Bedtime reading. Good-night.
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Bedtime reading on the Seine. Good-night.
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Dive in. The water‘s great!
We must discuss the ending.
When I review a book, I use LOTS of post-it notes. Loved this novel. Review in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/17/emma-donoghue-historical-novel/
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The caption COULD be: “Look who wants to devour this book.” This is, after all, the only one of my novels with a dog as a critically important character. But two things: 1) This pic is here because this novel was published nine years ago this week. 2) My beloved Jesse is licking her chops because I am posing her with cheese on my head, a dog-plus-book trick I learned from Pamela Klinger Horn. Happy reading, my friends!
“Brilliantly crafted…Will tear your heart out.” - The Washington Post.
It was 10 years ago this week that my Tuscan-set novel of a serial killer and the ghosts of WW2 was published: THE LIGHT IN THE RUINS. (The pen is from Florence: I used it on tour.) @DoubledayBooks
“She describes…how once she built a sandcastle near Truro. She tells him she gets seasick. She prefers cats. She likes Dickens. She talks and talks because whenever she is silent, she finds herself looking at him, and her breath grows a little short." -- From The Sandcastle Girls, my love story set amidst the Armenian Genocide, published 11 years ago this week. Shown here with my Armenian sneakers.
Bedtime reading. Pure gold. On sale in October.
In other news, the “talking corpse” in this novel should have a Netflix standup comedy special. Lorrie Moore is as insightful and moving as ever…and she writes great material for the dead.
Read eBooks? Right now, THE LIONESS is on sale for $1.99! Roar! 📚🐆🐘🦓🦒
“God is love, I said, but art‘s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity,” — Ralph Ellison, #JUNETEENTH
Still two days left to enter to win signed copies of these three novels. And, remember, my cursive is very good (humble brag). Click the link to enter. Thanks, @doubledaybooks ! https://sites.prh.com/chris-bohjalian-signed-copy-giveaway
I could not pick a favorite novel by #CormacMcCarthy. But these had more post-it notes and underlined passages than my copies of other books he wrote. So, I will go with these. RIP, Cormac. Thank you for persevering…
I want everyone I know to read LIFE B by Bethanne Patrick. It‘s courageous, powerful, riveting — and one of the most moving memoirs I‘ve ever read. It will make you recall Plato: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Emily Dickinson, one of my muses, died on this date in 1886. My novel, CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS, includes some of my own thoughts about the remarkable poet. My narrator Emily Shepard‘s devotion to her work was inspired by my own obsessions when I was in college at (yes) Amherst, and walked past her home almost daily. Incidentally, you will see a lot of Emily Dickinson in a short story I have arriving this summer. Stay tuned.
THE LIONESS paperback went on sale this week, and I visited lots of bookstores — some with my beloved Jesse!
Riveting. David Grann is one of the very best historians and storytellers around, and this tale of an eighteenth-century cataclysm at sea (and on land) is alive with heroes and villains, unbelievable competence and spectacular stupidity. Every time the world intervened and I had to put the book aside, it would be in my mind as I tried to imagine how the sailors and castaways were going to make it through yet one more day. I just loved it.
THE LIONESS paperback roars May 2. Preorder or order your copy from the Vermont Book Shop (8023882061) or Phoenix Books (8024483350) by May 5, and your copy will arrive signed and with a “lioness” doodle. The first 50 copies at each store will also come with a vintage lioness postcard. Pro tip: Mother‘s Day is May 14, and these stores ship in the U.S. Thanks!
My novel BEFORE YOU KNOW KINDNESS was published in 2004. I view it as a novel about animal rights and (yes) a dysfunctional family. But today a reader reminded me that page one describes the horrors a bullet inflicts on any animal…including humans.
It was 15 years ago I published historical fiction for the first time: a love story set on the Eastern Front in the last six months of World War II — and a tale of one fictional German family‘s complicity in the Holocaust. @Crownpublishing
THE DOUBLE BIND, the first of my books born on a bike, is a novel of psychological suspense about a homeless photographer, a determined social worker, and an obsession with an American classic. Of all my books, none polarized readers like this one.
Bedtime reading. Good-night! (PS: This book belonged to my mother. I love seeing her handwriting on the bookplate.)
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THIS is the book Jane Austen would have written if she had lived in Brooklyn Heights in the 21st century! I loved it!
The SECRETS OF EDEN ebook is on sale for $6.99! My 2010 mystery about a murdered woman has a line that remains among the most quoted I‘ve written: “Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.” It became a movie starring John Stamos. Have you read it?
Always honored when a reader chooses a line from one of my books for a tattoo.
Bedtime reading. Good-night, my friends.
Returned from my bike ride to find Rebecca Makkai‘s new novel from @VikingBooks I‘m a big fan. It‘s on sale this Tuesday. Visit rebeccamakkai.com to learn more.
Happiest of pub dates to the brilliant Laura Zigman. I loved this novel!
Bedtime reading: THE RABBIT HUTCH. Utterly fantastic.
This year‘s book haul: the books my family and I exchanged this Christmas Day.
Stocking stuffer for that reader who enjoys historical fiction…and wants to see a woman take on the patriarchy.
Today is the birthday of one of my muses: Emily Dickinson. Her work figures prominently in CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS.
This was a treat! There‘s HOUR OF THE WITCH in the bookstore in the new Netflix holiday movie, THE NOEL DIARY. And look at how many of my pals are with me. (I‘ve tagged a bunch.) Gobsmacked, grateful, and honored. (PS: Thanks, R.J. Julia, for having a staff recommend card for HOUR OF THE WITCH. Bookstores rock; booksellers rule.)
The Passenger. Bedtime reading. Good-night.
Gobsmacked and grateful. THE LIONESS is among the Washington Post's list of 50 Notable Works of Fiction: "this propulsive tale perfectly marries glamour and horror." Thank you! Visit the Washington Post to see all the books you want to give and get this holiday season.
This is my original 45-cent copy of Poe. Still have it from when I was eight. I was looking at it today because a character in my next book was quoting The Raven. Also? I listened to crow cries on my computer. My Jesse was fascinated. Thought she was in Hitchcock‘s The Birds.
Nearly 9,000 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ratings on Goodreads — and still on sale for $2.99. Beware the Devil‘s Tines!
Visited the Barnes & Noble in Union Square when I was in NYC this week and had the best time signing books. I love this store. Of course, you know you‘ve been around a long time when your books become a Jenga tower. @DoubledayBooks
“She was sent to the scaffold because she had a sharper tongue and a shrewder mind than her accusers. It is always the case when men hang women.” — from HOUR OF THE WITCH.
