Author! Author! Recommendations and other Random Reading Musings
Alaska
Dana Stabenow, author of two series, Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell, set in her home state. If you can't get to Alaska yourself, read both these series. Even if you can get to Alaska or have been to Alaska, read these series! Stabenow just published her 20th Kate Shugak in Feb. 2013.
Paris
Food and Fashion in Paris and, oh, great writing and character to boot: Cara Black. Black just published her 13th (March 2013) in the Aimee Leduc series: Lucky for all of us readers.
Italy
Food, food and food in Venice, not to mention, spectacular setting, mood and characters:Donna Leon. Brunetti comes to life again in Leon's 22nd book, The Golden Egg, published April 2013.
Donna Leon blurbs it best on Andrea Camilleri's latest Montalbano mystery, The Dance of the Seagull: "The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily.
Stop You're Killing Me!www.stopyourekillingme.com The most comprehensive listing of mystery authors, their websites and latest releases and reviews; online since the '90s.
Alaska
Dana Stabenow, author of two series, Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell, set in her home state. If you can't get to Alaska yourself, read both these series. Even if you can get to Alaska or have been to Alaska, read these series! Stabenow just published her 20th Kate Shugak in Feb. 2013.
Paris
Food and Fashion in Paris and, oh, great writing and character to boot: Cara Black. Black just published her 13th (March 2013) in the Aimee Leduc series: Lucky for all of us readers.
Italy
Food, food and food in Venice, not to mention, spectacular setting, mood and characters:Donna Leon. Brunetti comes to life again in Leon's 22nd book, The Golden Egg, published April 2013.
Donna Leon blurbs it best on Andrea Camilleri's latest Montalbano mystery, The Dance of the Seagull: "The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily.
www.stopyourekillingme.com The most comprehensive listing of mystery authors, their websites and latest releases and reviews; online since the '90s.
Favorite Quotations, primarily about books
"Outside of a dog, a book is [wo]man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx
"If libraries disappear, so will we. We'll become ghosts. And not everyone realizes this, or wants to believe it." ~ Carlos Fuentes
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." ~St. Augustine
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." ~P.J. O'Rourke
No comments:
Post a Comment