Smatterings

First, I’ve noticed a spike in the hit count, and since I suspect it’s due to this nice piece in the Boston Globe the other day by Jessica Keener, thanks for stopping by, and hope you stick around. 

If you’re a woman over 45, you might have trouble finding books that speak to your generation and current issues. Hence the new publishing imprint Transita, but of course, such new endeavors are not without controversy.

Bella Bathhurst, who recently turned her hand to non-fiction, picks her top ten books about the sea.

Sunday must have been a really sad day in a Scottish town. Book burning? By a bookseller? Gack.

Tamar Yellin went to an attic one day, made an amazing discovery, and 13 years later wrote a historical thriller about it. The Yorkshire Post meets this perservering writer.

When roofer Jim White died in West Deptford in an accident at the age of 53, some knew he’d written all his life but few knew he’d completed a novel. Now his wife’s published it privately, according to the Philly Inquirer.

The Seattle Times catches up with Julie Otsuka, whose newest novel shines a light into the dark days of internment camps during WWII.

And finally, read this. Just read it. (thanks to the Happy Booker for this!)