Goodreads Book Awards voting has started, which is annoying because there are still several weeks in the year. But I guess Grammys and Billboard "years" are wacky too. 5.5 days left of voting in opening round; I should catch up on a few books I've been meaning to get to...
His outright fantasy is when he's at his best - that, Dark Tower, Eyes of the Dragon.
His most popular books are all good but not up to that standard imo - The Shining, The Stand, It.
His outright fantasy is when he's at his best - that, Dark Tower, Eyes of the Dragon.
His most popular books are all good but not up to that standard imo - The Shining, The Stand, It.
Thanks now I'm super excited to read it. I also bought the sequel just in case
Amazon's T10 books of the year:
1. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
2. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
4. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
5. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
6. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
7. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
8. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
9. Hold Still by Sally Mann
10. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
A NO to #1, #4, and #10.
I've read other stuff by #5 and and #8 and wasn't impressed.
#2 and #3 are on my to-do list.
Besides Ember, the YA/Children's books in the T100 are:
Six of Crows›Leigh Bardugo - It's okay.
The Thing About Jellyfish>Ali Benjamin
Library of Souls: The Third Novel of...›Ransom Riggs - I read the previous volumes, and skimming through this it seems just as average.
Circus Mirandus>Cassie Beasley
Uprooted›Naomi Novik - Actually good, though the later parts are really cheesy.
Maybe I'll read the other 2; they seem easy.
National Book Awards winners were announced.
Fiction, the guy who wrote Pulitzer winner Orphan Master's Son wins for his story collection. Did he really need another big prize?
To the shock of zero people, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me with its monstrous buzz won Nonfiction. I need to get to it before the year's over...
Challenger Deep won for YA.
I did make a correct prediction regarding the ending. Next stop is Revival and Harper Lee's new flop book