“Shadow Country,” book for January 2009

 
Our book club is reading Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend” for January 2009.
Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback on November 19, 2008, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country,” a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. Matthiessen, 81, last won [...]

The Story Behind Edgar Sawtelle

Here is the link to David Wroblewski’s the story behind “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.”  Our book club read this book as our September choice and we unanimously agreed we would recommend it.  Seldom are we all in accord!  Oprah now has decided to jump on our bandwagon and has recommended it for her book club, [...]

Fisticuffs over Edgar Allan Poe’s Body

Philadelphia and Baltimore Fight Over Edgar Allan Poe’s Body

Edgar Allan Poe.

Edward Pettit, an Edgar Allan Poe Scholar, argues that Poe’s body belongs in Philadelphia where he wrote many of his works not in Baltimore, where he’s buried because he happened to die there — under strange circumstances.  On January 13, Pettit is going to square off against Jeff Jerome, [...]

October 2008 Books — The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Literary Society, The Little Book

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.  Go to www.randomhouse.com to find information about the book, including a video of Annie Barrows talking about the book and her co-author, her aunt, who recently died.

“The Little Book” by Selden Edwards.