 MostlyFiction.com Newsletter Update
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February 18, 2007
MostlyFiction.com readers!
In the last twenty days (oops! it seems I skipped a newsletter) we have posted these book reviews:
DECEIT by James Siegel
THE SUSPECT by John Lescroart
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion
TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM BY Paul Auster
AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by John Green
THE ECHO MAKER by Richard Powers
THE LAST FRIEND by Tahar Ben Jelloun
THIS BLINDING ABSENCE OF LIGHT by Tahar Ben Jelloun
WHEN THE DEVIL HOLDS A CANDLE by Karin Fossum
HE WHO FEARS THE WOLF by Karin Fossum
DON'T LOOK BACK by Karin Fossum
A DEEPER SLEEP by Dana Stabenow
THE KNITTING CIRCLE by Ann Hood
ZOLI by Colum McCann
Another MostlyFiction.com QUIZ...
Take a guess based on the books that we recently reviewed (i.e. the above list):
1) Which book won the 2006 National Book Award for fiction? Answer
2) Which book won the 2005 National Book Award for nonfiction? Answer
3) Which is the 15th book in this Alaskan's authors Kate Shugak series? Answer
4) This author surprises us with each new novel. He has written about the homeless in New York City, Rudolf Nureyev, and in this latest, about a gypsy in Czechoslovakia? Answer
5) This author and award winning ad man created the TV ads that helped Eliot Spitzer become Governor of New York. Like James Patterson, who is a former ad man as well, he writes a page-turning thrillers. Answer
6) This Norwegian author's novels feature Inspector Konrad Sejer and tend toward fascinating, well drawn psychological horror. Answer
7) Sadly, this warm novel came out of the author's experience from losing her own five-year-old daughter to a virulent form of strep. Answer
8) This author finished one novel in college and a second after graduating. However, he did not get published until 14 years later when a former high school teacher's wife entered his book in a Californian contest and it won beating out 280 books including Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire. Answer
9) This author is considered a literary descendent of Kafka and Borges. His current enigmatic novel opens with an old man sitting in a room. Answer
10) This under-thirty author thought he would go to Divinity School and become an Episcopal Priest but instead has ended up writing young adult fiction, working for Booklist, and as a commentator on NPRs All Things Considered. Answer
11) This Moroccan born author immigrated to France after the Interior Ministry announced that all Philosophy teaching would have to be done in Arabic and was unable to comply having been taught in French most his life. He has written much on racial bias and human rights issues. Answer
As always, your comments are welcome. Tell us what we are doing right and what we can do better and what absolutely irritates you. Just send an e-mail to [email protected].
Happy Reading!
Judi Clark
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