Something New: April 30, 2013
May 6 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonLast week’s new arrivals included a new fantasy/horror mash up novel by Joe Hill titled Nos4A2 and a new western, Butch Cassidy, by William Johnston.
Something New: April 23, 2013
April 23 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonAmanda Quick, one of my favorite historical romance authors, has just released The Mystery Woman, the second in the "Ladies of Lantern Street" series. Quick’s books are a lively mix of romance and suspense with a dash of the paranormal tossed in to add that little something extra.
Vista Book Group – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
April 19 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonThe Vista Book Group met in March to discuss Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. There were five self-described introverts and three ambiverts in attendance. Many of us have heard the terms introvert and extrovert, but few of us have probably heard the term ambivert. According to Ms. Cain and the psychologists whose studies she references in her book, there really is no such thing as pure introvert or extrovert. However, most of us usually tend to lean prominently toward one end of the introvert-extrovert spectrum. If a person falls pretty much in the center of the spectrum, they are known as an ambivert.
Something New: April 16, 2013
April 17 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonThe ever prolific Nora Roberts has just released her latest novel Whiskey Beach, which promises to be another bestseller. Her books are always a wonderful blend of romance and suspense.
Something New: April 9, 2013
April 9 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonSomething New: April 2, 2013
April 8 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonMary Roach, a science writer who has a way of making science funny, is out with her new book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. She has written four previous books, including Stiff and Packing for Mars, and also writes for such magazines as National Geographic, New Scientist, Wired and the New York Times Magazine. The publisher’s blurb for Gulp states that “the alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars.”
Something New: March 26, 2013
March 30 , 2013 by Chantal WilsonPulitzer Prize−winning author Elizabeth Strout has released a new novel titled The Burgess Boys. A Booklist review describes this latest work as a story “in which the fabric of family, loyalty, and difficult choices is revealed in layer after artful layer.”
Looking for a new book series to get hooked on……?
March 27 , 2013 by Janet HatchI must confess I am an avid serial reader. Once I find a good book that is part of a series, I continue reading one after another until I have finished the series or I wait, with much anticipation, until the next book is published. This is not something new as I began this addiction as a child when I fell in love with the “Little House on the Prairie” books. I am more in to the mystery/thriller genre right now and these are a few of my favorite authors and their series:
James Cain’s Lost Novel The Cocktail Waitress
March 23 , 2013 by Carol SAuthor James Cain best known for The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce has a new novel published 35 years after his death. He began it in 1975 and died in 1977. James Cain is one of the “big three” of crime classics—with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His work Mildred Pierce is a recent HBO award winning series. Before his death at the age of 87, he put elements of his life into one last novel-angina and nitroglycerine pills. He borrowed from his best known work of a young attractive woman getting out of a bad marriage, an older man, a handsome young man, economic challenges and implication in her husbands’ death. The Cocktail Waitress story is told in the main character’s own words and viewpoint. Cain worked on his novel up to his death and it was found in the files of a deceased Hollywood agent. There was a whole manuscript, several partial ones, fragments, lines on notebook paper and another draft labeled “original”. Its completion took nine more years. The reviewer compares the main character, Joan Medford, to Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce. In the editor’s afterword, the story of the publication of the “lost” manuscript describes the collection of its pieces like a mystery solved.
Something New: March 19, 2013
March 19 , 2013 by Chantal Wilson