British Book Awards

The winner of the British Book Awards for Book of the Year is Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss. I've mentioned her and/or her book several times this year (you can Google for them right on the main page of the website) and wrote a little review of the book. Another of the eight nominees was Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, also Best Read of the Year for Richard & Judy. I mentioned the Sebold book in my entry on cats. Now that my reviews on blogcritics.com are in syndication (see today's Books section of The Plain Dealer online, perhaps I should write more extensively about these two great reads. Incidentally, Truss' next book will be a stickler for manners.

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