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March 28, 2007
...And the winner is Cormac McCarthy's March 26, 2007
Can you predict Oprah's next book club pick?
GalleyCat and the Freakonomics blog speculate on which title Oprah will announce as her next book club pick this Wednesday. GalleyCat has its money on Never Let Me Go while Steven Dubner bets on The Year of Magical Thinking. What say you, dear readers?February 27, 2007
Book news roundup
-For bestselling self help book The Secret, the secret is packaging (via MSN.com)
-Random House launches Browse & Search functionality on their website. Take that, HarperCollins! (via if:book)
-French literature professor: How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read? (via The New York Times)
-Oprah will bring Mitch Albom's For One More Day to the small screen (via ReadersRead.com)
-Remembering author Philip K. Dick on the silver anniversary of his death (The Times via Bookninja)
January 29, 2007
Oprah plays it safe with Poitier pick
On Friday, Oprah announced her new book club pick, spiritual memoir The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier.
Granted, we all love Mr. Tibbs...But a spiritual memoir? Her pick before this was high school reading requirement Night by Elie Wiesel…Seems like Ms. O is still going out of her way to distance herself from last year’s pick, gritty fiction-as-memoir A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (pictured).Unless The Smoking Gun has anything on Poitier—who has won an Oscar and has been knighted—I think Oprah’s in the clear.