The Ridiculous Race: 26, 000 Miles, 2 Guys, 1 Globe, No Airplanes by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
Travel memoir
The title pretty much sums up this hilarious book. Steve and Vali, both successful TV comedy writers, decide to race against each other around the world hoping to nab the first place prize: a ridiculously expensive bottle of scotch whiskey. Steve's visit to the Beijing opera is one of the funniest scenes that you'll ever read. If you enjoyed Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods, you'll love this book, too.
Submitted by PJ
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Lieutenant's Lady by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Fiction
An unknown American classic woman's romantic frontier story. Bess Streeter Aldrich has several books of short stories of rural town American life around the turn of the century--very much like Reader's Digest, Ladies' Home Journal or Yankee magazine stories. However, this novel captures the formality of the end of the Victorian age, blended with small-town honesty. The adventures she faces on her journey to tell her best friend's fiance that her best friend did not want to marry absorb readers to find out how the touching romance blooms!
Submitted by Elaine Dreher
Fiction
An unknown American classic woman's romantic frontier story. Bess Streeter Aldrich has several books of short stories of rural town American life around the turn of the century--very much like Reader's Digest, Ladies' Home Journal or Yankee magazine stories. However, this novel captures the formality of the end of the Victorian age, blended with small-town honesty. The adventures she faces on her journey to tell her best friend's fiance that her best friend did not want to marry absorb readers to find out how the touching romance blooms!
Submitted by Elaine Dreher
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Fiction
Written as a series of letters, this book details a friendship created between a London author and the members of an eclectic group of folks during Gurensey's Occupation during WW!!. It's the kind of book that you are sad to see end because the characters have become your friends!
Submitted by Stacey
Fiction
Written as a series of letters, this book details a friendship created between a London author and the members of an eclectic group of folks during Gurensey's Occupation during WW!!. It's the kind of book that you are sad to see end because the characters have become your friends!
Submitted by Stacey
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Mediterranean Summer ny David Shalleck with Erol Munuz
Nonfiction
A fascinating book of a young man's experience as a chef on a sailing yacht in the Mediterranean. It was one of those books I hated to put down. His descriptions of the meals, the ports of call and even working as a crew member while sailing were fascinating. It's clear the author loved sailing and his delight comes through. But his description of cooking in a tiny galley is riveting. You don't have to be a cook or even like to sail to find this book enjoyable. It's a true behind-the-scenes look at life on an elegant yacht from a good writer who grabs your attention and never lets go.
Submitted by Sallie
Nonfiction
A fascinating book of a young man's experience as a chef on a sailing yacht in the Mediterranean. It was one of those books I hated to put down. His descriptions of the meals, the ports of call and even working as a crew member while sailing were fascinating. It's clear the author loved sailing and his delight comes through. But his description of cooking in a tiny galley is riveting. You don't have to be a cook or even like to sail to find this book enjoyable. It's a true behind-the-scenes look at life on an elegant yacht from a good writer who grabs your attention and never lets go.
Submitted by Sallie
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mystery
I Shall Not Want continues the story of Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson in a mystery series that began with In the Bleak Midwinter. This solid summer read combines romance, passion, police procedural and moral conflict in a small town setting where everybody knows everybody's business but nobody can explain a baffling series of murders. Enjoy all five books in the series.
Submitted by Max
Mystery
I Shall Not Want continues the story of Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson in a mystery series that began with In the Bleak Midwinter. This solid summer read combines romance, passion, police procedural and moral conflict in a small town setting where everybody knows everybody's business but nobody can explain a baffling series of murders. Enjoy all five books in the series.
Submitted by Max
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias by Andrew D Blechman
Nonfiction
When two of Blechman's neighbors from his Mass. neighborhood move to The Villages retirement community in Florida, he becomes intrigued by the appeal of these communities. He decides to follow them south, and lives in the community for 30 days (the time limit for visitors under 55 yrs). He soons discovers that all is not what it seems in the "Disneyland for Adults." This book will have special appeal for anyone who's ever watched The Golf Channel, which has numerous ads for The Villages!
Submitted by PJ
Nonfiction
When two of Blechman's neighbors from his Mass. neighborhood move to The Villages retirement community in Florida, he becomes intrigued by the appeal of these communities. He decides to follow them south, and lives in the community for 30 days (the time limit for visitors under 55 yrs). He soons discovers that all is not what it seems in the "Disneyland for Adults." This book will have special appeal for anyone who's ever watched The Golf Channel, which has numerous ads for The Villages!
Submitted by PJ
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
Fiction
A great summer read, this romance/thriller/treasure hunt moves back and forth between 17th century England and 21st century America in the quest for a lost Shakespeare manuscript worth millions. The spies, ciphers and political intrigues of one century baffle and tease the scholars, lawyers, rare book dealers and crooks of another century. Does the manuscript really exist? Each character must continually evaluate what he or she may gain or lose in this increasingly dangerous game.
Submitted by Max
Fiction
A great summer read, this romance/thriller/treasure hunt moves back and forth between 17th century England and 21st century America in the quest for a lost Shakespeare manuscript worth millions. The spies, ciphers and political intrigues of one century baffle and tease the scholars, lawyers, rare book dealers and crooks of another century. Does the manuscript really exist? Each character must continually evaluate what he or she may gain or lose in this increasingly dangerous game.
Submitted by Max
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