Now that we're seeing some sun and warmer temperatures, I aim to do my reading outdoors; here's four recommendations for the park, lake, beach (or night table, on those rainy evenings):
Slammerkin, by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd).
Donoghue has most recently received wide attention for her novel Room, but her 2000 novel Slammerkin (the word is eighteenth-century vernacular, a noun that refers to both a loose gown, and a loose woman) is also definitely worth putting on your reading list. Donoghue, who holds a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, employs her expertise in this era to create a vivid, breathing account of late 1740's London, and the often-vicious circumstances faced by young women who lacked fortune, titles, or family. Our heroine, Mary, whose poor family casts her out once they deem her "unvirtuous," survives and adapts to the violent, dehumanizing world of mid-century London; the brutalities of Mary's life are simultaneously mitigated and exacerbated by her attraction to luxurious clothing, fabrics, accessories, and the liberty and status that these beautiful things symbolize.
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work has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and his 2006 novel, The Friends of Meager Fortune, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean). His new novel, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul, tells an intricate story about the miscarriage of justice in the case of one man's death in a New Brunswick shipping yard in 1985. Searing and tension-filled, this is a foreboding tale about truth, lies and justice.
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There are few things in life people get as passionate about as books. If we love it, we LOVE it and insist that everyone we know also read it and LOVE it. Here are the books that I LOVE and would keep on my night table forever, even if it meant being unable to find my glasses or the alarm clock.
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When was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college. Ozma's The Reading Promise (explores the powerful daughter-father bond this reading habit created for both of them and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her ? books like Great Expectations by , the Oz books by , Harry Potter by , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by and plays. The Reading Promise contains a complete list of books from "The Streak," plus you can visit our in-store display and sample a selection.
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is a New York novelist, journalist, editor and screenwriter. He is the author of sixteen previous books including novels Forever and Snow in August, and a memoir A Drinking Life. Tabloid City is both a thriller and gripping portrait of today's New York. The murder of a wealthy socialite and her secretary forces the head of one of the city's last tabloids to stop the presses. But behind the headlines, a decadent playground crumbles in a historic metropolis eclipsed by modern times.
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