Happy New Year gang! With not much time left in 2014, we’ve come full circle – back to where we started, with a roundup of my favourite books I read throughout the year. It was another mixed bag of reading – genres and topics and locales and time periods galore. I guess if there’s a recurring theme to be spotted in my book choices, it’s war, or the aftermath of war. Continue reading
Prize watch: (November 19 update) Congrats to Phil Klay, winner of the National Book Award for fiction for Redeployment. The book is outstanding! I think the National Book Award shortlist may be the best one of all the 2014 awards. I have three more of the finalists here waiting for me to read them, and the last one is on my wish list. Also congrats to Ursula K. Le Guin, who was presented with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation. Continue reading
