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Showing posts with label Essays. Show all posts
FEEL FREE (MARCH 2018)
If you're a fan of Zadie Smith, now you can see what's really going on in her head! These essays range from Smith's thoughts on everything from interviews with pop culture icons, to her views on films, music, works of art and so much more. Yes, this is an essay collection but one you won't want to miss....
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/book/best-books-to-read-march-2018-feel-free#ixzz58MOq237b
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/book/best-books-to-read-march-2018-feel-free#ixzz58MOq237b
SEPTEMBER BOOK BUZZ
Amor Towles is one of my favorite authors. His last book RULES OF CIVILITY was a great read and I've been anxiously awaiting his latest release. I've pre-ordered and hope it lives up to its predecessor!
RULES OF CIVILITY was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2011 and reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. The book was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2011.
Viking/Penguin will be publishing Towles’s new novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, on September 6, 2016.
Below read a summary from Bookreporter.com.
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles (Historical Fiction)
When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
The following books will be released in September and are highly recommended by critics and readers. There's something for everyone incuding some humerous essays by Dave Barry.....no surprise there!
HERE I AM by Jonathan Safran Foer (Fiction)
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., HERE I AM is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As they are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East.
APPRENTICE IN DEATH by J.D. Robb (Thriller)
The shots came quickly, silently and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park’s ice-skating rink. The victims were a talented young skater, a doctor and a teacher. Eve Dallas has seen a lot of killers during her time with the NYPSD, but never one like this.
BEST. STATE. EVER.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by Dave Barry(Humor/Essays)
Join loyal Floridian Dave Barry as he celebrates Florida from Key West at the bottom to whatever it is that’s at the top, from the Sunshine State’s earliest history to the fun-fair of weirdness that it is today.
THIS IS REALLY THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE (02/11/2014)
Anne Patchett is the author of Bel Canto (my favorite and her best work)...also State of Wonder and Run. Her recent book, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes the reader into her real world, beginning with childhood to the present day. In a series of beautifully written essays, Patchett describes relationships (complicated, to say the least..), her writing process, adventures and so much more..
Barbara A is a voracious and discerning reader....here are her comments...
"This is the story of a woman who: tends to her failing grandmother; takes an aging nun, her old teacher, shopping; who edits The Best American Short Stories of 2006 and writes some kind of brilliant introduction; who famously opens a bookstore --- on a whim and whilst giving full credit to her dedicated partner; and who, eventually, gets around to marrying the man she's adored, and been adored by, for eleven years.
This is the woman who buries that story, the story of a happy marriage, deep within the book, and to get to it, she, and you, need go camping in an Airstream; scale a six-foot wall; and debate the merits of an MFA in writing. And boy, is it ever worth all of that!
Loved every adventure with my very beguiling new best friend, Ann Patchett. So will you."
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