What’s on my iPod: “You Are a Tourist” by Death Cab for Cutie
What I’m reading: One Fifth Avenue  by Candice Bushnell
The last person I followed on Twitter: @KarenAChase

 

1. BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES mentioned in LA Times Magazine

M.J. Rose‘s upcoming novel BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES was mentioned in LA Times Magazine in a roundup of the best mystery novels that play on one of humans most valuable senses: smell. Here is what the article said:

“This spring, I’m looking forward to M.J. Rose’s Book of Lost Fragrances, a historical/contemporary suspense novel about a woman whose family owns the oldest perfume house in France.”

M.J. Rose’s BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES will be published in March 2012 by Simon & Schuster.

 

2. Dawn Tripp on Go Local Prov

Dawn Tripp gave the scoop on her favorite summer read and her tweeting habits as a part of a “5   Great Authors & Their Favorite Reads” column on Go Local Prov; GAME OF SECRETS was said    to be a favorite among other writers interviewed. Here is a highlight of the column:

“Her latest tweet to me offered  a copy of her first novel, Mood Tide, which is timely in that it            leads up to the Hurricane of ’38. Game of Secrets, released this summer, has been a favorite            with many of the writers I interviewed for this piece. Dawn’s favorite book of the summer                was The Diviner’s Tale by Bradford Morrow.”

More about GAME OF SECRETS

Game of Secrets weaves between multiple points of view,as a dark family mystery comes                   unraveled. In 1957, eleven-year-old Jane Weld’sfather disappeared. No one in her small New         England town knew for sure what happened until, four years later, his skull rolled outof a gravel    bank by the river, an unmistakable bullet hole in its temple. Rumorhad it he was murdered by the husband of his mistress, Ada Varick.

Now, half a century later, Jane is still searching for the truth of her father’s death, a mystery made more urgent by the unlikely romance that her daughter hasstruck up with one of Ada’ssons. Jane and Adacome together for casual Friday board games that soon transform into acat-and-mouse game of words long left unspoken. As the two women play out,across the board, the stories that bind their lives together, it becomes clearthat—more than a reckoning with the past—it is the future of both families thatis ultimately at stake.

3. THE MAN WHO COULDN’T EAT on Kirkus Reviews

Jon Reiner’s memoir THE MAN WHO COULDN’T EAT received an enthusiastic review on Kirkus Reviews and was praised as “an inspiring, incredible tale.” Here is a highlight of the review:

“Reiner’s self-pitiless account stands out for the irony of a foodie being unable to eat, the sheer magnitude of the torment endured, the courage to stare down unrelenting pain, the honest introspection into how suffering made the author insufferable and rocked his family and, above all, his refreshingly snide attitude toward his disease.”

More about THE MAN WHO COULDN’T EAT

Imagine not being able to eat or drink a single thing.  No lobster roll on the beach in Maine; no hotdog at the ballpark; no cool drink on a hot summer day; no birthday cake; nothing. In The Man Who Couldn’t Eat (S&S/Gallery Books: September 6, 2011), Jon Reiner – a James Beard Foundation Award-winning writer –chronicles his three-month struggle to live without food. Basedon Reiner’s acclaimed 2009 Esquire magazinearticle by the same name, the book reinvents the foodoir, telling what happenswhen a man obsessed with food is denied the taste of it.  A beautifully written chronicle of one man’s journey fromplenty to deprivation and back again,The Man Who Couldn’t Eat  will change the way you think about more than just your next meal.

 

4. THE WINTERS IN BLOOM on House of the Seven Tails

Lisa Tucker‘s upcoming novel THE WINTERS IN BLOOM was reviewed on House of the Seven Tails. Here is a bit of what the the blogger had to say:

“When I saw The Winters in Bloom on Atria’s list of Fall 2011 books I was excited and jumped at the chance to read this book. What an amazing and fascinating book this is! Lisa Tucker understands the issues people deal with everyday in their relationships with others and with themselves as well as the dynamics of family relationships.”

More about THE WINTERS IN BLOOM

Together for over a decade, Kyra and David Winter are happier than they ever thought they could be. They have a comfortable home, stable careers, and a young son, Michael, who they love more than anything. Yet because of their complicated histories, Kyra and David have always feared that this domestic bliss couldn’t last – that the life they created was destined to be disrupted. And on one perfectly ordinary summer day, it is: Michael disappears from his own backyard. The only question is whose past has finally caught up with them: David feels sure that Michael was taken by his troubled ex-wife, while Kyra believes the kidnapper must be someone from her estranged family, someone she betrayed years ago.

As the Winters embark on a journey of time and memory to find Michael, they will be forced to admit these suspicions, revealing secrets about themselves they’ve always kept hidden. But they will also have a chance to discover that it’s not too late to have the family they’ve dreamed of; that even if the world is full of risks, as long as they have hope, the future can bloom.

5. Jon Reiner on Barnes & Noble Q&A

Jon Reiner – author of THE MAN WHO COULDN’T EAT – had a featured interview this week on the Barnes & Noble community blog. Here is a piece from the Q&A:

Lisa Steinke: What is your favorite thing about your memoir?

Jon Reiner: Seeing the book in print with an elegant cover on it. I’ve written for my entire adult life, mostly fiction and drama, and struggled to get published. As my editor told me, “You almost had to die to get published.” Did “suffering for my art” have to be so literal? There’s also another side to this. As John Berryman famously said, “The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.”

More about THE MAN WHO COULDN’T EAT

Imagine not being able to eat or drink a single thing.  No lobster roll on the beach in Maine; no hotdog at the ballpark; no cool drink on a hot summer day; no birthday cake; nothing. In The Man Who Couldn’t Eat (S&S/Gallery Books: September 6, 2011), Jon Reiner – a James Beard Foundation Award-winning writer –chronicles his three-month struggle to live without food. Basedon Reiner’s acclaimed 2009 Esquire magazinearticle by the same name, the book reinvents the foodoir, telling what happenswhen a man obsessed with food is denied the taste of it.  A beautifully written chronicle of one man’s journey fromplenty to deprivation and back again,The Man Who Couldn’t Eat  will change the way you think about more than just your next meal.