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August 2011
August is shaping up to be a big month for movie releases based on books. The eagerly awaited adaptation of The Help by Kathryn Stockett hits theaters on August 10th --- and I am seeing it with a few other staffers on Thursday; I’m sure many of you feel the same way. By the way, our intern declined to join as she had not yet read the book, which I think means "read the book first" skills have properly been impressed upon her! The Help was voted the top discussion book of the past 10 years in last year’s ReadingGroupGuides.com 10th Anniversary Contest and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists since its release in February 2009. I can’t wait to read your thoughts on the film version, and please let me know if your group is doing anything special to celebrate its release.
Glen Duncan's literary thriller The Last Werewolf is garnering acclaim around the world.
Editorial Content for Among the Missing
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Joe Hartlaub
I will confess to being unfamiliar with Morag Joss's novels. The author of a number of critically recognized works, she crossed my desk with AMONG THE MISSING, a book that defies easy categorization but that demands the attention of anyone interested in general fiction. It takes place in the Highlands of Joss's native Scotland, using the sudden occurrence of a tragedy to bring three disparate individuals together, for better or for ill.
"Whether you read it now or save it for a cold December night, its considerable merits will shine through."
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Award-winning author Morag Joss spins a spellbinding psychological thriller of three lost souls brought together by disaster, haunted by tragedy, connected by their most shattering secrets.
I read a piece in the New York Times yesterday about how some indie stores are now charging for store events. You can read it here.
Friday, July 22, 2011
The titles below are discussed in the July 22nd Bookreporter.com Newsletter Opener, which can be read here:
Editorial Content for "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me
Contributors
Reviewer (text)
Barbara Bamberger Scott
Stieg Larsson is a modern heroic figure whose life deserves a thorough look. This book reveals some of the reasons why that may not be possible anytime soon, and why even in progressive countries like Sweden, the wheels of justice, finance and women's rights still turn slowly --- very slowly. Read More
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No one knew Stieg Larsson like his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millennium Trilogy.
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No one knew Stieg Larsson like his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millennium Trilogy.
About the Book
There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story other than himself, and that is his lifelong companion Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book.
The keys to the "Stieg Larsson phenomenon" all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. No one knew him like his Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, of Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden’s Neo-Nazis, of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive, his difficult relationships with his immediate family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the Millenium Trilogy. Above all, this is a love story, and we come to understand, reading "THERE ARE THINGS I WANT YOU TO KNOW" ABOUT STIEG LARSSON AND ME, that if there was another secret besides Larsson’s own imagination and convictions, it was his absolute love for his companion and her nurturing of their privacy and shared passions.
"THERE ARE THINGS I WANT YOU TO KNOW" is told as a series of short vignettes, with titles ranging from "Speaking of Coffee" and “Stieg’s Journalistic Credo” to “Goodbyes” and “The Fourth Volume.” She speaks with rare candor and dignity, inspired only by the truth as she knows it. The book is thus short and to the point, poignant in its account of two soulmates and the life they shared, deeply insightful into the man everyone wants to know better, about whom so little is known.
“I would have preferred to have never written this book. It speaks of Stieg, of our life together, and of my life after his death,” writes Gabrielsson early in her book. It was written because she alone can tell this story.
