Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Goodreads Winners 2012 (4)

Best Humor

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.

Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.

Check out Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson here!

Best Graphic Novels & Comics

Rick discovers that there are communities of survivors nearby, and begins to explore a larger world. Reprinting issues #91-96 of the Eisner Award-winning series, The Walking Dead.
 
Fans of The Walking Dead tv series: Go back to the drawing board with the graphic novels that started it all!
 
Check out the first season of the tv series here.
 
The winner of the category is #16: A Larger World by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard.
 
Start off with #1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore here!
 
 
 
Best Poetry
 
Mornings with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver


In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments.

Our most precious chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver opens our eyes to the nature within, to its wild and its quiet. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, A THOUSAND MORNINGS explores the mysteries of our daily experience.
 
Check out A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver here!
 
Best Goodreads Author
 
Veronica Roth is from a Chicago suburb. She studied creative writing at Northwestern University, and wrote DIVERGENT (Katherine Tegen Books, May 2011) and INSURGENT (May 2012). The third and final book in The Divergent Trilogy, which doesn't have a title yet, will come out in Fall 2013. In the meantime she will spend endless hours browsing Wikipedia in her pajamas as she eats corn flakes. (Or some other kind of bland breakfast cereal.)

Veronica Roth won Favorite Book of 2011 in the Goodreads Choice Awards last year for Divergent! Check out her video acceptance speech:
Learn more about Veronica at her blog!

Check out the rest of the winners on Goodreads!


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