RIP - It has been a rough week for authors

[Booknblues]

First it was Cormac McCarthy and then Carol Higgins Clark

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and Julie Garwood

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Higgins Clark and Garwood take me back to 1980s and 1990s reading. While I didn't read any books written by Carol Higgins Clark, I loved any number of them written by her mother Mary.

Garwood is an author who I would pick up any book of hers I saw in a grocery store.

[Theresa]

Lordy, I am thinking the same thing.

Garwood's Buchanan/FBI series were definitely on my night stand many a time, and I no doubt read her early mass market paperback romances. Didn't all of us of a certain age?

I certainly have enjoyed Carol Higgins Clark's light humorous cozy detective stories, but really embraced those Christmas setting ones co-written with her mother. I am sure that is no surprise to many of you.🎅

Cormac's works, the one time I read one, were not for me. But that was a long time ago, and given my recent delve into the more realistic westerns - and enjoyment - which he is credited with being one of the first to write in that style, I was rethinking my aversion believing I am mature enough finally for them.

[Theresa]

We also lost one of the great literary editors: Robert Gottlieb.

Here is a remembrance by David Remnick, the Editor of The New Yorker, who knew him well.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...

It is also available publicly on the New Yorker's FB page: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?stor...

[Anita]

I haven't read either of these authors, but it's always sad when an artist passes . . .