Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for December 10, 2013.
Best of the Year in Nonfiction
Top three questions that customers asked me during the incalculable hours I spent standing behind the registers in bookstores:
Q. I was in here about a month ago and you had a book on the corner of this table. Do you still have it? I think the jacket was blue.
A. [No answer. Suggest the latest John Grisham/Sue Grafton/James Patterson book, whichever was closest to blue.]
Q. Do you have that book …
Sara Says: Oprah's New Book Club Pick is Same Old Song, Only Better
When Oprah Winfrey announced today that Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings would be the newest selection in her Book Club 2.0, you could almost hear a symphony of hands slapping foreheads all over town. "Duh," was a typical first reaction: OF COURSE Oprah would choose this novel about the lifelong relationship between a white Southern girl/woman and the slave she was "gifted"…
Oprah's Book Club 2.0: "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd
Oprah Winfrey has announced her next pick in Oprah's Book Club 2.0!
The book is The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees.
Set in the early 19th century, The Invention of Wings revolves around two women: Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a slave girl living in Charleston, and the Grimke's young daughter, Sarah. The book begins on …
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