The Man Booker Prize long list has been announced, click here to see the titles that were selected this year.
I get so excited when this list is announced! Fiction at it’s finest indeed.
The 2012 Man Booker Prize Long List
Tag: Lit Bits
Lit Bits 07/24/12
I’m trying to figure out this Bookbrowsr site that I stumbled upon. Is this old news? Am I late to the party? Check it out, it might turn out to be cool. Anything that helps me find my next read can’t be a bad thing right? Because you know my tbr pile is itsy bitsy. That, my friends, was sarcasm.
I first saw the following on the Mighty Girl site:
in 1971, the city of Troy, Michigan opened a new public library and hired Marguerite Hart as their first children’s librarian. In an effort to inspire the children of Troy to read, she began a letter-writing campaign to dozens of major cultural figures asking them to share what a library meant to them. She received 97 letters in return.
You can see the full collections of these amazing letters here: Letters to the children of Troy
You’ve probably seen the above letter from Dr. Seuss floating around the internet.
I can’t think of better advice than that!
Did you know that Liza Klaussmann, author of Tigers in Red Weather, is Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter? I didn’t! Meet the modern descendants of your favorite authors over at Flavorwire
Get ready to dive into a stack of books this fall by checking out Amazon’s Big Fall Book Preview. There are a number of titles there that I’m looking forward to. Especially Ken Follet’s Winter of the World. I am simply wild about his work.
Happy Reading!!!
The Relentless Reader 