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Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, Word Nerd's top ten list for 2009. A few reminders on the selection process: Word N...

This year, Word Nerd is introducing a new awards category -- Best of the Genres. Word Nerd reads gobs of genre fiction, across myriad genres...

Awards week rolls on here at Word Nerd with the next annual category -- Best First Book in a Series. Word Nerd is a big series reader, lovin...

Welcome to awards season at Word Nerd for 2009. Things are starting with this first category -- Best Discovered Author. Word Nerd isn't ...

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Title: Red Blooded Murder (Izzy McNeil bk 2) Author: Laura Caldwell Genre: mystery Length: 453 pages Where Word Nerd's copy came fro...

Title: Out at Night Author: Susan Arnout Smith Genre: mystery/thriller Length: 293 pages Where Word Nerd's Copy Came From: Authors ...

Title: Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting Author: Michael Perry Length: ~300 pages Genre: nonfiction/memoir Where Word Nerd...

Title: Red Hot Lies Author: Laura Caldwell Genre: mystery Length: ~400 pages Where Word Nerd's copy came from: Indianapolis-Marion...

Word Nerd welcomes new author Brad Parks to the blog today. Parks is a recovering journalist who has also turned to writing novels. His firs...

It's bibliometer time again. The second half of 2009 has been much smaller on the reading total, and Word Nerd's OK with this. She...

As promised, here's an excerpt from my NaNo 2009. This is most of chapter three. Chapter 1 features a house fire and chapter 2, a visit ...

November is, thankfully, over and with it National Novel Writing Month 2009. I should probably not say "never" because one never k...

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife Author: Audrey Niffenegger Length: 536 pages Genre: literary fiction Where Word Nerd's Copy Came...

Yep. It's done. All 50,045 words of it. I think my fingers are going to fall off now.

Word Nerd wishes you all a Happy Thanksgiving and will be back on Monday.

Lately, Word Nerd's been reading lots of genre fiction. Not that there's anything wrong with genre fiction, mind you. Some of its s...

Title: Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, bk. 5) Author: Lee Child Length: ~370 pages Genre: mystery Where Word Nerd's copy came from: Ind...

This week's guest blogger is Susan Arnout Smith, whose new book Out at Night just recently hit shelves. In her column today, she talks ...