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Book Review: The Year of the Gadfly
The Year of the Gadfly, by Jennifer Miller, is a spectacular read. You may have noticed I haven’t quite been keeping to a regular posting schedule (okay, that’s an understatement). Predictably, I sort of forgot I was supposed to review this book until last Friday night. Luckily, it proved engaging enough for me to finish it in 48 hours. This novel is told from the points of view of three characters, all with connections to the illustrious New … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review: The Song Remains the Same
Nell Slattery wakes up in a hospital room after a plane crash with no memory of her life. As she re-meets her husband Peter, her mother, and her sister Rory (with whom, she learns, she owns an art gallery), Nell begins to suspect that the stories they each tell her aren’t altogether true. The Song Remains the Same is Nell’s story as she tries to separate out who she is and who she was: she feels … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review: Western Lit Survival Kit
Sandra Newman’s hilarious new nonfiction book, The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner, is a re-introduction to the classics many of us dreaded reading in English classrooms across the country (in both high school and college). She contends that the guilt many of us feel over never having read the Collected Works of Shakespeare or Ulysses weighs on us a little too heavily: “Reading about the Great … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review: People Tell Me Things
The Book Circle: November This month in The Book Circle we’re reading The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach. The sports-book-that-was-so-much-more is being hailed as a triumph of a debut. Read it and join in the conversation, which will kick off with my review next week (Monday, November 14). Posting Schedule You may have noticed I took a tiny hiatus this week. From now on I’ll be going from three posts per week down to two, still shuffling … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Smartest Woman I Know
Head on over to the Book Circle to discuss The Night Circus, The Paris Wife, and Turn of Mind! Ilene Beckerman burst onto the writing scene with her book Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which she wrote and illustrated and which is now a successful Broadway play. Her new book, The Smartest Woman I Know, is the story of Beckerman’s Jewish grandmother, with whom she lived from age twelve to age eighteen. Known to Beckerman as … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review: The Gap Year
Welcome to my TLC Book Tour for The Gap Year, by Sarah Bird. Before I get into my review, I wanted to remind you all that I’m starting the first-ever Books Distilled online Book Club! We’ll be reading TURN OF MIND, by Alice LaPlante, sometime in September. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP! On to the review! The Gap Year is the story of Cam Lightsey, lactation consultant and suburban hater extraordinaire, and her teenager daughter, Aubrey. Aubrey’s … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Centuries of June
Read on for your chance to win a free copy! When Lisa of TLC Book Tours offered me a slot on the tour for Centuries of June, by Keith Donohue, I thought the excerpt sounded pretty strange. Reading the entire novel did nothing to disabuse me of this notion; it is without a doubt one of the strangest books I have ever read. The narrator, a man (unnamed until the last chapter) wakes up in the middle … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Book Review AND GIVEAWAY: Wanderlust
Welcome to my first TLC Book Tours review (which coincides happily with my birthday)! I have to confess something seriously dorky: Wanderlust, by Elisabeth Eaves, was the first book I received in the mail from a publisher–my first review copy. Free books in the mail for me to read and review! It felt almost too good to be true. I almost saved the envelope from Seal Press, but managed to restrain myself. Don’t forget to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contemporary Literature
Author Interview: Elisabeth Eaves
On Wednesday I’ll be featuring my first TLC Book Tour book, Wanderlust. I had the opportunity to do a brief Q&A with the author, Elisabeth Eaves, so consider this a teaser for the book review on Wednesday! 1. I was most impressed by the layers of detail in Wanderlust–sensory images, timelines, names and places and stories–from the time you lived in Spain as a kid to your first trip to London to your time in Cairo, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Author Interviews
Exciting Announcement! And Posts Distilled
Exciting Announcement! Books Distilled has been chosen as a featured blog for TLC Book Tours, a virtual book tour website. Authors utilize TLC when they are publicizing a new book, and the book “tours” across several blogs over the course of a month or two. The author is also available to the blogger for interviews and Q&As. I’m thrilled to be working with TLC. I’ll be reviewing Wanderlust, a travel memoir by Elisabeth Eaves, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Posts Distilled
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