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November 1, 2014
Bookstore of the Month: R. J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut
R. J. Julia Booksellers
768 Boston Post Rd.
Madison, CT 06443
(203) 245-3959
R. J. Julia on Facebook
R. J. Julia on Twitter
R. J. Julia on Pinterest
Billing itself as "A Great Place to Meet Books," R. J. Julia Booksellers has been introducing readers to books since 1990, operating out of a charming brick building along the Connecticut shoreline (the store is a former bar and grill). When Roxanne Coady and her husband Kevin opened the bookstore, she was in her last trimester of pregnancy. As...
October 31, 2014
A Pumpkin-Spice-Flavored Book Review
I've designed this book review to be a special scratch-and-sniff product compatible with most computer screens and mobile devices. Simply scrape your fingernail over the following word to enjoy an extra-sensory reading experience:
PUMPKIN
Didn't work? Hmmm....I'll have to go back in and tinker with the HTML code, I guess.
In the meantime, please enjoy today's blog post while sipping your Extreme Pumpkin Pizazz Latte from Starbucks and eating your Choco-Pump Flakes (sprinkled with Nut...
Friday Freebie: Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates and Return to Oakpine by Ron Carlson
Congratulations to Martha Gifford, winner of last week's Friday Freebie: The Game We Play by Susan Hope Lanier, The Freedom in American Songs by Kathleen Winter, and There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
This week's book giveaway is a pair of novels by two of our greatest contemporary American writers: Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates and Return to Oakpine by Ron Carlson. One lucky reader will win both books which are no...
October 30, 2014
Painting Ghosts: The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
One of the creepiest ghost stories I've ever read chilled my blood one October night some time ago. Susan Hill's slim-as-a-stilletto novel The Man in the Picture (2008) is a quick, unsettling read, and would make a nice companion to her more recent The Mist in the Mirror (which is still on my To-Be-Read list --must do something about that!). Here's my short review, published elseweb six years ago, which should get you in the Halloween spirit....if you're not already there.
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October 29, 2014
Soup and Salad: Michel Faber's Last (?) Novel, The All Things Oz Museum, Karen Russell's Talk-Talk Solution, The Hemingwrite, Jennifer Weiner on Writers vs. Reviewers, The Writing Life in 1991, Writers' Sheds, Writing on the Rails (U.S. and French versions
On today's menu:
1. “I wanted this to be the saddest thing I’d ever written,” the writer Michel Faber said over coffee last month in Midtown Manhattan, looking tired and disoriented. That’s from an article in the
New York Times
in which Faber (author of
Under the Skin
and
The Crimson Petal and the White
) says his latest novel,
The Book of Strange New Things
, will be his last. As a fan of The Crimson Petal and the White, I hope this isn’t true, that these are only words spoken...
Soup and Salad: Michel Faber's Last (?) Novel, The All Things Oz Museum, Karen Russell's Talk-Talk Solution, The Hemingwrite, Jennifer Weiner on Writers vs. Reviewers, The Writing Life in 1991, Writers' Sheds, Writing on the Rails (U.S. and French versions
On today's menu:
1. “I wanted this to be the saddest thing I’d ever written,” the writer Michel Faber said over coffee last month in Midtown Manhattan, looking tired and disoriented. That’s from an article in the
New York Times
in which Faber (author of
Under the Skin
and
The Crimson Petal and the White
) says his latest novel,
The Book of Strange New Things
, will be his last. As a fan of The Crimson Petal and the White, I hope this isn’t true, that these are only words spoken...
Soup and Salad: Michel Faber's Last (?) Novel, The All Things Oz Museum, Karen Russell's Talk-Talk Solution, The Hemingwrite, Jennifer Weiner on Writers vs. Reviewers, The Writing Life in 1991, Writers' Sheds, Writing on the Rails (U.S. and French versions
On today's menu:
1. “I wanted this to be the saddest thing I’d ever written,” the writer Michel Faber said over coffee last month in Midtown Manhattan, looking tired and disoriented. That’s from an article in the
New York Times
in which Faber (author of
Under the Skin
and
The Crimson Petal and the White
) says his latest novel,
The Book of Strange New Things
, will be his last. As a fan of The Crimson Petal and the White, I hope this isn’t true, that these are only words spoken...
Soup and Salad: Michel Faber's Last (?) Novel, The All Things Oz Museum, Karen Russell's Talk-Talk Solution, The Hemingwrite, Jennifer Weiner on Writers vs. Reviewers, The Writing Life in 1991, Writers' Sheds, Writing on the Rails (U.S. and French versions
On today's menu:
1. “I wanted this to be the saddest thing I’d ever written,” the writer Michel Faber said over coffee last month in Midtown Manhattan, looking tired and disoriented. That’s from an article in the
New York Times
in which Faber (author of
Under the Skin
and
The Crimson Petal and the White
) says his latest novel,
The Book of Strange New Things
, will be his last. As a fan of The Crimson Petal and the White, I hope this isn’t true, that these are only words spoken...
Soup and Salad: Michel Faber's Last (?) Novel, The All Things Oz Museum, Karen Russell's Talk-Talk Solution, The Hemingwrite, Jennifer Weiner on Writers vs. Reviewers, The Writing Life in 1991, Writers' Sheds, Writing on the Rails (U.S. and French versions
On today's menu:
1. “I wanted this to be the saddest thing I’d ever written,” the writer Michel Faber said over coffee last month in Midtown Manhattan, looking tired and disoriented. That’s from an article in the
New York Times
in which Faber (author of
Under the Skin
and
The Crimson Petal and the White
) says his latest novel,
The Book of Strange New Things
, will be his last. As a fan of The Crimson Petal and the White, I hope this isn’t true, that these are only words spoken...
Soup and Salad: Michel Faber's Last (?) Novel, The All Things Oz Museum, Karen Russell's Talk-Talk Solution, The Hemingwrite, Jennifer Weiner on Writers vs. Reviewers, The Writing Life in 1991, Writers' Sheds, Writing on the Rails (U.S. and French versions
On today's menu:
1. “I wanted this to be the saddest thing I’d ever written,” the writer Michel Faber said over coffee last month in Midtown Manhattan, looking tired and disoriented. That’s from an article in the
New York Times
in which Faber (author of
Under the Skin
and
The Crimson Petal and the White
) says his latest novel,
The Book of Strange New Things
, will be his last. As a fan of The Crimson Petal and the White, I hope this isn’t true, that these are only words spoken...
