January 18, 2012 – 5:03 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Consider this one for your book club. It’s about a Tutsi boy, Jean Patrick, whose dream it is to run track in the Olympics. We follow him and his family during the 10 years that lead up to the genocidal war in Rwanda. Well researched, well written. Book Author: Naomi Benaron This [...]
January 18, 2012 – 3:36 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Fans of Downton Abbey, the UK-produced drama about the Crawley family and their servants that PBS imported for Masterpiece Classic, will be happy to know that NY publishers have taken notice. In addition to the companion book, The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes, dozens of 20th century novels about the British aristocracy are being rushed [...]
January 4, 2012 – 4:58 pm
Happy 2012 readers! Even tho’ I can’t predict what new titles will become this year’s hot reads, I did run across a few note worthy trends that book insiders are betting on and buzzing about. Contemporary dilemma-type titles, sequels of classic tales, YA/adult crossover titles and short story collections are just a few of the fiction trends [...]
December 11, 2011 – 4:54 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores From a Washington Post review (because I can’t say it any better), “To say that Nicolle Wallace’s “Eighteen Acres” is one of the best novels I’ve read about life in the White House may be faint praise — there haven’t been many good ones — but her book is both an enjoyable [...]
December 9, 2011 – 6:07 pm
Don’t ask me where the month of November went. Somewhere between dishing out the Halloween candy; creating a book group blog for The Mercer Island Patch; attending my first ever ACBL bridge convention over Thanksgiving weekend; finalizing the refinancing of our home; celebrating my mom’s 96th birthday and creating a family photo Christmas calendar… the days simply [...]
November 7, 2011 – 3:40 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Whether you are a bridge player or not, you will find this YA novel an enjoyable read. Teenager Alton Richards is given the summer task of driving his blind uncle four times a week to play bridge and be his cardturner. The book is full of Sachar’s wry humor and obvious love [...]
October 31, 2011 – 5:03 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores There has been a lot of TV hoopla surrounding the ‘exclusive’ interviews with Ruth Madoff and her youngest son Andrew as part off the promotion for a new book Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family by Laurie Sandell. Bernie Madoff, of course, is the financier convicted of running a 50 billion dollar [...]
October 22, 2011 – 1:37 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores I doubt I would have read this other than it was chosen by my book club. I’m glad they did. The author does a wonderful job of mixing the science and human drama behind the story of HeLa cells. What could easily have been a very dry read was instead a wonderful [...]
October 10, 2011 – 2:35 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Chosen by my book club, I admit to being a bit intimidated by the book’s abundant classic prose. I had the good fortune of having the audio and print version at my disposal. Listening was a great way to sort out the characters and establish the plot line. Soon I was reading [...]
October 3, 2011 – 5:01 pm
I love fall book season. This is when publishers release their big books of the year. Book Beast has put together a very good list of what they feel are the stand out books of the season. Click here and take notes. Book Beast’s Must Read Books of the Fall
