I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of two novels I ordered from Amazon yesterday. (I ordered them online after checking with local Barnes & Noble stores - not in stock. Ugh!)
I will be reading the first book, A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich, for my August book club. I'm looking forward to it because of its great reviews. Here is one of those:
"If a book can be valued by the number of times that it is recalled in the reader's mind as a source of humor, comfort or warm nostalgia, then this book is among my most cherished few. Get this book, read it, love it. "
I stumbled across the other book, The Writing Class, while checking to see if Jincy Willett had written another book since Winner of the National Book Award several years ago. I loved that book (despite its dark humor) and found her writing to be incredibly good. So now she has another novel out and it's on its way to my house, even if it isn't on the shelf at Barnes & Noble for some inexplicable reason. Here are some comments about The Writing Class:
“The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever. Brilliant, totally original, and worthy of its title. I promise you will laugh constantly and to the point of stomach damage.”---Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry
“Riotous [and] hugely funny . . .Willett’s satirical abilities remain deliciously undimmed…. Amid the antic, hilarious, gender-bending battle of the sexes that Ms. Willett whips up in this book, either one may qualify as a reason to kill. Either that, or to die laughing.”---The New York Times
I'll have to post later to tell you what I thought of these, but I am REALLY looking forward to reading them!
1 comment:
re Lantern-- good book . Similar to lives of Grandma S contemporaries. She was much more modern than the heroine. Probably because she was widowed so young and had to provide for her children and save the farm alone.
Mom
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