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Pulitzer v. Booker
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Jackie from Farm Lane Books
I love reading prize winning books, and often try to compare them, to decide which prize produces the best novels. The Pulitzer v. Booker prize is probably the most debated combination, and it has added rivalry of being American authors against Commonwealth ones. There are many different ways to analyse the prizes, but I thought it would be interesting to compare the winners for each [click to read more]
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The Agony of Shortlists
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Alcott from Alcott and Earhart
I find the announcement of literary awards shortlists quite stressful. One could argue I am already a relatively anxious person and thus during this period I feel remarkably unhinged. This is basically what goes through my head when reading a shortlist [click to read more]
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Newbery not Newbury
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Earhart from Alcott and Earhart
For those not in the know: Neil Gaiman = Love.
And the good people who are in charge of awarding the Newbery Medal obviously agree seeing as The Graveyard Book was just announced as the 2009 winner. Can I get a hells yeah? This news made me breathe a sign of relief…perhaps not all is lost in the world of children’s book awards. To elaborate [click to read more]
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Orange July
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Raidergirl3 from An Adventure in Reading
So Many Books, So Little Time… That’s the mantra, right? Some people have actual piles of books they have bought because they want to read. I’ve even heard of people with whole rooms of TBR stacks, although at that point, I think you may as well open a library. (I didn’t say your name, Wendy.) So challenges were born, to help the list-makers get organized, and enjoy the thrill of reading good books and crossing a title off the list. Then the compulsive types joined every challenge that came by their blog. A few rational yet compulsive types saw lists of award winners, and said [click to read more]
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Costa Book Awards 2009
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Alcott from Alcott and Earhart
Let’s just do a quick review of what the Costa Book Awards are, shall we? Named by wikipedia as one of the U.K.’s most prestigious literary prizes, they were originally called the Whitbread Book Awards. Most people may not know that Costa is actually a subsidiary of Whitbread, so essentially sponsorship has stayed within the company. So basically, they were sponsored by a hospitality giant and now are sponsored by a coffee chain. They often award the prize for best novel on populist terms, weighing the quality of the literature against the appeal it has to the masses. I like to think of them as the book award that caters (hah) to the lowest common [click to read more]
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The BC Book Prizes
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Monica from Monniblog
Congratulations to all the publishers and authors who have been shortlisted for this year’s BC Book Prizes. The lists were announced publicly today, and I’ve had to keep it quiet at work since Friday! I’ve read a few of the books on the list and you may recognize the titles from when I reviewed them here — including The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, [click to read more]
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Saturday Word Play (Awards)
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John from The Book Mine Set
Below I’ve listed some of the other awards handed out annually. Can you find the titles of this year’s winners in the chart that follows? Each 1st word can be found somewhere in the first column, 2nd in the second and so forth. But, to make things more difficult [click to read more]
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