Comments on: Oprah’s Book Club: Frontrunners & Dark Horses

By: heather

heather — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:48:23 +0000

Whoops, typo amended! Thank you for noticing, guest.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:36:16 +0000

Not to be picky, but instead of host-come-literary kingmaker, don;t you mean host-cum-literary kingmaker?
–frustrated editor wanna-be.

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:53:02 +0000

Among all the literary activities going on the third week in September, don't forget about the national voting on the best of the National Book Awards in Fiction that begins on September 21 and ends on October 21.

America can vote on the top six fiction books that won the National Book Awards from 1950 to 2008. Readers will be pleasantly surprised about the choices.

By: Ron Hogan

Ron Hogan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:23:22 +0000

Yeah, apart from the price points matching, I really don't see Beginner's Greek being quite Oprah's thing the way I think Akpan's short stories would work for the Club.

Josh Ferris and Maria Semple are two more Little, Brown authors I'd love to see make the Club, but like Alcie Sebold and Tony Earley, the prices don't totally fit…

By: caroline

caroline — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:20:32 +0000

I hope it's not Beginner's Greek. It's too vanilla.

By: Jennifer Fenske

Jennifer Fenske — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:36:06 +0000

I am eager to see what it will be! One thing's for sure, there is a mega best seller waiting to happen. This author loves that fact! If more people read books, we all benefit.