Douglas Preston, a bestselling author whose books are published by Hachette and who spearheaded the Authors United petition, said: “I’m very relieved both for myself and for my fellow Hachette authors. I don’t know the full details but I’m sure Michael Pietsch would not have accepted anything that was not beneficial for his authors, so I’m quite satisfied and happy about it. … [Read more...] about Amazon and publisher Hachette end dispute over online book sales
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Everything I Never Told You tops Amazon’s 100 best books of 2014
Amazon.com has chosen Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You as its book of the year, ahead of a wealth of prominent titles from Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North (93rd) to Hilary Mantel’s short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (61st) and Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest (81st). Ng’s novel, due to be published in the UK this week, is about a Chinese-American family whose oldest daughter, Lydia, is found drowned in a lake. “There isn’t a false note in this book, and my only concern in describing my profound admiration for Everything I Never Told You is that it might raise unachievable expectations in the reader,” said Amazon senior books editor Chris Schluep. “But it’s that good. Achingly, precisely, and sensitively written.” … [Read more...] about Everything I Never Told You tops Amazon’s 100 best books of 2014
Everything I Never Told You review – Amazon’s best book of the year by Celeste Ng
The choice of a 70s setting is an indicator of the damage that modern technology and ideological progress have done to the plotting options of crime writers. Ng’s narrative depends on Lydia having left little trace and misleading her parents about key friendships – feats nearly impossible since the advent of mobile phones and Facebook. The story-driving decisions made by the characters, meanwhile, are almost all driven by overt racism of the sort that mixed-race families would have faced then rather than the covert and coded bigotry that is more common now. “Children of Mixed Backgrounds Often Struggle to Find Their Place” is a now-shocking headline in the newspaper coverage of Lydia’s funeral. … [Read more...] about Everything I Never Told You review – Amazon’s best book of the year by Celeste Ng
Dominic Goings! Prime Minister’s senior advisor Cummings is seen sprinting out of Number 10’s backdoor as it is announced Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus
Boris Johnson speaks at Downing Street on March 5, in an event attended by Health Minister Nadine Dorries, who later tested positive for the virus, as well as Trade Secretary Liz Truss (in red next to the podium) and athlete Kelly Holmes (in a black suit, two places to Ms Truss's left) … [Read more...] about Dominic Goings! Prime Minister’s senior advisor Cummings is seen sprinting out of Number 10’s backdoor as it is announced Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus
Trump makes extraordinary claim Gov. Cuomo is exaggerating NY’s need for ventilators in wild Hannity interview as the nation’s coronavirus epicenter tops 37,000 cases and hospitals verge on the edge of collapse
'We have had some trouble with the state of Washington and he ran for president, didn't exactly do well, he got zero and we had a big problem with a woman governor, you know who I'm talking about, from Michigan. Though we can't — we don't like to see the complaints,' he continued. … [Read more...] about Trump makes extraordinary claim Gov. Cuomo is exaggerating NY’s need for ventilators in wild Hannity interview as the nation’s coronavirus epicenter tops 37,000 cases and hospitals verge on the edge of collapse
