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> 36 SeanLong - Let the Great World Spin just arrived on my porch today from Amazon. I don't know when I'll start it but if I keep hearing such great things it'll be sooner rather than later! I'm currently enjoying The Tenderness of Wolves.

... the 1st couple Jack Taylor books but he might be my favorite crime writer, working today! >Sean- I just ordered a copy of Let the Great World Spin. Everyone seems to be quite excited about it! I finished Cutting For Stone today and it was a terrific read! I also finished the audiobook of Ju ...

Let the Great World Spin was such a bloody great read, I think I'll stick with McCann and to to 19th century NYC and do a reread of This Side of Brightness and then maybe go back to Northern Ireland and read Everything in This Country Must.

Spent the afternoon finishing Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, hands down the best book I've read this year.

... by A.S. Byatt The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa Dance with Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

... The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow The Glass Room by Simon Mawer Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Nobody Move by Denis Johnson 2666 by Roberto Bolaño Older Fiction The War at the End of the World ...

... The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow The Glass Room by Simon Mawer Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Nobody Move by Denis Johnson 2666 by Roberto Bolaño Older Fiction The War at the End of the World ...

... : The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Let the Great World Spin by Colum Mc Cann The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson . ...

... > Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (and by extension several other works by Mantel that would break the limit Avaland has set) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Older Fiction Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada Berlin Alexa ...

... Hall by Hilary Mantel* (and by extension several other works by Mantel that would break the limit Avaland has set) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann* Older Fiction Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann* Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada* Berlin Al ...

... 453. The Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith (240) 454. A Drifting Life - Yoshihiro Tatsumi (840) 455. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann (400) 456. The Curse of Blessings - Mitchell Chefitz (96) 457. Boneshaker - Cherie Priest (416)

Darryl- I ordered a copy of Let the Great World Spin: A Novel from Amazon, based on your glowing endorsement. I snagged a new softcover for 8 bucks! Not bad! Lisa- My objective is to read Parting the Waters sometime in the next few months! Please hold me to that!

... I just read a second New York book which I hadn't planned on but I wanted to read the new National Book Award Winner, Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann. I've got to give it some thought, but it's probably the best I've read this year.

I'm in NYC with Let the Great World Spin

I'll be interviewing Colum McCann, National Book Award fiction winner for Let the Great World Spin. Write your questions here, by December 30th.

Let the Great World Spin was one of my favorite books this year, so I was very pleased to see it won the National Book Award. It had special resonance for me as a New Yorker. However, while Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center is happening the day ...

Anxiously awaiting your review Darryl. All I have to do is get my hands on a copy of Let the Great World Spin and I'll be all set.

No, I haven't reviewed Let the Great World Spin yet, Mark. It was an excellent novel; I'll submit a review of it either today or tomorrow. It won this year's National Book Award for Fiction, as well.

Someone selected Let the Great World Spin as one of the best books of the year, today in the Chicago Tribune. It sounds excellent. I know you read it recently. Did you review it? I know you are not a big film guy but there is a documentary called "Man on a Wire", that McCann's book is based on, ...

November: Fiction: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Nonfiction: A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux

Hi Darryl, Let the Great World Spin is high on my list and I see we share some other favorites, Wolf Hall, Zeitoun, Brooklyn, Cutting for Stone. The rest of your list I will be pocketing for further reference...that's right I am refusing to add to The Pile so this is my way of getting ...

... of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski The Sweetness at the Bottom of a Pie, Alan Bradley Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann The Year of the Flood, Maraget Atwood Stitches, David Small The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba I will ...

... seem to focus on it at all or get emotionally involved. For a while I wasn't reading any fiction at all until I picked up Let the Great World Spin which I've found easy to pick up and hard to put down, fortunately - I needed something to reignite me with fiction. I wonder about his McCann's ...

... by Ward Just An Unfinished Season by Ward Just Yellowfish by John Keeble An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez Wild Nights! by Joyce C ...

Book #148: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (4-1/2 stars) Book #149: Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal (3-1/2 stars). Reviews soon.

Yesterday I finished Let the Great World Spin, the National Book Award winning novel by Colum McCann (4-1/2 stars) and the novella Closely Watched Trains by the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal (3-1/2 stars). Today I'll start Désert by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

... the latter one doesn't stop in the middle of nowhere. That is spooky! I have 80 pages to go before I finish Let the Great World Spin, which continues to be very good.

I'm 1/3 of the way through Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, which won this year's National Book Award for Fiction. It's excellent so far, and I should finish it by Sunday. I'm also reading Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of ...

... New York Times interviews Colum McCann, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin, which I'm currently reading, and thoroughly enjoying: S ...

... New York Times interviews Colum McCann, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin, which I'm currently reading, and thoroughly enjoying: S ...

... which was very good, along with Small Memories by José Saramago, which was disappointing. I'll resume reading Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and the new Thelonious Monk biography tomorrow.

... le Carre Nonfiction: *The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon August Fiction: *Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Nonfiction: no nonfiction winner September Fiction: Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow Nonfiction: No nonfiction ...

#134: I am not sure when I will get to Let the World Spin, probably at the beginning of next year, but I hope I enjoy it as much as you did, Rebecca. #135: Brenda, the Kindle and Kindle for PC are not the same thing. The Kindle for PC is a downloadable application whereas the Kindle is a (way- ...

... before they were clinically diagnosed with the disease. kidzdoc - I have been toying with the idea of picking up Let the Great World Spin - it is languishing on my TBR pile at the moment - I look forward to your thoughts on the book. Wow - some really excellent reading going on ...

... but so far, so good. I downloaded a couple of books that my local library does not have yet, The Children's Book and Let the Great World Spin. I have started the former (and am loving it!), so as of right now, it has been a successful experiment.

... the great titles you've reviewed lately, and will look them all up the first chance I get. >161: A lot of talk about Let the Great World Spin. Sounds intriguing. >162/163 I totally enjoyed Still Alice, and one of the members in my club selected it for next year, so I'll be reading it ...

... I'll probably finish Small Memories, the new childhood memoir by José Saramago. After that I'll probably start Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, the winner of this year's National Book Award, and The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa.

>81: I fared a little better with Let the Great World Spin. I am No. 7, and our library has four copies. My problem is that I have 10 books on hold now and I'm afraid they will all come in quick succession. I may have to use that marvelous little feature called "freeze" which holds my place in ...

... he shared about his research were fascinating! I hope the list moves quickly - I'd love to hear what you think of Let the Great World Spin!

The 2009 National Book Awards were presented last night and the fiction winner was Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. Why doesn't it surprise me that my library system only has one copy and I'm #19 on the list?

I did love Let the Great World Spin, and it is certainly prize-worthy, but I haven't read any of the other finalists and so can't comment on them.

You're welcome! I followed the award ceremony on Twitter. I think I'll read Let the Great World Spin as soon as I finish my current novel, as rebeccanyc and others raved about it earlier this year. I have the Library of America edition of Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works, which I had ...

And, finally, the Fiction Award goes to Colum McCann, for Let the Great World Spin. More information on all the books can be found here.

... they ever got to an exception. Anyway to go back to the National Book Award. I for one was glad to see Colum McCann's Let the Great World spin make the cut. It is a great book and it doesn't really matter to me that much where he comes from. Anyway as I've been noticing over the last ...

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

Just finished Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. Coincidentally, it just got nominated for the National Book Award. Definitely worth a read especially if you remember NYC in the seventies.

I have only Let the Great World Spin and In Other Rooms, Other Wonders; I'll check out some of the others over the next week or so. Thanks for posting this, theaelizabet.

Haven't yet read but have heard great things about Let the Great World Spin and Lark and Termite.

... Book Award finalists: Fiction: Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press) Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House) Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.) Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf) ...

I used my 20% off coupon from Borders to buy Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, which was highly recommended by rebeccanyc and others. I bought three more books that were on my wish list: Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata The ...

... but this has cut into my other reading so this hasn't been my greatest quarter for books. Nonetheless . . . Fiction Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann -- a beautifully written and deeply moving novel of intersecting stories and how the characters, often grieving and tormented, ...

... of preference: The Help by Kathryn Stockett Stitches by David Small Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Border Songs by Jim Lynch The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister ...

... there was a good change that I was missing part of the book because I had never lived in NYC. Your wonderful review of Let the Great World Spin confirmed my thought that people who live in NYC have unique perspective on books set in NYC, even though I loved Let the Great World Spin.

I already have Let the Great World Spin on Planet TBR or I would add it again!

... I passed by it on the way back from work (I'm off today but had to go to a couple of afternoon meetings). I do want to read Let the Great World Spin, but it would probably sit unread amongst the other hundreds of unread books for awhile.

I added Let the Great World Spin to my ever growing tbr pile. Your description is wonderful.

... to buy it; I have to stop buying so many books! Um...having said that, I will be going to Borders shortly to pick up Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann with my 30% off coupon.

#52 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann This beautifully written and deeply moving book takes place in the few days around the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked/danced/ran across a tightrope stretched between the two towers of the World Trade Center, which was still not ...

#52 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann This beautifully written and deeply moving book takes place in the few days around the date in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked/danced/ran across a tightrope stretched between the two towers of the World Trade Center, which was still not ...

Okay, I'm sold; I'll pick up Let the Great World Spin on my next bookstore visit, probably tomorrow. (A little voice is pleading, "You don't need any more books!" He's right, but I never listen to him.) I read two short early reviewer novels this weekend, The Trial of Robert Mugabe and T ...

I am reading the much praised (here on LT) Let the Great World Spin and enjoying it.

I am revisiting 1970s New York City as I Let the Great World Spin.

I'm bringing Let the Great World Spin and Carpentaria (which I'm reading for the Reading Globally theme read on aboriginal writing) with me for a few days of road trip and a few days of vacation with relatives. Leaving my tome (Joseph and His Brothers) and my subway read (In Fed We Trust) ...

I couldn't agree more with #25 detailmuse on Let the Great World Spin. I also forgot to mention that The Assassin's Gate was a LT recommendation, so I'm excited to start that one.

>18: richard Will read more McCann Colum McCann? Then add Let the Great World Spin to your wishlist! I read it this summer via LTER and loved it.

New York: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (*****), see review This novel of New York City is told via ten short stories that are linked through shared characters and a connection to Philippe Petit’s 1974 real-li ...

... >(See review) Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York -- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (*****) (See review) North Carolina North Dakota Ohio -- ...

... World, Daniel Kehlmann (Kindle) 35. The Unburied, Charles Palliser 34. Wickett's Remedy, Myla Goldberg (audio) 33. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann (Early Reviewers) 32. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri 31. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London, Lisa ...

... Medicine for class a couple of years ago. Why did no one tell me Erdrich could be so funny? I am currently reading Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, a novel (very) loosely centered around Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center Towers in the 1970's. The ...

... Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico -- The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols, fiction, finished 09/10/09 New York -- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, fiction, TBR North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania -- Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon, ...

... souri 26. Montana 27. Nebraska 28. Nevada 29. New Hampshire 30. New Jersey 31. New Mexico 32. New York - Brooklyn, Let The Great World Spin 33. North Carolina 34. North Dakota 35. Ohio 36. Oklahoma 37. Oregon 38. Pennsylvania 39. Rhode Island 40. South Carolina - South of Broad ...

These books blew me away (in no particular order): The Plague of Doves Let the Great World Spin The Alchemist

60. Let the Great World Spin I did not want this book to end. Not only will I read this book again, I will be talking about it and recommending it for a long time. It's a beautifully written story of various people whose lives are interconnected by a tight-rope walker who walked between ...

... my way through Bonfire of the Vanities, and so far, I'm not enjoying it. Fortunately, I'm about halfway through Let the Great World Spin which is an incredible book. The characters are linked together somehow by a man who is tightrope-walking between the World Trade Center (in 1974). ...

Border Songs by Jim Lynch The Spare Room by Helen Garner Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and, if I hurry to finish, probably Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Bonus: ABC3D by Marion Bataille, which takes two minutes to read (if ...

... I thought it was fairly well-written and that the author was very detailed and visual which I enjoyed. I just started Let the Great World Spin hwich I like so far.

oops, I left the room and then replied without refreshing to see your edit. I don't recall anything coming-of-age-ish in Let the Great World Spin (except maybe NYC itself, in hindsight). Irish brothers; mothers whose sons died in Vietnam; prostitutes; early tech geeks; Manhattan; The Bronx; and ...

... at a time of Help. If I get dragged out of there, I'm naming names! Edited to add: Do you think my son would like Let the Great World Spin just because he lives in NYC? Oh, and he's a reader! He often doesn't like the coming-of-age books that I'm a sucker for.

... updated in Message 1. The Help Cutting for Stone Let the Great World Spin The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes The School of Essential Ingredients The Girl She Used to Be Kitchen Confidential The Spare R ...

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann I have to stop requesting Early Reviewer books, since I seem to have Review Avoidance Syndrome. I've posted a brief review that did not do this lovely book justice, mostly because I avoided writing it until I'd read 9 other books. But do read this ...

Let the Great World Spin sounds really good even though the narrator's voice is so important to me and I don't always like when it changes in a novel. In the case of short stories, though, I think the interconnections and multiple perspectives would add a complexity that I would find more ...

Book 37: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (*****) is a novel of New York City, told via ten short stories that are linked through shared characters and a connection to Philippe Petit’s 1974 real-life tightrope walk between the Wo ...

She had the bluest eyes, they looked like small drops of September sky. From Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, which is set in 1974 as Philippe Petit wire-walks between the Twin Towers. The book includes one passage set in 2006 and though he never mentions 9/11, still he evokes ...

I'm 2/3 through the ER book, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, a group of stories set in 1974 New York City and connected by Philippe Petit's wire-walk between the Twin Towers. Outstanding.

... Son of Witch By Gregory Maguire Eating Your Auntie Is Wrong By Stephen Arnott Knit One Kill Two by Maggie Sefton Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann The Late, Lamented Molly Marx: A Novel by Sally Koslow I just finished: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson The ...

... Gordimer July: 68. The Psalm Killer--Christopher Petit 69. The outsiders--Alexander Trocchi 70. Let the great world spin--Colum McCann 71. Memory--Philippe Grimbert 72. The big sleep--Raymond Chandler 73. No logo--Naomi Klein 74. Oblivion: St ...

... The Irregulars and give it a try. >164, 165 If you read them, I'd be interested to talk about them! >166 It is. Let the Great World Spin is coming out in June, and I got a copy of it from the ER program. So far, so good, but I'm not that far into it.

... World, Daniel Kehlmann (Kindle) 35. The Unburied, Charles Palliser 34. Wickett's Remedy, Myla Goldberg (audio) 33. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann (Early Reviewers) 32. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri 31. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London, Lisa ...

... iction Child of My Heart# by Alice McDermott (****) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet# by Jamie Ford (****) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (*****) Ravens by George Dawes Green (****) Sag Harbor by ...

... and Sweet# by Jamie Ford (****) (See review) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (*****) (See review)

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