Following in the steps of the Prix Goncourt and the Booker, the German Book Prize was established in 2005 to promote contemporary German literature around the world. There have been 4 winners to date:… more →
Lizzy's Literary Lifeeideard wrote 1 month ago: A French team of an engineer and two architects have won this year’s prestigious Metropolis N … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 5 months ago: I could not have predicted that my book group would have been reading Rose Tremain this month or tha … more →
quilt32 wrote 5 months ago: I found the recipe for this cake in a magazine in 1986 and the cake became a family favorite. I … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 5 months ago: 1964 Crime Writers Association Best Foreign Novel Chester MacFarland is on the run, the American ag … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 5 months ago: Choosing what to read after a 5-star experience is always difficult. What can possibly follow witho … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 6 months ago: It’s a mark of the rapid rise of Jonathan Coe’s “What A Carve Up!” to contem … more →
quilt32 wrote 6 months ago: I found this recipe in 1990 in a publication called Blue Ribbon Gazette, a collection of winners fro … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 6 months ago: Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Canongate Books (8 Jan 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 1847670377 I … more →
Muhammad Faisal Jawaid Attari wrote 7 months ago: OSLO: Global stars paid a visit to Oslo to take part in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. The impressi … more →
^^usu wrote 7 months ago: Today I was at Griffith Uni for some Science lecture thing that ran from 8:30 till 3:00ish. I got th … more →
quilt32 wrote 7 months ago: Many of my childhood Thanksgivings were spent in my Grandma’s kitchen where she cooked a big f … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 7 months ago: Three months ago while I was bloggish feverishly about my adventures at the EBF, I was also reading … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 8 months ago: Barbara Gowdy likes to push the boundaries of fiction. Her backlist includes The White Bone, writte … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 9 months ago: Brian Moore lost his Catholic faith as a young man and proceeded to carve a literary career out of i … more →
lizzysiddal wrote 10 months ago: Winner of the 2007 Giller Prize There’s been much moaning about this year’s Booker lon … more →
quilt32 wrote 11 months ago: I once heard Garrison Keillor say something to the effect that the only purpose for watermelon pick … more →
quilt32 wrote 11 months ago: I offered to fix lunch for my two daughters and two grandchildren before they headed for the large p … more →
quilt32 wrote 11 months ago: I didn’t want to enter the county fair pie contest at all. My experience with pie baking con … more →
quilt32 wrote 11 months ago: For 20 years, we lived in a rural area where my husband delighted in tending a huge vegetable garde … more →