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Tracey
SVP, Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications |
Dear BookLounge Member,
I have long been a fan of John Grisham’s legal thrillers – the fast-paced narratives, the flawed characters, the unexpected plot turns. I have just finished a different kind of John Grisham read, and one I found I loved just as much. Calico Joe is set in the world of Major League Baseball. If you are a fan of the game, as John Grisham certainly is, there is a lot here that would appeal to one’s knowledge and love of the game. But not being a particular fan myself, I instead fell into the characters. Paul Tracey, who we see as a young boy and a grown man, is a diehard baseball fan as a boy and the son of a Major League pitcher. Joe Castle is the best rookie baseball has ever seen. What connects them and how this affects their lives is very powerful and moving. It’s a great story and I highly recommend it, whether you consider yourself a baseball fan or not.
Happy Reading,
Tracey
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I love a good thriller. Always have. But I’ll admit that I’m a bit picky. I don’t love all of them, and if I’ve read it before, I don’t want to read it again. When I think of what makes a good thriller, I imagine an older married couple. The husband asks the wife, “Where would you like to go for our anniversary?” The wife says, “I don’t know. Somewhere different. Surprise me.”
As a reader who’s been in this relationship with thrillers for a while, I want what the wife wants: I want a book to take me somewhere I’ve never been before; I want to have no clue where I’m going; and I want to be surprised by what I find when I get there.
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A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon.
A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Once again, Haddon proves a master of a story at once hilarious, poignant, dark, and profoundly human. Here the madness — literally — of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon’s crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love.
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Start reading Peter Carey's latest, The Chemistry of Tears
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Dead, and no one told me. I walked past his office and his assistant was bawling.
“What is it Felicia?”
“Oh haven’t you heard? Mr. Tindall’s dead.”
What I heard was: “Mr. Tindall hurt his head.” I thought, for God’s sake, pull yourself together.
“Where is he, Felicia?” That was a reckless thing to ask. Matthew Tindall and I had been lovers for thirteen years, but he was my secret and I was his. In real life I avoided his assistant.
Now her lipstick was smeared and her mouth folded like an ugly sock. “Where is he?” she sobbed. “What an awful, awful question.”
I did not understand. I asked again.
“Catherine, he is dead,” and thus set herself off into a second fit of bawling.
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Notes from a Book Addict - Ben McNally
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Another Time, Another Life by Leif GW Persson
Last year, Leif GW Persson’s astonishing novel, Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End was published in English. It is, unquestionably, one of the murkiest and most tangled tales ever written. At its heart, it involves a mystery, and one that officially remains a mystery to this day; the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme on a Stockholm street in February 1986, but Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the kind of mystery that readers have come to expect.
Now, the second book in the trilogy, Another Time, Another Life, has been published in English, and offers an unusual opportunity.
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