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elenearielMarie's 2007 Book Awards!
Statistics first:
Books read: 151 (last year: 111)
39% were nonfiction, 60% fiction (don't ask me where the other 1% went.) Only 18 books were rereads.
Statistics first:
Books read: 151 (last year: 111)
39% were nonfiction, 60% fiction (don't ask me where the other 1% went.) Only 18 books were rereads.
Best Nonfiction Book: The Perfect Summer: England 1911, just before the storm, Juliet Nicolson
Best Audio Book: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyle
Best Picture Book: Wee Gillis, Munroe Leaf
Best New Release From A Dead Author: The Children of Hurin, JRR Tolkien
Best Chick-lit: The Cinderella Pact, Sarah Strohmeyer
Best Book Rediscovered From My Childhood: Danny, The Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
Best Terry Pratchett Book Released in 2007 (Don't laugh, there were two - and it was a tough choice): Making Money
Book That Garnered The Most Pages of Incredulous and Rebuttal-Type Notes In My Reading Notebook: Getting Serious about Getting Married, Debbie Maken
"The Movie was Better" Award goes to The Prestige, Christopher Priest
Most Engaging Fiction Book: I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Most Macho Main Character is won by Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
Book Which Prompted The Most Deep Thinking From the Reader: a tie between Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters (Courtney Martin) and Living Beautifully Together (Alexandra Stoddard).
Best Book of a Type That I Normally Don't Like: The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Book that I am Most Grateful To Have Been Introduced To: Beowulf, as translated by Seamus Heaney
Book that Caused the Most Laughter At Inopportune Moments: Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Longest Book That I Enjoyed Every Page Of: Coming in at a smidge over 1,000 pages, A History of London, Steven Inwood
Marie's Extra Special MOST RIDICULOUS Award goes to The Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, David Ray Griffin
And finally, the prestigious WHY Didn't Anybody Make Me Read This Earlier?! Award goes to The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster.
Best Audio Book: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyle
Best Picture Book: Wee Gillis, Munroe Leaf
Best New Release From A Dead Author: The Children of Hurin, JRR Tolkien
Best Chick-lit: The Cinderella Pact, Sarah Strohmeyer
Best Book Rediscovered From My Childhood: Danny, The Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
Best Terry Pratchett Book Released in 2007 (Don't laugh, there were two - and it was a tough choice): Making Money
Book That Garnered The Most Pages of Incredulous and Rebuttal-Type Notes In My Reading Notebook: Getting Serious about Getting Married, Debbie Maken
"The Movie was Better" Award goes to The Prestige, Christopher Priest
Most Engaging Fiction Book: I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Most Macho Main Character is won by Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
Book Which Prompted The Most Deep Thinking From the Reader: a tie between Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters (Courtney Martin) and Living Beautifully Together (Alexandra Stoddard).
Best Book of a Type That I Normally Don't Like: The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Book that I am Most Grateful To Have Been Introduced To: Beowulf, as translated by Seamus Heaney
Book that Caused the Most Laughter At Inopportune Moments: Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Longest Book That I Enjoyed Every Page Of: Coming in at a smidge over 1,000 pages, A History of London, Steven Inwood
Marie's Extra Special MOST RIDICULOUS Award goes to The Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, David Ray Griffin
And finally, the prestigious WHY Didn't Anybody Make Me Read This Earlier?! Award goes to The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster.