June 26, 2013

May 2013

After recently meeting Tracy Chevalier at the Berlin Heights library, much of our discussion revolved around her and her work.  It came out during the Q & A at her talk that she doesn't have a research team and that she does it all herself, which gave me a new appreciation of her books.

Here's what else we discussed:

Richard Burton's diaries
Follow the Money  - Steve Boggan
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
American Story - Bob Dotson
This Book is Full Of Spiders - David Wong
John Dies at the End (movie)
Invisible Thread  - Laura Shroff
Blind Side (movie)
A Week in Winter - Maeve Binchy
Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln  - Steven Carter
Wild Berries and Fruits field guide
Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
Ripple Effect - Alex Prudhomme
Sex at Dawn - Christopher Ryan
I Have America Surrounded - JMR Higgs
Arctic Rising - Tobias Buckell
Death of Yesterday - MC Beaton
Minibar Gin - Mittie Hellmich
In My Life - Dick Cheney
Paradise - David Schuman
Empire Settings - David Schuman
The Last Runaway  - Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
Hemingway's Boat - Paul Hendrickson
Mrs Queen Takes the Train - William Kuhn