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Do you consider yourself a fast reader?

March 3, 2008, 384 voters

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March 2008

For hundreds of years, scholars and critics have pondered the influences that provided William Shakespeare with the materials for the plays that bear his name. While we know much about his work, we know little about the person whose words and plays are read by so many around the world. In THE LODGER SHAKESPEARE, Charles Nicholl provides readers with a detailed glimpse into a brief moment in the life of a man considered by many to be the greatest playwright ever.

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What I Was by Meg Rosoff

March 2008

Crossing over to adult fiction, celebrated young adult author Meg Rosoff still focuses on young people --- viewed through the lens of an old, world-weary narrator --- in WHAT I WAS, a most unusual coming-of-age novel about friendship and humanity.

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March 2008

Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter.

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Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King

March 2008

Susan Fraser King's new novel covers the life of a young Celtic girl who became Queen Macbeth, living through fierce battles beside her husband and bearing a child destined to become king of Scotland a thousand years ago.

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Before Green Gables: The Prequel to Anne of Green Gables by Budge Wilson

March 2008

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of L.M. Montgomery's classic novel ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, noted Canadian author Budge Wilson has written BEFORE GREEN GABLES, a prequel detailing all that came before in the young life of redheaded spitfire Anne Shirley.

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March 2008

Andrew Bridge loves his mother. This is a certainty you will carry away after reading this harrowing memoir of a little boy lost --- taken away by the system and then trapped in it, abandoned not by his mom but by departments and laws and social servants. In all, as a child, Andrew had two years with Hope, the mentally ill girl who gave birth to him at age 17 and tried her best to make a home for him in her own nightmarish hand-to-mouth existence. 

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March 2008

Moving the clocks ahead for Daylight Savings Time has given me personal jetlag. I am not kidding. Tuesday morning my son yelled "goodbye" as he walked out the door at 7:15 and I responded with a hearty "bye," but then I wondered how that was part of my dream. I then realized he was up and at 'em and I was still clocking pillow time. At night I am wide awake and thus getting an extra hour of reading done. I somehow need to shift this pattern, but since I am a natural night owl I see myself moving the hour in five-minute increments.

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Does your group talk about books with controversial topics in them?

March 1, 2008, 568 voters

Interview: Michele Martinez, author of Notorious

Feb 29, 2008

February 29, 2008

Former lawyer turned suspense/thriller author Michele Martinez has written four novels --- including the newly released NOTORIOUS --- that revolve around Melanie Vargas, a New York City prosecutor who specializes in narcotics-related crimes.