Jane in NC Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Some excellent reporting was acknowledged, but I figured the Hubbers might be more interested in books: Fiction: Less by Andrew Sean Greer Drama: Cost of Living by Martyna Majok History: The Gulf, the Making of an American Sea by Jack Davis Biography: Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser Poetry: Half Light by Frank Bidart General Nonfiction: Locking Up Our Own, Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Foreman Jr. Comments from anyone who has read the books? I highly recommend the article in GQ that won the feature prize, A Most American Terrorist, The Making of Dylann Roof by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. I cried when I read that article last summer. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastweedpuller Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I only read a couple of also-rans, which actually were pretty great: in Fiction, The Idiot by Elif Batuman and in Nonfiction, Notes on a Foreign Country, by Suzy Hansen and I have on my TR list the winner for Biography, Prairie Fires (about Laura Ingalls Wilder) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 I haven't read any of those, Jane, but have had Locking Up Our Own on my mental radar as a to-read for me. Thanks for the mention of the Dylan Roof article. I need to find that one. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I haven't read any of the winners. The Gulf is now on my TR list. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I read Prairie Fires on Christmas break. It's an in depth account of the lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane. The best part is the biography of the Ingalls family in the beginning of the book. I didn't enjoy the last part which focused on RWL. She had some mental health struggles and it was painful to read about her life. Trinqueta stopped after the first part about the Ingalls family and enjoyed that a lot. That might be the best course if you find the last part hard going. I hate not finishing a book (it's not rational, it can be a pain when a book just doesn't thrill me, but I will slog on to the end) so I finished it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastweedpuller Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I understand from a LIW fan friend of mine that Prairie Fires is also a pretty long book, chiguirre. I have not done the proper vetting at all to see if the back third etc of the book is notes, but... Sometimes we have to have limits! I have a few in my stack (looking at you, Dark Money) which guilt me daily, as I know I should finish them... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I've had Prairie Fires on hold at the library for months. Thanks for the heads-up that it's long--I'll have to read fast since I can't renew it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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