August 23, 2011 at 6:55 pm (Uncategorized)
Even the president relaxes with a good book. President Obama took these books on vacation to Marth’a Vineyard:
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell
Rodin’s Debutante by Ward S. Just
August 23, 2011 at 12:12 am (Jennifer Egan, Uncategorized)
She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” Now Time magazine has selected her as one of this year’s “”Time 100,” the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Things just keep getting better, “A Visit From the Goon Squad ” is being made into an HBO series.
Congratulations Jennifer Egan!
August 16, 2011 at 9:15 pm (Books and Movies)
The New York Times bestselling book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, will be released in September as a movie starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Seymour Hoffman.
August 16, 2011 at 8:30 pm (Circadian Novels)
You think you had a rough day, try these circadian novels (books that take place during 24 hours):
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Ulysses by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Run by Ann Patchett
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Embers by Sandor Marai
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Vox by Nicholson Baker
Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deidre Madden
Next by James Hynes
Where Are The Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shanty, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
Blast From the Past by Ben Elton
Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
August 11, 2011 at 8:08 pm (Michael Connelly, Uncategorized)
If you liked the movie Lincoln Lawyer , with Matthew McConaughey, read the book by Michael Connelly and other titles in the Mickey Haller/Lincoln Lawyer series:
Also, be on the lookout for the TV series on ABC.
August 11, 2011 at 3:11 pm (Kathryn Stockett)
It is based on Kathryn Stockett’s debut bestselling novel with the same title. If you liked the movie, try these books:
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