A Good Book Year
Pages written since last post: Are you freakin' kidding me? I’m not sure if everyone has heard, but this country is experiencing an economic downturn. The publishing industry is experiencing a full-on melt down. Fortunately for readers, the great, cumbersome, archaic beast that is publishing moves exceedingly slowly (think: Ice Age), so the effects of today’s economy may be felt in, oh, 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, we are having a PAAAAR....TY! I say again, Woooooo! Look at what just arrived on my doorstep: Pat Conroy’s SOUTH OF BROAD . His first book in– can it be??– fourteen years. It had better be good. Richard Russo’s THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC , his first since Pulitzer Prize winning EMPIRE FALLS . Again, no pressure there. Barbara Kingsolver’s ANIMAL VEGETABLE MIRACLE . This is one of the few authors that I collect. She doesn’t publish every year, but I’ve never met a Kingsolver book I didn’t love. Margaret Maron’s SAND SHARK. What can I say? I love the Judge Knott mys...