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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline follows the teenage Wade Watts in the year 2044. Even though the story takes place in the future it primarily deals with the past; the 1980s. Feel free to read on, I will not include any spoilers. Everything so far is found on the back cover or in the first chapter. The story is addicting. Cline is good at giving little pieces along the way that keep you

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The book award winners for 2015 are in. This post covers the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, and the Man-Booker Prize for fiction. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 The Nobel Prize honors an author “for outstanding contributions in the field of literature.” It is awarded annually. The past winners from the US include Sinclair Lewis, T. S. Elliot, William

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Reading Shelf As an English graduate student, I have a ton of reading to get through every week; academic articles, stories, novels, books, research, and many other minor things. I was recently talking to another student who was asking me how I manage. Talking with him for a while I realized that I have learned some secrets to getting more reading done! Not really secrets, but I do have some

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The year’s book award winners are a great place to find books to read and discover new authors. Check out the links and try some samples on your Kindle.   Nobel Prize in Literature The highest recognition an author can receive is the Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is given to writers for their body of work. Some notable past winners are: Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Ernest

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English: Image of American Writer Adam Johnson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The year’s book award winners are a great place to find books to read and discover new authors. Check out the links and try some samples on your ereader. Nobel Prize in Literature The highest recognition an author can receive is the Nobel Prize in Literature. The award is given to writers for their body of work.

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When I first got my Kindle, I couldn't wait to fill it up with the best novels. Searching around on the internet I found this great list. The goal when they made the list was not to have a competition about what the best book was, but to get people talking about great books. To narrow down the list they had a couple requirements for the novels. 1. Published between 1900 and 1998 (when the list

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Third generation Amazon Kindle, showing text from the novel Moby-Dick. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You can check out the previous posts by clicking below. Part 1 Part 2 The Pros of eReaders Now that we have addressed many of the fallacies touted about why ebooks are bad, let’s talk about why they are good. It is easier to have a Kindle app on my smartphone that I always have with

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Woman Hollering Creek and other stories is a collection of short stories by Sandra Cisneros first published in 1992. The collection is split into three parts, with the first two parts being very short stories with most being only a couple pages. In the third part, the stories are longer and quite powerful. The two stories that stood out as being very memorable are, “Woman Hollering Creek”

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In the first part we covered the history of books and publishing. In this second piece we will address the fallacies and preferences that people tout about ebooks versus books. The final piece will cover the good of ereaders and how books and ebooks will coexist. Fallacies The first argument I heard against books was that they are hurting bookstores and libraries. Libraries have been

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The ebooks versus books “war” has been raging for sometime. This frivolous and baseless war has been conjured up by those that want to maintain their current control of the book market, mainly modern book publishers, and those that are resistant to change. Ebooks are not going to kill books, or libraries, or bookstores, the same way that television didn’t kill radio and the internet didn’t kill

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Mark Twain is one of my favorite American authors and I was surprised upon reading this book that I had not heard of it before, even though I had read the classics by him, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and I loved those. Letters from the Earth is a short work, that basically takes religion and the hypocrisy of society to task. Anti-Stratfordian Mark Twain, wrote "Is Shakespeare Dead

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Amazon’s new Kindle Unlimited plan is a ebook borrowing service that makes it easy to download as many books as you can read for a monthly fee of $9.99. You can read on any Kindle device or app, as many books as you want, without any limits. It’s like Netflix for movies or Spotify for music, you can download as much or as little as you like to read or not read. Sounds like a great deal for $

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Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street Published 1984 The House on Mango Street is a coming of age story by Sandra Cisneros first published in 1984. I remember reading this story in Middle School and thinking that this was the first time I was able to really relate to a character. The short novel is written in a series of vignettes dealing with memorable experiences growing up in a

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Song of the Lark By Willa Cather Published 1915 Free on Kindle I previously wrote about another novel by Willa Cather (1873-1947), The Professor’s House, and cover her history a bit more in that one. She is one of the best American novelists, considered in the top 10 and won the Pulitzer Prize for  One of Ours in 1922, a novel set in World War 1. The Song of the Lark was

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These Dreams of You By Steve Erickson Published January 2012 The latest work by Steve Erickson is different from his previous novels but contains some of the same great writing techniques. Erickson emphasizes repetition in his stories. He repeats certain lines and ideas often in different characters or scenes. He interweaves plot points that make it so that you know what is going to happen

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The Turn of the Screw By Henry James First published in 1898 The Turn of the Screw is a novella that was published in serial form in Collier’s Weekly. The story is divided into a prologue and twenty four chapters. The story begins on a Christmas eve with people sitting around a fire telling ghost stories. After a lackluster ghost story the narrator introduces the story of a governess who is

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Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina - Free First Published in 1877 Anna Karenina is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. The novel was originally published in serial form from 1873 to 1877. This is a highly regarded book and one that I personally love. It has grown in popularity in recent years and is widely regarded as a flawless book. The new movie version looks really good with Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina

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Cover via Amazon Every year there are a number of awards that highlight some of the best literature and writers. With so much being published and people having less and less time to read, awards are a good place to find books to read. Literature awards are also a good place to follow along with the happenings in the literature world as well as discover new writers.  Nobel Prize In

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Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote First Published in 1605 Many of the books discussed before on this blog have been on “Best Books” lists including Things Fall Apart, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Crime and Punishment, The Odyssey, and King Lear. There is one book that is consistently ranked high on all the best books’ lists and was voted “best literary work ever written,” Don Quixote. Don Quixote

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Willa Cather The Professor's House - $4.65 Published in 1925 Willa Cather was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer. She was a very confident writer, working for years on novels to produce a very specific voice. She did not fit in with other women writers of her time and is said to have “regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental and mawkish.” She is now

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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Free Published 1876 Mark Twain was a humorist and satirist who achieved worldwide acclaim while still alive. For more on Mark Twain see my post on his Biography and Autobiography. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of Mark Twain's most famous novels. The book follows Tom Sawyer and his friends growing up in a town next to the Mississippi river and all

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1876 Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment - Free First Published in 1866 Fyodor Dostoyevsky (also Dostoevsky) was a Russian writers who lived from 1821 to 1881. He is widely regarded as one of the best writers and psychologist in literature. His novels portray the psychology of characters living in troubled times. Crime and Punishment takes place in Russia and follows

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Emily Dickinson on the Left  Poems by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1886 Emily Dickinson has been in the news lately because a new picture has been discovered. She is a major American poet and an infamous recluse. Prior to this picture being discovered there was only one other picture of her at sixteen years of age. She only published a handful of poems in her life out of the nearly

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Kindle Literature had another great month in August! We implemented a few changes this month. We removed the comments section from the posts. After some research and thinking we decided to move the comments section over to our Facebook page. Most people have Facebook and for those that don’t you can contact the blog through email at kindleliterature@yahoo.com. You can leave comments or

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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness - Free 1899 Joseph Conrad left Poland at sixteen to enlist as a sailor in order to see the world. This is evident in his writings as many of his stories have to do with sailing. He did not become fluent in English until his mid twenties and his writing style has a foreign sensibility. He was able to incorporate a tragic feelings into his English prose that had

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