Friday, September 13, 2013
Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 12, 2013.
Putting America's Home-Grown Cookbooks on the Map
If you saw our Big Fall Books Preview, you might have noticed my pick, Provence, 1970, the story of the weeks that Julia and Paul Child, M.F.K. Fisher, James Beard, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones spent cooking, eating, and arguing in the South of France.
The Americans in this influential circle had long considered France their culinary homeland.
But by the time they went home to the States, …
Amazon Asks: Bronwen Hruska, on "Accelerated"
By day, Bronwen Hruska publishes the works of others. As the head of Soho Press, she's published such Amazon editors' faves as A Beautiful Truth and Little Wolves. Her other job, as mom to two boys, prompted her to explore a tricky topic--the overdiagnosis of ADHD and the over-medication of boys--that's at the core of her funny, smart, chilling debut novel, Accelerated.
Published …
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Amazon Blogs: Car Lust Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Car Lust for September 11, 2013.
Today's little post is just a follow up to Anthony Cagle's superb coverage of the 1970s Celica. In fact, this report is just a shadow of the last generation Celica featured in his post.
My admiration for this car began one day, as a 21-year-old, when I saw an ad for the first Toyota Celica Supra. The glossy presentation literally blew me away. Here, for the first time in my automotive …
Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for September 11, 2013.
YA Wednesday: Nancy Farmer on "The Lord of Opium"
It's been 11 years since Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion was released, a book so well loved and admired that it won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and was both a Printz Honor and Newbery Honor title. After all this time, I was amazed when I heard that this year she would publish the sequel and I crossed my fingers that it would live up to the …
My Dark Love Letter to Iceland: Hannah Kent on "Burial Rites"
Ubiquitous darkness permeates Hannah Kent’s debut novel--the harsh, bleak landscape is certainly not softened by the storyline: Burial Rites (our Best of the Month debut spotlight pick) is the tale of the last woman to be publicly executed in Iceland. Despite this gloomy outset, Hannah Kent’s elegant prose manifests an obvious love for darkness, and the effect is riveting. Burial Rites …
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