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What I'm Reading in April
I am currently reading The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer, which I received from a publicist for review. I'm hoping to finish it within the next few days so I can get a review posted on my blog.
The pick for my main book club for April is I, Coriander by Sally Gardner.
The pic… Continue
Posted on April 5, 2009 at 11:03pm —
What I Plan to Read in February
The pick for my church women's group book club is Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan.
The pick for my book lunch group is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
In preparation for the first of a five-part Community Forum Series sponsored by the Rape Recovery Center on Feb… Continue
Posted on January 31, 2009 at 11:26pm —
What I Read in January
For my church women's group book club, I listened to The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls on CD. (I'd previously read the book in 2006.)
For my new book lunch group, I read The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak - a book that had been on my to-read list for quite some time.
I also read Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (a children's book about Apollo 11), The Rhyming Season… Continue
Posted on January 31, 2009 at 3:56pm —
What I Plan to Read in November
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What I'm Currently Reading
I'm also reading Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant. I'm not familiar with a lot of her work - except for the Christmas CD we listen to during the holidays. But I'm enjoying reading her essays - although the writing is somewhat uneven - interspersed with song lyrics.
The pick for my IRL book club this month is The Simple… Continue
Posted on October 5, 2008 at 3:36am —
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Dear Book Lover:
I am the national bestselling author of six critically acclaimed novels and have twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And if you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden
Dear Book Lover:
I am the national bestselling author of six critically acclaimed novels and have twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”
I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And if you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden