'First mom' has other roles Nov 30, 2008
And as Geraldine Brooks points out in her blog "Closet Agenda," Obama will wield a lot of clout in her husband's new administration. The point is, Michelle Obama has been a highly successful working mother and will be again some day. (Boston Globe)
Portland's Wordstock opens a new chapter, heavy on local writers Nov 9, 2008
When Heather Vogel Frederick told the audience at the book club panel that she was "on a Geraldine Brooks jag" and reading all the books by the Pulitzer Prize-winner, a woman clapped with delight. Russell Perreault, the publicity director for Vintage Books and the panel's moderator, said marketing to book clubs is a key part of the publisher's strategy and combining book clubs and festivals was doubly effective. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
NSW Premiers History Awards Address 2008 Oct 28, 2008
Just to speak of fiction writers, new books by Murray Bail, Geraldine Brooks, Peter Carey, J M Coetzee, Michelle de Kretser, Helen Garner, Gail Jones, Mireille Juchau, Tom Keneally, Julia Leigh, Joan London, David Malouf and Tim Winton, many appearing on national and international award lists, make this a bumper season. Alexis Wrights Miles Franklin-winning Carpentaria had a lengthy appreciation in the London Review of Books on its UK publication earlier this year, with US publication still to... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Print media get off campaign bus Oct 13, 2008
The author, Geraldine Brooks, mentions that she first met the potential first lady at a Martha s Vineyard fundraiser, as a donor to her husband s campaign. "I certainly pointed it out to the assigning editor and editor in chief and said it would have to be disclosed," Brooks says. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
List: Book Thief author steals top 10 spot. | Top 100 books Oct 5, 2008
45 People Of The Book - Geraldine Brooks. 46 Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Laura Bush, Jenna Bush to Meet Book-Lovers at National Book Festival; Young Readers' Toolkit Available Sep 9, 2008
CHILDREN Tiki Barber Jan Brett Marc Brown & Judy Sierra David A. Carter Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin Kadir Nelson & Doreen Rappaport David Shannon Dionne Warwick TEENS & CHILDREN Mary Brigid Barrett, Steven Kellogg & Katherine Paterson Joseph Bruchac Sharon M. Draper Neil Gaiman Andrea Davis Pinkney Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda River of Words with Pamela Michael, David Gewanter, and young contest winners Jon Scieszka Charles R. Smith, Jr. R. L. Stine Judith Viorst FICTION & MYSTERY Louis... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Brooks wins Book of the Year award Jun 16, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks has taken out the Australian Book of the Year award and the Literary Fiction Book of the Year award with her fictional account of a real book ... Book of the Year - Geraldine Brooks for her novel People of the Book (HarperCollins Publishers Australia). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sisters bookend literary awards Jun 16, 2008
TALENTED sisters Geraldine Brooks and Darleen Bungey have won separate awards at the Oscars of the Australian book scene, the Australian Book Industry Awards. Brooks last night won the Book of the Year and Literary Fiction of the Year awards for her People of the Book, while Bungey won biography of the year for her Arthur Boyd: A Life at the ceremony at the Regent's Plaza Ballroom. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
One Book, One Community, One Conversation May 10, 2008
And, in March, author Geraldine Brooks tells of Bronson Alcott s encounters in the Civil War, away from his famed daughter, Louisa May. The books also connect with a new, town-wide initiative called Building A Respectful Community, of which Library Director Mary Rose Quinn is a member along with representatives from the schools, Youth Services and the Police Department. (North Andover Citizen, MA)
News : Sponsor a book program huge success May 8, 2008
Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank, Certain girls by Jennifer Weiner, Full House by Janet Evanovich, large print, Orpheus Deception by David Stone, Where Are You Now by Mary Higgins Clark, Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark, Night Work by Steve Hamilton, People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, Searching For Paradise by Robert Parker, Blind Fall by Christopher Rice, Dead Heat by Joel Rosenberg, Deadly Deceptions by Linda Lael... (Forest Republican, WI)
Stars illuminate Celtics' Garden party Apr 22, 2008
Without mentioning Menino by name, the Harvard professor and minister warned that the BPL was in danger of becoming "a minor bureaucratic sinkhole.") The eight "Lights" celebrated at the swanky gala were authors Geraldine Brooks, Stephen Carter, Frances FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Tony Horwitz, P.J. O'Rourke, Gordon Wood, and the late David Halberstam. Others attending included novelist Tom Perrotta and New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, both presenters, Lewis's wife, Supreme Judicial Court... (Boston Globe)
Shedding novel light| Apr 20, 2008
Australian author Geraldine Brooks admits her latest book, with its drunken priest, gambling rabbi and Muslim librarian, is "rather like the set-up of a very bad joke". But the Pulitzer prize-winning writer has tackled the decidedly unfunny subjects of war, genocide and religious intolerance in 'People of the Book', an historical puzzle dedicated to librarians and likened to the 'Da Vinci Code. (iAfrica.com)
People of the Book’ delivers through details Apr 11, 2008
The tale of Pulitzer Prize-winning Geraldine Brooks newest novel travels the world piecing together clues an insect wing, a wine stain, saltwater crystals, and a white hair of the life and multiple near deaths of. a book. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
This is what we are - culturally speaking Apr 7, 2008
Underbelly - The Gangland War, John Silvester & Andrew Rule; Atonement, Ian McEwan; 4 Ingredients, Kim McCosker and Rachel Bermingham; 7th Heaven, James Patterson; People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks; Duma Key, Stephen King. The TV we're watching. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Telescope bid reaches for stars Apr 1, 2008
Those present included the astronaut Andy Thomas, the author Geraldine Brooks, the mathematician Terence Tao and Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Dr Thomas said he was "delighted" to hear Mr Rudd speak so effusively about science and education, especially the SKA. "That would be such a boon for Australia. The face of Australia 20 years from now would be permanently changed for the better," he said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Biographers go head-to-head over novelist suicide claim Mar 27, 2008
The same issue had a harsh review of People Of The Book, the novel by Bungey's Pulitzer Prize-winning sister, Geraldine Brooks. Britain's review of Bungey's book prompted a letter from her publisher, Richard Walsh, defending her research, footnoting and "highly original, imaginative and evocative prose", and pointing out reviewers such as Richard Haese and Patrick McCaughey had "lavished unstinting praise on this magnificent book". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
At Your Library Mar 15, 2008
"People of the Book," by Geraldine Brooks, takes us on a journey from Spain to Sarajevo, Venice to Australia and back through time as well. Rare Hebrew manuscripts are at risk as this story unfolds. (Chetek Alert, WI)
God, the Coetzee effect and the Carey gang Mar 3, 2008
Some are Australian: Carey, Greer (who spends a third of her year in Queensland), Geraldine Brooks, Hazel Rowley and the nomadic Robyn Davidson. Others include Peter Godwin (born in Zimbabwe, resident in the US), Moses Isegawa (Uganda-the Netherlands), Tim Parks (Britain-Italy), Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka-Britain) and Azhar Abidi (Pakistan-Australia). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Eco-anxiety replaces dishpan hands for 'green moms' Feb 16, 2008
In no time, the conversation turned lively - not about the literary merits of Geraldine Brooks and Cormac McCarthy but the pitfalls of anti-bacterial hand sanitizers and how to re-tool the laundry using only cold water and biodegradable detergent during non-prime-time energy hours (after 7 p.m.). Move over Tupperware: the Eco-Mom party has arrived, with its ever-expanding "to do" list that includes preparing waste-free school lunches, lobbying for green building codes, procuring "locovore" -... (International Herald Tribune)
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all Feb 9, 2008
Mrs. Turnquist mentioned a new book, March, by Geraldine Brooks, about the father of the "little women" and his adventures away from home. At sunset our tourist strolled through the lake park down by Lake DeFuniak, one of only two, perfectly circular lakes in the world, and watched the waterfowl, mainly ducks, swim and waddle. (Andalusia Star News, AL)
Off the shelf Feb 2, 2008
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book is inspired by the true tale of a rare book and its journey through time and war. Child of a Dead God is the latest in the popular Noble Dead series by Barb and JC Hendee. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Winter Books Feb 1, 2008
Geraldine Brooks' third novel is an excellent, fast-moving mystery that's decidedly Brooksian. Thick currents of emotion run through a story grounded in meticulous, insider research. (Slate)
Top 150 Books Jan 29, 2008
Geraldine Brooks, Viking. Traces the history of a rare Jewish text to its beginnings (F) (H) $25. (USA Today -- Life)
People Of The Book Jan 28, 2008
Geraldine Brooks is a savvy, almost shrewd storyteller ... Fiction Geraldine Brooks Fourth Estate 2008 390 32. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
If you love historical mysteries, get this book Jan 28, 2008
In "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks, an old manuscript tells Hannah a story, and it s not just the one printed on the pages ... With time-framing reminiscent of "Pulp Fiction," some factual history, the existence of a real book, and a fictional character who is increasingly easy to like, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks takes you on a five-century trip from Bosnia to Venice, Vienna to Spain, inside mosques and Getos, churches and torture chambers ... "People of the Book" by... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Lima Public Library book reviews Jan 27, 2008
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Hanna Heath, an expert in rare books, is hired to examine the precious codex of the Sarajevo Haggadah which is one of the earliest Jewish volumes to be illuminated with images. (Lima News, OH)
* [NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS] Hardcover Jan 27, 2008
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Bestsellers list Jan 25, 2008
People of the Book Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $25. 95, 9780670018215 The sweeping new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March. (Scranton Times, PA)
Must read this winter Jan 19, 2008
Jackie Skinner The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster and Year of Wonders - A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks ... Jody Chwatun People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks and Peter Jennings: A Reporter s Life edited by Kate Darnton, Kayce Freed Jennings & Lynn Sherr. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
This week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly Jan 18, 2008
com is the Waterloo-Cedar Falls homepage for all local news, sports, entertainment and events happening in the Cedar Valley. Archives (past 14 days). (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Book buzz: Geraldine Brooks has a heck of a 'Book' Jan 17, 2008
Book buzz: Geraldine Brooks has a heck of a 'Book ... Booksellers are singing the praises of Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book, and customers are listening. (USA Today -- Life)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers Jan. 13 / Jan 14, 2008
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, Geraldine Brooks (Viking; 384 pages; $25. 95): A rare-book expert unlocks the mysteries of an early Jewish illuminated manuscript; by the author of "March.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Keeping the faith Jan 13, 2008
People of the BookBy Geraldine BrooksViking, 372 pp ... Few fiction writers travel across territory as vast as that staked out by the intrepid Geraldine Brooks over the course of her career, namely, practically the whole world and several centuries of human civilization. (Boston Globe)
"People of the Book," an intricate game of a novel Jan 13, 2008
Geraldine Brooks reads from "People of the Book," 7 p.m. Feb. 4, Seattle Downtown Library; free (206-634-3400 or ; or 206-386-4636 or ) ... In her fiction, former war correspondent Geraldine Brooks has taken on England's Bubonic plague outbreak of 1666 ("Year of Wonders") and the American Civil War experiences of an ineptly do-gooding Yankee clergyman ("March" Brooks' richly deserving Pulitzer Prize-winner in 2006). (Seattle Times)
SOUL SURVIVORS Jan 13, 2008
In People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks uses fiction to re-imagine the amazing history of this illuminated 14th century Hebrew text, which survived the political and religious wars and upheavals that ravaged Europe and the Near East from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Unfortunately, the novel doesn't live up to its inspiration. Brooks examines this strange, eventful history through the lens of a very promising figure: the young Australian scholar Hanna Heath, who through a series of... (New York Post -- Opinions)
Jews, Muslims and Christians become people of the Sarajevo Haggadah Jan 11, 2008
Geraldine Brooks s new novel People of the Book ties its characters to another Jewish book, the Sarajevo Haggadah ... Geraldine Brooks was raised in Sydney by a father who served in the military in pre-state Palestine during World War II. He was a socialist and had gotten really caught up in the dream of the kibbutzim, Brooks says. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
'People of the Book': An erudite 'Da Vinci Code' Jan 10, 2008
People of the BookBy Geraldine BrooksViking, 372 pp ... By Susan Kelly, USA TODAY Geraldine Brooks' novel People of the Book arrives with high expectations. (USA Today -- Life)
Books of the Times: Book review: People of the Book Jan 10, 2008
"For the librarians," says the dedication page of Geraldine Brooks's new novel, "People of the Book." That's an understatement. What librarian could resist a novel that has the word book in its title, is centered on an intrepid book conservator, exults in book-preservation exotica ("I know the flesh and fabrics of pages, the bright earths and lethal toxins of ancient pigments") and has a plot about a rare book with a long, fraught and serpentine history. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A literary feast awaits Jan 5, 2008
The biennial Adelaide Writers' Week in March helps position a few books including those from Peter Carey and Geraldine Brooks ... In People Of The Book (Fourth Estate, February), Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks builds her story around an ancient Hebrew book that has travelled across countries and centuries to be restored by an Australian woman. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'People of the Book' offers lessons in tolerance Jan 3, 2008
People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks Viking 372 pp ... The new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks features a book that becomes a witness to history ... In her new novel, People of the Book, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks tackles a most unlikely survivor: The Sarajevo Haggadah, a 15th-century Jewish artifact that has managed to elude some of history's most notorious bad guys, from Inquisitors to Nazis. (Christian Science Monitor)
Winter reads Jan 3, 2008
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, in stores this week. She won a Pulitzer Prize for 2005's March, which imagined the life of the absent father in Little Women. (USA Today)
Jewish text saved in Sarajevo Dec 30, 2007
Let's cut to the chase, which Geraldine Brooks certainly does - repeatedly - in her intense, gripping new novel. "People of the Book," like her Pulitzer Prize-winning previous novel, "March," is a tour de force that delivers a reverberating lesson gleaned from history. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book buzz: 'Eat, Pray, Love' rules the holidays Dec 27, 2007
In fiction, there's a new Sara Paretsky (Bleeding Kansas) and Geraldine Brooks (People of the Book). And for a high hipster quotient, don't miss The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith (Penguin). (USA Today)
Wild: Dear Friend: Wont You Help? Dec 9, 2007
The protagonists of writer Geraldine Brooks chronicle were Muslim and Jewish. But like the famous story from World War I when, on Christmas Eve, soldiers from both sides put down their guns, climbed out of their respective trenches and sang Silent Night together, the New Yorker account is a wartime story when people in conflict unexpectedly behave in ways we all wish would happen every day of the year. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Butler Did It Nov 10, 2007
") Books like McCaig's are one of the oddities of the current literary moment. Last year Geraldine Brooks' March, which fills in the extracanonical adventures of the dad from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, won the Pulitzer Prize. Huckleberry Finn's father and Dickens' Tiny Tim have gotten the same treatment, not to mention the Wicked Witch of the West. Where once they were inviolable, the margins of books have become porous, with characters slipping in and out like naughty teenagers to lead... (Time.com)
McEwan booked to head writers' festival line-up Oct 26, 2007
But McEwan is not the only prize heavyweight on Wight's list: the two-time Booker and three-times Miles Franklin winner, Peter Carey, will return home from New York to take part, along with another expatriate, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, who now lives in Virginia. And perhaps Australia's most famous expat of all, Germaine Greer, is to make her first appearance at the festival, with her new book, Shakespeare's Wife, under her arm. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
`Miss Moneypenny' made 14 Bond films Oct 4, 2007
Maxwell eventually tired of bad pictures and escaped to Italy with a friend, actress Geraldine Brooks. She made a name for herself in Italian movies without being able to speak the language. (Toronto Star)
Junketing around the Junction Oct 2, 2007
Daytime Book Group met Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Ann Rosa s house and Wednesday, Sept. 26, is Evening Book Group at Kathy Cuocolo s house to discuss March by Geraldine Brooks. Walking Group meets Sept. 13, 20 and 27, Thursdays, to walk trails in Tewksbury and Lowell area. (Concord Journal, MA)
Keshavarz: Khosmood Interviews Keshavarz Aug 5, 2007
As examples of this type of narrative you point to popular works by Geraldine Brooks, Azar Nafisi, Khaled Husseini and Asne Seierstad. Can you briefly explain what you mean by the term and how these particular works are examples. (Zmag.org)
Last but not least Jun 23, 2007
Michael Ondaatje and Richard Ford do, and so do Tim Winton and Geraldine Brooks, but Jonathan Franzen does not ... As a writer who relies on archives, Pulitzer winner Geraldine Brooks feels she must explain to readers where the historical record ends and imagination begins. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sorry, Scarlett: This book is all Rhett's May 17, 2007
Among his neighbors, relatively speaking, in rural Virginia are married best-selling authors Geraldine Brooks (who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning "March") and Tony Horwitz ("Confederates in the Attic"). Brooks, who counts herself as "a huge fan" of McCaig's work, wrote a profile of him for The Washington Post nearly a decade ago. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Jennifer Byrne Presents War Stories Apr 24, 2007
On the eve of Anzac Day, presenter Jennifer Byrne talks to four Australian authors, Les Carlyon, Geraldine Brooks, General Peter Cosgrove and World War II veteran Rowley Richards, about why war makes such great material. War, Cosgrove observes, is the ultimate story "because it shines a great light on our spirit"; Brooks, perhaps more honestly, calls it "the hot and shameful thrill". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Remembering Sidney 'Doc' Brooks: Chargers' equipment manager known most for family Apr 20, 2007
To his wife of 38 years, Geraldine Brooks, he was a loving husband and father. "Everything he ever did in his whole life was for his children," she said Thursday. (North County Times)
Huck Finn's dad takes center stage Apr 4, 2007
Clinch says he was pleased when the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Geraldine Brooks' March, an imagining of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. To him, the award suggests that people can and will take seriously books using classic novels to create something original. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Huck Finn's monstrous father takes center stage in new novel Feb 20, 2007
Clinch said he was pleased when the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Geraldine Brooks' "March," an imagining of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." To him, the award suggests that people can and will take seriously books using classic novels to create something new and original. Still unclear, however, is how academics will respond to one of the book's bombshells. (NEPA News, PA)
