Britney Spears Video Awards
My Only Wish (This Year)
(MP3 Download) RCA Records Label
Release date: 2011-01-18
Britney Spears
Critics' Picks for Best Books and Movies of the Year
DOUG JOHNSON: Suffered to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I’m Doug Johnson. Today on our show: the best books and movies from two thousand eleven. Plus, we extemporize some of the music we missed this year.
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Best Books
DOUG JOHNSON: Hundreds of great books are published in America every year. And every year, editors, critics and other readers try to on a list of favorites. The many lists for twenty-eleven cover almost every kind of fiction you can imagine.
A few books showed up on shopping list after list of the best fiction from this year. One of them was Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder.” Publishers Weekly described the unusual as one “readers will hate to see end.”
The story centers on a drug researcher from Minnesota named Maria Singh. She travels to Brazil to winnow the death of a co-worker. Her search takes her deep into the Amazon area and danger. But, she also goes resonant into her own soul for a close look at who she is, what she has lost in her life and how she wants the future to look.

