We’re thrilled to announ
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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#currentlyreading A retelling of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE set in Pakistan in the early 2000s, UNMARRIAGEABLE is a fun, clever story. A plus: The main character, Alys, is an English teacher, and there are references to classic and contemporary books sprinkled throughout the narrative. “It was a truth universally acknowledged, Alys suddenly thought with a smile, that people enter our lives in order to recommend reads.”
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Of course! Plus a couple of back-up books.
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These suspenseful tales are completely different stories but share a South Seas connection.
CASTLE OF WATER is about two plane crash survivors—Barry Bleecker, an American banker turned aspiring painter, and Sophie Ducel, a French architect on her honeymoon and whose husband perished in the crash—stranded far from civilization on an island the size of a city block. The descriptions of what the castaways experience, physically and mentally, as they struggle to survive are so harrowing and seemingly realistic that it almost put me off visiting the South Pacific. Not really, it’s still high on my travel bucket list, although I couldn’t help but wonder how I would fare in a similar situation.
In SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a British couple’s honeymoon in Bora Bora takes a startling turn. While on a scuba diving expedition, Erin and Mark come across an object floating in the ocean and must decide what to do with it. The decision is a risky one, and danger stalks them even after they flee the island and return home to London. The narrative leads back to the dramatic opening scene, revealing how Erin came to be digging a grave in the woods.
Both are recommended if you’re looking for compelling, fast-paced reads. For me, they were riveting enough to distract from severe tooth pain.
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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!