Best novel: Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Best first novel by an American author: In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking
Best Paperback original: Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Best critical/biographical: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
Best Fact Crime: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company
Best Short Story: "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)
Best Young Adult: Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)
Best Juvenile: The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
Best Play: Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
Best Television episode teleplay: "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)
Best motion picture screenplay: Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
The Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
Grand Master: Bill Pronzini
Raven Awards:Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and Kate's Mystery Books (Kate Mattes, owner)
Buffy ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Mary Higgins Clark has an award named after her? Huh. I went through a Mary Higgins Clark phase in junior high.
I just ordered Knut's book at my local B&N I really don't know why people make me wait . and my 200+ to be read pile does not make me feel guilty. nope
Follow-up to the Goth Poetry discussion. I've posted The Waterboys very pretty version of Yeats' "The Stolen Child" up at Buffistarawk.
My first guest-blog post over at Powell's Books. (xposted in Music)
I just finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Anyone else read it? It's very oogy and disturbing in an understated way.
I also read Choke, which is my least favorite Palahniuk so far (I love Fight Club and Lullaby ), mostly because the narrator is much more unlikable. And there isn't a very strong narrative drive; it's mostly a string of thematics and internal monologue. The ending made me like the book a lot more than I expected to, though.
just found this: graphic novel built in facebook - [link]
I just finished Superpowers, and really really liked it. I'm trying to figure out who to lend my copy to first.
I gave mine away the other day and meant to pick up another for me this weekend to finish reading but I didn't make it to the book store. Dammit.
I do love handing out Buffista books like some bizarro-world Watchtower. Just wish I could afford to do it more often.
My order of buffista books (David's, David's and Hayden's) shipped yesterday. I can't wait.