Posted on November 12, 2020 at 9:06 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The twelfth annual Goodreads Choice Awards kicked off late last month, when many of us were ... um ... distracted,...

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Posted on May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Minnesota high-schooler has won this year’s Poetry Out Loud competition. You can listen to Isabella Callery recite "Thoughtless Cruelty"...

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Posted on January 14, 2019 at 12:49 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

More literary award news: The nominees for the 2019’s Philip K. Dick Award have been announced. According to the award’s...

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Posted on December 4, 2018 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Goodreads has announced its 2018 winners for its reader choice awards! Here they are: Fiction: Still Me, by Jojo Moyes....

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Posted on November 28, 2018 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Bookseller has crowned a winner in its annual oddest-title competition. The Joy of Waterboiling, a German cookbook, contains a...

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Posted on November 15, 2018 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The tenth annual Goodreads Choice Awards are now in the final round! Voting began Tuesday and runs through November 26,...

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Posted on November 6, 2018 at 5:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The tenth annual Goodreads Choice Awards have moved on to the semifinal round! Voting began today and runs through Sunday,...

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Posted on November 1, 2018 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Several big-name authors are using their fame to improve the lives of torture victims. The Guardian reports that Lee Child...

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Posted on October 26, 2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s tons of talk about whether one should judge a book by its cover, but much less so about judging...

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Posted on October 24, 2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

By now, we all know that To Kill A Mockingbird won PBS’s Great American Read poll. What you maybe didn’t...

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