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October 8, 2021

I always am amused at how many people call us The Book Reporter or Book Reporter or The Bookreporter. We thought our name was pretty simple, but oh, how many times I have edited it!

Last weekend, I thoroughly enjoyed reading SMILE: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl, and I am so looking forward to interviewing her on Tuesday. Austin is a huge admirer of her work; she is a playwright, and he loves the theater. He is going to join me for the interview. Then I skipped over to start reading BOURDAIN: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever, which is told in such a way that I am planning to read it in bits and bites to savor Tony’s story as long as I can.

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October 8, 2021 - October 22, 2021

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of October 8 - October 22.

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October 8, 2021, 515 voters

William Bridges

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

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William Bridges

October 7, 2021

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Contest by Friday, October 8th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of TRUE CRIME STORY by Joseph Knox, which releases on December 7th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." Gurnah was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, but he arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s. He has published 10 novels and a number of short stories. The theme of the refugee’s disruption runs throughout his work.

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Sean Stewart

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.

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Sean Stewart, PERFECT CIRCLE

Week of October 25, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of October 25th include Linwood Barclay's FIND YOU FIRST, a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a dying tech millionaire are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one; I’LL BE SEEING YOU, a beautifully written memoir by Elizabeth Berg, who tells the poignant love story of caring for her parents in their final years; ROBERT B. PARKER’S SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME by Ace Atkins, a new Spenser mystery that finds the legendary Boston PI and his young protégé, Mattie Sullivan, taking on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients; and Bryan Washington's debut novel, MEMORIAL, a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.

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Week of October 18, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of October 18th include WIN, a thrilling story from Harlan Coben that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of a vigilante antihero --- drawing him down a dangerous road; ELEANOR, David Michaelis' breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women; GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL by Aimee Molloy, an irresistible psychological thriller about a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing; and Michael Riedel's SINGULAR SENSATION, the extraordinary story of a transformative decade on Broadway, featuring behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as "Rent," "Angels in America," "Chicago," "The Lion King" and "The Producers" --- shows that changed the history of the American theater.

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

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Lois McMaster Bujold, BARRAYAR