TOP 100 BOOK SITES
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| Old friends, old secrets Junior Reading Room: Compiled by DAPHNE LEE thestar.com.my |
Crime: Dirty Work Denise Mina’s novel features a journalist with “a talent for articulating nationwide annoyances.” Also reviewed: New crime novels by Will Lavender, Lawrence Goldstone and Robert B. Parker. nytimes.com |
Writing About Women Who Are Soccer Moms Without Soccer Meg Wolitzer’s new book is a multicharacter meditation on a group of upper-middle-class women, mostly in Manhattan, who have stayed home for a decade to raise their children. nytimes.com |
Om Sweet Om Fifteen months in India in the early 1960s had a lasting influence on Allen Ginsberg. nytimes.com |
Junot Diaz Discusses his 'Wondrous' Debut Novel Author Junot Diaz won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Set in both the United States and the Dominican Republic, the novel explores the complexities of living in two cultures at once, with prose that frequently mixes Spanish and English in the same sentence. npr.org |