I know you’re reading fast and furiously, and I love getting your emails about which books are making you laugh, which are making you cry and which are totally blowing you away. Here are my final 10 suggestions for the best of Summer Reading 2009. As always, I hope you’ll share your thoughts with me…
I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of my Summer Reading Series. Part 2 has ten more excellent suggestions for your summer reading pleasure. Please let me know which of these turn out to be your favorites. I look forward to hearing from you! Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – This 2009 Pulitzer Prize Fiction winner…
There’s something about summer that just screams “BOOKS!” to me. I’ve gone through dozens to find you the best of the season and, because there are so many good ones, I’m going to extend this theme. For the next three weeks, I’ll be sending you one Summer Reading newsletter each week, filled with 10 must-read…
Here are two great books to give for Father’s Day – because then you can borrow them back! In his first novel, “The Enthusiast,” journalist Charlie Haas offers a fascinating look into the slices of life that make up our American pie. The insightful and creative story centers around Henry Bay, who has spent his…
This irresistibly-named blog features a brilliant mix of two of my can’t-live-without necessities: literature and music. And then it asks authors to do what I’ve been doing in our heads forever – putting playlists to their latest books. Remember last week I featured Ayelet Waldman’s “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and…
