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While trolling around for older books I could suggest to community book groups I recalled a book blog I enjoyed very much. The Neglected Books Page. A recent visit reminded me of a classic author I’ll be sure to dust off and start promoting to library patrons. This blog has been in operation since 2006 [...]

Maggie Stiefvater’s new book The Scorpio Races may be a young adult fantasy, but it has everything I look for in serious adult fiction. Stiefvater takes the various Irish and Scottish myths about water horses and turns them into a page-turning, atmospheric novel. In the book, the capaill uisce are dangerous, flesh-eating horses that emerge [...]

Usually it’s the other way around. Readers will ask for nonfiction that reads like fiction. True stories that are dubbed narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, journalistic nonfiction, faction, etc. But a reader of nonfiction recently wrote to Dear Book Lover at The Wall Street Journal asking for fiction that reads like nonfiction. What does this type [...]

On the first day of a fresh year, I’m offering up three debut novels that have book group appeal. Compelling stories, discussable points, and realistic characters make these books fine choices for a reading group. Gardens of Water by Alan Drew—Two families of differing faiths and cultures come together in Turkey in the aftermath of [...]

“I collect nothing—with a passion.”  (p. 6). It is not until page forty-six of the book Collections of Nothing by William Davies King that the author refers to his collecting as hoarding.  As bad as that word may sound when doing a self-analysis, the good news is that King is neither a traditional compulsive hoarder [...]