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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets

There’s been quite a lot of news on translated crime fiction recently - read this from Times Online (UK): Hot on the trail of global sleuths and the New Yorker: Blood on the Borders (not very complimentary). Well, I’m a bit of a recent convert to crime fiction myself […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
Well, for those folks who like to read Science books. The following are nominees for the Royal Society’s annual science book prize.
In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2006
Call No.: 616.80092 KAN -[HEA]
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The judges said: “Kandel’s […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

New York : Berkley Books, 1991.
Call No.: English CHR -[MY]
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[HBeditor: This book was previously published as Ten Little Indians.]
Supposedly the best selling novel by Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None appeals to me in its conciseness. The personality of the ten characters were sufficiently described […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

London: HarperElement, 2006
Call No.: 306.73092 HEA
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As a singleton, dating in this modern world is treacherous enough as it is, especially when dealing with complex emotions and delicate issues or baggage that make up the human psyche. Now, imagine agreeing to every single date proposed to you, […]

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Youth violence, something that’s in the spotlight once again. As it’s splashed across the headlines of various international news sources, probably everyone who lives in a country with access to the Internet or newspapers knows about what happened at Virginia Tech.
Recently, I compiled some suggestions of “impactful” fiction titles for someone and one of the […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
As the Guardian puts it: ‘A Booker winner, a Whitbread winner, a Pulitzer winner and a Commonwealth prize winner have been shortlisted for this year’s Orange prize.’
The shortlist goes:

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call No.: ADI
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Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Call No.: CUS
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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2007 have been announced! LINK

FICTION
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Call No.: MAC
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GENERAL NONFICTION
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Call No.: 973.931 WRI
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BIOGRAPHY
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
As unlikely as it may sound, the title of this post is an actual book title. And it’s won an award!
The Diagram Prize is an annual award given out by The Bookseller and the Diagram Group for the book with the oddest title. Well, maybe less trolleys would have […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

San Francisco: City Lights, c2005
Call No.: English FOS-[SF]
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zeroTWOhero writes:
Atomik Aztex is a peyotl-fueled stream-of-consciousness about alternate realities, where Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness is simultaneously a fearsome Aztex warrior in a world where the Aztecs slaughtered their would-be Spanish conquerors and a butcher at […]

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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
From Requiem, by Kurt Vonnegut, from A Man without a Country
Also quoted in the NYT article regarding […]

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