Have I had my head in the sand? Has anyone else heard about this?
Reed Business Information (RBI) and the NBC Universal Television Stations have named the five nominees in each of 19 categories for the first Quill Awards, a new national book award that honors excellence in book publishing and includes consumers in the voting process.
I know there are national book awards already in existence, and I’m not sure there’s a need for this one, but I sure don’t pay attention to any of them, and I like the idea of having a more popular award. The list of nominees could just as easily be the list of books I meant to read this year.
I won’t mention that the only ones I actually did read are “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince†and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America: A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inactionâ€.