Just for Fun
Things I’m Loving Right Now
Paul Harding’s Tinkers, one of my two favorite books of 2009, just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction! Michele Filgate (events co-ordinator of River Run Bookstore where I’ll be reading June 14) wrote a review which perfectly describes this stunningly beautiful book.
http://quarterlyconversation.com/tinkers-by-paul-harding-review
Eugenia Kim’s The Calligrapher’s Daughter, my other favorite book of 2009 and winner of the Borders Original Voices Award, is now out in paperback.
http://www.thecalligraphersdaughter.com
Other books I’ve read and loved recently:
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
http://www.colummccann.com/
Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore
http://www.jennifergilmore.net/
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
http://danishapiro.com/
To Siberia by Per Petterson (written years before his incredible Out Stealing Horses, but not published in the U.S. until 2008)
http://www.amazon.com/Siberia-Novel-Per-Petterson/dp/0312428995/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
Odds and Ends
Stumptown Coffee Hair Bender Blend
http://www.stumptowncoffee.com/
The Soconusco 75% dark chocolate bar from Askinosie
http://www.askinosie.com
The New York Women’s Foundation. My great passion outside of my writing and my family. To see why, check out the Proceeds Plan for The Embers.