The Very Hungry Bookworm

In an attempt to satisfy my Literary cravings, I've started this blog to track my progess as I "eat" my way through the collected lists of award winners... Wish me luck and enjoy this ode to my biblio-A.D.D.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Update

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So, I've been incredibly lax about updating, but in the next few weeks expect some posts on the following books I've finished: Abs...
Friday, July 2, 2010

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

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I wasn't sure what to expect of this 1959 Newberry award winner.  Knowing only that it was a historical novel from the American colonial...

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

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Timothy Egan's 2006 National Book Award winner for Nonfiction came in my favorite form of non-fiction.  His history of the great America...

A Death in the Family by James Agee

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This 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner centers around Jay Follet and the void his sudden death leaves in his family.  Set in Knoxville in the early...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

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A few months ago, I felt that I had read the book version of condensed soup.  I now feel after reading the 1960 Newberry winner I have found...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

White Noise by Don DeLillo

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How to start my several weeks overdue review of Don DeLillo's 1985 National Book Award Winner?  I found myself marking pages throughout ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

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I finished The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens and Booker Prize Winner in 1970 a few weeks ago. So my post is a bit overdue. Rubens chronic...
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