(“The day waves yellow with all its crops” is one of my very favorite sentences ... His latest book is “Serious Noticing,” a collection of essays. My family is starving.

This was the case for the awarding of My Favorite Book Contest 2009 ... and NGO workers. And the books in the winning essays? Oh, name it, we’ve had an entry — or multiple entries ...

It was a special occasion, too, because the event was attended by two award-winning fictionists whose own works are on our lists of favorite books. At the recent awarding of My Favorite Book Year ...