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What we’re reading Wednesday: Wicked Appetite

Posted on 1 September 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich St. Martin’s Press • $27.99 • September 14, 2010 Some people would say this is a sin, but somehow I have never read a novel by Janet Evanovich. I’ve always been interested in spunky bounty … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Mockingjay

Posted on 25 August 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Scholastic • $17.99 • August 24, 2010 Like countless other readers, I am currently midway through Mockingjay, the final book in the Hunger Games Trilogy. I know that many fans are afraid of spoilers, so all … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Great House

Posted on 11 August 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

Just yesterday, BookPage contributor Stephenie Harrison interviewed Nicole Krauss for our October print edition. Steph enjoyed the conversation—and its subject, the forthcoming Great House—so much that we begged her to give us a preview in a guest blog post. She … Continue reading →

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What We’re Reading Wednesday: Annexed

Posted on 4 August 2010 by Kate, Associate Editor

Annexed by Sharon Dogar HMH, October 4, 2010 Recently there has been a small flurry of articles (like this New York Times piece) about Sharon Dogar’s upcoming novel for teens, Annexed. Some people are scandalized by the book’s sexual content … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: By Nightfall

Posted on 28 July 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham FSG • $25 • September 28, 2010 Michael Cunningham is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours (which was turned into the movie that got Nicole Kidman her Oscar). His most recent book, … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: The Widower’s Tale

Posted on 7 July 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass Pantheon • $25.95 • September 7, 2010 In 2002, Julia Glass won the National Book Award for Three Junes, a wonderful novel about Scottish family the McLeods. BookPage contributor Alden Mudge praised an aspect of … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’

Posted on 30 June 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Room by Emma Donoghue Little, Brown • $24.99 • September 13, 2010 As a longtime fan of Emma Donoghue, I was eager to read Room the moment I heard about it. I took a copy home over the weekend, but didn’t … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Freedom

Posted on 23 June 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen FSG, $28, August 31, 2010 There were a lot of squeals around the office when a review copy of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom arrived in the mail. It’s been nearly nine years since the publication of The … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Posted on 16 June 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Crown, $26, February 2, 2010 If you read primarily fiction, or the word “HeLa” brings back bad memories from high school biology class, you might look skeptically at Rebecca Skloot’s The … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Mr. Peanut

Posted on 2 June 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross Knopf, June 22, 2010 I enjoy keeping up with local authors, so I was thrilled to learn that Adam Ross—former special-projects editor of the Nashville Scene—is releasing a debut novel on June 22. (Look out … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: A Gate at the Stairs

Posted on 26 May 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Knopf, September 2009 I love Lorrie Moore; Birds of America remains my favorite short story collection ever, and the story “People Like That Are The Only People Here” is one of my … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Crazy Love

Posted on 19 May 2010 by Abby, Fiction Editor

Crazy Love: A Memoir by Leslie Morgan Steiner St. Martin’s, March 30, 2010 As the fiction editor at BookPage, I read a lot of novels. But sometimes when Kate and I are going through the mail each day, I have … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Anthropology of an American Girl

Posted on 5 May 2010 by Eliza, Associate Editor

Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann May 25, 2010, Spiegel & Grau Hilary Thayer Hamann’s Anthropology of an American Girl was self-published in 2003 and went on to fulfill every self-published author’s dream: it became a word-of-mouth … Continue reading →

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What We’re Reading Wednesday: Delhi

Posted on 28 April 2010 by Kate, Associate Editor

Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity by Sam Miller St. Martin’s, July 20, 2010 I love travel writing, particularly books about India, and particularly written by William Dalrymple, whose City of Djinns—about a year spent living in Delhi—is one of my … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Between Friends

Posted on 24 March 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Between Friends by Kristy Kiernan Berkley, April 2010 Kristy Kiernan’s third novel follows a contemporary family through some major turmoil. Sixteen years ago, Cora donated an egg to help Ali and Benny conceive a daughter, Letty. Now Ali wants to … Continue reading →

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