The RITA Awards were presented yesterday, July 1, at the 31st annual Romance Writers of America conference in New York.
Winners included Sharon Sala (Lifetime Achievement), Jill Shalvis (Best Contemporary Single Title Romance), Sharon Ashwood (Paranormal Romance), Karen Rose (Romantic Suspense), and many more.
So, check out the full list of winners and then come check out [...]
Before I Go To Sleep
This book was very compelling and difficult to put down once I started it.
The premise itself is interesting - the narrator is a woman who has lost her memory due to an accident, and while she can form new memories throughout the day, she can not retain them to the [...]
Have you ever read a book and been so absorbed in the language, style, and place of it, you found yourself thinking in the same style? That happened to me with The Weird Sisters. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This book had a very unique narrative voice. It was told from the combined perspective of 3 [...]
The Audies (awards given to audio books and other spoken word entertainment) were presented on Tuesday.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the winner of Audiobook of the Year was Life, Keith Richards’ memoir. It’s read by Keith Richards, Johnny Depp, and Joe Hurley. This audiobook also won the biography/memoir category award.
The fiction winner was [...]
This book had an odd sort of style, which once I got into the flow of I didn’t want to get out (much like going swimming - it feels cold and uncomfortable as you ease, or plunge, your way into the water, but then your body adjusts and you want to stay submerged forever).
So Much [...]
I have not read any of this author’s other books, but received an advanced copy of The Art of Saying Goodbye at a conference and decided to give it a try. This is a story of a community touched by sadness, as one of their own faces cancer and causes each of them to reflect [...]
I seem to be on a roll of books that feature people making connections through literature and reading. I had wanted to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for two years, having heard so many wonderful reviews of it, yet I feared I may have let it get too built-up in my [...]
In Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, Nina Sankovitch recounts the year she took on the task of reading, and reviewing, a book a day for the entire year. This was not some stunt she took on in order to publish a book about it, or to become a famous blogger whose life story would be [...]
Sara Lachman recently wrote a great column for Library Journal’s Reader’s Shelf highlighting some great books that inspired some of the creepiest horror films ever. I thought I’d repost her selections here for those of you looking to set the mood this weekend…
The basis for Roman Polanski’s award-winning 1968 film and one of the first [...]
This time of year is so exciting! The changing weather and all the fantastic new releases create an excited hum in the air you can almost feel. Or is that just me? Anyways, here are a few of the newest releases to grace our library:
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. If you were impressed by [...]
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