AustenGiller PrizeLaurie Halse AndersonHank StueverIndia KnightChinaSarah Polley19891997Ann PackerSignet BooksMatthew NormanScribnerBen FountainAnn PatchettLewis CarrollSarah HallPaul Auster1998Joshua FerrisChuck PalahniukHamish HamiltonLily TuckMaya AngelouBook TrailerTouchstoneJoanne ProulxDaniel J. LevitinTeenSarah BraunsteinPaul Bowles5 Spot1934Times BooksHenry Holt and CompanyKate JacobsSteig LarsonJess WalterDr. SeussNon-FictionHorrorMoby AwardsFrank PortmanStephen KingThomas FrankIACP Book AwardsUKDanny TobeyJeffrey Rotter1995Sophie KinsellaW.W. NortonSt Martin's PressMysterySusan J. 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RichesinTéa ObrehtDouglas CouplandDobbie AwardVintage19731960Table of ContentsJane HamiltonScience FictionBook ClubBen MezrichSusan CheeverSara GruenTruman Capote AwardSpyBestsellersWayson ChoyHodderStefan Merrill BlockAmazon ListGeneral1961Orange PrizeJohn GreenJeffrey EugenidesHatchet Job of the Year AwardLiane MoriartyAllison Winn ScotchVictoria FinlayChristopher Buckley1952Aimee BenderMargaret AtwoodTiffany BakerBeverly Jensen1983Canada Reads PoetryNational Book Critics AwardsRiverhead BooksPeter HedgesNeil GaimanHoltRandom CentreMichael OndaatjeAlgonquinConnie WillisArtDennis LehaneElizabeth GilbertLucy FerrissBritain1977AdapationNicolas Dickner1949David MeansBecca FitzpatrickThomas CobbRobert J. WiersemaMemoirUSPicadorLisa Genovahttp://letitread.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)Blogger324125LetItReadhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-1775558017390142073Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:41:00 +00002012-01-28T07:41:58.173-07:002012Saturday SnapshotSaturday Snapshot is a weekly meme hosted by Alyce at At Home With Books. The guidelines are to post a photo that you or a friend or family member have taken and then link it back to Alyce's original post for the week. Photos can be old or new and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. I took these shots with my handy Blackberry yesterday morning (it http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-snapshot-blue-lights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-5449157251929038179Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:44:00 +00002012-01-27T14:44:00.699-07:00Adaptation2006BritishPaul TordayFiction A fisheries scientist finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the wadis of the Highlands of Yemen, and change British political history and the course of his life. Mmmmm.....Lasse Hallstrom and Ewan McGregor. Seems like an irresistible combination!http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/adaptation-salmon-fishing-in-yemen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-1823171792530578467Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:35:00 +00002012-01-27T06:35:01.219-07:002011Book BeginningsAmericanErnest ClineFictionBook Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Katy from A Few More Pages. Instructions are pretty clear: just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.  This week's entry - Ernest Cline, Ready Player One Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-beginnings-on-friday_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-89638342935157830Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:19:00 +00002012-01-26T05:19:00.440-07:00Wayson Choy1995Canada ReadsCanadianBook ReviewDouglas and McIntyreFiction Written in a memoir-like fashion, Wayson Choy lays out a life and time of Vancouver’s Chinatown before and during the Second World War in The Jade Peony that is as beautifully lyrical as it is educationally dignified. Choy’s narrative spikes with moments of sympathy that cross gender, race, sex, and ethnic lines that shade in the boundaries of generational gaps and experiences. It also digs deephttp://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-review-wayson-choy-jade-peony.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-6059163544307708199Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:48:00 +00002012-01-25T14:48:00.098-07:002011Book MarkNational Book Critics AwardsThe 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists were announced over the weekend. I find it a little sad that I have not read any of these nominees; suppose a new library request list is in order! Winners will be announced March 8, 2012. Fiction Nonfiction Autobiography Biography Criticism Poetry http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-2011-national-book-critics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-6757352242825576763Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:15:00 +00002012-01-25T12:15:00.500-07:002012LanguageBook MarkI came across this article a few days ago by Lindsay Johns for The Daily Mail and had to share. Waterstones: O apostrophe, where art thou?... So another one bites the dust. Yesterday the high street bookshop chain Waterstone’s announced that, as part of its re-branding, it has decided to move with the times and officially change its name to Waterstones, sans apostrophe. O tempora, o mores! http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-and-there-goes-apostrophe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-2642400178093414912Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:16:00 +00002012-01-25T04:16:00.436-07:00Costa Book AwardsAndrew Miller2011Book Mark English author Andrew Miller has won Britain’s $47,000 Costa Book Award for his sixth novel, Pure. Set in 18th century Paris, just four years before the French Revolution, Miller's novel is a historical thriller involving seduction, murder and suicide. A young engineer is tasked with cleaning out the congested medieval cemetery of Les Innocents, the stink of which taints the air of the http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-2011-costas-book-of-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-6635743849361905089Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:52:00 +00002012-01-24T12:52:00.098-07:00Emma ForrestTable of Contents2011MemoirRandom HouseBritish Author: Emma Forrest Publisher/Year: Random House, 2011 Synopsis: Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/table-of-contents-your-voice-in-my-head.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-2937119602223941916Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:02:00 +00002012-01-24T05:02:00.571-07:00Henry Holt and CompanyFirst Chapter First ParagraphAmerican2003FictionPaul Auster Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the sea posts the opening paragraph (maybe two) of a book she decided to read based on the opening paragraph (s). This is the First Chapter First Paragraph meme. My entry this week comes from Paul Auster's Oracle Night: A Novel: I had been sick for a long time. When the day came for me to leave the hospital, I barely knew how to walk anymore, http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-chapter-first-paragrah-tuesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-4960925663956478514Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +00002012-01-23T09:36:00.132-07:00Téa Obreht2011Line By LineAmericanRandom HouseFiction “Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?” “Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.” “Everything necessary to understand my http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/line-by-line-tea-obreht-tigers-wife.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-8806836468027416258Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +00002012-01-22T12:26:42.960-07:002012t-shirtsBook MarkI always keep an eye open for cool t-shirts related to books and reading, and friend brought the following to my attention over the weekend. This awesome "Words Create Worlds" design and t-shirt is available through Threadless Causes: 25% of the sale of this tee benefits 826 National's nonprofit writing and publishing workshops and tutoring programming for kids ages 6 to 18. 826 National http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-words-create-worlds-t-shirt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-8230087084289636875Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +00002012-01-22T09:43:40.428-07:00Young AdultBook Trailer2012AmericanJulie CrossSt Martin's PressFiction The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy .. he's in college, has a girlfriend ... and he can travel back through time. But it's not like the movies—nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there's no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors—it's just harmless fun. That is ... until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-trailer-julie-cross-tempest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-6728892300701422966Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:35:00 +00002012-01-21T20:45:23.494-07:002012Canada Reads Started in 2001, Canada Reads is CBC's annual battle of the books, where five Canadian personalities each select a book they want Canadians to read. They defend their chosen title in a series of debates, and the books are eliminated one by one until a winner is declared. The debates air on CBC Radio One, CBC TV and are livestreamed online through CBC Books. In 2012, Canada Reads turns http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-canada-reads-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-5764771148757237087Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:01:00 +00002012-01-22T16:58:12.351-07:00Sarah BraunsteinW.W. NortonTable of Contents2011AmericanFiction Author: Sarah Braunstein Publisher/Year: Norton & Company, 2011 Synopsis: In New York City, a girl called Leonora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie, a wild, negligent mother, searches for a man to help raise her precocious son, Paul, who later discovers that the only way to save his soul is to run away. As the narrative moves back and forth in time, we find http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/table-of-contents-sweet-relief-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-7096545221363677740Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:06:00 +00002012-01-21T09:06:05.873-07:00David Sedaris2010Saturday Snapshot In my quest to 'shake things up' a bit for the new year with the blog, Saturday Snapshot is the latest meme to get my attention. Hosted by Alyce at At Home With Books the guidelines are to post a photo that you or a friend or family member have taken and then link it back to Alyce's original post for the week. Photos can be old or new and be of any subject as long as they are clean and http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-snapshot-david-sedaris.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-8577954499784729878Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:05:00 +00002012-01-20T05:05:01.294-07:00Lionel ShriverAdaptation2003BritishFiction This novel still haunts me. I don't necessarily want to see this adaptation because the visuals and narrative I created in my own mind are so powerful and disturbing. To see them potentially rendered on widescreen scares me. And yet, I am comforted by Tilda Swinton playing the lead character as that is exactly who it should be. This is going to be tough and perhaps I need to ensure ample http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/adaptation-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-3381925491458671227Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:07:00 +00002012-01-18T15:07:00.575-07:00Man Asian Literary Prize2011Book MarkFictionFounded in 2007, the Man Asian Literary Prize celebrates the best work of fiction by an Asian author (written in or translated into English) during the previous calendar year. The 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize finalists, revealed in Kong Kong and London on Tuesday, are: Jamil Ahmad (Pakistan) for The Wandering Falcon Jahnavi Barua (India) for Rebirth - A Novel Rahul Bhattacharya (India) for http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-man-asian-literary-prize.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-7820548414041726728Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:04:00 +00002012-01-18T11:04:00.284-07:002011John BurnsideBook MarkT.S. Eliot Prize for PoetryPoetry Courtesy CBC.ca: Scottish poet John Burnside has been named winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his collection Black Cat Bone.   He won the £15,000 ($23,335 Cdn) award at a ceremony at the Haberdashers' Hall in London, on Monday. The prize marks more recognition for the collection, following his October win of the £10,000 ($15,560) Forward Prize. Black Cat Boneis "a haunting bookhttp://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-ts-eliot-prize-for-poetry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-473575174658170323Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:28:00 +00002012-01-18T05:28:00.174-07:00Kevin Kirkpatrick2012ArtBook MarkEver wondered how it would look, living within the pages of a book? Artist Kevin Kirkpatrick has taken a stab at bringing the visual to life with "Reading Landscape." Check out his other works of art; very cool stuff happening.   http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-mark-reading-landscape-by-kevin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-4601704139100893764Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:52:00 +00002012-01-17T12:52:00.498-07:00Table of Contents2011AmericanPantheonKevin BrockmeierFiction Author: Kevin Brockmeier Publisher/Year: Pantheon, 2011 Synopsis: What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, and fromhttp://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/table-of-contents-illumination.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-1878452917159092587Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:48:00 +00002012-01-17T06:48:00.327-07:00Matthew NormanFirst Chapter First Paragraph2011AmericanHarper PerennialFiction Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the sea posts the opening paragraph (maybe two) of a book she decided to read based on the opening paragraph (s). This is the First Chapter First Paragraph meme. My entry this week comes from Matthew Norman's Domestic Violets: A Novel (P.S.) I splash cold water on my face. This is what men in movies do when they're about to fly off the handle, http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-chapter-first-paragraph-tuesday_17.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-4320153878996561566Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:12:00 +00002012-01-16T00:12:00.265-07:00Zoë HellerPicadorLine By LineBritish1993Fiction“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.” “I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/line-by-line-zoe-heller-what-was-she.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-8935523895902514640Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +00002012-01-15T12:04:14.196-07:00Young AdultBook Trailer2012AmericanJessica SpotswoodFiction Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship - or an early grave. Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-trailer-jessica-spotswood-born.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-2491767132703364968Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:45:00 +00002012-01-14T10:46:16.161-07:00Don DeLilloTable of ContentsAmericanScribner2007Fiction Author: Don DeLillo Publisher/Year: Scribner, 2007 Synopsis: Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he’d always imagined http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/table-of-contents-falling-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614956464627785161.post-8880286105338010111Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:03:00 +00002012-01-13T18:04:19.000-07:00AdaptationSpy2011BritishJohn Le Carre Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government - which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. *I recently saw this http://letitread.blogspot.com/2012/01/adaptation-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hopechaser)4