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Friday, March 12th, 2010
One of my favorite fantasy authors, Robin Hobb, has just published the first book in a new trilogy. Dragon Keeper begins with the hatching of the rescued sea serpents which the great blue dragon, Tintaglia, led up to their hatching grounds. Unfortunately, the dragons which emerge are not the magnificent ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
A celebration of the beloved American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, begins this month and continues through the middle of March at area libraries, universities and community venues. I've been recording the book this past month to be broadcast on the Bookshelf, a program of KPBX radio in Spokane. This ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Jess Walter's latest, The Financial Lives of the Poets, was picked by Time Magazine's editorial staff as #2 in its list of the ten best fiction books of 2009. There are lots of people right now who are waiting for a library copy of this particular book, but in the ...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
This year's winners of the National Book Awards were announced on November 18th. The choice for fiction, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, is one of my favorite books from this year's reading, and I was thrilled to find out this morning that it had won this prestigious ...
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
The National Book Foundation is giving the American reading public the chance to vote for the best. The Foundation has chosen six previous winners of its prestigious annual award for fiction written by an American author and invited readers to choose their favorite. Four short story collections and two women authors are ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
I just finished reading this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. This character driven series of interconnected stories set in a small town in Maine is characterized by an emotional intensity expressed in elegant writing. Olive is in each story, sometimes she's the ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Eva Ibbotson has recently gained recognition for her light-hearted fantasy fiction for grade school children but she started out writing romantic novels for adults. A favorite of this genre is A Song for Summer. Set in Austria just before the start of World War II, Ellen is a housekeeper at ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Perennially popular author Stephen King, writing on Entertainment Weekly's website, offers seven fiction titles to try this summer. All are owned by Spokane Public Library and range from contemporary to classic. As could be expected from this master of suspense, they are mostly mystery or adventure titles. Click on the ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
The American Booksellers Association recently announced the winners of the inaugural Indies Choice Book Awards. An expanded version of the ABA's Book Sense Book of the Year Award, the winners this year include Sherman Alexie who was chosen as Most Engaging Author.
The Best Indie Buzz Book for fiction went to ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Q and A by Vikas Swarup, the book upon which the Academy Award winning film, “Slumdog Millionaire” was based, has a short waiting list. Here are half a dozen more novels by Indian writers that you might want to try.
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth is a sprawling multi-generational story ...
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