Remember hearing about Corrie ten Boom? She and her father were watchmakers in Holland. During WWII, she saved countless Jews from the Gestapo and was put in a concentration camp once discovered. She lived to tell about it all in her book The Hiding Place. Larry Loftis has written the first biography of ten Boom entitled The Watchmaker’s Daughter. The Wall Street Journal calls it
HarperCollins Publishers recently offered a list of books that would be ideal for summer reading. I have gone through this list and featured three totally differnt types of books. Hopefully at least one will appeal to you. Happy reading…… Pete and Alice in Maine, Caitlin Shetterly Very few people have fond memories of the pandemic days, however, this novel will interest readers because it is
Several people have asked me what the Sandcastle Book Club is going to read for ’23-’24. The list is below: Books for 2023-24 Sandcastle Book Club September 18 Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls Ficiton October 2 Black Cake , Charmaine Wilkerson Fiction November 13 West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge Historical Fiction December 11 The Librarian of Burned Books, Brianna Labuskes Historical Fiction
Below are six literary quotes about mothers. Identify the book each comes from, as well as the author, and you will win a prize–one of the featured books of your choice! Please have your answers into me by May 19 to be eligible for the prize. AND no fair using Chatbot!! 2. “Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.” 3. “He didn’t realize that love
We see it on a daily basis. We worry about it. We realize the damage it does to families and society at large. We try to help. What is IT? POVERTY. Headlines of the Washington Post , reviews in the NYT and features on NPR showcase a new book by Matthew Desmond entitled Poverty, by America. While this blog is never meant to be political,
Everyone includes Oprah Winfrey and Rebecca Peace, to name a few. Listen to a clip of Oprah discussing the 100th book she has chosen for her book club. You will need to click once on the photo of Oprah and then sit through an Ad, but then you will hear her speak about the book. http://oprahdaily.com Rebecca Peace, whose has an Instagram Blog, also loves
Jeannette Walls, Hang the Moon Remember The Glass Castle? It is hardly a book one can forget. It’s actually Jeannette Walls’ memoir of growing up with two of the most disfunctional parents one can imagine!! Walls went on to write several novels. Her latest one, Hang the Moon, will be released March 28. Sat in Virginia during Prohibition, the book tells the story of Sallie
I was reminded just now that Nora Ephron’s book Heartburn turns 40 this year. I don’t think I ever read it! An article by Tobias Mutter in Shelf Awareness reminded me that the ‘novel’ is a thinly veiled version of Ephron’s own life and her husband’s (THE Carl Bernstein of All the President’s Men) affair. A movie version of the book was released in 1986
I haven’t thought about Judy Blume for a long time. That is, until today when a friend who recently returned from Key West told me a great story about her. Little did I know that Blume owned a book store in Key West. It’s called Books and Books. While in Key West, my friend visited the book story and asked a nice woman if Judy
Ron Charles, Book critic for the Washington Post, asked his Book Club members to describe to him what most annoy them in books. I list a few of them below: –Dreams (Worked for Dickens and Shakespeare, but apparently many readers don’t like dream sequences.) –Typos and grammatical errors –Overused and pretentious words (lugubrious, lubricious and preternatural to name a few) –Excessive length (Of books, paragraphs,
