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ce the contest winners for our Writers Between the Covers giveaway! Sara Brockunier, Heather Gregory and Kate Mullen will all be receiving a copy of our salacious new book about the love lives of famous scribes, hot off the press this week. We hope they have as much fun reading about these writers’ exploits as we did writing about them!
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New #readingspot for a few weeks. Current page-turner: A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas. The novel centers on Ruth Hartland, a psychotherapist in a London trauma unit. Even as she helps her patients piece their lives back together after devastating events, privately she is struggling with the disappearance of her teenage son, who went missing a year and a half earlier. The story is dark and haunting, and the suspense is simmering so subtly and steadily that I’m almost ready to bite my nails as I finish the second half, waiting—as the cover copy promises—for the “timebomb at its core.” Especially excellent for plane rides. #changeofscenery #greatreads #books #travel #miamibeach
“The goal of this book is to triple the size of your To Be Read pile,” claims Jane Mount in Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany. I’m always thrilled for new reading suggestions, and there are plenty of them in this gorgeous and fun book, from Coming of Age novels to 1800s Brit Lit. There are place-themed pictorials, too—beloved bookstores, striking libraries, and literary sites like Thoreau’s one-room cabin at Walden Pond and the West Yorkshire parsonage where the Brontë sisters lived and wrote.
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But my favorite section is Writers’ Pets, with drawings of Mark Twain’s black cat Bambino, Flannery O’Connor’s peacock Limpy, John Steinbeck’s travel mate, the standard poodle Charley, and other classic writers’ companions. #animalsrock #booksrule #readingsuggestions #literarysites #bibliophileanillustratedmiscellany #janemount #chroniclebooks #bookstagram #booksofig
Favorite reads of 2018. So many blue covers are a coincidence, although it is my favorite color. All of these stories are tinged with sadness but also hope and humor. Two of them I loved so much that I didn’t want them to end. I set them aside for weeks before going back to finish the final chapters (The Death of Bees and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine). One made me cry and curse (A Man Called Ove). Two were book club selections (Another Brooklyn and An American Marriage). The latter inspired our most in-depth discussion, bringing up issues of marriage (of course), loyalty, race, and more. And Dickens’ storytelling stands the test of time. Originally published in serial form, Oliver Twist is a roller-coaster of a read. I fell hard for Oliver and the people that band together to keep him out of villainous hands. #somuchgreatstorytelling #books #bookish #bookstagram #bookrecs #read #reading #eleanoroliphantiscompletelyfine #thedeathofbees #anamericanmarriage #amancalledove #anotherbrooklyn #olivertwist
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October 30, 2013 at 8:38 am
Gary
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/29/visiting-writers-homes
I thought you would find this of interest,girls! Peace out! Gary
November 1, 2013 at 11:10 am
joni
What a wonderful article Gary! Thanks for drawing our attention to it….. I think we’ll do a post about it and the Langston Hughes house being up for sale later this week. The house looks really cute!