Kirkus Reviews is usually right on target. I've already started FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff and it had my attention immediately. Here's their take on the latest best sellers.
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POPULAR AND STILL GOOD? (OCTOBER 2015)
Kirkus Reviews is usually right on target. I've already started FATES AND FURIES by Lauren Groff and it had my attention immediately. Here's their take on the latest best sellers.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM GERALDINE
Oh yes, Geraldine and I are pen pals!! Here's her latest letter...
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Dear Joyce, My new novel, The Secret Chord, will be published October 6th. These last few days are unsettled ones for me. The book is finished, in the warehouses, gone beyond my reach. What happens next is up to you. I'm hoping for that magical connection, that moment when something I've written grips you and carries you away. This time the journey reaches deep into the past—Second Iron Age Israel—and into the hidden recesses of one of the most passionate and mysterious hearts in literature. King David shimmers between history and myth. He loves ardently, fights viciously, creates great art, forges a nation, loses his children: in short, everything happens to him. I've imagined him through the eyes of Natan, the prophet who foresees his greatness but who also sees his flaws. As a news reporter in the 1990s, I covered the lives of women in the Mideast. I found myself remembering those women as I thought about David’s wives, shaping their destinies as best they could in a patriarchal world that allowed them little obvious power. A pleasure of writing the novel was imagining full lives behind the scant sentences about them in the scriptures. Ten years ago, my son asked if he could learn the harp. As I write this, I’m listening to him play an arrangement of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah," and thinking of all the ways this enigmatic and charismatic king from three thousand years ago continues to inspire. Hoping you, too, will be inspired. |
HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY!
Really?!! You've been blogging for FOUR years!!!
Yes! It's my BLOGOVERSARY...Thankyou to all my followers and page viewers...all 57,000 of you!
Thankyou for your comments and feedback...Thankyou to Bookreporter.com, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Bookish and of course Amazon for continually keeping me updated and ahead of the game. But most of all, thankyou to all blog readers for your support and love of books. Looking forward to another year of great reads!
AVENUE OF MYSTERIES (SEPTEMBER 2015)
It won't be out until November but definitely worth the wait. The world according to John...and now he has a new one, Avenue of Mysteries. Put this book on your must-read list ...you're in for a treat.
Avenue of Mysteries
The world according to John
If you’ve been obsessed with John Irving since The World According to Garp, then you certainly aren’t alone. While early reviews aren’t putting Avenue of Mysteries on quite the same level as Irving’s prior blockbusters, no fan should pass up the opportunity to immerse him- or herself in this engrossing saga. Familiar themes of sex and death permeate this tale about a writer named Juan Diego, who has journeyed far and wide to find success, and must grapple with his own impending end. Viagra, lust, and music abound in John Irving’s latest.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS ALIVE AND WELL (SEPTEMBER 2015)
I have read all of Steig Larsson's books and am elated to hear that author David Lagercrantz is continuing the Larsson legacy. Charismatic character Mikael Blomkvist remains the prominent force along with Lisbeth Salander. Lagercrantz has created a thriller almost as good as the original trilogy. Joe Hartlaub reviews The Girl In the Spider's Web in the latest Bookreporter.com....
Late one night, Mikael Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker --- a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Lisbeth Salander for help. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub. Recently Andrea D, a friend and blog reader mentioned a new book by Linda Hirshman. The clever title caught my attention (It was easy to remember which is a huge plus! ) and a biography of these two judges seemed like a formula for a best seller...and indeed it will be. However, the reviewer had some disparaging comments which caused some reflection...See what you think.... The following review is from www.bookreporter.com SISTERS IN LAW: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman (Biography) The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg transcends party, religion, region and culture. Strengthened by each other’s presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and America itself, making it a more equal place for all women. Linda Hirshman’s dual biography includes revealing stories of how these trailblazers fought for their own recognition in a male-dominated profession. Reviewed by Maya Gittelman. |
GET READY FOR THIS! (SEPTEMBER 2015)
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
Colum McCann
Acclaimed National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann returns withThirteen Ways of Looking, a short fiction collection containing three short stories and a novella. McCann’s characters in this new work — whether nuns or judges or writers — are mostly ordinary people encountering extraordinary situations often touched by loss. Powerful, profound, and deeply empathetic, McCann’s beautifully wrought writing in Thirteen Ways of Looking glides off the page. (Buzzfeed Books)
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HOT OFF THE PRESS (SEPTEMBER 2015)
Hot off the presses from Kirkus Reviews, two most talked about new releases debuting soon. I am a fan of Geraldine Brooks, her books, and the wonderful life she leads on Martha's Vineyard. She's an integral part of this island community, a gifted storyteller, and I wonder when she has the time to write...but write she does, and I'm anxiously awaiting THE SECRET CHORD releasing September 22nd.
Thankyou Kirkus.com and Goodreads for the following comments....
Release Date: September 29 Collected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry--including Audrey Niffenegger's own fabulous new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by..more | |
Release Date: September 22 A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and Pulitzer Prize winning March. PRE-ORDER FROM AMAZON CLICK ON AMAZON SEARCH BOX IN THE SIDEBAR. |
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