Lizok's Bookshelf

All that work compiling the entire Big Book long list last month had its benefits: Big Book’s finalists were announced today, the day I hea...

I’ve been having such terrible hay fever problems this spring that it seemed especially fitting to find news late last week about a special ...

Every now and then — maybe once a year or so — I read a book that gives me a fleeting case of PhD program dropout remorse syndrome. I l...

The Big Book Award announced its long list —a customary combination of fiction and nonfiction—early last week. Since this year’s long list...

Yes, that’s right, this year there are two National Bestseller shortlists : the usual NatsBest shortlist and a NatsBest-Beginning shortlist...