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Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for this year’s Oscar Awards. Two novelists, Nick Hornby and Emma Donoghue, were recognized in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
Hornby wrote the script for Brooklyn based on Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel. Donoghue wrote the script for Room (published in 2010) based on her own novel which shares the same title.
I enjoyed writing the blog post Books with the word ‘Girl’ in the title so much, I thought I’d do one for books that have ‘boy’ in the title. At first glance, I thought this one might be easier, but let’s see how I go. The first book that comes to mind for me is […]
Author Nick Hornby has signed on to adapt Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home. The BBC plans to transform Nina Stibbe’s 2014 nonfiction title into a five-part drama series.
In the past, Hornby actually gave a blurb for the book. Throughout his career, he has served as the screenwriter for several adaptation projects: An Education, Wild, and Brooklyn.
Here’s more from Variety: “The book tells the true story of Stibbe, who moved when she was 19 years old from the English provinces to London to work as a nanny for Mary-Kay Wilmers, the editor of the London Review of Books. It is told through letters sent by Stibbe to her sister over a five-year period.”
Hornby's latest is a hilarious and insightful look into the early television business that perfectly evokes 1960s London. As usual, his dialogue is sharp and bright and will take even the most cynical reader on an entertaining journey up the television stardom mountain with his leading lady. Funny, smart, engaging — it's classic Hornby. Books [...]
Here are some literary events to pencil in your calendar this week.
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NovelistNick Hornby and writer Bill Tipper will headline a conversation event at Barnes & Noble (Union Square branch). Hear them on Wednesday, February 4th starting at 7 p.m. (New York, NY)
Four children’s books creators will appear for the February Picture Book Bonanza at Books of Wonder. Join in on Sunday, February 8th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (New York, NY)
The next session of the Franklin Park Reading Series will feature five writers. Check it out on at the Franklin Park Bar & Beer Garden on Monday, February 9th starting 8 p.m. (Brooklyn, NY)
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) relaunched its website as writers around the globe prepare to write a 50,000-word novel draft in November. The writing marathon organizers counted more than 90 published novels that began as NaNoWriMo projects.
Here’s more from the release: “With NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program, that community crosses age boundaries into K-12 classrooms around the globe. The YWP allows kids and teens to set their own word-count goals, and offers educators high-quality free resources to get nearly 100,000 students writing original, creative works. Although the event emphasizes creativity and adventure over creating a literary masterpiece, more than 90 novels begun during NaNoWriMo have since been published, including Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, and Cinder by Marissa Meyer, all #1 New York Times Best Sellers.”
Did you catch our inaugural First Book Blogger Book Club? We asked some of our favorite book bloggers to read ‘Slam’ by Nick Hornby, and tell us what they thought. It’s a great way to let more people know about the young adult titles we carry on the First Book Marketplace, and get people talking about some of the books we love.
And now we want you! You’ve always wanted to join a book club, right? Book bloggers in particular, but anyone with a blog or a website, or even just a Facebook page is welcome to participate. Read the book, think it over, and tell us what you think! We’ll be spotlighting everyone’s posts and reviews on February 19, and then we can discuss the book here on the First Book blog.
Follow Frankie from her 14 year old geeky, shy self to her 16 year old criminal masterminded self her wont take no for an answer, not even from her boyfriend and his secret all-male club. This is the story of how she got that way.
So pick up a copy of the book at your favorite bookstore or library, share your thoughts on Feb. 19th (or a few days before, if you like), and send us the link to your post.
Questions? Just ask them in the comments section of this post, and we’ll get back to you right away.
As you might be able to guess, we love books here at First Book, and we get excited about some of the great titles that we’re able to offer to children in classrooms and programs all across the county through the First Book Marketplace, our award-winning online store.
When you’re excited about something, you want to share it, so welcome to the inaugural First Book Blogger Book Club! We invited some of our favorite book bloggers to read a young adult title that we carry on the First Book Marketplace and post about it on their blog.
February’s book was Slam, Nick Hornby’s story of a teenager unexpectedly facing fatherhood, and his search for wisdom in the autobiography of pro skateboarder Tony Hawk.
Check out the reviews and blog posts about ‘Slam’, and check back later this week when we’ll reveal next month’s title, and tell you how you can get involved.
Links to the participating blogs will appear here as they are posted, so check back and see what our bloggers had to say. And if you’ve read ‘Slam’, leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts.
Novelist Howard Jacobson (pictured, far left) won the Man Booker Prize earlier this week. But before he won the prestigious award, he played ping pong.
In November, It Books will publish Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes our World by Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz. The ping pong history contains a short piece by the new Booker Prize winner, along with other writers like Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, and Will Shortz.
Here’s more from the publisher: “Congratulations to Howard Jacobson. Booker Prize Winner. And contributor to our humble book (forthcoming November 2) for which he wrote a magnificent rumination on Table Tennis, The Life Pursuit. Here he is with two more of our heroes, Jerome Charyn and Steven Berkoff. Do yourself a favor and purchase his Ping Pong novel, Mighty Walzer without delay.”
Looks like The Believer has just earned itself another subscriber. I. Am. So. Excited. To hear this news. I got hooked (via a Mental Multivitamin post) on Hornby’s column about his eclectic reading life not long before the column went away, breaking my heart into forlorn little pieces. Fortunately, the entire run of “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” was collected into three separate books—The Polysyllabic Spree, Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, andShakespeare Wrote for Money—each of which was given to me as a sweet surprise by my indulgent and tolerant husband, the Scotch tape who holds together all the pieces of my heart. (It belongs to him, after all. I suppose he has incentive for keeping it in one piece.)
And now it’s back? O joy! O rapture! (I always think I am quoting Pudd’nhead Wilson when I say that, but now it occurs to me it may actually be the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. Or else a Gilbert & Sullivan song. Huh.)
The “Books I Bought This Month” lists are one of the things I love about these essays. Hornby begins each column with side-by-side listings of books bought and books read, on the premise that the books you want to read, intend to read, go so far as to purchase in order to read, say as much or possibly even more about you as what books you actually do read. He explored this idea in a thoughtful passage I would like to quote, but five minutes ago Scott left for the library and The Polysyllabic Spree is, alas, mine no more. I mean, it was never mine at all, but I loved it well during its tenancy under this roof. Laid it tenderly upon a tasseled velvet pillow when home duties forced me to turn away from its enchanting pages for a while.
Who, me, prone to hyperbole? I haven’t the faintest, slightest, teeniest crumb of a morsel of an idea what you’re talking about.
Just in case you needed any more reasons to be convinced why books are great gifts, our friends at the Association of American Publishers have asked some of the most popular and prolific authors to share their reasons why books make great gifts. Enjoy the video below and check out the videos featuring even more authors on YouTube.
What to Give & What to Get
More than 40 Penguin authors are sharing book recommendations for holiday gift-giving as part of Penguin’s What to Give & What to Get campaign. Check out videos of authors Nick Hornby, Kate Jacobs, Robert B. Parker and Frank Bruni who share favorite books on camera.
Bark for Books
A fun-filled, literary, family event with author readings, illustration workshops, and opportunities to buy books signed by the authors and illustrators (or “pawed” by protagonists) — just in time for the holidays! The books make thoughtful gifts for the animal-loving children in your life, and extras can be donated to the League’s Read-2-Me program, which provides humane-themed books to classrooms, school libraries and students.
Word Play: Going global Interested in more than what the U.S. children’s market has to offer? The LA Times shares new imports from British, Dutch and French authors.
Overdue library books returned half century later
A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago along with a $1,000 money order to cover the fines.
Well, you know, I have company coming in 1.5 hours and I think I should just say I'm not going to finish the New Classics Challenge. Ah well. I did end up reading 4 books, 2 of which were off the scary list of doom, 1 of which fit the bill for the Chunkster Challenge and 1 of which was on my list for the TBR challenge (um, ok, so maybe I cheated because I knew it was next on the pile to read and that's why I put it on the list... but I hadn't started it yet when I made my list!)
Anyway, so here is the 4th and final New Classics Challenge book (although I am going to read Sandman really soon, because it IS already checked out from the library and everything.)
I haven't read any Hornby before and I was hesitant to read this because I really liked the movie. You know how the book is always better than the movie? What if that isn't true? What if really, whatever story you have immersed yourself in first is better, because that's why you know, and deviation is what makes it worse, no matter what the original was.
That, however, is not the case. While I still like the movie, I can say that the book is better. It has more wit. Also, it takes place in London, which just seems like a better setting for it somehow.
Anyway, if you haven't seen the movie, Rob is a bit of a sadsack. He's reached his mid-30s, runs a failing record shop, he finds his friends lame, and his long-time, serious, live-in girlfriend has just left him for the guy who used to live upstairs.
Rob's not the most reliable narrator in that he's a very authentic voice and so believable. He never understood why Laura liked him in the first place, because he has some depression and self-esteem issues, so the reader isn't entirely sure either. But, Hornby is an author that treats the modern male well. He explores issues of masculinity and relationships from the male point of view, while not turning me off in the same way that Brent Easton Ellis, and Chuck Palahniuk all seem to do with male protagonists that I hope I never actually meet (which is an opinion based solely on reading the jacket copy of their novels and seeing some movies based on them--not a great way to form an opinion of an authors work, I know, but I really don't have much desire to read any of their stuff. I really don't read enough stuff about guys. I do really read girly books. Hmmmm.)
Anyway, Rob is funny, the story is good, and all the music snobbery is great--make sure you have some most excellent music playing while you read.
I now want to go read everything Hornby has ever written.
2 Comments on New Classics Challenge/TBR Challenge Review, last added: 2/3/2009
What a book. What a beautiful, thought-provoking book.
I will say that I didn't like the last two stories of the book, which was frustrating. All of the stories use metaphor and symbolism to varying degrees (some intentionally, some not) and I didn't care for the taste of the final two. I don't want that to discourage you from reading the book - the rest of the stories are wonderful, and perhaps you'll even enjoy them all.
It is a remarkable little book. On the surface, it contains ten stories; but there are stories within stories. It gives you this feel of depth and magnitude. Each story made me feel differently, and they all made me think. One even made me ache a little, it was so good.
This would be a great pick for a book club. There's loads of discussions in here waiting to happen. Oh - and it made me want to take up photography. Perhaps I will.
Do you think it would be kind of like "Red"? Or not..
Erin said, on 4/9/2008 8:08:00 PM
"Red" is nonfiction. This isn't. So no, I don't think they're probably at all alike.
Sookie said, on 4/9/2008 9:11:00 PM
I've always seen this in the bookstore, but never picked it up because I thought it looked too overwhelming (I mean, one book by ten authors!). But I'm glad you liked it, maybe I'll check it out. Can you tell us what you didn't like about the last two stories?
Rhinoa said, on 4/10/2008 4:43:00 AM
I read another review of this by Nymeth and am really interested in reading it. I think it has something for everyone with the mixture of different authors.
Amanda said, on 4/13/2008 5:45:00 PM
I looooved this book...except for the last two stories. I sympathize with you!
mrspilkington said, on 4/14/2008 4:42:00 PM
I just picked this one up yesterday -- I am planning a 'reading holiday' in a couple of weeks, and this near the top of my list. (Got an annotated Charlotte's Web as a gift today that's also looking very good.)
So – who is your hero? That’s the question we’re asking in the run-up to publishing Nick Hornby’s first ever book for teens, Slam. It stars Sam, a 16-year-old skater whose girlfriend gets pregnant and his whole world flips upside down. He turns to his idol for advice, skate legend Tony Hawk, talking to him through the poster on his bedroom wall.
See where we’re going with this? Design a poster of your hero and win the chance to have it exhibited at London’s Design Museum, alongside the work of our celebrated designers. We’ve teamed up with seven cutting edge designers including eboy, Maya Wild and Peter Stitson, who have created these posters of the heroes and heroines from their own teenage days.
The fourteen finalists will also win the chance to be a VIP at Slam’s London launch party.
Interested? Just go to www.mtv.co.uk/slam to enter. And from mid- September see your entries on spinebreakers.co.uk. It’s that simple. Show us what you’ve got.
Just heard about this one in an update of Cynopsis Kids. Note:
Bestselling author Nick Hornby is writing his first young adult novel, for his longtime publisher Penguin. Slam , about a boy who survives a teenage crush by hashing out the pangs of love with his idol Tony Hawk (or at least a one-dimensional version of the star, via a poster), will be released by the Penguin Young Readers Group in October, through its G.P.Putnam's Sons imprint. Riverhead (which regularly publishes Hornby's adult fiction) and Penguin Young Readers will follow, in 2008, with simultaneous paperback editions.
Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for this year’s Oscar Awards. Two novelists, Nick Hornby and Emma Donoghue, were recognized in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 
YES! Do read everything Nick Hornby has ever written :D I plan on doing the same.
Don't worry, I didn't finish either and I hosted it! :-)