Some quick recommendations from my holiday reading. Best: Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward. Won an American National Book Award some time ago. Been sitting on my shelf for ages. Beautifully presented hard cover, high quality paper, old fashioned book. An impoverished black family faces Hurricane Katrina just outside New Orleans. Told through the … [Read more...] about Holiday Reading
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2012: The Year That Was: Books
Memory can be so deceptive. At dinner parties all around town I've been declaiming that of course Hilary Mantel's Bringing Up The Bodies was the stand out book of the year, with nothing else coming close. But looking at the full list of books I've read this year (set out below with links to my previous blogs on same) I see it's only earlier this … [Read more...] about 2012: The Year That Was: Books