My book group report so far
It's March and the Lakeview Mystery Book Group has read and discussed three titles so far this year. Thus I'm prompted to come to you with a first quarter book report.
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Alafair Burke just keeps 'em coming. The Better Sister is another solid hit from an author who has become an auto-read for me.
Seen the movie? Read the book.
This book is a trip, literally and figuratively. Crazy Rich Asians took me into the world of the crazily rich families who make up the Singapore elite. These people are wealthy beyond my imagining and I loved delving into their wild world.
Lost princess in space
Khoury's new YA novel is a science fiction imagining that plays on the mythos created around the last Romanov, Anastasia, rumored to have escaped when the rest of her family was murdered.
One letter at a time
Purple and Black is brilliantly done - a gem of a book (if I may be so cliche). Tightly woven. Thought-provoking. And all of that in a slender 113 pages. This is a fantasy novel, but don't let that prevent you reading it. It's only a fantasy in that it has a made up country. Everything else about it reads like historical fiction.
It takes a con
In the second of her new series set in 1920s New York former con artist Elizabeth Miles helps a friend whose husband has died (killed by a streetcar). As though grieving her suddenly dead husband weren't bad enough, Priscilla Knight learns after his death that all of her money is gone. She'd come into this second marriage a wealthy woman and somehow in less then a year her husband Endicott made all that money disappear. Now Priscilla isn't sure how she'll support herself and her two young daughters.
Many somethings to look forward to
2018 is done and all the "best of" lists (or most) for books published last year have been created and shared with the world. So what now? How will you know what to read next now that you've finished all of the best of 2018? Well the CrimeReads website can help you fill the void.
By day a comic book writer...
MG Martin is a writer working for the comic book publishing company responsible for the comics that spurred the geekdom of her youth. Her dream job, or so you'd think. But things have stalled. She struggles to have her ideas heard in a building full of men and while she still wants to write the comics she loves, she's wondering if she should be pushing for more or even pursuing her love of costume design. Then into her lap falls a real-life mystery.
New year, new author visits
Every year in the fall the library hosts the main events of the Wisconsin Book Festival. But did you know that Festival events happen all year long? It's true! And if you take a look at the Wisconsin Book Festival site you'll see we've already got 10 author events planned for the next few months. With authors from a neighborhood near you (Muriel Sims) and as far away as ones who were born in Nigeria and China (Chigozie Obioma and Ha Jin) this is a diverse and wildly interesting set of events.
The votes are in
Well the votes are tallied and the results for the hashtag #libfaves18 are in. With 1873 votes from librarians across the country the favorite books of 2018 have been picked. Topping the list - in a tie! - are Circe by Madeline Miller and Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover.