November - December 2008 | Naughty & Nice
I first came across the writer Andrew Gross when he co-authored with James Patterson the books 2nd Chance and 3rd Degree. They also co-authored the books Judge & Jury, Lifeguard and The Jester, which are books I have yet to read. The idea of writing a book with someone else intrigues me as it implies […]
In the week immediately preceding Halloween, and the two weeks sense, I’ve been on a serious reading kick, and as is usual for me, this means I start a series I’ve been meaning to check out, and I read as much of it as possible. One such series, has been The Southern Vampire Mysteries, […]
“Women outlive men, so there’s more of them, that’s why sometimes you simply need an extra man at the table. It maintains a good seating arrangement. Boy-girl, boy girl. I am an extra man,” says Henry Harrison one of the two main characters in Jonathan Ames’ novel, The Extra Man.
The Extra […]
Twenty five years after the mysterious disappearance of her mother, father and brother, Cynthia agrees to a television programme in the hope that she will finally find out what has happened to them. This action starts a fast moving chain of events and an intriguing plot. The story is told by Cynthia’s husband Terry.
Did Cynthia […]
In Tanita Davis’s debut novel, A La Carte we meet a feisty, funny young chef. Lainey is seventeen, and dreams of having her own vegetarian cooking show. To that end, she practices constantly, whipping up new dishes in the kitchen of the restaurant her mother runs, feeding snacks to all her friends, and collecting her […]
Rather than reviewing a book this week, I’m going to talk about a very special familial role. It’s not an official title, like Godmother, or a specific relationship, like sister-in-law. Rather, it is a role one chooses: the book aunt.
Being the book aunt means dabbling in all sorts of literature, from the very best kiddie-lit, […]
Get ready for September 25, a new novel is about to set bookstores on fire . . .
Because I network on Facebook in a writing community, I met Kate Evans through mutual writers groups and took her up on previewing the first chapter of her soon to debut novel, For the May Queen.
I am a […]
I picked up The Cure for Modern Life as part of a writing exercise for a writing conference I attended last month. It was the only one of five novels that I actually wanted to read, much less pay full price for at Barnes and Noble. I’ll be honest, what first attracted me […]
I’m one of those people who are drawn to explore bookcases when I visit a friend’s house. I love to see what books they read. Of course actually what is in the book case in the living room is probably last year’s reading or even reading spanning a lifetime. It occurred to me that the […]
The fifth book in Colleen Gleason’s Gardella Vampire Chronicles comes out just after the first of the year, and she’s offered one lucky reader an ARC (that’s “advanced review copy”), a couple months before the publication date.
BUT, there’s a catch.
Colleen will be reading responses to this post, and she’ll be selecting the winner, so if […]
There are two books in my briefcase right now that have kept me company as I’ve traveled from the shining shores of the Potomac River to the beautiful desert of Arizona: The One Hundred by Nina Garcia and Note to Self by Samara O’Shea. These seemingly different books are, in all honesty, books that I […]
I’ve always been a sort of cyclical reader. By this I mean that I find an author whose work resonates with me, and I read all of their work as fast as possible, and then I move on. There are a few authors I’ll return to, when they publish something new - Anne Rivers Siddons […]
I hope you’ve read our interview with the August Man of the Month, George Pelecanos. Earlier this week, I attended a reading from his new book, The Turnaround at a nifty little independent bookstore, Politics and Prose. I arrived forty-five minutes early to discover a huge crowd. My wait was rewarded as one of the […]
I‘m currently reading The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer. It’s an intriguing tale, beginning with an assassination attempt of The President of the United States. It’s told by Wes, a young aide to the President, and July 4th changed his life: he was permanently disfigured and one of the President’s oldest friends was dead, […]
Miss the “midnight party fun” so many celebrated as each new Harry Potter was released? Stop by a local bookstore on Friday, August 1st, and you will find a celebration in full swing for the release of Breaking Dawn, Book 4 of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. Set in Seattle, these books follow the […]
The first female Iron Chef, author and Executive Chef of Bon Appetit Magazine, Cat Cora is an inspiring woman.
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A man who cooks is always sexy. Mario lives his passions, for food, for culture, and for his family, and he's the perfect ingredient for Nov.
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