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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Dec 5, 2024 | lithub.com | Marie-Helene Bertino

Article continues after advertisementThis week’s barrel of brilliant reviews includes Lara Feigel on Julia Armfield’s Private Rites, Jess Bergman on Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, Marie-Helene Bertino on Gu Byeong-mo’s Apartment Women, Leigh Haber on Weike Wang’s Rental House, and Casey Cep on Callum Robinson’s Ingrained. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews.
The 2025 Shortlist — The Tournament of Books

Dec 5, 2024 | tournamentofbooks.com | Marie-Helene Bertino |Bothayna Wail al-Essa |Kate Greathead |Kelly Link

The 2025Tournament of BooksShortlist Here are the books, brackets, and judges for the 2025 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes. DECEMBER 5, 2024 Coming March 6, 2025: the 21st year of the Tournament of Books. Look, we’re surprised as much as you are.
5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Dec 5, 2024 | bookmarks.reviews | Marie-Helene Bertino

This week’s barrel of brilliant reviews includes Lara Feigel on Julia Armfield’s Private Rites, Jess Bergman on Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, Marie-Helene Bertino on Gu Byeong-mo’s Apartment Women, Leigh Haber on Weike Wang’s Rental House, and Casey Cep on Callum Robinson’s Ingrained. Article continues after advertisement“This rainy city, where people live makeshift lives on the top floors of flooded tower blocks, travelling by ferry, is natural territory for Julia Armfield.
The 2025 Long List — The Tournament of Books

Nov 21, 2024 | tournamentofbooks.com | Jeff Vander Meer |Miranda July |Halle Butler |Marie-Helene Bertino

The 2025Tournament of BooksLong List Literary bloodsport approaches! As we narrow down our shortlist of Tournament competitors, here are the 70 works of fiction in consideration from this year. NOVEMBER 21, 2024 Coming this March, the 21st edition of the Tournament of Books, where we will once again threaten a wonderful living author with a maniacal live rooster. Today, we’re releasing the long list for the 2025 Tournament of Books.
'Beautyland' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Judy Berman |Marie-Helene Bertino

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Judy BermanNovember 13, 2024 8:06 AM ESTTo understand people the way a perceptive author like Marie-Helene Bertino does, it helps to be, at once, an active participant in and a shrewd, outside observer of human society.
At long last...

May 21, 2024 | kmuw.org | Suzanne Perez |Marie-Helene Bertino |Lea Carpenter |John le Carré

In this episode of Books & Whatnot, Suzanne and Beth discuss their recent reads... and a lot of whatnot.
10 New Books by Philly Authors to Read This Summer

May 2, 2024 | phillymag.com | Marie-Helene Bertino |Maura Cheeks |Sophie Wan |Lisa Scottoline

Guides Add these new novels by local authors to your summer reading list. With half already on the shelves and the rest on their way, these 10 new novels by local authors give you plenty of pages to turn this summer.
Marie-Helene Bertino at Harvard Book Store

Apr 18, 2024 | harvard.com | Marie-Helene Bertino

presenting Beautyland: A Novel in conversation by LAURA VAN DEN BERG Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes MARIE-HELENE BERTINO—author of Parakeet and2AM at the Cat's Pajamas—for a discussion of her new novel Beautyland. She will be joined in conversation by LAURA VAN DEN BERG—author of The Third Hotel and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into...
Traitors, Grief, and Gretas

Apr 3, 2024 | itsonlyzach.substack.com | Marie-Helene Bertino |Rebecca Reilly |Zach Wilcha |Sloane Crossley

The world continues falling apart, more on that in a bit below, and I’ve had no choice but to resort to the ultimate in self care - elimination style reality television. Specifically I’ve attached an IV of The Traitors directly from the television into my veins.
What do readers think of Beautyland?

Feb 6, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Marie-Helene Bertino

Because I am an avid reader (on average I finish 2.5 books every week) and I am addicted to print books, I refrain from purchasing every book I consume-instead I borrow them from the library or friends or family. Only if I find that I absolutely love the book AND would want to read it again AND I want my children and their children to read it do I end up buying it (I do not have the budget to buy or the space to store every book I read).