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Submitted by member Madeleine Kaye on January 13, 2021 I recently watched an interview with Dr. Gupta about his new book, which he found time to write while doing his day jobs — performing brain surgeries and acting as chief medical correspondent for CNN. A couple of things stood out: he said we should think of sitting as the new smoking … that sitting is
Thanks to blog member Margaret Boone for her comments on Hurston’s work. My Atlanta book club read Their Eyes Were Watching God soon after it came out in the late 70’s and it was very interesting and well written. I still remember some of Hurston’s images and turns of phrase. Barracoon is a compilation of her interviews with Cudjo and does not read like a
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,
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.
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
Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell: Beautifully written, with clear and fluid prose, this book drew me in immediately to the story of Shakespeare’s family, particularly that of his son, Hamnet (an interchangeable name with Hamlet), and of his wife, Agnes (or Anne). Too many historical novelists provide a heavy dose of research without insight or creativity. That’s not the case with O’Farrell, a superb writer, who
Submitted by: Lynn Morgenstern. 9/6/2020 For anyone who loves mysteries and wants to try something in the genre that is quite different from the typical British and American who-done-its, I recommend a dip into Colin Cotterill’s Dr. Siri Paiboun series. Cotterill’s investigator, Dr. Siri is in his 70’s and is a Paris-trained physician holding the title of National Coroner in Laos. While I have only
SueEllen Hannan I just finished The Gown by Jennifer Robson. Good story line and sympathetic characters. Story takes place in post war England and does involve the wedding gown for Princess Elizabeth. Margaret Boone Paris in the Present Tense, by Mark Helprin. is about a 74 year old man whose parents were murdered by the Nazis at the end of WWII. He has suffered
