Below the video are short reviews of some of the best books I read in 2015, in no particular order, with links to longer write-ups. As usual with my year-end lists (see 2013 and 2014), not all the books came out this year. I hope you find something to your liking. And feel free to share your own favorites in the comments section below.
Here in Literary Arts we read a lot! We read a lot of books written by our upcoming faculty and special guests and also writers who come to participate in our program and yes, even just for pure pleasure. Here is our list of our top three favourite books each that we read over this past year:
excellent books to read 2015
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will jointly provide $1 million to convert out-of-print books into EPUB e-books with a Creative Commons (CC) license, ensuring that the books are freely downloadable with searchable texts and in formats that are compatible with any e-reading device. Books proposed under the Humanities Open Book program must be of demonstrable intellectual significance and broad interest to current readers.
Some of the best graphic design books are essential reading for those starting out, but others can provide valuable ideas for experienced pros looking to develop creative thinking or critique aspects of the industry. So wherever you're a budding graphic designer or a veteran, there's always going to be something to pour over. And if you know a graphic designer, the best graphic design books can also make great gifts.
You may also enjoy our guides to best sci-fi movies and the best space movies, too. If you're after more reading inspiration, try our selection of the best fantasy books and we have a guide to the best audiobooks if you're feeling lazy.
Year-end "best of" lists are great for things like pop culture moments, celebrity snafus, or provocative photographs. But when it comes to a best-of list for books, you're not looking for cheap entertainment or nostalgia as you click through. You want to know what you should have been reading during those commutes you spent scrolling through Instagram or playing Candy Crush.
So, why write about this on this blog. Apparently, his character, Robert McCall, lost his wife sometime before this story. She had read the 100 books a person should read before they die (see the link below). Now, maybe in her memory, he was working thorough the list. We learn this as he is reading The Old Man and the Sea in a diner.
Through the course of the movie, he finished The Old and the Sea, The Invisible Man, and was working on Don Quixote. He still had three more books to read (I think) to finish the list of 100.
Just a few minor corrections. His wife never finished the entire list, she made it to 97 books. Also, Robert finished Don Quixote, and was working on Invisible Man at the end of the movie, not the other way around. While Robert was reading Don Quixote he stated he had read 91 of the books, and since he finished that and moved on to Invisible Man, he had read 92, was working on 93, with seven more to go thereafter.
I enjoyed reading your blog. This film is one I have watched a few times now. I enjoyed it as much as the television series but for different reasons. The character made a comment about being a knight in an age where knights were no more. And yet that chivalrous aspect to the character is what makes him so endearing. He has a lethal set of skills and yet looks at life philosophically. A bit like a Samauri who writes poetry. I read too. I have not read all on the list mentioned but have read a lot of Classic books. They are something to treasure. Perhaps there would be more to our future if we read more from our past. And besides, authors are thinkers, you learn a lot from thinkers.
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, All the Light We Cannot See is a must-read for. Doerr will easily move you to tears as he tells the story of two children, a blind French girl and a German boy, meeting each other as they try to survive World War II.
Mo Willems is magic. His simple drawings and sparse text elicit the most raucous laughter from my students. I have found beginning readers (even those with severe autism) picking up these books in the class library and reading them aloud.
Duckworth uses real-life experiences from cadets at West Point, to teachers, and even National spelling bee finalists to show the readers where passion and perseverance can take them. (Duckworth, 2015)
It's that time of year, when holiday wish lists, shopping bags, and piles of presents swell. And with the release of its annual "Best Books of 2015" list, Amazon wants to help you add some books to your holiday shopping.
The editors at Amazon read hundreds of thousands of pages of books throughout the year to come up with this year's list of Top 100 Books from a range of categories. Taking top honors is Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies," which the Amazon editors named the Best Book of the Year.
I am finding that the Timmy Failure series is just as potent as Diary of a Wimpy Kid to get reluctant readers reading. I took my son to a local bookstore to find this one, and he grabbed a copy then sat in a chair and read until it was time to go. [middle grade, ages 8 and up] 2ff7e9595c
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