“You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?” -- Gore Vidal in Esquire, 2008
Well, you can certainly count me as one. My first exposure to fiction by Gore Vidal -- who died last night in Los Angeles at age 86 -- came during the late 1970s, when Vintage republished all three of the mystery novels he’d penned in
Crime Fiction: Skeleton Picnic by Michael Norman
Pot hunting, the age-old business of digging up Native American pottery to collect or sell, is at the center of Skeleton Picnic (Poisoned Pen Press), the second book in Michael Norman’s series featuring J.D. Books, a law-enforcement ranger with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) working in the Southwest.
Books, whose life has left him with some pain and sadness, is a character worth
Books, whose life has left him with some pain and sadness, is a character worth
Please Join the Hattie Big Sky Book Club!
Colby Sharp and I hope you will visit your public library or an independent bookshop to pick up a copy of Kirby Larson’s Newbery Honor-winning novel, Hattie Big Sky. “See” you in September.
Please visit NerdyBookClub.com to read Donalyn Miller's review of Hattie Big Sky.
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