Archive for the ‘Prizes & Awards’ Category
Sarah Waters – Affinity
In a world where twenty-seven year old women are called “spinsters” and they aren’t allowed to study further, despite being inclined towards academia, where they still need their mother’s permission to carry out certain activities, and where they’re bound by society’s rules and regulations, this story is about a woman desperately trying to find her […]
Filed under: Books 2010, Guardian 1000, Historical Fiction, Review, Sarah Waters, Somerset Maughm Award | 9 Comments
Tags: Sarah Waters, Victorian Society
A Gate At The Stairs is one of “those” books – beautiful writing, intelligent conversation flowing through the book, a sensitive plot, and a book with great potential. Tassie is a college student in the Mid-western town of Troy, who finds a job as a baby sitter for Sarah, an affluent restaurant-owner who adopts Emmie, […]
Filed under: Amazon's Best Books Of The Year, Books 2010, General Fiction, Lorrie Moore, New York Times Notable Book Of The Year, Orange Prize Shortlist, Review | 9 Comments
Tags: Adoption, Lorrie Moore
Terry Pratchett – Nation
Don’t you love Terry Pratchett books? I do, despite never having read any in my teenage years, and Nation, a non-Discworld story, is no exception. Set in an alternate universe (or a parallel universe, if you like), this is the story of a young boy (Mau) whose homecoming has been ruined by a massive tidal wave, […]
Filed under: ALA Best Books For Young Adults, Books 2010, Review, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Terry Pratchett, Young Adult | 14 Comments
Tags: Terry Pratchett
Death At Intervals (also published as Death With Interruptions) is an extremely surreal book by the Nobel Laureate, Jose Saramago. In a country (not necessarily futuristic), people have stopped dying one new year’s day, in spite of illness, accidents and life in general. The different strata of society react differently: people are initially joyous as […]
Filed under: Books 2010, General Fiction, Jose Saramago, Magical Realism, Nobel Prize Winners, Review | 13 Comments
Tags: Dystopia, Jose Saramago
Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex
I was born twice: first as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. So opens Eugenides’ epic novel, Middlesex. Calliope “Cal” Stephanides was declared a girl when she came into this […]
Filed under: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Books 2010, Coming of Age, General Fiction, Guardian 1000, Jeffrey Eugenides, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Pulitzer Prize Winners | 41 Comments
Tags: Greece, Jeffrey Eugenides
Mee invited all Pride and Prejudice first-timers to a readalong in February. I’d like to start this post by apologising for not finishing the book in the second month of the year itself, but, I got sidetracked with a couple of other things, and well, you know how it goes… Pride and Prejudice is my […]
Filed under: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, ALA Best Books For Young Adults, BBC's Big Read {Best Loved Novel}, Books 2010, Guardian 1000, Jane Austen, Penguin Classics, Review, Romance | 29 Comments
Tags: Jane Austen
I discovered the wonderful world of Angela Carter only last year, and I’ve been trying to read all her works slowly, savouring every moment of it. Of course, the bonus is the gorgeous covers, which draws me to her books like a moth…. The thing with Several Perceptions is, it’s totally unlike anything I’ve read […]
Filed under: Angela Carter, Books 2010, General Fiction, Review, Somerset Maughm Award, Virago Modern Classics | 14 Comments
Tags: Angela Carter
