Yeah! Finally we're on the Net! Thanks to my brother-in-law, Bill Oleszczuk (
http://www.williamo.com/) for designing our logo and to Holly Valero (
http://hollyworks.com/) for getting our website up and running. Thanks also to
Valerie Osborne, Maine State Library Consultant, Northeastern District, for spearheading this effort and being the inaugural chair. This has all been very exciting and I hope that you'll share that excitement with us as we work toward our final list. Our finalists will be posted in early May. You'll then have the summer to read the books and vote for your favorite in September. We have tentative plans to present the award at the Bangor Book Festival in October.
In the meantime, you can see our shortlist of books at
http://mainereaderschoiceaward.org/the-2013-shortlist/. I've made great progress. I've completed three of the books (
Canada, Harold Fry's Unlikely Pilgrimage, and
Gone Girl.) I am just about finished with
Beautiful Ruins. I'm well into
The Lifeboat and
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. I've started
Yellow Birds. To say that I'm enjoying this is an understatement. How do I like the books? Well, it's hard to say. Each book, so far, has something to recommend it being on our shortlist. But, overall, nothing has really jumped out at me. I'll begin posting reviews shortly.
Why don't you read along with me?
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