The trade association Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) has released the finalists for its annual SIBA Book Awards. These are the fiction finalists. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne FowlerThe Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady HendrixThe Prettiest Star by Carter SickelsHieroglyphics by Jill McCorkleThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettRing Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
From Madeleine Kaye Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land, is being released November 17. I just left my pre-order with Indigo Books. Others may want to do the same. An excerpt from the “New Yorker Magazine” pre-release review: “… a painfully candid diagnosis of how racist hatred of Obama — encouraged by Tea Party politicians — metastasized through the American body politic. But perhaps most important,
Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein (Photo by Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images)CompSave Many of us know that a nineteen year old woman named Mary Shelley wrote what is considered to be the first science fiction novel. What we may not know is the story behind this Nineteenth Century author and her now famous book Frankenstein.. While not intending to ‘create a monster,’ Shelley may as
NEW AT INDIGO, OCTOBER 27TH Among the new releases this week are books from perennial best-selling authors, from best-selling authors we haven’t heard from for a while, and some titles that point us towards the holidays. I haven’t listed the new James Patterson and John Grisham titles, but we have those too! Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South by Rick Bragg. A
Beverly Marco likes Chair #! Congrats to Bev for being entered into the contest, which will end next Sunday, November 1. In addition, Bev had commented on Nicki Joy’s Tana French’s review. Uh oh, she doesn’t like Jodi Picoult’s new book The Book of Two Ways. To read Beverly’s comments, go to the Halloween entry and the article on Jodi Picoult, both from this month.
Psychologists and psychiatrists are reporting as much as four times more cases of depression since March of 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. Much of the increased stress and depression stems from people losing their jobs, losing their savings and, worse yet, losing family members and friends due to death from Covid. Those lucky enough not to have experienced drastic losses are nonetheless suffering from
Cathy Hill has voted for Chair #4! She thinks it is cozy and inviting and likes all the books so close by. Revisit the post about reading chairs and vote for your favorite. We’ll extend the contest for another week before we draw the winner.
Some readers absolutely love a good mystery. I haven’t sampled a mystery since my Nancy Drew days, but I think I might after reading this thoughtful review of Tana French by Nicki Joy, a well-read mystery buff. Joy ends her article by mentioning several other mystery writers. I would welcome further reader comments on the authors and their books. A book has to grab me
The Festival begins on November 6 and runs until November 15. The first festival, in 2017, was founded as a result of a collaboration between two like-minded organizations, both bearing the name of Charleston: The Charleston Trust in Sussex England, which was home to the celebrated Bloomsbury Group of artists, writers and thinkers and hosts one of the most long-standing and renowned literary festivals in
Peg Michel has voted for Chair Three as her favorite reading chair. Now it’s your turn to vote. The name of each person who votes for their favorite chair will be entered into a drawing for a free copy of a book that that person can read in ANY chair or any bed or on the couch or in the car. Now I’m sounding like
