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Sunday, March 11, 2018

BW11: Maeve Binchy and John Connolly

Our author choices of the month are the literary novelist Maeve Binchy and crime fiction author John Connolly.

Maeve Binchy was born May 28, 1940 in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland. She became a French language teacher and worked in a Jewish school. She was gifted with a trip to Israel and since she didn't have much money, went to work in a Kibbutz. She would send long rambling entertaining letters home to her parents which were so good, they sold them to the newspapers. Her writing career was born. She started working for the Irish Times in 1968 and My First Book, a compilation of the letters was published in 1970. She wrote two short stories, Central Line in 1978 and Victoria Line in 1980. Her debut novel Light a Penny Candle was published in 1982. She went on to publish 16 novels, various short stories, nonfiction and plays as well as write dramas for radio and television. She passed away at the age of 73 in 2012. Her very last novel, A Week in Winter was published after her death. Chestnut Street, a collection of unpublished short stories she'd written during her life, was published in 2014.

Find out more about Maeve Binchy with Piers Dudgeon interview, Remembering Maeve Binchy, and Bookpages: Maeve Binchy: finding the heroes among ordinary people.

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Courtesy of TLC Books

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. After graduating from Dublin City University with an Masters in Journalism, he became a freelance journalist for the Irish Times. He began writing his first crime fiction novel and introduced Charlie Parker to the world with Every Dead Thing in 1999 and he was awarded the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel in 2000. He's written 17 books in the Charlie Parker series as well as other series - Chronicles of the Invaders with author Jennifer Ridyard, Samuel Johnson, and standalone books including The Book of Lost Things. His latest novel in Charlie Parker detective series, The Woman in the Woods will be released April 5th in the U.K and June 12th in the United States.

Find out more about John Connolly through A Q & A with John Connolly, a Guide to Charlie Parker, Talks to Ginger Nuts of Horror and TLC Books interview with John.

Be sure to check out both Maeve Binchy and John Connolly soon!

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For all our Brit Trippers, this week we'll be travelling through Nottinghamshire which is the famous home of everyone’s favorite outlaw and an interesting connection to the Pilgrim fathers.

Rabbit trails: King John’s Palace More On King John’s Palace More Robin Hood Creswell Crags Mr. Straw’s House

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Sunday, February 11, 2018

BW7: Agatha Christie and Christopher Brookmyre

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Our author choices of the month includes a classic English mystery writer, Agatha Christie and contemporary mystery Scottish author, Christopher Brookmyre.

Dame Agatha Christie was born September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon. She was homeschooled and began writing poems when she was a child and short stories by the age of 18. During the first world war, she started writing detective stories. In 1919, her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published and she went on to publish 66 detective novels, 14 short story collections as well as plays, plus 6 romances under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. She loved archaeology and traveling. She traveled on the Orient Express in 1928, then in 1930 went on to an archaeological site in UR, Nineveh in the Middle East where she met Max who become her second husband. She accompanied him on many digs and her stories were inspired by all her true life experiences. In 1955, She was the first to receive the Grand Master Award, the highest honor by the Mystery Writers of America's. In 1971, she was granted female knighthood as Dame Commander of the British Empire for her literary work. She passed away at the age of 85 on January 12, 1976.

Find out more about Agatha through BBC's A look at the life and craft of Agatha Christie, through the Smithonian's Where Agatha Christie Dreamed Up Murder, as well as The Home of Agatha Christie which provides a complete biography, detailed information about all her books, and the Agatha Christie Community Forum.

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Courtesy of Christopher Brookmyre

Christopher Brookmyre was born on September 6, 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland and went to Glasgow University. He worked for Screen International, The Scotsman, and Edinburgh Evening news before going on to publish his first book in 1996. Quite Ugly One Morning which won the Critic's First Blood Award for best first crime novel of the year. He's has written 21 books to date full of thrills and chills, murder and mayhem. His writing contains a mix of politics, social commentary, and action. He has joined the ranks of William McIIvanney, Val McDermid and Ian Rankin as a Tartan Noir author whose books are characterized by hard boiled, antiheroes. His latest book, Places in the Darkness, is a futuristic science fiction, murder mystery set on a space station above earth.

Synopsis: Hundreds of miles above Earth, the space station Ciudad de Cielo - The City in the Sky - is a beacon of hope for humanity's expansion into the stars. But not everyone aboard shares such noble ideals. Bootlegging, booze, and prostitution form a lucrative underground economy for rival gangs, which the authorities are happy to turn a blind eye to until a disassembled corpse is found dancing in the micro-gravity.

In charge of the murder investigation is Nikki "Fix" Freeman, who is not thrilled to have Alice Blake, an uptight government goody-two-shoes, riding shotgun. As the bodies pile up, and the partners are forced to question their own memories, Nikki and Alice begin to realize that gang warfare may not be the only cause for the violence.

Find out more about Christopher Brookmyre through The novelist on psychopathic surgeons, and why he declined Question Time, Crime by the Book's Bloody Scotland interview and Crime Fiction Lover's Interview with Chris Brookmyre

Join in on Agatha Christie's Perpetual reading challenge and be sure to check out Chris Brookmyre this month.

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Sunday, January 7, 2018

BW2: Miyuki Miyabe and Haruki Murakami

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Our author choices of the month are Miyuki Miyabe and Haruki Murakami.

Miyuki Miyabe was born December 23, 1960 in Tokyo, Japan where she still lives at present. She began writing classes at the age of 23 while working in a law office. Her debut short story Warera ga rinjin no hanzai (Our Neighbor's Crime) was published in 1987 and won the All Yomimono Mystery Prize for new writers.

She has written short stories, a horror anthology - Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo, numerous adult crime and thrillers plus science fiction fantasy novels for children. She has received numerous awards for her work including Mystery Writers of Japan in 1992, Japan SF Award in 1997, and The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year in 1992. She also won the U.S. Batchelder award for Brave Story as the most outstanding children's book, translated into English and published in the U.S.

Several of her novels had been made into tv dramas and films. Brave Story was also adapted into a children's animated film in 2006 and nominated for an "Animation of the Year" award for the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards.

Her most recent best selling novels are St. Peter’s Funeral Procession , as well as Solomon's Perjury which has yet to be translated.

Learn more about Miyuki through Reuter's interview Japan Writer wants world to see new face of Toyko as well as Miyuki Miyabe and Japanese Noir.

If you are feeling really ambitious, check out Noriko Chino's doctorate dissertation from 2008 on Miyuki Miyabe's Place in the Development of Japanese Mystery Fiction.

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Courtesy of Time

Haruki Murakami was born January 12, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan and will be 69 this year. He began writing at the age of 29, inspired by all things, a baseball game. Hear the Wind Sing, his first book in Trilogy of the Rat, was published in 1979 and he won the Gunzou Shinjin Sho, the Gunzo New Writer Award for new writers, established by Gunzo Magazine.

He soon followed up with two more books in his Trilogy of the Rat: Pinball 1973 in 1979 and A Wild Sheep Chase in 1982. He won the Noma Bungei Shinjin Sho (Noma Literary Award for New Writers) for A Wild Sheep Chase in 1982. During this period of time he sold his bar, Jazz Cats, which he had opened in 1974, and began writing full time.

In 1985 he wrote Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Year for which he won the Junichi Tanizaki Award. In 1991 he moved to the United States where he taught at Princeton and also wrote The Wind Up Bird Chronicle which was published in 1994. He won the prestigious Yomiuri Literary Award.

He moved back to Japan in 1995 and has gone on to write numerous novels both fiction and nonfiction, including his latest short story collection released in 2017 - Men Without Women.

If you want to find out more about Murakami - Check out his website, follow him on facebook, peak into his interviews in Japan Times including articles on music, jazz and the brain, and danish award.

Join me in reading both Miyuki Miyabe and Haruki Murakami this month!

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Sunday, August 6, 2017

BW32: Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Dunnett
Courtesy of the Dorothy Dunnett Society

I am currently reading Dorothy Dunnett's historical fiction novel Niccolo Rising set in the mid 15th Century. It is well written and is one of those hard to put down, forget what time it is, and stay up way past your bedtime reads.

Dorothy was born August 25, 1923 and grew up in Edinburgh. She discovered writing at the age of 38 and during her lifetime, wrote twenty two books and helped compile two companion books detailing the historical events and characters in her books.

She started writing The Game of Kings, the first book in the Lymond Chronicles, in the late 50's. After being rejected by British publishers, she had it published in America. Her husband, Alistair, asked Lois Dwight Cole, the American editor of Gone With the Wind if she'd read the manuscript. Immediately upon reading the book, she offered Dunnett a writing contract.

Dunnett went on to write 6 books in the Lymond Chronicles series:

The Game of Kings
Queens’ Play
The Disorderly Knights
Pawn in Frankincense
The Ringed Castle
Checkmate

Upon finishing the Lymond series, her publisher requested she write a standalone novel about a major historical figure. She went on to write King Hereafter, the story of the real Macbeth (not Shakespeare's version) with the premise Macbeth was Thorfinn, the Earl of Orkney.

Not satisfied with writing stand alone novels, she went on to write the 8 books series called The House of Niccolo:

Niccolò Rising
Spring of the Ram
Race of Scorpions
Scales of Gold
The Unicorn Hunt
To Lie with Lions
Caprice and Rondo
Gemini

Meanwhile, while writing both the Chronicles and the Niccolo series, she also wrote a detective series called the Dolly series,,also known as the Johnson Johnson series which were published under her maiden name, then later republished and renamed. The series was reprinted in 2012 and all are available on Kindle.

Dorothy died at the age of 78 on November 9th, 2001 after a short illness. The Dorothy Dunnett Society had a memorial stone created in her honor in 2006 and placed near the entrance to the Scottish Writer's Museum.

Join me in reading one or more of Dorothy Dunnett's novels.

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Sunday, July 9, 2017

BW28: Octavia Butler

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Octavia Butler, born June 22, 1947, started creating stories in her head at the age of four and by the time she turned 13, was writing stories about new worlds on her mother's Remington typewriter. After college, she earned a spot in the Screenwriters Guild Open Door Program where she captured the attention of Harlan Ellison who encouraged her to do the Clarion Science Fiction Writer's workshop, where she also met Samuel Delaney. Crossover, her first story was published in an anthology of student work. From there, she went on to publish twelve best selling novels as well as numerous short stories. She won several awards and is the first and only science fiction writer to win the MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship. Butler passed away in February 24, 2006 at the age of 59.

Clockshop launched Radio Imagination in 2016 to honor Octavia on the tenth anniversary of her death with a year long celebration including a series of performances and literary events. As they so eloquently state:

With Black female protagonists, radical notions of kinship, and a keen understanding of power dynamics, Butler’s writing revamped the conventions of the science fiction genre. Butler’s bold imagining of the future has come to inform the way we live now. 2016 marks the 10-year anniversary of Butler’s death.

Exploring far-reaching issues of race, gender, power and, ultimately what it means to be human, Butler broke ground as a black woman writing science fiction—a genre dominated by white men. “I’m black, I’m solitary, I’ve always been an outsider,” The Los Angeles Times quoted Butler as saying in 1998. Her work suggested new ways of thinking and new models of working for generations of writers and artists to come

Emanuela Grinberg on CNN.com talks more about Clockwork and how Los Angeles Celebrates Octavia Butler, a Visionary among Futurists

In January of this year, Abrams ComicArts released a graphic novel edition of Kindred

More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.

Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.

She has written three different series over the years: Patternist, Xenogenesis and Parables. SWFA provides a excellent chronological list of how to read her books. I currently have Dawn in my stacks waiting to be read. Find out more about Octavia through Portalist's 15 Fascinating Facts about Octavia Butler.

Join me in celebrating our author of the month and reading one of her novels this year.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

BW15: Edith Wharton

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Our female author of the month is Edith Wharton, who was born January 24th, 1862 in New York. She was the daughter of aristocrats and educated at home through tutors. She also learned through reading the classics from her father's large personal library. Her mother supported her writing and had her poems published for private readings by family and friends.

During her marriage to Edward Wharton, her first full length work The Decoration of Houses was published through a collaboration with architect Ogden Codman.

After her divorce from Edward in 1913, she was in Paris when World War I started. She organized charitable organizations to help refugees and due to her work with french and Belgian refugees charities, was decorated with the French Legion of Honor.

In 1921 she became the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her fictional story, The Age of Innocence.

In 1923 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Yale University for her literary works and humanitarian efforts.

In 1924, the American Academy for Arts and Letters awarded her the gold medal for her fiction.

Over her lifetime, she wrote many novels, short stories, books of poem, as well as non fiction books about architecture, interior design, gardening and travel.

Find out more about Edith's legacy and her home The Mount here, the Wharton scholarship through the Edith Wharton Society and check out her fiction, nonfiction and short stores on line through the Literature Network as well as Gutenberg.org

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

BW8: R.I.P. Umberto Eco and Harper Lee

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This is a sad week for the book world as we have lost both Umberto Eco (84) and Harper Lee (89).

Umberto Eco studied medieval philosophy and literature at the University of Turin and his thesis about Thomas Aquinas earned him a Laurea Degree in philosophy. He was a cultural editor for Radiotelevisione italiana, italy's national public broadcasting company and a lecturer at the University of Turin. He has a 30,000 volume library in his apartment in Milan and a 20,000 volume library in his vacation home near Rimini,

Nasim Talab who wrote The Black Rose says in Brainpickings Umberto Eco's Library: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones:

The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

Harper Lee studied law at the University of Alabama and wrote for the school newspaper, but never finished her degree. She moved to New York City and worked as an airline reservation agent while pursuing writing in her off time. After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, she became Truman Capote's research assistant. She accompanied him while he traveled and helped him conduct interviews and wrote up all the notes for his novel In Cold Blood. Capote minimized her role in the creation of the story, thus destroying their friendship. To Kill a Mockingbird was published to great acclaim. Interest in Lee declined when no further books were written or published. In 2015, Go Set a Watchman was published. The book was a sequel to Mockingbird, a story Lee had written first, but had been held back by the publisher.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ` To Kill a Mockingbird

I currently have Eco's Foucault's Pendulum on my nightstand which I'll be reading this week. Join me in honoring both authors by reading one of their books this year.

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

BW31 - Analogical August

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Welcome to Analogical August and our theme of all things analogous and our author flavor of the month - Isabel Allende.

Analogies, metaphors, and similes - oh my!

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

Imagine my surprise when I went on line to look up analogical reasoning and got caught up in Stanford's Encylopedia of Philosophy. Our theme this month will have us exploring trails that are long and narrow, wide and short or meandering through the backwoods and back roads, getting lost..... or found as the case may be. *grin* Yes, I'm a fan of rabbit trails. So whether you go the nonfiction or fiction route, you'll have much to choose from.

When you think of analogies, what authors spring to mind? Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis, Tolkein or Bradbury? How about Rowling or our author flavor of the month, Isabel Allende.

I've had The House of the Spirits on my shelves for quite a while, but as is the case with many of my books, never got around to reading the story. It is the first, her debut novel. Since then, she has written over 20 novels, which have been translated into 35 languages and for which she has won many awards.

The astonishing debut of a gifted storyteller, The House of the Spirits is both a symbolic family saga and the story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. Isabel Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants, including Esteban, the patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess; Clara, the matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house and the Truebas; Blanca, their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father’s foreman fuels Esteban’s everlasting contempt, even as it produces the grandchild he adores; and Alba, the fruit of Blanca’s forbidden love, a luminous beauty and a fiery and willful woman.

The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds.

Check out her website for more information about her and her books, plus watch her TED talks on how to live a passionate life, as well as her foundation supporting women and children.

Join me in reading all things analogical and dive into one (or more) of Isabel Allende's magical stories.

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History of the Medieval World

Chapter 35 Gregory the Great pp 572 - 604

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

BW5: Flufferton February

Jane Austen

Bronte Sisters

Flufferton

February

Welcome to Flufferton February and our author flavors of the month: The Bronte siblings --- Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell --- as well as Jane Austen. Flufferton is a term coined by one of our Well Trained Mind mom's in relation to all things regency, both classic and modern. Regency stories revolve around romance, mysteries, and the Napoleonic war. Modern fiction is set in the regency era and can run the gamut from historical romance fiction to horror to paranormal.

The Regency era from 1811 to 1820 fell within the period of Romanticism which latest approximately from 1790's to 1850's. Romanticism in English Literature began with the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coolridge in 1790. By the 1820's Romanticism encompassed almost all of Europe and was influenced not only by the Bronte Sisters, but French authors Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas and as well as American, Italian, Russian and Polish writers.

Jane Austen wrote six novels, which have been some of the most popular and widely read stories over the years. Her novels: Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion are all available on line for your reading pleasure.

There have also been many spin off's, inspired by Austen, revolving around Mr. Darcy and other characters. Be sure to check out Laurel Natress's website dedicated to all things Austen at AustenProse. It will keep you busy for quite a while, so might want to save it for when you have more time.

The Bronte sisters books have been equally popular. Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley, The Professor, High Life in Verdopolis and Juvenilia. Emily wrote Wuthering Heights and Anne produced Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Their brother, Branwell, was a painter and a poet as well and his works may be found here.

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Come join me in the manor garden for afternoon tea (or a glass of wine if you prefer), and munch on tea cakes or scones, while we laze about for the day. Take a stroll among the flowers or trail your toes in the lake while diving into the stories of Jane Austen and/or the Bronte sisters. Or wind your way down the various rabbit trails and see where it takes you.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment ~ Jane Austen

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History of the Medieval World - Chapter 6 (pp 41 - 50)
Earthquake and Invasion (364 - 376 AD)

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

BW21: RIP Mary Stewart

One of my favorite authors, Mary Stewart, passed away this past week at the age of 97. Coincidentally, or whether it was serendipity, I began rereading The Crystal Cave a couple weeks ago. I first read the Merlin series which consisted of The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973), and The Last Enchantment (1979) and Wicked Day (1983) back during the late 70's, early 80's. Periodically, I would pull them out and reread them. I read and reread all her books during that period of time, but unfortunately only kept the Merlin Series in my stacks. The series has always stood the test of time and each time I get something new out of them.

I only have to hear one of the titles of her books such as Touch Not the Cat or Nine Coaches Waiting or The Ivy Tree or Airs above the Ground to be taken right back into the story.

The guardian posted a wonderful obituary detailing her life, so be sure to check it out.

Stewart introduced a different kind of heroine for a newly emerging womanhood. It was her "anti-namby-pamby" reaction, as she called it, to the "silly heroine" of the conventional contemporary thriller who "is told not to open the door to anybody and immediately opens it to the first person who comes along". Instead, Stewart's stories were narrated by poised, smart, highly educated young women who drove fast cars and knew how to fight their corner. Also tender-hearted and with a strong moral sense, they spoke, one felt, with the voice of their creator. Her writing must have provided a natural form of expression for a person not given to self-revelation.....

Stewart's fans were above all attracted to her wonderful storytelling, which she saw as a skill she was born with – "I am first and foremost a teller of tales" – but also by the warmth and vivacity of her characters and the sharply drawn settings. These ranged from Skye with icy mist coiling around the Cuillin mountains in Wildfire at Midnight (1956) to the searing heat of Corfu in This Rough Magic (1964), with its echoes of The Tempest.

If you've never read one of her stories, do yourself a favor and check her out. You'll be glad you did. In honor of Mary Stewart, read one of her books this year.

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Sunday, April 14, 2013

BW16: Judge a book by its cover

Most of the time, when picking out a book at the bookstore or shopping online, I look for a familiar author or a book someone has recommended. And sometimes there are books that catch my eye because of an intriguing picture or interesting title. A few years back, a blogger friend of mine posed a challenge to pick a book based on its cover. The catch however was not to read the synopsis or reviews or anything else that would tell you what the book is about. Pick the book, blog what you think the book is about, then read it and find out if your supposition was correct. I've actually come across some very interesting books using that method. So I went on Amazon and looked at the new releases and chose books by authors I've never read and whose covers and titles interested me. And the hard part was not looking at the book description. Easier said than done especially when you are as nosy as I am. But I resisted the temptation and these are the ones I found.

A.G. Riddle - The Atlantis Gene

Kendra Elliot - Buried

James Hankins - Brothers and Bones


Orest Stelmach - The Boy from Reactor 4

So which one do you think I should read? I'll read the one that receives the most votes and let you know what I think the story is about and what it ended up really being about. Join in the fun. Go the the library, bookstore or online and pick a book based on its title or cover.

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