NPR just released the top 100 favorite summer reads as voted on by their listeners. After perusing the list , I couldn’t help but think of those wonderful Mastercard Priceless spots. NPR Audience Picks: 100 Best Beach Books Ever Straw hat, sunscreen, favorite pair of sunglasses: $163.00 23 books read: $601.45 21 movie [...]
If you are looking to read something over the summer with a little more substance, something you can recommend to your book club come fall, then consider these good for book clubs summer reading suggestions from Nancy Pearl. Citizen Vince by Jess Walters – a darkly, comic, crime novel that has also been described as [...]
OK, for all you mystery/spy/thriller readers out there, as promised, here is the list of Nancy Pearl recommended summer who dunnits. Vanished by Joseph Finder - corporate espionage at its best. A Darker Domain by Val McDermid – from the prolific Scottish mystery writer, considered one of her best about a past crime that leads [...]
Having just flown to Atlanta, GA and back, I can appreciate these Nancy Pearl recommendations for easy, breezy reading. All descriptions and comments about each book are from the copious notes I took when I attended Nancy Pearl’s Summer Reading List event. Note: Plan ahead. Four out of the six titles are books you most [...]
Last night I was one of a hundred adoring fans that turned out to hear our very own former Seattle Public Library librarian, Nancy Pearl, do what she does best, tell us whats good to read. The focus on this evening’s event was summer reading or as quoted in The Seattle Times piece promoting the [...]
It is not yet officially summer and I am already feeling the need to play catch up with my reading before I can even consider looking at some of what industry insiders are claiming to be this summers best bets. Come July, Knopf Publishing is releasing the second book in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, The Girl [...]
February 23, 2009 – 1:02 pm
I am giving away a signed copy of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (read about his Seattle visit) as part of the BookroomReviews.com Book Giveaway Carnival. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. The winner will be chosen at random on Sunday, March 8th. All readers are eligible, but you must be [...]
October 24, 2008 – 6:46 pm
According to earlyword.com, a website aimed at keeping librarians on top of what is happening in book world, David Tanis’ “A Platter of Figs” might just be THE cookbook of the season. The author was a former chef at Alice Water’s Berkeley, CA restaurant Chez Pannise. Waters describes his cooking style as “radical simplicity.” If [...]
September 25, 2008 – 3:41 pm
This is the third in my series of covering Barbara Kingsolver’s wonderful book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life”. Weary of Election coverage and Economic woes, I fled to my local farmer’s market to focus on another big E in my life…eating. The stalls were full of pumpkins, squashes, beans, garlic, onions, carrots, [...]
The summer reading lists are out and a common theme to this year’s lists are books that offer the reader a ‘literary vacation’ as opposed to a real gas guzzling one. With the help of EarlyWord’s Nora Rawlinson and her terrific break down of the published summer reading lists, these are some of the facts [...]
