tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24267915941785736032024-02-19T07:07:51.756-08:00A Journey Through the Pulitzer Prize-Winning NovelsBookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-5153697556230805402011-07-20T07:17:00.000-07:002011-07-24T19:52:40.699-07:00THE HELP by Kathryn StockettThis summer has basically played out like a summer reading list for me. It seems everywhere I go, I go with book in hand. Everything I've done has been marked by what book I'm reading. Therefore, I've decided to review a non-Pulitzer winner.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><br />The Help</span> begins in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. Skeeter has just come home from graduating college to find the maid who raised her, Constantine, has been fired. Aibileen is looking after a new w<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_q3OdenjHlGw_wVO6Cla9FQEBXnuxfj-JhmsRXE7ES-BTbz4DImv2LpwBZ3N0CVFQJTOZD2wtdjgbWHdo7M7koRtkXwQzKZq2blNrugKeoctAHTuYLPDiZmJAbKwnIy2RSuMQK6VgAts/s1600/The+Help+book.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_q3OdenjHlGw_wVO6Cla9FQEBXnuxfj-JhmsRXE7ES-BTbz4DImv2LpwBZ3N0CVFQJTOZD2wtdjgbWHdo7M7koRtkXwQzKZq2blNrugKeoctAHTuYLPDiZmJAbKwnIy2RSuMQK6VgAts/s320/The+Help+book.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633117297697534962" border="0" /></a>hite child while still grieving over the loss of her own son. Minny has just lost another job and fears she won't find another because of her reputation for speaking her mind.<br /><br />Skeeter begins to find herself silently questioning her two lifelong best friends. How they raise their children, how they gossip about their friends, how they treat their colored maids. But most of all, she wants to find a way out of her mother's house. She wants to move to New York City and become a writer. When the editor of a publishing company in New York suggests she begins writing for her local newspaper, Skeeter finds herself as the author of a housekeeping advice column. A subject about which she knows nothing about. Enter Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's maid.<br /><br />Aibileen reluctantly begins to help Skeeter with her column. It is around this time that Skeeter slowly realizes what she should really write about; what it is like to be a colored maid in the deep south. But who will talk to her? When Skeeter's best friend, Hilly, does something terribly inexcusable, all the maids in town volunteer to talk. Though they meet in secret and remain anonymous, each live in fear of being found out and rightfully so. One maid's young grandson is brutally beaten and left blind for accidentally using a white bathroom, there are rumors of people's tongues being cut out and a prominent member of the NAACP is shot in front of his family on his front lawn.<br /><br />Stockett's writing is so incredibly personal, accessible and informal. Her characters are real, concrete. I found myself gasping when Hilly's maid, Yule May, steals a ring to send her twin boys to school, "Of course, now, neither of my boys will go to college", laughing when Minny describes the "Terrible Awful" trick she plays on Hilly, "...and then I go head. I tell her what else I put in that pie for her", crying when Skeeter's friend tells her she knows her maid is in the book, "When I read what she wrote about me...I've never been so grateful in my life."<br /><br />Stockett writes from three different perspectives, each so clear and distinct I can hear Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny speaking in the back of my mind. It's as if they are old friends, calling me to fill me in on their day at work.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">A professor once told me the purpose of theater is to make us think about things. To make us want to shake up things, change the status quo. After reading <span style="font-style: italic;">The Help</span> by Kathryn Stockett, I have resolved that rule applies to books, too. It made me think about how I treat other people, it made me wonder if I could ever be a Hilly, wonder if I could be Hilly's friend. Most of all, it made me wonder if I could do what Skeeter, Aibileen, Minny and all those other maids did. Would I care enough? Would I be brave enough?</span><br /><br />And since I am technically challenged and couldn't figure out how to upload a video on here, this is a link to the movie trailer, it's due out in August, just in time for my birthday: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbuKgzgeUIU">The Help movie</a>Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-34444589670075195682011-02-01T15:24:00.000-08:002011-02-01T17:26:09.501-08:00MIDDLESEX by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)So, I'll be the first to admit it. I'm really awful at starting things and finishing them. And I'm trying to not let that happen here, folks. That's why, upon the challenge of a friend last week, I am reviving my abandoned blog.<br /><br />Here goes.<br /><br />Middlesex is the story of Calliope Stephanides, a hermaphrodite born of Greek descent in Detroit. Cal is living in present day but he (formally known as she) is telling the story of his lineage starting with his grandparents' exodus from Greece during World War I.<br /><br />His grandparents, Lefty and Desdemona, immigrate to Detroit at the height of its economic boom. Lefty and Desdemona move in with a cousin, Lina, and her husband, learn English and settle into their new American lives. They get jobs, they have children.<br /><br />The kicker? Lefty and Desdemona are brother and sister. Then their son marries his first cousin once removed.<br /><br />Yup, you read it right. The Stephanides family is screwed up. The twisted thing here being that Lefty and Desdemona fled Greece when the Turks were burning their city and country to the ground. They left everything they knew behind, including their brother/sister relationship. They got married on the boat to Ellis Island. They told no one except for their cousin, Lina, with whom they moved in. She had her own dirty secret to keep.<br /><br />I have not finished the book, so I can't tell you how it ends yet. But I can tell you this book did not start off so well in my opinion. My mom bought and read it before me and told me she thought it was hilarious. It did seem incredibly boring to me at the beginning. But it has won me over. Cal, who narrates the story, does so seamlessly and flawlessly. The language he uses is so beautiful, I have to stop every couple of pages to get a pen and underline similes and metaphors.<br /><br />Cal's voice is so littered with good-natured sarcasm sometimes it's hard to tell if he is bitter about his situation or just thinks his grandparents are crazy. I've come to love Lefty, Desdemona, Lina, Milton, Tessie, and most of all, Cal.<br /><br />I can't wait to finish Middlesex.Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-18667978929028575602010-05-13T11:01:00.000-07:002010-05-13T11:12:48.040-07:00The Magnificent Ambersons...Tarkington's first amazing prize-winnerWell folks, it's been a while since I've posted anything of substance on here.<br /><br />The truth is, I haven't had much to say. I've had a hell of a time trying to locate the first book on the list. The thought didn't occur to me that I wouldn't be able to find any of the books...they ARE Pulitzer Prize winners, right?<br /><br />So since March I've been treading my way through the second book on the list, Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons. And when I say "treading", I mean it. It's May and I'm still only halfway through. Everything that I've read about Tarkington raves about him (or her...I'm not sure, is Booth a male or female name?) and I haven't been able to figure that out yet.<br /><br />The language that Tarkington uses is beautiful. It's not one of those oh-my-gosh-i-cant-wait-to-get-through-this-paragraph description. He's good. Just not as amazing as I expected. I keep waiting for that moment in the book where somebody thought, "Wow, this thing deserves some type of award! Pulitzer it is!," but so far, I'm confused.<br /><br />I guess I'll just have to get to the end to figure it out. If the library will even let me renew more times than I have already...that reminds me. When is it due back?Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-62361009773316202542010-03-02T14:44:00.000-08:002010-03-14T09:09:00.861-07:00"I Need to Read"It is long. Here is the abridged version:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I love to read. I have loved to read since I was a kid. When I was in elementary school, I used to get in trouble for reading chapter books during class.<br /><br />I love to spend the first 30 minutes after buying a small electronic device reading its manual.<br /><br />I read a particularly fascinating article in Highlights magazine not too long ago. And the magazine that AARP puts out once had a very insightful article on how to save money while traveling.<br /><br />Sometimes, I like to pretend I'm the main character in a novel I'm reading and that I have their special powers, or their cool clothes or I live in their city or their time period. I love any kind of quick-read book by Meg Cabot or Helen Fielding but I also love the kind of resounding literature that Mark Twain and J.D. Salinger wrote. William Shakespears and Tennessee Williams' plays also top my list of favorite reads.<br /><br />If you go to a movie with me and I see that the movie was based on a book, you better believe I'm going to the library after that movie and checking out the book.<br /><br />I am usually the first person my friends will ask about current events because they think I probably read an article about something somewhere. They're usually right.<br /><br />I recently checked out four books from the library without considering when I would have time to read them. In order to finish them all and turn them back in on time, I've left one at home, one in my book bag, one at work and I keep one in my car for lengthy stoplights. That way, I'll always have something to read. And that's how I like it.<br /></span><br /><br />That part about reading the book in the car? I really do that. :)<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-72906559816615550212010-03-01T20:24:00.000-08:002010-03-02T06:39:49.465-08:00Reading podcastI just remembered that I wrote and recorded a podcast for my feature writing class about how much I love to read. I got an "A" on it and my professor said she liked it.<br /><br />I shall post it when I am not feeling lazy and actually am within arm's length of my jump drive.Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-89479729151736115182010-02-25T19:06:00.001-08:002010-02-25T19:08:23.358-08:00I just checked out The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington from the library and am awaiting His Family by Ernest Poole. I want to read them all in chronological order to get the full effect.Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-73946555629468878042010-02-25T18:35:00.000-08:002010-02-25T18:50:40.234-08:00Prize-winning listFrom pulitzer.org. I have only read two of them:<br /><br /><span class="year">2009</span> <span class="publication">Olive Kitteridge</span> by <span class="title">Elizabeth Strout</span> <span class="publisher">(Random House)</span><br /><br /> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2008"></a><span class="year">2008</span> <span class="publication">The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</span> by <span class="title">Junot Diaz</span> <span class="publisher">(Riverhead Books)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2007"></a><span class="year">2007</span> <span class="publication">The Road</span> by <span class="title">Cormac McCarthy</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2006"></a><span class="year">2006</span> <span class="publication">March</span> by <span class="title">Geraldine Brooks</span> <span class="publisher">(Viking)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2005"></a><span class="year"><br />2005</span> <span class="publication">Gilead</span> by <span class="title">Marilynne Robinson</span> <span class="publisher">(Farrar)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2004"></a><span class="year">2004</span> <span class="publication">The Known World</span> by <span class="title">Edward P. Jones</span> <span class="publisher">(Amistad/ HarperCollins)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <br /><!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2003"></a><span class="year">2003</span> <span class="publication">Middlesex</span> by <span class="title">Jeffrey Eugenides</span> <span class="publisher">(Farrar)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2002"></a><span class="year">2002</span> <span class="publication">Empire Falls</span> by <span class="title">Richard Russo</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2001"></a><span class="year">2001</span> <span class="publication">The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</span> by <span class="title">Michael Chabon</span> <span class="publisher">(Random House)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_2000"></a><span class="year">2000</span> <span class="publication">Interpreter of Maladies</span> by <span class="title">Jhumpa Lahiri</span> <span class="publisher">(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1999"></a><span class="year">1999</span> <span class="publication">The Hours</span> by <span class="title">Michael Cunningham</span> <span class="publisher">(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1998"></a><span class="year">1998</span> <span class="publication">American Pastoral</span> by <span class="title">Philip Roth</span> <span class="publisher">(Houghton Mifflin)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1997"></a><span class="year">1997</span> <span class="publication">Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer</span> by <span class="title">Steven Millhauser</span> <span class="publisher">(Crown)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1996"></a><span class="year">1996</span> <span class="publication">Independence Day</span> by <span class="title">Richard Ford</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1995"></a><span class="year">1995</span> <span class="publication">The Stone Diaries</span> by <span class="title">Carol Shields</span> <span class="publisher">(Viking)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1994"></a><span class="year">1994</span> <span class="publication">The Shipping News</span> by <span class="title">E. Annie Proulx</span> <span class="publisher">(Charles Scribner's Sons)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1993"></a><span class="year"><br />1993</span> <span class="publication">A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain</span> by <span class="title">Robert Olen Butler</span> <span class="publisher">(Henry Holt)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1992"></a><span class="year"><br />1992</span> <span class="publication">A Thousand Acres</span> by <span class="title">Jane Smiley</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1991"></a><span class="year"><br />1991</span> <span class="publication">Rabbit At Rest</span> by <span class="title">John Updike</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1990"></a><span class="year"><br />1990</span> <span class="publication">The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love</span> by <span class="title">Oscar Hijuelos</span> <span class="publisher">(Farrar)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1989"></a><span class="year"><br />1989</span> <span class="publication">Breathing Lessons</span> by <span class="title">Anne Tyler</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1988"></a><span class="year"><br />1988</span> <span class="publication">Beloved</span> by <span class="title">Toni Morrison</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1987"></a><span class="year"><br />1987</span> <span class="publication">A Summons to Memphis</span> by <span class="title">Peter Taylor</span> <span class="publisher">(Alfred A. Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1986"></a><span class="year"><br />1986</span> <span class="publication">Lonesome Dove</span> by <span class="title">Larry McMurtry</span> <span class="publisher">(Simon & Schuster)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1985"></a><span class="year"><br />1985</span> <span class="publication">Foreign Affairs</span> by <span class="title">Alison Lurie</span> <span class="publisher">(Random House)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1984"></a><span class="year"><br />1984</span> <span class="publication">Ironweed</span> by <span class="title">William Kennedy</span> <span class="publisher">(Viking)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1983"></a><span class="year"><br />1983</span> <span class="publication">The Color Purple</span> by <span class="title">Alice Walker</span> <span class="publisher">(Harcourt Brace)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1982"></a><span class="year"><br />1982</span> <span class="publication">Rabbit Is Rich</span> by <span class="title">John Updike</span> <span class="publisher">(Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1981"></a><span class="year"><br />1981</span> <em>A Confederacy of Dunces</em> by the late <span class="cited-name">John Kennedy Toole</span> (a posthumous publication)<br />(Louisiana State U. Press)</div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1980"></a><span class="year"><br />1980</span> <span class="publication">The Executioner's Song</span> by <span class="title">Norman Mailer</span> <span class="publisher">(Little)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1979"></a><span class="year"><br />1979</span> <span class="publication">The Stories of John Cheever</span> by <span class="title">John Cheever</span> <span class="publisher">(Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1978"></a><span class="year"><br />1978</span> <span class="publication">Elbow Room</span> by <span class="title">James Alan McPherson</span> <span class="publisher">(Atlantic Monthly Press)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1977"></a><span class="year"><br />1977</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1976"></a><span class="year"><br />1976</span> <span class="publication">Humboldt's Gift</span> by <span class="title">Saul Bellow</span> <span class="publisher">(Viking)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1975"></a><span class="year"><br />1975</span> <span class="publication">The Killer Angels</span> by <span class="title">Michael Shaara</span> <span class="publisher">(McKay)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1974"></a><span class="year"><br />1974</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1973"></a><span class="year"><br />1973</span> <span class="publication">The Optimist's Daughter</span> by <span class="title">Eudora Welty</span> <span class="publisher">(Random)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1972"></a><span class="year"><br />1972</span> <span class="publication">Angle of Repose</span> by <span class="title">Wallace Stegner</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1971"></a><span class="year"><br />1971</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1970"></a><span class="year"><br />1970</span> <span class="publication">Collected Stories</span> by <span class="title">Jean Stafford</span> <span class="publisher">(Farrar)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1969"></a><span class="year"><br />1969</span> <span class="publication">House Made of Dawn</span> by <span class="title">N. Scott Momaday</span> <span class="publisher">(Harper)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1968"></a><span class="year"><br />1968</span> <span class="publication">The Confessions of Nat Turner</span> by <span class="title">William Styron</span> <span class="publisher">(Random)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1967"></a><span class="year"><br />1967</span> <span class="publication">The Fixer</span> by <span class="title">Bernard Malamud</span> <span class="publisher">(Farrar)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1966"></a><span class="year"><br />1966</span> <span class="publication">Collected Stories</span> by <span class="title">Katherine Anne Porter</span> <span class="publisher">(Harcourt)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1965"></a><span class="year"><br />1965</span> <span class="publication">The Keepers Of The House</span> by <span class="title">Shirley Ann Grau</span> <span class="publisher">(Random)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1964"></a><span class="year"><br />1964</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1963"></a><span class="year"><br />1963</span> <span class="publication">The Reivers</span> by <span class="title">William Faulkner</span> <span class="publisher">(Random)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1962"></a><span class="year"><br />1962</span> <span class="publication">The Edge of Sadness</span> by <span class="title">Edwin O'Connor</span> <span class="publisher">(Little)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1961"></a><span class="year"><br />1961</span> <span class="publication">To Kill A Mockingbird</span> by <span class="title">Harper Lee</span> <span class="publisher">(Lippincott)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1960"></a><span class="year"><br />1960</span> <span class="publication">Advise and Consent</span> by <span class="title">Allen Drury</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1959"></a><span class="year"><br />1959</span> <span class="publication">The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters</span> by <span class="title">Robert Lewis Taylor</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1958"></a><span class="year"><br />1958</span> <em>A Death In The Family</em> by the late <span class="cited-name">James Agee</span> (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)</div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1957"></a><span class="year"><br />1957</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1956"></a><span class="year"><br />1956</span> <span class="publication">Andersonville</span> by <span class="title">MacKinlay Kantor</span> <span class="publisher">(World)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1955"></a><span class="year"><br />1955</span> <span class="publication">A Fable</span> by <span class="title">William Faulkner</span> <span class="publisher">(Random)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1954"></a><span class="year"><br />1954</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1953"></a><span class="year"><br />1953</span> <span class="publication">The Old Man and the Sea</span> by <span class="title">Ernest Hemingway</span> <span class="publisher">(Scribner)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1952"></a><span class="year"><br />1952</span> <span class="publication">The Caine Mutiny</span> by <span class="title">Herman Wouk</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1951"></a><span class="year"><br />1951</span> <span class="publication">The Town</span> by <span class="title">Conrad Richter</span> <span class="publisher">(Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1950"></a><span class="year"><br />1950</span> <span class="publication">The Way West</span> by <span class="title">A. B. Guthrie</span> <span class="publisher">(Sloane)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1949"></a><span class="year"><br />1949</span> <span class="publication">Guard of Honor</span> by <span class="title">James Gould Cozzens</span> <span class="publisher">(Harcourt)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1948"></a><span class="year"><br />1948</span> <span class="publication">Tales of the South Pacific</span> by <span class="title">James A. Michener</span> <span class="publisher">(Macmillan)</span></div><br /><span class="year">1947</span> <span class="publication">All the King's Men</span> by <span class="title">Robert Penn Warren</span> <span class="publisher">(Harcourt)<br /><br /></span> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1946"></a><span class="year">1946</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1945"></a><span class="year"><br />1945</span> <span class="publication">A Bell for Adano</span> by <span class="title">John Hersey</span> <span class="publisher">(Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1944"></a><span class="year"><br />1944</span> <span class="publication">Journey in the Dark</span> by <span class="title">Martin Flavin</span> <span class="publisher">(Harper)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1943"></a><span class="year"><br />1943</span> <span class="publication">Dragon's Teeth</span> by <span class="title">Upton Sinclair</span> <span class="publisher">(Viking)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1942"></a><span class="year"><br />1942</span> <span class="publication">In This Our Life</span> by <span class="title">Ellen Glasgow</span> <span class="publisher">(Harcourt)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1941"></a><span class="year"><br />1941</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1940"></a><span class="year"><br />1940</span> <span class="publication">The Grapes of Wrath</span> by <span class="title">John Steinbeck</span> <span class="publisher">(Viking)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1939"></a><span class="year"><br />1939</span> <span class="publication">The Yearling</span> by <span class="title">Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</span> <span class="publisher">(Scribner)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1938"></a><span class="year"><br />1938</span> <span class="publication">The Late George Apley</span> by <span class="title">John Phillips Marquand</span> <span class="publisher">(Little)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1937"></a><span class="year"><br />1937</span> <span class="publication">Gone With the Wind</span> by <span class="title">Margaret Mitchell</span> <span class="publisher">(Macmillan)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1936"></a><span class="year"><br />1936</span> <span class="publication">Honey in the Horn</span> by <span class="title">Harold L. Davis</span> <span class="publisher">(Harper)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1935"></a><span class="year"><br />1935</span> <span class="publication">Now in November</span> by <span class="title">Josephine Winslow Johnson</span> <span class="publisher">(Simon & Schuster)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1934"></a><span class="year"><br />1934</span> <span class="publication">Lamb in His Bosom</span> by <span class="title">Caroline Miller</span> <span class="publisher">(Harper)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1933"></a><span class="year"><br />1933</span> <span class="publication">The Store</span> by <span class="title">T. S. Stribling</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1932"></a><span class="year"><br />1932</span> <span class="publication">The Good Earth</span> by <span class="title">Pearl S. Buck</span> <span class="publisher">(John Day)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1931"></a><span class="year"><br />1931</span> <span class="publication">Years of Grace</span> by <span class="title">Margaret Ayer Barnes</span> <span class="publisher">(Houghton)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1930"></a><span class="year"><br />1930</span> <span class="publication">Laughing Boy</span> by <span class="title">Oliver Lafarge</span> <span class="publisher">(Houghton)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1929"></a><span class="year"><br />1929</span> <span class="publication">Scarlet Sister Mary</span> by <span class="title">Julia Peterkin</span> <span class="publisher">(Bobbs)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1928"></a><span class="year"><br />1928</span> <span class="publication">The Bridge of San Luis Rey</span> by <span class="title">Thornton Wilder</span> <span class="publisher">(Boni)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1927"></a><span class="year"><br />1927</span> <span class="publication">Early Autumn</span> by <span class="title">Louis Bromfield</span> <span class="publisher">(Stokes)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1926"></a><span class="year"><br />1926</span> <span class="publication">Arrowsmith</span> by <span class="title">Sinclair Lewis</span> <span class="publisher">(Harcourt)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1925"></a><span class="year"><br />1925</span> <span class="publication">So Big</span> by <span class="title">Edna Ferber</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1924"></a><span class="year"><br />1924</span> <span class="publication">The Able McLaughlins</span> by <span class="title">Margaret Wilson</span> <span class="publisher">(Harper)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1923"></a><span class="year"><br />1923</span> <span class="publication">One of Ours</span> by <span class="title">Willa Cather</span> <span class="publisher">(Knopf)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1922"></a><span class="year"><br />1922</span> <span class="publication">Alice Adams</span> by <span class="title">Booth Tarkington</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1921"></a><span class="year"><br />1921</span> <span class="publication">The Age of Innocence</span> by <span class="title">Edith Wharton</span> <span class="publisher">(Appleton)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1920"></a><span class="year"><br />1920</span> (No Award)<span class="title"></span> </div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1919"></a><span class="year"><br />1919</span> <span class="publication">The Magnificent Ambersons</span> by <span class="title">Booth Tarkington</span> <span class="publisher">(Doubleday)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div><div class="item"> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <div class="citation-heading"> <a name="winner_1918"></a><span class="year"><br />1918</span> <span class="publication">His Family</span> by <span class="title">Ernest Poole</span> <span class="publisher">(Macmillan)</span></div> <div class="view-field view-data-field-citation-value"> </div> <!-- end views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> </div> <!-- start views-list-past_winners.tpl.php --> <a name="winner_1917"></a><span class="year"><br />1917</span> (No Award)Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-57421338064697260882010-02-25T18:27:00.000-08:002010-02-25T18:34:56.201-08:00A history of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom pulitzer.org:<br /><br /><p class="article"><strong></strong>In writing his 1904 will, which made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence, [Joseph] Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships. In letters, prizes were to go to an American novel, an original American play performed in New York, a book on the history of the United States, an American biography, and a history of public service by the press.</p> <p class="article">But, sensitive to the dynamic progression of his society, Pulitzer made provision for broad changes in the system of awards. He established an overseer advisory board and willed it "power in its discretion to suspend or to change any subject or subjects, substituting, however, others in their places, if in the judgment of the board such suspension, changes, or substitutions shall be conducive to the public good or rendered advisable by public necessities, or by reason of change of time." He also empowered the board to withhold any award where entries fell below its standards of excellence. The assignment of power to the board was such that it could also overrule the recommendations for awards made by the juries subsequently set up in each of the categories.</p> <p class="article">Since the inception of the prizes in 1917, the board, later renamed the Pulitzer Prize Board, has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music, and photography as subjects, while adhering to the spirit of the founder's will and its intent. </p>Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426791594178573603.post-51170030159385003112010-02-25T17:47:00.000-08:002010-02-25T18:00:07.235-08:00Nervous beginningsHello, all.<br /><br />You may be wondering why I decided to take on the daunting task of reading all of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels.<br /><br />It first started fall semester of '09. I took a feature writing class in which my teacher had us reading a lot of the prize-winning articles so I was spending a lot of time at pulitzer.org. While I love to read, it was kind of hard to find a lot of the articles past 2002 and I'm not incredibly interested in reading them anyways.<br /><br />That's when I started getting curious about the prize-winning novels. I checked them out. They date back to 1917! I think I counted somewhere around 90 novels.<br /><br />The thought to challenge myself and read them all didn't creep into my mind until later. Even then, I wasn't sure I wanted to do it. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I finally decided to do it!<br /><br />I'm so nervous about this journey, and I think it might be a long one. But here goes! I think by the end of this, the winners for 2010 and 2011 might already be announced...Bookworm Meghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15419566865372309895noreply@blogger.com1