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BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: November 2009		33	freelunch, Today 3:17am
999 Challenge : Favourite Book in Each Category		10	hailelib, Yesterday 3:01pm
Blog the Book : Your latest review		276	jlshall, Yesterday 2:01pm
What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books redux (Life is short. Don't read crap.)		232	sanja, November 4
Alphabet Challenges : dreamlikecheese needs to reduce her TBR pile ABC-style		17	clfisha, November 4
The Prizes : Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia) 2009		6	alexdaw, November 2
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of June 20, 2009?		240	thioviolight, July 6
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now - June 2009		100	cmt, July 1
999 Challenge : Hemlokgang's 999 in 2009 Challenge		24	MusicMom41, June 5
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Pummzie's 2009 reading		98	Pummzie, April 5
What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in March 2009		414	richardderus, April 1
What Are You Reading Now? : Short Story Collections		29	avaland, March 20
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Kidzdoc's 75 Book Challenge for 2009		280	kidzdoc, March 16
What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in February part II		229	Neverwithoutabook, March 10
1001 Books to read before you die : 1001 Short Stories you must read before you die -- let's have 'em!		107	Pummzie, February 19
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Porch Reader's 2008 Reading		210	porch_reader, January 19
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 3 January 2009		213	Biyismom, January 12
Australian LibraryThingers : Anyone planning on doing the Victorian Summer Read 2008?		7	mrspenny, January 8
Club Read 2009 : jfetting's 2009 reading		1	jfetting, January 4
50 Book Challenge : Judylou's at it again in 2008		245	merry10, January 1
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : The Bookie Awards!		10	FlossieT, December 2008
50 Book Challenge : thekoolaidmom's 50 book challenge		81	thekoolaidmom, December 2008
Book Nudgers : KIWIDOC: a nudge for December would be much appreciated.		29	cocoafiend, November 2008
I want to read that! : dreamlikecheese's list		2	dreamlikecheese, November 2008
Reading Globally : Where in the world are you now? October		97	englishrose60, November 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of October 4		201	thioviolight, October 2008
Bloggers : My first autor interview!		14	wbarker, October 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - JUNE 2008		221	CharlesBixx, August 2008
888 Challenge : Moneybeets' 888		18	moneybeets, August 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: JULY. 2008		231	IaaS, August 2008
ARC Junkies : The Kitchen		59	mint910, July 2008
The Prizes : The Dylan Thomas Prize		7	kiwidoc, July 2008
What did YOU buy today? : What Did You Buy Today? July 2008 Edition		10	burnett, July 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 July 2008		264	Whicker, July 2008
Early Reviewers : Other Places to get ARCs, Volume 2		245	elbakerone, July 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 June 2008		227	Talbin, June 2008
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Hemlokgang's 100 Book Challenge for 2009		98	hemlokgang, Today 10:22am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 75 reads in 09		87	alcottacre, August 10
BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends		428	infiniteletters, July 29
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of June 13 2009?		248	koalamom, June 20
Club Read 2009 : Kidzdoc's 2009 Goals		325	kidzdoc, March 22
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : The Best of Books, the Worst of Books		19	Whisper1, January 3
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 13 December 2008?		185	mckait, December 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 6 December 2008		191	ZanKnits, December 2008
Reading Globally : NOVEMBER THEME READ - AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE		168	Nickelini, December 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 15 November?		172	koalamom, November 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 June 2008		219	Cariola, July 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: June. 2008		188	FicusFan, July 2008

Currently reading The Christmas Thief by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark also The Boat by Nam Le. Two such totally different books - one light and fluffy, the other absolutely blowing me away

... by Stephen Amsterdam 8. Just for Fun: On Writing 9. Aussie Authors: For the Term of His Natural Life tied with The Boat

... novel. I preferred Wanting to The pages for storyline but The pages had some great imagery. I've heard reviews of The Boat and The Good Parents but this is the first I've heard of One foot Wrong must go and "check-it-out".

... s The Henson Case by David Marr American Journeys by Don Watson One more book made the fiction shortlist: The Boat by Nam Le. More information about all of the books can be found here.

... Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna The Good Parents by Joan London The Boat by Nam Le

... by I - A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving J - What Maisie Knew by Henry James K - The Trial by Franz Kafka L - The Boat by Nam Le M - The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan N - Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky O - The Famished Road by Ben Okri P - Bel C ...

#51 - The Boat by Nam Le - ****

... observing The Elegance of the Hedgehog and simultaneously in Iowa in the first short story in the collection entitled, The Boat by Nam Le.

... was very well done. I finished Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe. I continue listening to The Boat by Nam Le, a collection of short stories. I started reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Wow! Wonderful use of language. The ...

... about to start reading Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe, and will be starting to listen to The Boat by Nam Le. I am on vacation, can you tell?

Oh do try, The Boat if you ever have time in your busy reading schedule. I too do not usually read short stories but this really drew me in. The first story is not the best but after that they are very powerful tales. 40. The reader by Bernhard Schlink A disturbing tale of the coming ...

If I could stomach short stories, I'd give The Boat a try. But I already know I'd never read it. Not my favorite thing about myself, I must admit. But tis true.

... of their suburban lives. Their Paris aspirations are short lived as things inevitably fall apart. Great writing 38. The Boat by Nam Le In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. A wonderful collection of ...

Recent purchases: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami The Boat by Nam Le The Impostor by Damon Galgut In The Dark by Mark Billingham The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver Last Evenings on Earth by Rob ...

12. The Boat by Nam Le**** This little collection of gems has been keeping me from other reading projects over the last month. Each of Nam Le's stories drew me in and left me sated and lost in ...

From Audible: On Beauty by Zadie Smith Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie The Boat by Nam Le Sir Ralph Richardson Reads Keats A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin

... Benjamin Black The Book of Dead Birds –Gayle Brandeis Year of Wonders –Geraldine Brooks The Boat – Lothar Gunther Buchheim My Antonia – Willa Cather The Runaway Quilt – Jennufer Chiaverini The Lady and the Unicorn– Tracy ...

I completely agree with you about The Boat, Tim. Despite all of the accolades it received, I wasn't that impressed by the stories or engaged by the characters. I can't think of a single story or character from the book!

... East Asia & the Pacific Best First Book shortlist (per #195): I was somewhat disappointed by the stories I read from The Boat - Nam Le is obviously a very talented writer, but the stories read to me more like technical exercises to show mastery of a particular style, rather than fully ...

I am in the middle of reading Nam Le's short stories in his collection, The Boat. I can't recommend them highly enough. They are really superb. They are turning out to be the best thing I've read so far this year and the most diverse and engaging stories I've read in a long time.

... which were both longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize. The White Tiger, which won the Booker, The Spare Room, and The Boat. I have Unaccustomed Earth, The Northern Clemency, and Breath, but haven't gotten to them yet.

I would heartily recommend The Boat by Nam Le, and Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. I loved both and read every single story in them. Sometimes with short story collections you get that one or two stories that you just can't stomach (I encounter that in some of Stephen King's SS's). Another ...

... Le has found critical and commercial success with the publication of his first book, a collection of short stories titled The Boat, which won the prestigious Dylan Thomas prize in 2008. The hardback edition was praised both for its literary and aesthetic excellence, and Nam has found Internet ...

... *** 14. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (#88)**** 13. The Lover by Marguerite Duras (#84)**** 12. The Boat by Nam Le (#75)**** 11. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (#70) **** 10. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (#61) **** Febru ...

... man 35. Winter's bone by Daniel Woodrell 36. Wolves by Emily Gravett 37. Revolutionary road by Richard Yates 38. The Boat by Nam Le 39. When Henry caught imaginitis by Nick Bland 40. The reader by Bernhard Schlink June 41. The Sunday wife by Cassandra King 42. ...

... you can see which ones I've read (although I've only read one story from The Boat, (it was online) and that was enough for me to know that I don't want to read any more. So now I have to decide which one to vote for! BTW I'm having trouble ...

I officially gave up on The Boat today - back to the library it went. I'm sure it's brilliant and fantastic and an exciting new voice and all that, but I couldn't get past the first story. Maybe some other year.

... both were fantastic, and now I am in a reading slump. Help! I've tried and failed to read Pere Goriot, The Penelopiad, The Boat, The Collected Stories of Noel Coward, and something else that I can't remember. Nothing appeals to me (and when I don't want to read Noel Coward, there is ...

... Now, I'm having a really hard time getting into any book. In the last three days I've started (and put down) Pere Goriot, The Boat, The Penelopiad, The Collected Stories of Noel Coward, and Northanger Abbey. Nothing is holding my interest. I gave up completely this afternoon and watched F ...

... on The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer The Boat - Nam Le Top Five Nonfiction (in no particular order): Brother I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw - Bruce Barcott ...

... on The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer The Boat - Nam Le Top Five Nonfiction (in no particular order): Brother I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw - Bruce Barcott ...

... between these two!) Best Nonfiction: Brother I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat - Amazing! Best Short Stories: The Boat by Nam Le - With a story set in Iowa City, how could Le go wrong! Best Re-Read: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson How Could It End That Way (ficti ...

I just finished Deaf Sentence and The Boat, but am working on: Little Dorrit* by Charles Dickens Boswell in Holland by James Boswell ABC et cetera by the Humez Brothers Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac The Coin of Carthage by Bryher I'm also trying to catch up on my unread ...

This week I'm reading...the latest issue of Poetry magazine, as well as: Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount, Jr. The Boat by Nam Le How to Achieve True Greatness by Baldesar Castiglione Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac Boswell in Holland by James Boswell Nam Le, by the way, is a ...

... Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges - *** 7) Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami - *** 8) The Boat by Nam Le - **** 9) Wild Nights: Stories of the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, James, and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates - ***** Book Club Reads for 20 ...

... of art. Spiegelman is brutally honest about relationships and doesn't sugar coat his father's memories. I haven't read The Boat but saw the author at a reading festival round table and I was impressed by his comments.

... he was a bombastic so-and-so at times - Owls Do Cry and The Discworld Graphic Novels. I have only read two stories in The Boat so far, and I was actually somewhat disappointed - they were brilliantly written, but in a "Look at me! Boy, I can really write!" manner which I found offputting. S ...

I've just started reading The Boat. The first story was very good. I gasped out loud at one point. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the stories.

... – The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donogue Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame The Boat by Nam Le Between two Seas by Carmen Abate The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash Pack My Bag by Henry Green RIGHT SIDE Trauma ...

There's a great book of short stories just put out by Nam Le - called The Boat - not all the stories are set in Australia but there is definitely an Australian feel - almost "Wintonesque" in one story in particular. I thoroughly enjoyed it and Le writes beautifully. Kudos also to The Patron Sai ...

... James Boswell American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke I've got Nam Le's The Boat and Pompeii by Robert Harris waiting in the wings. And I'm thinking I might either get started on the Landmark Herodotus or dip into Pliny's Natural History ...

The Devil's Own by Deborah Lisson The Boat by Nam Le

117. The Boat by Nam Le Another one that I found just ordinary. His short stories were set in different parts of the world and each had a message but I just didn't enjoy them. The final story set on a boat taking refugees from Vietnam, was very powerful, probably the best in the book. But, ...

FInished The Boat but wouldn't recommend it. Just didn't get beyond the ordinary for me. Started The Gravedigger's Daughter which sounds promising so far.

#65 - The Boat - Nam Le - Finished October 10, 2008 An amazing collection of short stories! Although I agree with some of the reviews that some stories are better than others, the best of them are absolutely phenomenal and all are well developed. Le has the ability to write in a range ...

I'm travelling quite a bit in Nam Le's The Boat. I've been in the US, Spain, Australia, Japan and at the moment I'm in Tehran.

I finished The Photograph but I never did fall in love with it as my friend promised me I would. Started Nam Le's The Boat and after one and a half stories, I'm still wondering why all the hype? Am I just being difficult to please at the moment????

... the Shadow of Mt. TBR. valkylee: I usually have no desire, but The Boat was just one of those books that made me want to ask the author a million questions. And, for the most part, I tried to make them different from all the other ...

... desire to skim. ANYWAY! the reason I popped on here to post is: I just posted my interview with Nam Le, author of The Boat, it's In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. It's my first author interview! :-D

It's not exaclty a book, but it's book related: I posted my interview with Nam Le, author of The Boat, it's In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. It's my first author interview! :-D

I'm so excited! I just posted my interview with Nam Le, author of The Boat, it's In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. It's my first author interview! :-D

... You'll have to let us know the URL when it's up, I'd love to read it :-) I posted my interview with Nam Le, author of The Boat, it's In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. It's my first author interview! :-D EDIT ...

I loved The Boat! of course... you knew that ;-) I got Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters from the UK in an internat'l mooch. Internat'l mooches are fun, because they often have a cover you don't get here in the US, and this one is an ex-library book covered with a plastic sleeve that's ...

After hearing great things from a few of you, I snagged a leftover ARC of The Boat by Nam Le from our breakroom...not sure when I'll get to it, but it looks good.

... in traffic I went to B&N and picked up: Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse The Boat by Nam Le.

... to the Turnip Zoe Brigley - The Secret Porochista Khakpour- Sons and Other Flammable Objects Nan Le - The Boat Karen Russell - St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Dinaw Mengestu - Children of the Revolution

I've been off from work all week, so I've been able to make a dent in my TBR pile. I finished The Boat by Nam Le, Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips, and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which were all excellent. I started reading Born Yesterday: The News as Novel ...

I'm going to be posting: Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge The Boat by Nam Le and Dough: A Memoir by Mort Zachter You can read my reviews for these at In the Shadow of Mt. TBR If anybody wants one, let me know and I'll reserve it for you. ...

I'll finish The Boat by Nam Le this afternoon. These are the best short stories I've read in some time! This past weekend I read By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah and Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, which were both excellent. I also started Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, ...

I finished The Boat by Nam Le. It's phenomenal. I cried on the last story, The Boat. The story is about a young girl named Mai, who escapes Vietnam on a boat with hundreds of others. The details of life on the boat for 13 days is beyond comprehension. It's heartbreaking in and of ...

Okay, I've finished The Boat by Nam Le. Le is an exceptionally talented writer, and this book is well worth reading. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR

I just finished reading The Boat by Nam Le. He is an exceptional writer; his stories have a reality to them as if you were watching them via spycam. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. Now I'm starting Dough ...

I'm about 100 pages from the end of Nam Le's The Boat. It's amazingly written, and most of the stories are vignettes. Each story is written with a different voice. He's an awesome writer, and I look forward to reading more from him! After that, I've got to read some of my review books. I've ...

... the Shadow of Mt. TBR. Scoundrels, stupid Ladies, wicked widows, and "Poor Fanny!" I'm also reading The Boat by Nam Le, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. It's a bit of a vignette-style short stories. I picked up a fun book at Waldenbooks today that I'm sneaking peeks ...

... is Emma. I'm also reading Nam Le's The Boat. It's an intriguing book of several vignettes. and I'm sneaking peaks into Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers. I've received a nudge to hurry up and read The ...

... :-) The big, brown sleigh (also known as the UPS truck) just dropped of a book I requested from the author on Monday. The Boat by Vietnamese author Nam Le is a collection of stories about leaving one's homeland and the eventual return. My youngest daughter is half-Vietnamese and loves her ...

I am so stoked! My UPS man just dropped of The Boat for my reading pleasure. That was super fast! I requested the Penguin Classic book a month ago, and still haven't received it... this book came in less than a week! three days, to be exact :-D

... cheering!* I just got an email.. already... from Nam himself saying he'd be happy to send me a copy of The Boat!! Pardon me, while I do the happy dance! *DaNCe! DanCe! dANce!! doin' the happy dance!!*

I just got my Borzoi newsletter, and there was an article about an upcoming Nam Le book entitled The Boat. It's the first one I've ever done, and I was so hyper about the book (My youngest is half-Vietnamese, and the book is about a Vietnamese family escaping their homeland.) I forgot to ...

... on Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie and Essays on India by Carlo Levi next, and I hope to get to The Boat by Nam Le and Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones later this week.

... I have the following that I do not have any idea where to put them: A Thread of Grace, Free Food for Millionaires, and The Boat. Hmm, I do have one more free wall - this looks like it might be a continuing problem.

... The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (Fantasy) 5-5. Negima: Volume 1, Ken Akamatsu (Manga) 5-6. The Boat, Nam Le (Short stories) 5-7. Born Standing Up, Steve Martin (Memoir) 5-8. A Death in Belmont, Sebastian Junger (True crime!) ...