As inspiration/motivation to post a bit more in the book field, I’m going to try a series of regular memes that circulate in the bookblog community. They may not appear each and every week but simply as they strike my fancy.
The first is Tuesday Thingers, a kind of a round robin of Library Thing early reviewers on a different theme or question each week created by The Boston Bibliophile . So here’s this week’s question:
Awards. Do you follow any particular book awards? Do you ever choose books based on awards? What award-winning books do you have? (Off the top of your head only- no need to look this up- it would take all day!) What’s your favorite award-winning book?
The book award I probably follow most closely is the Hugo Award for Best Novel . In fact, quite some time ago I made it a practice to buy a copy of that year’s winner if I did not already have it. While a couple have fallen through the gap, I have all but two or three...
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The Nobel Prize is a Swedish prize, established in the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics in...( read more ) ... more
Kangen water is the real way to stay healthy.
It stands to reason if you continually put anything acidic into your body you eventually are going to become gradually ill. Further down this page you will read what Dr.Warberg the Nobel prize winner said about acidic bodies.
What is Kangen water? How is Kangen water made? What is the difference between Kangen water and bottled water?
Kangen water has been around for over 60 years. It has been used extensively in most major Japanese hospi... more
There are many ways to deliver criticism effectively, but emitting a loud startling noise at a person who is in the middle of a life-threatening procedure is not one of them.
So writes Miss Conduct about a predicament faced recently by 2007 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize co-winner Dan Meyer .
NOTE: Dan Meyer is coming to participate—to take a bow, and perhaps then some—at the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony , which happens tomorrow night: October 2, 2008.
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30 Rock From: themaanga.com Post Date: 2008-12-02 03:50:34
It’s not that the show is mediocre as much as us living in a post sit-com era. Nancy Franklin captures the dilemma quite well.
It’s a great office romance, without sex to ruin it. Fey’s Liz has become a bit looser over the show’s forty episodes, and it may be that winning two Emmys in a row for Best Actress in a Comedy has freed Fey up as a performer; in which case, I’m all for giving out awards before people fully deserve them. (Yoo-hoo, Pulitzer Prize committee, over here!) ... more
Davidson Community Players will hold auditions Dec. 14-15 for adult actors in a pair of shows: Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned to Drive” and “The Bully Show,” an interactive play for youth by Brian Guehring.
Auditions will be Sunday, Dec. 14, and Monday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. at the Players’ Armour Street Theatre, [...]... more
BY RINA CHANDRAN
New Delhi
Oct. 15: Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning tale of the son of a rickshaw puller who dreams of escaping poverty rings true in India, where 800 million of its billion-plus population live on about 50 US cents a day.
But for young, urban Indians, perhaps even more compelling is his real-life story of trying to find an apartment in Mumbai, notorious for its high rentals and finicky landlords who detest pets, meat-eaters and, in particular, says Adiga, single ... more
One of the joys of running a mass media blog is the opportunity it allows you of discussing the really important issues with a wider audience.Important issues like where is my fucking BOOKER PRIZE!!!!!?????!!!!!... more
Aravind Adiga, the 33-year old from Chennai, India has bagged one of the most prestigious awards in the English literary world - the 50,000 pound worth Man Booker prize! His first Novel “The White Tiger” achieved this feat for it is impeccable clarity in portraying the real India. You should find it an arduous and treacherous task to spot a structural flaw in his book.
When a first time novelist, the youngest of the 6 short-listed nominees bags the Booker prize, you definite... more
... In winning the most prestigious prize in Canadian letters, Boyden took home $50,000 and cemented ... Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and it was a ... he thanked Giller founder Jack Rabinovitch, the judges, his publicist Stephen Myers, his wife and ...... more
io9, the SF blog that never seems to run out of posts or topics, this week comes up with The Twenty Science Fiction Novels That Will Change Your Life . It’s a rather broad title, since the post is really talking about how the books might impact your view of things, whether because “they’ve altered the course of science fiction writing, or simply provide a genuinely alien perspective on ordinary life.”
Here’s the list with a few of my thoughts and links to the a... more
Leap day marginalia From: prairieprogressive.com Post Date: 2008-02-29 20:30:32
Hopefully, the improving weather will also improve the attitude a variety of minor annoyances has created. At least I have an extra day to invoke one of my mantras: “get over it.” In the interi, largely award-related linkage.
The shortlist for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been announced. ( Via .)
Likewise, the (longer) list of nominees for the LA Times Book Prize was announced.
A more offbeat shortlist is for the Diagram Prize for the Oddest ... more
My youngest daughter has been a competitive swimmer for at least 10 of her 16+ years on this planet. It is coming to a rather sorrowful end.
To fully understand, you have to realize this is a kid who would rather swim than eat. And when I say swim, I don’t mean it in the sense understood by most people on this planet. No, this is getting up at 5 a.m. winter and summer mornings to swim lap upon lap upon lap upon lap and then doing it again that night until 10 p.m. And the jobs sheR... more
Bookish marginalia From: prairieprogressive.com Post Date: 2008-03-08 08:53:52
Evidently it will require some sort of spring thaw for substantive posting to resume. Hence:
The National Book Critics Circle awards were announced. Among the winners were The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz in fiction and Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington in general nonfiction. As I previously noted , they weren’t on my reading or nomination list.
The LA Times gives a nice synopsis of written hoaxes lies . ( Via .)
While I find they tend to dis... more
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