Resolve to read more in 2018 — for the right reasons

2018年1月8日星期一

The Biblioracle: Resolve to read more in 2018 — for the right reasons

Thursday, Jan 4

I don't want to read more because I'm chasing a number, but because I know what I'm missing out on if I read less.

Biblioracle John Warner tells readers what to pick up next, based on their last five books. Send an email and get a reading.

In the second of her "Seasonal" quartet, Ali Smith delivers a breathtaking — and angry — novel.

"Brown Girl Dreaming" author Jacqueline Woodson has been named the next National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

"The Vanity Fair Diaries" sounds like more fun than it reads.

The story of Lucy Kalanithi and John Duberstein is both unlikely and destined, the stuff of a rom-com. It begins, tragically, on a death bed.

"Robots vs. Fairies," "The Weight of Words" and "Starlings" are reviewed in this week's science-fiction roundup.

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