I am aware that the books I often feature are Women’s Literary Fiction or Historical Fiction. I am not apologizing at all. I realize, however, that I could broaden the scope of the blog. This entry, therefore, will cite four new non-fictions that you probably only want to read if you want to know more about: The Bible, Baseball, Ballet or the Civil War. Actually,
There were many books published in 2023 that are certainly worth reading but that we didn’t have time for. Of course we don’t have time to read all the good books. My friend Rebecca Peace has an Instagram spot called beckyonbooks. She lives in Saint Simons Island, Georgia. In her most recent post she says “If you have not read these books, don’t delay. Each
This just in from Goodreads, books which were voted on by readers: Best Fiction Yellowface, R. F. Kuang Best Historical Fiction Weyward, Emily Hart The author tells the story of three women across five centuries. In the Southern Review of Books, May 17, 2023, Nicole Yurcaba writes that the book is one that “hums with endurance and carfully places a magnifying glass over the complexities
This one from Shelf Awareness FictionAmerica Fantastica by Tim O’Brien (Mariner)Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Ajdei-Brenyah (Pantheon)Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Ruiz (Little, Brown)In Memoriam by Alice Winn (Knopf)The Laughter by Sonora Jha (HarperVia)Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes (Avid Reader Press)Prophet by Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (Grove Press)Shark Heart by Emily Habeck (Marysue Rucci Books)Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (MTV Books) NonfictionBetter
Many of you enjoy looking at reading lists from other book clubs. I have copied and pasted them ‘as is’ so please excuse formating problems. If you have additional book club lists, don’t forget to send them to me. Thank you. 2023 – 2024 Coasters Book Schedule Mondays at 2:00 p.m.The 1st Monday of the month except September and January Date Book
There is no prettier place on earth than the Southern Appalachian Mountains. They have been glazed by a magic wand. Frances Boyd, August 15, 2023 For several years after I read Hillbilly Elegy, written by J. D. Vance, I felt an urgent need to defend the place my ancestors settled long long ago. Somehow the book just seemed to portray everyone from Appalachia as being
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
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
The House of Eve, by Sadeqa Joahnson, tells the story of two American women during the 1950’s. One lives in Philadelphia and the other in Washington, D.C. Their lives intersect as they struggle to find their place in a world where the odds seem stacked against them. Johnson takes episodes from her own life and weaves in historical characters for a very engaging novel. River
Although it’s a little late to be talking about some of the best books of 2022, here we go anyway– “Book of the Month” best of the best for the year Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabriell Zevin National Book Awards Fiction–The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty Non-fiction–South to America, Imari Perry Book Browse Award Winners best fiction–Horse, Geraldine Brooks best non-fiction–In Love, Amy Bloom best
