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Do you ever want to curl up with a novel guaranteed to have a happy ending? There are several authors who create communities with recurring, quirky characters who become a family. Authors such as Jan Karon, Ann B. Ross, Joan Medlicott, J. Lynne Hinton and Philip Gulley write warm, witty books that provide a great escape from the real world. Alternate History Alternate history is a popular sub genre of science fiction. At some point in the universe in which a novel is set history has diverged from ours. This event then creates a world that, because of its difference from ours, allows the author to explore unique and often inspired alternatives. That's What Friends Are For Through life’s ups and downs, friends always help get you through the day. Here is a list of books in which friendship is a central theme. Whether it is a new relationship or a life-long one, the individuals and characters you meet in these stories will examine the true meaning of friendship.   Here is an excerpt from former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's review of Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi:
I enjoy all the Richard Marcinko Rogue Warrior books, but I'd have to say my favorite book is Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. It is very well written and doesn't miss a detail about an extremely brutal crime from my era. Reading is important to me because I believe we never stop learning, and the best way to keep learning is to read. And you don't just have to read non-fiction books to learn - just by reading you're always expanding your mind. Read more Celebrity Reviews  
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A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she started her professional journalism career in Savannah, Ga., where she covered the real-life murder trials which were the basis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. As a lifelong "junker" the author claims to know the location of every promising thrift store, flea market and junkpile in the Southeastern United States, plus many parts of Ohio. She has a B.A. in newspaper journalism from The University of Georgia, and is a frequent lecturer and writing teacher at workshops including Emory University, The University of Georgia's Harriet Austin Writer's Workshop, the Tennessee Mountain Writer's Workshop and the Antioch Writer's Workshop. Her mysteries have been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards. Married for more than 33 years to her high school sweetheart, Tom, she is the mother of 26-year-old Katie Abel and 22-year-old Andrew. After a three-year hiatus in Raleigh, N.C., she and her husband moved back to their old neighborhood in Atlanta, where they live in a restored 1926 Craftsman bungalow. "My reading tastes are rather eclectic. I'm currently reading When the Pentagon was for Sale, a history of defense procurement scandals in the 1980's, written by Wall Street Journal reporter Andy Pasztor. Next on my list is The Excruciating History of Dentistry, an apparently comic nonfiction work about how dentistry has impacted the course of human civilization. My favorite topics to read about are history and physics. One of my favorite things to read is a good biography. A well-told biography can make a historical or contemporary figure come alive, and make you excited about history. It doesn't matter who the biography is about; I have read biographies of political figures, religious figures, entertainers, writers, drug addicts, preachers, physicists, doctors, soldiers & generals, sports stars, ship captains and "Star Trek" cast members. One week you may find me reading a biography of J. Edgar Hoover and the next week you might finding me reading a collection of David Sedaris humor essays or a Brian Greene book about the search for a unified field theory. That's not to say I understand the things I read. Astrophysics is mostly over my head, trust me! But part of the joy of reading, for me, is discovering things you didn't know, whether you understand them or not, because every time you do that the world seems bigger. In a technological age that makes the world seem continually smaller, reading has, for me, become one of the few experiences that reveals the world to be large and complex and diverse." |
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Mary Kay Andrews is the author of the New York Times bestselling Deep Dish, Savannah Breeze and Blue Christmas, as well as Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies and Savannah Blues. A former reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she wrote ten critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series, under her "real" name, which is Kathy Hogan Trocheck. 
This month, Reader’s Club salutes Nathan, an avid reader and frequent reviewer. Nathan has reviewed a variety of titles for Reader's Club, both fiction and nonfiction. Here is what Nathan has to share with us: