Finalists for the 2014 Tournament of Books
Finally!! I’ve been waiting and waiting for this list of finalists to come out. Less than two months in which to read them all! Wait. I should back up. Are you confused? Have you heard of the...
View ArticleHow To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid
So, I probably never would have heard about let alone picked up this book with the Tournament of Books. And that is exactly why I love the tournament so much, because this is a fantastic book. It’s...
View ArticleLong Division, by Kiese Laymon
Oh boy. This was a strange one. It starts out with City, a young black teenager, inadvertently becoming a YouTube sensation. He is then shipped off to his grandma’s house out in rural Mississippi to...
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#ToBX Roundup
It’s March! It’s March! And that means the Tournament of Books is here! You may or may not know just how much I love this tournament, but suffice it to say that I do. I really do. Anyway, since the...
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2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
The 2014 Pulitzers were announced today. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt A contender in this year’s Tournament of Books! I half expected the winner of the...
View ArticleThe Shortlist for The 2015 Tournament of Books
It’s here! It’s here! If you’ve hung around here for a while, you probably recall my intense love for The Tournament of Books. Every March, The Morning News hosts a bracket-style battle of books! In...
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#ToB15 Roundup 1
The Tournament of Books is coming in just eight days! You may or may not know just how much I love this tournament, but suffice it to say that I do. I really do. Anyway, since the finalists were...
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#ToB15 Roundup 2
The Tournament of Books is happening right now! It’s one of my favorite times of the year. Since the finalists were announced in January, I’ve managed to read twelve of the sixteen contenders. My...
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2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
The 2015 Pulitzers were announced today. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr A finalist in this year’s Tournament of Books! And one I have already...
View ArticleThe Shortlist for the 2016 Tournament of Books
After much refreshing (and Twitter stalking) this morning, the list appeared! If you’ve hung around here for a while, you probably recall my intense love for The Tournament of Books. Every March, The...
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