Top Shelf Tuesday - November 15, 2016
Robin Kall, GoLocalProv Book Columnist
Top Shelf Tuesday - November 15, 2016
Please join us tonight at Point Street Reading Series located at Point Street Dueling Pianos 3 Davol Square in Providence at 7:30pm for another terrific line-up of authors. The doors open at 7pm and books will be for sale by Brown Bookstore. There is a five-dollar cover charge, which will be collected at the door. Authors who will be reading from their latest novels are: Wendy Walker (All Is Not Forgotten), Juliette Fay (The Tumbling Turner Sisters), Kate Moretti (The Vanishing Year), Maddie Dawson (The Survivor’s Guide To Family Happiness), and Georgia Clark (The Regulars). Something nasty for everyone! Please email [email protected] for reservations.
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Robin is a graduate of Binghamton University and lives in Rhode Island with her husband and their corgi. Follow Robin on Twitter, on Instagram and “like” Reading With Robin and Point Street Reading Series on Facebook.
Top Shelf Tuesday - November 15, 2016
By Jodi Picoult
Central to all of Jodi Picoult’s novels are the strong female characters who find themselves with a moral dilemma, giving the reader a well-rounded view of who they are and why they make the choices they do. Central to Small Great Things is Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse with more than 20 years experience who during a routine checkup on a newborn is told that she is not to touch the child of white supremacists. Upon hesitating to perform CPR Ruth is charged with a serious crime and has her entire career called into question. With all the heart, compassion and passion that Picoult brings to all of her stories, this one just might be my favorite.
Listen to Robin's interview with Jodi here.
The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, And (Getting) Happier
By Cathi Hanauer
It’s been almost fifteen years since Hanauer’s first collection, The Bitch In The House was published. These essays “born out of anger” talked about the issues facing young mothers, women just beginning careers or new marriages. In The Bitch Is Back some of the OBs—“original bitches”—are back to reflect on life with the perspective of a slightly foggy rear-view mirror. Included are essays by favorite authors: Ann Hood, Kate Christiansen, and Cathi Hanauer. There are also essays by twenty other bestselling writers, journalists and other extraordinary women including: Jill Bialosky, Hope Edelman, and Karen Karbo. I love this collection of essays. There’s something for everything and anything you might be feeling. In this one, there is plenty of nasty to go around.
Hi, Anxiety: Life With A Bad Case Of Nerves
By Kat Kinsman
With an impressive list of accomplishments such as: food writer, editor, commentator, and the editor in chief of the award-winning website Tasting Table, Kinsman shines the light on depression and anxiety through a collection of impressive essays which will make you uncomfortable in the most poignant of ways. Hi, Anxiety pushes the reader into the throes of a full-blown anxiety attack in all its nastiness.
Listen to Robin's interview with Kat here
By Caroline Leavitt
There is nothing quite so gorgeous and touching as a Caroline Leavitt novel. My favorites include: Is This Tomorrow, Pictures Of You, and Girls In Trouble. It never ceases to amaze me when a beloved author manages to outdo her own magical writing and with Cruel Beautiful World, Leavitt does just this. If Lucy Gold isn’t a fine example of nasty I’m not sure of another heroine who is. At sixteen Lucy decides to run off with her high school teacher leaving behind the elderly aunt who has raised her and her older sister who has selflessly helped to take care of her. The dream turns to a nightmare as it so often does and the pages keep turning as the reader find her way home.
By Marcy Dermansky
Dermansky’s previous two novels: Bad Marie and Twins are among some of my favorite reads. With The Red Car she has outdone herself. At the heart of this novel is, Leah, edgy, haunting and a nasty woman for sure. We meet Leah at various times in her life and with men who are sometimes controlled and alternately controlling. Filled with desire, a sense of adventure and when necessary a flask to go…The Red Car will take you on quite a ride. “There is, now, a literary term for a book you can’t stop reading that makes you stop to think. It is “The Red Car.” says Daniel Handler in his New York Times book review.
