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[Pat]

Interviewing Marie Bostwick today on my radio show!

http://patsloan.typepad.com/

[Sharon]

Just started 'Death Train to Boston' Or something like that. it's intriguing.

[Pat]

Come Listen to Marie talk about her books!
http://toginet.com/shows/creativetalkradio

[Pat]

Did you guys listen to my interview with Marie's?

Does anyone belong to a book club? Online.. in person?? what's it like?

[annmarie]

If you haven't read Sarah Addison Allen, you should!  She has 3 books - all good, easy reads.  Whimsical with a little mystical thrown in: 
Garden Spells
The Sugar Queen
The Girl Who Chased the Moon

[Pat]

I think we reviewed the Sugar Queen yrs ago when I had the good book cafe reviews on my blog.. it looked really good!

[deb f]

I read Garden Spells and really liked it. I have been meaning to check out the others. Thanks for reminding me about them.

[fourchillin]

The Girl with the Pearl Earring
The Help
One Thousand White Women
are some excellent choices!

[Sharon]

I love this topic. I have a small scratch pad by my computer and when a new book is suggested I write in on the book list. When I go to the library, I just take the page and get what I can. Then I start a new list when next on the computer. It works for me and I get to read some great books. I'm reading the Fig Tree Murder right now. It's OK. One of a series taking place in Egypt about 1900. I enjoy it b/c I was an avid Amelia Peobody Emerson series by Elizabeth Peters. She hasn't come out with a new on in quite a while. I hope she is still alive.

[Pat]

There is an Emelia Peabody website and you can sign up for a newsletter... looks like a nice site about the series

newsletter sign up page
http://ameliapeabody.com/elizabethpeters.htm

[Sharon]

Thanks for the Amelia site, Pat. I see a new novel in the series has come out just this year. I appreciate the info and will purchase the book ASAP. I knew nothing new had come out is quite a while. There was a once in a life-time tour of Egypt w/Barbara about 10 yrs. ago. I wasn't able to go, but I wish. LOL I live vicariously through books. Always have. I love books.

[Bettyky]

Just finished Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Being Elizabeth" I was a bit disappointed not enough "meat"  or should I say Substance?
I am currently reading Haywood Smith's "Queen Bee Of Mimosa Branch", light and funny southern humor a fun beach read
I also picked up "The Earth Hums In B Flat by Mari Strachan
Sarah Walter's "The Little Stranger" and "Fingersmith"

[OhthatPaula]

Wally Lamb:

• She's Come Undone
• I know this much is True
• The Hour I First Believed

He is a phenomenal author, the first book I read of his, "She's Come Undone" I had to double check to see if Wally was a woman or a man... I couldn't believe he would write a woman's perspective/condition honest and believable.

I Know This Much is True was an excellent read about twins, one who is 'normal' and one who is bipolar etc... very good storyline!  Not a book about mental illness per se, but a book about the journey of a sibling struggling with what life has handed him.

The book The Hour I First Believed includes characters from the two previous books (you don't have to read the first two, but it is kind of cool that they seemlessly tie into the third book) and includes the tragedy at Columbine HS but isn't necessarily about the tragedy.  I am halfway through "The Hour I First Believed" and cannot put it down.

[mascanlon]

I'm reading the Devil and the White City.  Historical true crime that intermingles the building of the Chicago World Fair in 1893 and  murder, magic and madness with one of the first known urban serial killers. Very engrossing, you forget its not fiction.

[Pat]

Oprah's survey on what to read next... what does it suggest for you?
http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/What-to-Read-Next-Os-Summer-Reading-Quiz_1