Book World News Round-Up December/January

These are a few items of interest to book lovers gleaned from the book world press recently.

USA Today reported readers were invited to vote for one of five suggested titles for Sue
Grafton's next novel, the follow-up to her current bestseller, T Is for
Trespass. The winner was U Is for Undertaker, which got 54% of the vote. The other choices: U Is for Unravel (28%), U Is for U-Turn (14%), U Is for Usurper (3%) and U Is for Uxoricide (2%). Said Grafton, "I have thought of Undertaker, but I let the book tell me, and I don't know yet what the story is for 'U.' "

Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its 2008 Golden Globe Award
nominations December 13. A complete list of nominees is available at the
HFPA's website. Several book to movie adaptations were nominated in several categories: Atonement, based on the Ian McEwan novel, Charlie Wilson's War, adapted from the late George Crile's book, No Country for Old Men Find this book in our catalog., A Mighty Heart, Away From Her (based on an Alice Munro story), The Kite Runner, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Find this book in our catalog., Persepolis, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Into the Wild, Love in the Time of Cholera Find this book in our catalog., and Lust, Caution.
Golden Globe winners will be announced January 13.

Book-to-film adaptations continue to impress prize voters this season:

Nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards included Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Away From Her, A Mighty Heart and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
The winners will be announced at SAG's awards ceremony, January 28.

No Country for Old Men also garnered New York Film Critics Circle awards for best picture, director (Joel and Ethan Coen) and screenplay; and Javier Bardem won as best supporting actor. Other literary winners named by the NYFCC included director Sarah Polley
(best first film) and Julie Christie (best actress) for Away from Her,
based upon an Alice Munro story. Persepolis, from the graphic novel by
Marjane Satrapi, won best animated film.

According to Publishers Weekly, five works of nonfiction have been selected by an anonymous panel of judges for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Winners will be announced at the end of January.