General News from the World of Literature
Sometimes it pays to have a second look at the celebrity book club picks. Here are three that caught my eye: Culpability by Bruce Holsinger Ron Charles, writing in the Washington Post, says, “If you want an engaging novel sure to spark great discussion about that thorny AI future, this is it,” Well, who doesn’t want to discuss AI? I know I do! I especially
Booker Prize longlist July 29, 20259:00 AM ET Andrew Limbong The Booker Prize is a prestigious award given to fiction written in English and published in the U.K. and Ireland. The winner receives £50,000 (about $66,000). The winner will be announced on Nov. 10 at a livestreamed ceremony in London. Here’s the full list:
I must say that I really like David Brooks. I watch him faithfully on the PBS Newshour. Today, I read his column in the New York Times and wanted to share it with my blog readers. Click on the below site: www.nytimes.com › literature-books-novelists What exactly is he saying? Does he always think things were better in the ‘good ole days’? Focusing in on Brooks’ disappointment
The Art Spy by Michelle Young I cannot say enough about this book by Michelle Young about Rose Valland. I have tried to link an interview with Young, but my computer will not cooperate. If you have a chance, pull up one of her interviews and listen to Young talk about her book. She has done a tremendous amount of research on Valland, a French
Remember the book The Maid? In that book, Nita Prose introduces us to Molly Gray, a young woman who loves to clean but doesn’t have typical social skills. The term ‘neurodivergent’ seems to cover an array of symptoms that she has. In other words, Molly’s brain simply works differently from that of the majority of folks. So how does one deal with a person like
To some, James Patterson is a household name. Their bookshelves are lined with books authored by him. Patterson was born in 1947. His first job was in advertising. When he wrote his first book in 1973, it was rejected by 31 publishers. The book The Thomas Berryman Number went on to win an Edgar Award! His best known book is Along Came a Spider, and
Of course they do and we all know it. It’s just that we may not hear so much about them right now. Below are a few I have been seeing in the publications I read: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson is not a new book, and it was published before Musk rose to his current level of fame. Isaacson spent two years with Musk, going
At the Sandcastle Book Club this week, someone asked about the books on the best sellers lists. They wanted to know why few of the books we read are on the list. Another member asked, “What do people read now?” The book club likes to think we read literary fiction, but I’m sure that at times we read regular fiction or mystery or whatever. We
Happy Lands by Dole Perkins-Valdez Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a new author to me, but she has been producing award winning historical fiction since 2010. She seems to write about little known aspects of African American history. In her first book Wench, she tells the story of four enslaved women who meet their white masters each summer at a vacation house in Ohio. Of course, it
When Georgia Hunter was 15, she learned that her grandfather and his entire family of 22 people were Holocaust survivors. Her first book We Were the Lucky Ones is about their journey to escape the Nazis. Hunter spent years doing extensive research including interviews with many members of her family. The book has been made into a series on ‘Hulu’. One Good Thing is a
