As we bring you our last Highlights issue of 2020, I would like to wish you a wonderful holiday season and hope that, even though you may be spending it somewhat differently to previous years, that you are able to relax, connect with friends and family, and enjoy some good books.
If you haven't yet checked out our 2020 Award Winners and Top 20 Best Books, see our picks below for some potentially great holiday gift ideas. And we're giving away copies of our Fiction Award Winner, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab.
We're also taking a look back over our online Book Club discussions from this past year which I hope will provide inspiration whether for your personal reading or for a book group.
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To invite the book lovers and book club enthusiasts in your life to enjoy BookBrowse's reviews and resources all year round, consider saving on a gift membership with our current $10 discount.
Plus, our Big Holiday Wordplay is still open! See if you can decipher 10 classic titles by women authors from the clues and win books of your choice or a one-year membership to BookBrowse.
Very best,
Davina
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The BookBrowse Book Club: The Best Books of 2020 |
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BookBrowse's Awards are different from other popular awards for two reasons. Firstly, voting is only open to BookBrowse subscribers at the time the voting opens -- so there is no vote stuffing by rabid fan bases. Secondly, instead of just voting for a book (which favors the most widely read books) participants rate each book they've read that is on the shortlist, and the winners are the books with the highest overall rating.
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The 2020 BookBrowse Award Winners |
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The BookBrowse Book Club: What We Discussed in 2020 |
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Whether you're wondering if a book might be right for your book club, or you just want to see what others have said about a book you've read, BookBrowse's Book Club discussions are an excellent resource. In 2020, we exchanged views on 17 different books. |
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
Winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Fiction Award
In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force.
BookBrowse Review
"Everything about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is stellar, from the pacing to the characters to the exceptionally well-thought-out plot. Schwab's writing, too, is superb, convincingly reflecting the longing at her heroine's core while at the same time being beautifully descriptive. I wholeheartedly recommend it for a broad audience as a feel-good and overall charming read. The novel would also be an excellent choice for book groups, as it raises many wonderful topics for discussion, such as the lengths one might go to for love or what one might do with eternal life..."
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Tor Books. Novel. 448 pages. Published Oct 6, 2020 |
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There's still time to enter our Big Holiday Wordplay!
To enter, decipher the 10 classic books and their authors from the clues (e.g., the answer to M B by G F would be Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert). All ten books are written by women. There will be 3 winners.
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The answer to the last Wordplay: I G I O Ear A O T O
"It goes in one ear and out the other."
Meaning: It is forgotten immediately; it makes no impression.
The first recorded use of this expression is in Geoffrey Chaucer's epic poem Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385), which re-tells the tragic story of two lovers set against the backdrop of the siege of Troy. A couple of centuries later around 1602, Shakespeare would give us his own rendition, titled Troilus and Cressida.
Thise wordes seyde he for the nones alle,
To helpe his freend, lest he for sorwe deyde.
For douteles, to doon his wo to falle,
He roughte not what unthrift that he seyde.
But Troilus, that neigh for sorwe deyde,
Tok litel hede of al that ever he mente;
Oon ere it herde, at the other out it wente:
... continued
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