Cover reveal and excerpt: ‘The Book of Life’ by Deborah Harkness (my review of A Discovery of Witches)

Thurber House has announced the Winter/Spring 2014 Evenings with Authors events:
Wednesday, January 29: Isabel Allende, Ripper
Thursday, February 27: Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
Monday, March 10: J.A. Jance, Moving Target: A Novel
Monday, March 31: Carl Hoffman, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
Wednesday, April 9: Bruce Weber, Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America
Tuesday, May 6: Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe: A Novel
Evenings with Authors are held at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad Street, and begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work and chats about writing; this is followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with an informal coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author’s book(s) and get them signed.
Get Olen Steinhauer’s masterful spy novel The Tourist is on sale for $2.99! (my review)
On Wednesday we kicked of the new year by listing the top five fiction books I read in 2013. Today let’s move on to non-fiction. I read 24 non-fiction books last year and I picked five that stood out as my favorites.
Continue reading →Unlike some I like to do my Best of Lists after the new year begins so that all of the previous year is in the books. It usually takes me sometime to get my thoughts together but this year I am a little more on the ball. So on the first day of 2014, let’s kick off our review of 2013 starting with fiction.
Continue reading →Unlike some I like to do my Best of Lists after the new year begins so that all of the previous year is in the books. It usually takes me sometime to get my thoughts together but this year I am a little more on the ball. So on the first day of 2014, let’s kick off our review of 2013 starting with fiction.
Continue reading →The sense that people were reading my reviews still felt like it was worth something. But when those visitors stopped coming it felt like that value was gone too. Suddenly I was asking myself “Why do I continue to do this again?”
Continue reading →The sense that people were reading my reviews still felt like it was worth something. But when those visitors stopped coming it felt like that value was gone too. Suddenly I was asking myself “Why do I continue to do this again?”
Continue reading →Stay tuned for some reviews focused on the New Perspective on Paul, Heaven and Hell, and the Book of Psalms, and more. We will be looking at books by NT Wright, Andrew Perriman, and Alister McGrath, just to name a few.
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