NYRB Reading Week - Summary

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It's already past 1 in the afternoon here in Manila, so I figure that ends Nov. 13 in almost all parts of the world. Hence, it's the end of our wonderful and enriching NYRB Reading Week. My co-host, Mrs. B, and I are very thankful to everyone who participated this week via writing reviews and other posts about NYRB. Here is a summary of everyone who gave links to their reviews and other posts for our reading week.

Nov. 7

Nov. 8

Nov. 9
Nov. 10

Nov. 11


Nov. 12


Nov. 13


Reviews written before the NYRB Reading Week:


Best of NYRB lists:


Other posts:

Entries for the NYRB Photo Contest: (please click on the links to see the other photos in the entry. Photos are property of the owner.)

From Mental Multivitamin
From Gathering Books

From Arajane

From William Rycroft


And here, once more, are the photos from Thomas at My Porch that inspired the NYRB Photo Contest:


From My Porch


From My Porch


Mrs. B and I will be meeting up tomorrow to settle the winners for our prizes. Remember, Mrs. B's favorite reviewer will receive The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, and my favorite reviewer will receive Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. The winner of the NYRB Photo Contest will get a copy of No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon. And, the ones who submitted reviews posted during the NYRB Reading Week will be entered in a raffle to win either  The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih or Soul of Wood by Jakov Lind. Each review written gets one entry into the raffle, so if you wrote two reviews for the reading week, that's two raffle entries. Unfortunately, we're not including the reviews written before the reading week, though we did link to them above because they're well-worth reading. Again, thank you to Fully Booked and Random House for donating the prizes.

This week has been extremely enriching and eye-opening for me. I'd like to thank my co-host, Mrs. B of The Literary Stew for letting me help out and to everyone who enthusiastically participated in it. We've heard people wish that it were a yearly thing or it were longer. I echo those sentiments and I would love to do this again!

Comments

GatheringBooks said…
Hi Honey, I've posted a reflective/summative post of this week (along with links to NYRB posts of the others) here: http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/nyrb-reading-week-a-reflective-and-summative-postscript/

This is such a soul-enriching event, I loooooved the books I reviewed. Classics I would not have discovered if not for this book blogging event. Congratulations to you and Mrs B for hosting such a successful event!
November 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Suzanne Yester said…
Wish I could have participated!!! But at least I can enjoy all the reviews! Thanks for posting the summary and all the links!

Great job!
November 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Isabella K said…
I'm still working my way through all the reviews, great job, Honey! Thanks for hosting with Mrs B, and I really do hope you can make this an annual event.
November 15, 2010 at 7:43 AM
fantaghiro23 said…
Thank you so much, all of you! Myra, I loved your summary post.

Suzanne, there's always next year!

Isabella, we hope so, too!:)
November 16, 2010 at 4:20 PM
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