tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85197291663496817962024-03-19T03:48:09.539-05:00LIT LISTSVivian Darkbloomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890686845513992399noreply@blogger.comBlogger6750125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-33371034788977266652024-03-19T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-19T00:05:00.141-05:00Seven titles about women on a journey to figure out who they arePhoebe McIntosh is an actress and playwright from London. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, followed by her solo show, Dominoes, which toured the South East and London. She completed the Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab program, and her most recent full-length play, The Soon Life, was shortlisted and highly commended for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-42778385028391410152024-03-18T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-18T00:05:00.246-05:00Six spooky & fantastical missing-persons talesMelissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and Our Crooked Hearts, and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children’s Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-87483232101759466082024-03-17T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-17T00:05:00.146-05:00Eight titles for St. Patrick’s DayThe Zoomer Book Club's Nathalie Atkinson tagged eight notable new reads in the Irish literary wave, including:
THE HUNTER by Tana French
Fans of the American-born Irish writer love the loosely connected mysteries of her superb and psychologically astute Dublin Murder Squad series. But in 2020, French ventured away from Dublin with The Searcher, to feature retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-65580472346945000952024-03-16T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-16T00:05:00.143-05:00Five top Irish readsThe Amazon Book Review editors tagged five of their favorite Irish reads, including:
Last Call at the Local by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
I hadn’t read a love story like Jack and Raine’s, and I cherished every minute. Raine is a musician with ADHD traveling Europe as a busker until an unfortunate theft leaves her stranded at The Local in Cobh, Ireland. Enter Jack, charming Irishman and owner of the barUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-38980340045523259822024-03-15T00:05:00.004-05:002024-03-15T00:05:00.138-05:00Five top books inspired by classic novelsSophie Ratcliffe is professor of literature and creative criticism at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. In addition to her scholarly books, including On Sympathy, she has published commentary pieces and book reviews for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other outlets, and has served a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-519606191946464152024-03-14T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-14T00:05:00.135-05:00Six top psychological thrillers set in Washington D.C.Aggie Blum Thompson worked as a newspaper reporter, covering cops, courts, and trials, with a healthy dose of the mundane mixed in. Her writing has appeared in newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. A native New Yorker, she now lives just over the Washington D.C. line in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband, two children, cat, and dog.
Thompson's new novel is Such a Lovely Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-20520110291789224892024-03-13T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-13T00:05:00.130-05:00Eight titles about characters with psychic abilitiesKatya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter and translator. Her novel, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, was named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus, Buzzfeed, LitHub and others, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, German, and Italian. She has published stories in various literary magazines and translated poetry and prose for Night Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-24106736805695967802024-03-12T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-12T00:05:00.128-05:00Seven top vacation and road trip rom-comsNew York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch's novels include Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing, In Twenty Years, and Time of My Life. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and their two rescue dogs, Hugo and Mr. Peanut.
Her new novel, Take Two, Birdie Maxwell -- think Notting Hill meets The Proposal -- is new in bookstores.
At LitHub Scotch tagged seven favorite great vacation and roadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-3992574990430899012024-03-11T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-11T00:05:00.144-05:00Seven modern gothic novels featuring a feminist perspectivePaulette Kennedy is the bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil, which received the prestigious HNS Review Editor’s Choice Award. She has had a lifelong obsession with the gothic. As a young girl, she spent her summers among the gravestones in her neighborhood cemetery, imagining all sorts of romantic stories for the people buried there. After her mother introduced Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-19677463271090299202024-03-10T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-10T00:05:00.253-06:00Ten books to read on St. Patrick’s DayAt The Zoomer Book Club Athena McKenzie tagged ten "notable books illuminate the history, culture and food of the Emerald Isle," including:
WE DON'T KNOW OURSELVES: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF MODERN IRELAND by Fintan O'Toole
The judges for the An Post Irish Book Awards described Fintan O’Toole’s chronicle of his country as “a book that will remain important for a very long time – a reflection of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-23146707330499378872024-03-09T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-09T00:05:00.137-06:00Eight titles from across the world about isolationScott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his work focused on the relationship between memory, emotion, and literature.
The Other Valley is his first novel.
At Electric Lit he tagged eight novels from across the world about isolation, including:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-46139819254359408542024-03-08T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-08T00:05:00.138-06:00Five top books about democracy in crisisRafael Behr is a Guardian columnist and leader writer. He was formerly a correspondent in the Baltic region and Russia. He is the author of Politics: A Survivor's Guide.
At the Guardian he writes about
the permacrisis – a state of perpetual turbulence that folds geopolitical tension into cultural polarisation and spins it all around in a furious vortex. It can feel like being knocked over in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-66351125518642356012024-03-07T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-07T00:05:00.140-06:00Seven top books with women behaving badlySophie Wan is a graduate of UC Berkeley and spent too long writing emails before she picked up writing fiction.
As a Bay Area native, she has no choice but to enjoy outdoor activities, but prefers those where her feet remain firmly on the ground. She’s currently shivering her way through grad school in Philadelphia.
Wan's debut novel is Women of Good Fortune.
At CrimeReads she tagged seven of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-68808346325161597342024-03-06T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-06T00:05:00.141-06:00Eight books about young women searching for identity & purpose through workVanessa Lawrence is a writer, editor and native New Yorker. For almost two decades, she covered fashion, society, culture, design, art, and beauty on staff at publications including WWD and W Magazine. She has interviewed a wide range of creative personalities, such as Anna Sui, Kristen Stewart, Norma Kamali, Janelle Monae, Sandra Oh, Emma Watson, Kyle Abraham, Laura Kim, Judith Light, Sarah Sze,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-37773506176926397562024-03-05T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-05T00:05:00.264-06:00Five top thrillers featuring amnesiacsAmy Tintera started writing novels as a kid during her middle school science classes, which probably explains why she has always been very bad at science. She is now the New York Times bestselling author of several novels for young adults, including Reboot, a Kids Indie Next pick and YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Ruined series, The Q, and All These Monsters, a YALSA Best Fiction forUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-603396925661395692024-03-04T01:05:00.001-06:002024-03-04T01:05:00.135-06:00Twenty autobiographies that inspired influential women to dream bigGlamour "reached out to 20 women who inspire us—CEOs, authors, journalists, founders, influencers, and more—to ask them which women’s autobiographies have challenged them, made them dream bigger, or helped them feel more confident to carve their own paths."
Diana Fersko's pick:
Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, by Rebecca Walker
As a teen I read a lot of feminist Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-80639540747869406272024-03-03T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-03T00:05:00.251-06:00Seven books about women over 60 who defy societal expectationsAndrea Carlisle is the author of a recently released collection of essays on aging, There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on the Second Coming of Age.
She taught fiction and nonfiction for the Oregon Writers’ Workshop and other writing organizations in Oregon and Washington. Her work has been published in literary journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and by independent presses. Her Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-71985647137320322072024-03-02T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-02T00:05:00.152-06:00Eight titles exploring real life crimesMegan Cooley Peterson is an author, editor, and coffee drinker. As a teenager, Peterson was part of a cult-like doomsday church that didn’t like to be questioned. She questioned anyway. She has written more than 200 nonfiction books for children on a wide variety of topics, including dinosaurs, sharks, urban legends, and haunted objects. She is also the author of two young adult thrillers, The Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-23047384903210268512024-03-01T00:05:00.003-06:002024-03-01T15:47:06.659-06:00Thirteen fierce & unforgettable women in fictionAt the Amazon Book Review the editors tagged thirteen of their "favorite novels that showcase fierce and fiery female protagonists," including:
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
If you’re looking for a story of a feisty female bootlegger
Sallie has grit and gumption, and is a narrator to root for—not just because she defies convention by wearing pants, carrying a gun, and refusing to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-42687461922721708742024-02-29T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-29T00:05:00.131-06:00Ten top titles about boxingDeclan Ryan is a poet and critic in London. His first collection is Crisis Actor.
His reviews and essays have appeared in journals including New York Review of Books, The Baffler, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Observer, Poetry, The Irish Times, The Telegraph, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books, and New Statesman.
At Electric Lit Ryan tagged ten "books use boxing as Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-88960973335553830902024-02-28T00:05:00.004-06:002024-02-28T00:05:00.248-06:00Five thrilling sports titles even non-fans might likeLindsay Powers is a book lover, writer (bylines include The New York Times and The Washington Post), and author of You Can’t F*ck Up Your Kids: A Judgment-Free Guide to Stress-Free Parenting.
When not devouring narrative nonfiction, fiction, memoirs, and essays, Powers can be found out and about in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and two young sons.
At the Amazon Book Review she and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-17892818571537477752024-02-27T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-27T00:05:00.126-06:00Six titles that draw inspiration from folk talesAmanda Jayatissa is the author of My Sweet Girl, which won the International Thriller Writer’s Award for Best First Novel, and You're Invited.
She grew up in Sri Lanka and has lived in the California bay area and British countryside, before relocating back to her sunny island, where she lives with her husband and two Tasmanian-devil-reincarnate huskies.
Jayatissa's new novel is Island Witch.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-46227491512271997012024-02-26T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-26T00:05:00.132-06:00Seven horror titles where the setting is a monsterChase Dearinger is an Oklahoma native who now lives in Kansas with his wife and two daughters. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in magazines around the country, including Bayou, The Southampton Review, Short Story America, and Heavy Feather Review. He currently serves as the Chief Editor of Emerald City, a quarterly online fiction magazine, and directs the Cow Creek Chapbook Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-60880912652996274782024-02-25T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-25T00:05:00.125-06:00Five top books about griefSophie Ratcliffe is professor of literature and creative criticism at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. In addition to her scholarly books, including On Sympathy, she has published commentary pieces and book reviews for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other outlets, and has served a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519729166349681796.post-11604686420918962502024-02-24T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-24T00:05:00.129-06:00Four books juxtaposing the beauty & ugliness of balletTammy Greenwood is the acclaimed author of fifteen novels and a four-time winner of the San Diego Book Award. Six of her novels have been Indie Next Picks, including her most recent, The Still Point, an “intimate journey into the exclusive world of ballet” (Mary Kubica) inspired by her own experiences as the mother of a professional dancer. Revolving around the cutthroat hothouse of a California Unknownnoreply@blogger.com