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• Review: Nanny Returns and The Real Real

  
  In Bed With Books — Authority: 118
  By Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus NANNY RETURNS available in hardcover from Atria Books THE REAL REAL available in hardcover and paperback from HarperCollins Review copies provided by publicist I adored THE NANNY DIARIES, once I finally read it. (In the interest of full disclosure, for years I thought it was ...
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• Details that tell it all, or, leaving on a jet plane

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Throughout December, in case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been concentrating on craft issues, the nitty-gritty business of constructing and polishing a narrative. Specifically, because my magic bloggers’ antennae tell me that quite a few of you are planning to query and/or submit right after the new year (or, if ...
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• I went and saved the best for last

  
  MADreads — Authority: 124
  I may be able to squeeze in one more novel before the holiday madness begins, but if I don’t I’m so glad Little Bee by Chris Cleave was my last of ‘09.  Even though the jacket implores the reader to not give away what the book is about, some of Little Bee’s story must be told to make sure you don’t ...
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• Beware of twins

  
  MADreads — Authority: 124
  OK, that’s not really fair.  More specifically, beware of twins in Audrey Niffenegger’s new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry .  I was really looking forward to this book and was prepared to love it.  It’s a spooky story of death and ghosts in and around Highgate Cemetery in London, which is very cool, steeped ...
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• Being the temporary king is what matters

  
  Pechorin's Journal — Authority: 112
  Temporary Kings is book eleven of A Dance to the Music of Time, it’s exceptional. It’s now the 1950s, Nick and his friends are at the peak of their careers, the new establishment, they’ve made their money and reputations (to the extent they’ll ever make either) and they’re enjoying both, but in the ...
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• Review: Angels of Destruction, Keith Donohue

  
  Medieval Bookworm — Authority: 424
  One snowy night, a small girl named Norah appears outside Margaret Quinn’s door.  Margaret’s daughter Erica ran away ten years ago to join a cult with her boyfriend, and in the meantime Margaret has lost her husband to illness and now lives alone.  Unwilling to lose the girl that God seems to have given to her ...
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• Let’s hear it one more time! (Or maybe not.)

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Did my odd mid-week hiatus leave you wondering if I had slipped off for some holiday merry-making? No such luck; just swamped with work. That, and being comatose with depression over some recent news, international, national, and personal. I doubt 2009 is a year I shall remember fondly. Or that writers in general ...
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• The decades best unread books | Books | guardian.co.uk

  
  The Places You Will Go — Authority: 120
  Noughtie omissions ... some of the bestsellers-that-werent My bookseller friend, Kit, and I were just talking about how we own a lot of books that no one else buys or notices. This piece features some very good books that just, for some reason or other, have failed to sell. Ive only read The Spare Room by Helen ...
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• American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

  
  A Book A Week — Authority: 452
  This is another fact/fiction mashup. Is that all anybody is writing these days? Unlike Daphne and The 19th Wife , both of which place a real-life person in a partially fictionalized setting, American Wife takes a more traditional approach; it’s a fictionalized account of the life of Laura Bush, but she is never ...
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• Is Join A Writer Community That Important?

  
  Warung Fiksi — Authority: 106
  By Rie Yanti Nah, I don’t think so. You don’t have to join a writer community to become a writer. However, if you want to enhance your writing, this is not a bad idea at all. It doesn’t matter whether it’s physical community or online community, the writing community has always following advantage. ...
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• Gorgeous East – Robert Girardi

  
  S. Krishna's Books — Authority: 517
  Title: Gorgeous East Author: Robert Girardi ISBN: 9780312565862 Pages: 352 Release Date: October 13, 2009 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Genre: Literary Fiction, Multicultural Fiction Source: Publisher Rating: 4 out of 5 Summary: Gorgeous East centers on three different men ...
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• The barbarians at the gate, the elephant in the room, and other reasons not to set at naught the rules of standard format and punctuation

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Here’s one more piece of evidence, if you needed it, for the Literary Times, They Are A-changin’ file: THE NEW YORKER has announced that it will not be running its second fiction issue of the year in favor of a “World Changers” special edition. Because it’s not as though any other magazine covers people ...
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• The Story of a Marriage

  
  MADreads — Authority: 124
  “We think we know the ones we love.” It’s easy to think of the 1950s as a bland decade, sandwiched between years of war and social revolution. In The Story of a Marriage , Andrew Sean Greer takes the reader to 1953 San Francisco and shows us an era flavored with fear and doubt. Pearlie Cook is a ...
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• Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving

  
  Blogging for a Good Book — Authority: 125
  Normally I avoid Literary Fiction. Not only do I prefer the conventions of genre fiction (vampires, apocalyptic futures, whodunnits), but I dislike the overblown language that plagues so many Literary books. Don’t get me wrong, I love to read finely-crafted prose — it’s just that I get tired of authors who try ...
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• Novel that has theme as LOVE! Right here! “Heart of Clouds”

  
  Valentine Bonnaire — Authority: 119
  It occurs to me this morning (and after seeing “novel that has theme as love”) behind the scenes here in WordPress, well — that is what I just wrote. I suppose I have been writing that theme for a long time, actually. The first piece of published serialized fiction I did was about that. The book Heart of ...
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• Book Review: The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent

  
  Quiverfull Family — Authority: 431
  Kathleen Kent’s offering,  The Heretic’s Daughter , is a stunning debut novel –  truly one of the best I’ve ever read. Hewn from her own family history and intensive research, Kent shares the life of her grandmother nine generations back – Martha Carrier – who was hanged for witchcraft during the ...
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• PFTIB: A Short Work of Fiction, Vol. 7

  
  Viciousblog's Weblog — Authority: 133
  London during the holidays is everything one might expect and hope for, transforming magically into a Dickens Village. Greenery outlined the city while chestnuts roasted at nearly every tube stop filling the air, mixing with the exhaust fumes of city buses and cabs. Buskers were replaced by carolers. It was a ...
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• Joint Review: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 586
  Title: Going Bovine Author: Libba Bray Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Literature, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Publication Date: September 2009 Hardcover: 496 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel How did we get this book: Bought Why did we read ...
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• In the Kitchen – Monica Ali

  
  S. Krishna's Books — Authority: 517
  Title: In the Kitchen Author: Monica Ali ISBN: 9781416571681 Pages: 448 Release Date: June 16, 2009 Publisher: Scribner Genre: Literary Fiction Source: Publisher Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Summary: Gabriel Lightfoot is the executive chef at a hotel restaurant in London, though he ...
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• Artsy gift ideas with a family theme

  
  LK Hunsaker: Literarily Indie — Authority: 115
  Today’s ideas focus on the family. To start off, I’m suggesting one of my favorite mainstream authors, Marilynne Robinson. I first started reading Robinson’s work as a “have to” for a college class. The book was titled Housekeeping which I have to say made me roll my eyes. The title, however, is so ...
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