Raffle Winner of Gap Creek
Congratulations to Lesa from Lesa's Book Critiques. The winner of Gap Creek.
Lesa please send me your snail mail address to my email so that I can send the book out.
This week's excitement
...Thursday I had a day off which was great. I had hoped to spend the day reading, but an appraiser and appointments interrupted that plan. Oh well, the house looks great anyway. A friend is visiting from Vermont and we managed a long visit at the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, CT yesterday. This is a fabulous independent
bookstore in the heart of the Litchfield Hills. The bucolic setting, the weather, and the idyllic ride in the country was perfect. Several books later my friend and I left the shop and walked around the town. I bought the best hat and my friend bought an awesome jacket. We topped it off with a couple of lattes and headed on to another venue. It's great to have the kind of friend that can be comfortable for hours in a bookstore. Ok..I haven't bought any books in a long, long, time. I couldn't contain myself yesterday. I purchased:
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Angel of Grozny,Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad
Asne Seierstad is the author of Bookseller of Kabel, a book I really enjoyed.
My comments on Library Thing were noted: Well done!!! What a fantastic view of the life of a family in Kabul, Afghanistan as they live. Seierstad, a journalist convinces Sultan Kahn to live with his family and write about their daily life. This is not a journal or diary as you may expect. The author crafts this book to read like a novel and you are there as a member of this family. Surprisingly, she does not seem to hold back in her portrayal of the male role in the family especially Sultan (father) and eldest son (Mansur). I highly recommend this for anyone looking to experience as the author did, "life behind the burka."
Currently Reading
Drinkwater by Eric Hopkins
The Last Undercover by Bob Hamer
Have a great Sunday. See you next week. The dogs are getting hungry and won't let me write until I feed them.
3 comments:
Thanks for linking Wisteria!!
I'm glad you bought some new books. That's far too long to go without anything new. LOL with that attitude it's no wonder my shelves are overflowing.
Ah that sounds like an absolutely wonderful way to spend the day. Enjoy your new books!
Thanks for stopping by bluestocking and iliana...Hope you're weekend was splendid!!!
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