August 2019 Reads

August	48	Red at the Bone	Jacqueline Woodson
	49	The Nickel Boys	Colson Whitehead
	50	Macbeth	Jo Nesbo
	51	The Better Sister	Alafair Burke
	52	Virgil Wander	Leif Enger
	53	A Better Man	Louise Penny

The Nickel Boys make my heart hurt. Even though it is a work of fiction, I, unfortunately, know that much of it probably really happened.  Colton Whitehead is an incredible writer!

“Enger deserves to be mentioned alongside the likes of Richard Russo and Thomas McGuane. Virgil Wander is a lush crowd-pleaser about meaning and second chances and magic. And in these Trumpian times, isn’t that just the kind of book and protagonist we’re all searching for?” — New York Times Book Review.

Louise Penny’s novels are unique for how seamlessly they straddle the line between charmingly small-town mysteries and big-city police procedurals.  A Better Man is not to be missed.

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Merry Christmas

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I thought this was a fun image to use to wish all the "book nerds", Merry Christmas.  I decided to do a book give away over on the family blog.  Check it out by clicking on "family" on the task bar at the top of the blog.

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Geeks like us

Flavorwire did a post on celebrity libraries,  The libraries featured were very impressive, not the "book nooks" most of us "regular" people have.  Here's a couple of examples that look well used.

         Rod Stewart [via]

       Joan Rivers [via]

                               Frank Sinatra [via]


And one that looks untouched:

                                Oprah [via]


Does she have any idea what's under those color co-ordinated paper wrappers?   Probably not.

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Number 16 - Reasons to Love New York

If you know me, you know that I love going to NYC.  This photo was on Shelf Awareness, today.
Number 16 among New York magazine's Reasons to Love New York: "Because We’re Home to Not Only the Publishing Industry But Also to a Woman Who Spends Her Days Smelling Books"

Six months ago, artist Rachael Morrison, who works at the Museum of Modern Art's library, began wondering about the unscented future of e-books and "decided to spend her lunch breaks chronicling the unique scent of each book in the MoMA stacks." Morrison said that "smelling books is really nostalgic for me--I am often reminded of my grandparents' homes, or libraries where I used to go when I was a child."

For several reasons, we're skipping our NYC trip this year, but are looking forward to next year.

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Humor

I thought I'd throw in a little Bookstore/Library humor.

Bookstores and Libraries are really not so different.

I can see this happening in both,

and I know it happens all the time in the bookstore.

From Unshelved.com