Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest

Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for November 25, 2013.

Amazon Asks David Baldacci, Author of "King and Maxwell"

With the release of his latest novel King and Maxwell, we caught up to David Baldacci to give him the Amazon Asks treatment.

 

Describe your book in 10 words or less?  

My sleuths help a son whose dead father isn’t dead.

What's on your nightstand/bedside table/Kindle?

W is for Wasted; Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power; The Reluctant Tuscan; The Hamlet. I multi-read!

Favorite books of

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Memories of the Years of Chaos: An Essay by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Author of "The Sound of Things Falling"

For my generation, I’ve noticed, the 1980s don’t have a lot of respect for chronology: our decade began in 1984, when Pablo Escobar assassinated the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, and ended in December 1993, with the symmetrical death of Pablo Escobar. Certain images of that decade have become part of our mythology. One of them shows Lara’s car with its windows destroyed, …

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Authors @ Amazon: Allie Brosh, "Hyperbole and a Half"

Months before it was even published, Allie Brosh's debut collection of comics and essays, based on and named for her wildly popular blog, became an Amazon bestseller. Since its publication earlier this month, Hyperbole and a Half has hovered among Amazon's top-selling books, was named one of our Best Books of the Month, and has attracted widespread praise. 

I asked Brosh if she…

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