Tattered Essence

Have some comic book fans on your holiday gift list?

Having trouble knowing what to buy them?

Check out the Orlando Sentinel’s Prime picks for comics fans to get some help.

With their help you are sure to come away with some great stuff. And I recommend the Buffy Season 8 comics! Check out their list today!

You know, gardeners need books too! Are you a gardener or do you know someone who is?

If so, remember that gardeners read books too. The Dallas Morning News has even gone so fas as to make up a list of the best gift books for gardeners.  The list was compiled by a university literature professor.

Check out the list so that you can find a book for the gardener in your life!

Wondering what to put in your kids stocking? Well, I have an idea!

I can think of something that can be small enough to fit into a stocking! It is a book! Some of those mass market paperbacks would fit perfectly. Also check into those Sci-fi and Fantasy books and they are always the perfect shape for a stocking!

And books won’t rot the kids teeth like candy will!

The National Book Critics Circle is creating a monthly Best Recommended List based on a poll of its 800 members and the finalists and winners of its books prizes about which books they have read that they love. The aim is to come up with a list that reflects not which books have sold best but which books have been read and enjoyed most.

Want to know what the winners are? Well, here they are, check out the winners:

Fiction

1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
2. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (FSG)
3. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
4. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
5. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Graywolf)

Nonfiction

1. Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
2. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (St. Martin’s)
3. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan)
4. Schulz and the Peanuts by David Michaelis (HarperCollins)
5. Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner (Doubleday)

Poetry

1. Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass (Ecco)
1. Collected Poems: 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert (Ecco)
1. Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky (FSG)
4. Next Life by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan)
5. Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)