{"id":2330,"date":"2007-09-28T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:27","slug":"weekend-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2330","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an article in the Guardian today about the unseasonably early snow<\/a> in the Highlands, and Scottish ski resorts rejoicing.
!!!
I feel like I’ll need to stack in the books and prepare for an autumn spent dashing indoors and reading. (Well, actually even if it was a consistent seventy-five, I’d be doing that anyway…)<\/p>\n

The Chronicle has a plethora of children’s autumn books<\/a>, including the Mercy Watson series — as the review says, how can you go wrong with a pig in a pink tutu? Non-fiction gets a nod<\/a>, as photographer’s biographies are highlighted. Chronicle staff writer Reyhan Harmanci does her usual thorough job of reviewing for YA, this time on taking Sherman Alexie<\/a>‘s newest. Unlike most YA novels, she says that success in this one doesn’t equal a happy ending, and in Alexies’s usual m.o., he doesn’t hold back on the details.<\/p>\n

More common here than in the States, Jasper Fforde’s books are a central part of the comic literary canon. Here’s a review<\/a> of his sequel to The Eyre Affair<\/i>, and a few more in the fantastic fiction genre that should interest.<\/p>\n

PS – This is a rare plug for adult fiction – the title, One Drop<\/i> piqued my interest, and the book was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air<\/i><\/a>. Imaging being twenty-four and finding out that your father has an African American heritage that he never claimed. Would that make a difference? Does race really matter? It looks to be interesting reading.<\/p>\n

And now back to my book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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