Where has the time gone? It’s already been over a week since I last posted an update and I don’t know what happened. I feel like I am constantly on the go. With two children and two pets and trying to finish up another novel, the days rush by and I fall into bed exhausted at night. I’ve been reading though..of course nothing wil lkeep me from a good book!
I picked up these books at the library, both recieved very high ratings on Amazon.com: The Art of Fielding and Madame Tussaud.
I took this right off Amazon: Though The Art of Fielding is his fiction debut, Chad Harbach writes with the self-assurance of a seasoned novelist. He exercises a masterful precision over the language and pacing of his narrative, and in some 500 pages, there’s rarely a word that feels out of place. The title is a reference to baseball, but Harbach’s concern with sports is more than just a cheap metaphor. The Art of Fielding explores relationships–between friends, family, and lovers–and the unpredictable forces that complicate them. There’s an unintended affair, a post-graduate plan derailed by rejection letters, a marriage dissolved by honesty, and at the center of the book, the single baseball error that sets all of these events into motion. The Art of Fielding is somehow both confident and intimate, simple yet deeply moving. Harbach has penned one of the year’s finest works of fiction.–Kevin Nguyen
And then this one:
Again, from Amazon: Marie Tussaud, she of the wax museum, lived a long and colorful life, but the focus here is on 1788�94, when she was a young woman in Paris. Under the tutelage of a Swiss doctor whom she calls her uncle, she has become an accomplished artist as well as an astute businesswoman, helping to run the family firm, the Salon de Cire, with its changing array of exhibits of historical and contemporary figures in wax. Hired as a wax tutor by the king�s sister, Madame Elisabeth, she gains an entr�e into Versailles. Her uncle�s home, meanwhile, serves as a regular meeting place for Robespierre and other revolutionaries. First and foremost a survivor, during the Revolution Marie makes models of its heroes and its victims alike. Moran takes liberties with the facts, as any historical novelist has a right to do; but some of her inventions tend to clutter up a story that is already fascinating on its own. Still, readers will be intrigued by Madame Tussaud, and by witnessing a tumultuous era through her eyes. –Mary Ellen Quinn
Both of these were from my local library and they both had to go back before I got to read them! I read a few pages into Madame Tussaud and wow, the writing is super detailed, no wonder why the novel is enormous. The Art of Fielding is a big book too. These are perfect for vacation, when there is plenty of time to sit and read for hours and hours. Im disappointed that I didnt get the chance to read either but I will try to get them again.
Currently I am reading V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton. I really enjoy the Kinsey Millhone mysteries. I began with A and have worked my way down the entire alphabet. Basically Sue Grafton and her novels have been a part of my entire adulthood. I started around age 23 reading these and have continued through my life as a single woman, as I got married, had children, moved to California and embarked on my own writing career!
I am loving V is for Vengeance, I’m so impressed that the author can pump out novel after novel and still keep millions of readers intrigued. The writing flows, I’m hooked on the storyline and I can’t wait to finish up everything I have to do today so I can steal a few minutes to continue reading.
And if you are pressed for time and want an easy story to sail through, my novel, Here if You Need Me is available for only $3.99 on kindle and nook!
