Female Authors
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Book of the Month: A Great Reckoning
Our September Book of the Month is Louise Penny’s highly-anticipated murder mystery, A Great Reckoning. For this, the twelfth novel in her acclaimed Chief Inspector Gamache series, Penny returns to the Québécois village of Three […] Read More
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Book of the Month: Why Not Me?
Full of self-deprecating humor about modern life, this book is as relatable as it is side splittingly funny
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Cooking with Ruth Reichl
Reichl talks about her love for audiobooks, recording My Kitchen Year, and more. Enjoy!
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Book of the Month: Interpreter of Maladies
When deciding to pick a book of short stories for our February Book of the Month, we turned to a modern classic: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri writes tenderly and fiercely of family, marriage, society, and the immigrant experience.
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Best of the Bookternet: January 2016
By all accounts, 2016 is off to a great start. This month has been chock-full of interesting articles, exciting news, and passionate advice. Here are some of our favorite essays, blog posts, and lists since the first of the year.
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Book of the Month: The Happiness Project
In The Happiness Project, Rubin chronicles her year of doing the things that she’s always wanted or meant to do, including reading Aristotle and organizing her house. She collected her thoughts in order to inspire others to do the same.
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Ann Patchett’s Twisting, Turning Life and Books
When the last independent bookstore in Nashville closed, Ann Patchett and a friend opened Parnassus Books. As she says, she didn’t want to live in a city without a bookstore. Who can blame her?
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Book of the Month: State of Wonder
Take a dark and thrilling trip down The Amazon river in Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder, our October Book of the Month!
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez on Genres, Complex Characters, and Healing Our Wounds
Dolen Perkins-Valdez follows the rabbit hole of historical footnotes, adds robust, nuanced characters, rhythmic dialogue, and intricate subtexts, and produces some of the best historical fiction around. She took the time to speak to me about both books over the phone, while she was visiting her home state of Tennessee.
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Amanda Palmer on Recording Her Audiobook, the Weird Places She Writes, and Fear
If you already follow Amanda Palmer, author of The Art of Asking, on Twitter, then you probably know that lately she’s been busy grieving, battling Lyme Disease, recording with her father, and preparing to have her first baby with her husband Neil Gaiman. So we were incredibly pleased that she took time out from her nonstop, go-go-go life, to answer a few questions for us via email.
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