I've got catalogs - and hot blissful days that make me not want to be at the computer. So here's some short takes while I drink another glass of ice tea and savor the warmth (it was a long cold winter folks......)
From Unbridled Books:
This catalog is flat out gorgeous and if you aren't aware of the wonders from this small press then you are really missing something. I recently reviewed (and very much enjoyed) The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, Sins of the Innocent and last year, Mohr. So far, I've found each of Unbridled's title I've read to be both unique and irresistible - but in a slow, thoughtful kind of way. They aren't thrillers but they are great grand novels in almost an old fashioned tradition. Just consider them good reads - and lately that is pretty much my basic criteria for anything I'll even consider cracking open the cover on.
This fall they have an Industrial age tale in NYC with Every Past Thing by Pamela Thompson, a look at Errol Flynn's post Hollywood life in Jamaica with The Pirate's Daughter, a high school history teacher writing a book about the life and death of Merriwether Lewis - while coping with his own personal crisis of faith in The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis by Michael Pritchett and The Lamentations of Julius Marantz which is described as "part a portrait of cynical politics and religious fervor, part scientific speculation and part mediation on the glories of Coney Island..."
Yeah - I have no idea how author Marc Estrin came up with all that in one book either.
From the backlist, I'm sorely tempted by Rain Village. A girl who is saved by the stories of a librarian and then runs away to join the circus and become a trapeze artist? Pretty irresistible, don't you think?
Back tomorrow with Candlewick, Bloomsbury kids and Harcourt children's. And I've been tagged by multiple memes...something for the weekend I'm sure.
Don't forget that Monday will see another entry in the "Wicked Cool Overlooked Books" series. If you have a book you want to blog about, let me know and I'll link to you here.
June 2
2007
08:20 AM
Colleen
There is an article in this month's AOPA magazine on Kay Kennedy. I'm sure you must be familiar with her since she lived and wrote in Fairbanks and has a lot of material in the library at University of Alaska in Fairbanks. I have never heard you mention her, but thought that you would be interested if you hadn't seen the article.
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