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Bookreporter.com Newsletter	February 21, 2003
This Week on Bookreporter.com Reader Mail SMALL TOWN by Lawrence Block Suspense/Thriller Feature: What's New This Week! USE WHAT YOU'VE GOT, AND OTHER BUSINESS LESSONS I LEARNED FROM MY MOM by Barbara Corcoran Books Into Movies 1,040 Reading Group Guides This Week's Book Reviews Poll: Do you ever laugh out loud when you're reading a book? Question of the Week Word of Mouth: Tell Us What You're Reading	On The Book Report Network Bookreporter.com Past Reviews Past Poll: Do you read books about sex? What, to you, is the most romantic book you have ever given, or would you want to give?
Reader Mail This week sure flew by with the holiday and then the snow. It was a three-book storm! Something I rarely talk about is the reader mail that we get. I really enjoy hearing from our readers and welcome your suggestions. One of our readers gave us the idea for our poll question this week. Heringbess@aol.com wrote to say that she has been in several book clubs (for 35 years!) and is a very active reader. She never laughs out loud when she reads so she is surprised to hear that people think a book is funny and laugh out loud! So we are asking.... Do you ever laugh out loud when you're reading a book? All the time Some of the time Sometimes I crack a smile Never And keeping our humor theme, our question is about what book or author makes you laugh out loud? Lots to share this week including the exciting news that our February Suspense/Thriller author, Stephen White, hit The New York Times bestseller list at number 8 with THE BEST REVENGE. We loved seeing that! And PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson is at number 4. Love seeing other readers finding authors that we love like this. So....keep those notes coming. --Carol Fitzgerald (Carol@bookreporter.com)
SMALL TOWN by Lawrence Block SMALL TOWN by Lawrence Block Along with being the author of dozens of acclaimed novels, Lawrence Block is also a devout New Yorker who absolutely adores his city. He has now written a compelling thriller about one man's shocking response to the World Trade Center tragedy. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub Read a review and excerpt of SMALL TOWN here.
Suspense/Thriller Feature: What's New This Week! Stephen White, author of THE BEST REVENGE: The BIG NEWS: THE BEST REVENGE will hit The New York Times list this weekend at number 8! What's new here: A trivia game about THE BEST REVENGE Jeffery Deaver, author of THE VANISHED MAN (in stores March 11th): -Read the first two chapters of THE VANISHED MAN -Play our trivia game about THE STONE MONKEY, now in paperback -See the list of advance readers for THE VANISHED MAN -Read Fast Facts about Jeffery Deaver -Read about Jeffery Deaver's recurring characters In case you missed last week's update --- -Take a look at Deaver's complete backlist Stephen Frey, author of SILENT PARTNER: Read the reader comments about Frey's work including a stellar one from the UK Read our suspense/thriller feature here.
USE WHAT YOU'VE GOT, AND OTHER BUSINESS LESSONS I LEARNED FROM MY MOM by Barbara Corcoran USE WHAT YOU'VE GOT, AND OTHER BUSINESS LESSONS I LEARNED FROM MY MOM by Barbara Corcoran with Bruce Littlefield (Business/Memoir) Barbara Corcoran is the founder of The Corcoran Group, New York's premier real estate company. She credits her success not only to hard work and determination, but to her mom's valuable advice. Read this book, which is a wonderful memoir, as well as a terrific business book. -Reviewed by Carol Fitzgerald Read our review of USE WHAT YOU'VE GOT, as well as an excerpt here.
Books Into Movies On Sunday, February 23rd NBC will air the TV movie of 1st to Die. New in theatres this week Gods and Generals and The Life of David Gale. All are based on books. Read more here. Click here to read more about Books Into Movies.
1,040 Reading Group Guides Take a look at the new guides we added this month on ReadingGroupGuides.com: 1959 by Thulani Davis The Blessing Stone by Barbara Wood Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell The Forgetting: Alzheimer's by David Shenk The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley House Of Women by Lynn Freed Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman In Open Spaces by Russell Rowland In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks One Step Behind by Henning Mankell Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore Stealing the Ambassador by Sameer Parekh The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks What Are You Like? by Anne Enright Go to ReadingGroupGuides.com.
This Week's Book Reviews THE HIDDEN LIFE OF OTTO FRANK by Carol Ann Lee (Biography) Reviewed by Toni Fitzgerald Carol Ann Lee presents a moving portrait of Anne Franks's father, the man who helped publish his daughter's diary and who struggled for years to cope with her unspeakable death. CATCH AS CATCH CAN: The Collected Stories and Other Writings by Joseph Heller (Fiction) Reviewed by Rob Cline Editors Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker have assembled a number of short stories and other writings by Joseph Heller --- many were written before the release of the classic CATCH-22, while some have never before been published. THE WISE WOMEN OF HAVANA by José Raúl Bernardo (Fiction paperback) Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman José Raúl Bernardo has written a delightful story about a Cuban family in the 1930's facing a number of tough choices and building strong relationships. DANNY BOY: The Beloved Irish Ballad by Malachy McCourt (Nonfiction paperback) Reviewed by Robert Finn Malachy McCourt, the brother of author Frank McCourt, explores the mysteries and meanings of "Danny Boy," one of the best-known and most beloved songs in the Western world. A TASTE OF REALITY by Kimberla Lawson Roby (Fiction paperback) Reviewed by Alvin C. Romer Against all odds, Anise Miller, who appears to have it all, battles the most blatant kind of workplace discrimination, while dealing with a crumbling marriage and a trusted friend's betrayal. Read this week's reviews here.
Poll: Do you ever laugh out loud when you're reading a book? Our poll question this week came from one of readers, Heringbess@aol.com. She wrote to say that she has been in several book clubs (for 35 years!) and is a very active reader. She never laughs out loud when she reads so she is surprised to hear that people think a book is funny and laugh out loud! So we are asking.... Do you ever laugh out loud when you're reading a book? All the time Some of the time Sometimes I crack a smile Never Answer the Poll here.
Question of the Week Here's our question of the week: Which book or author has made you laugh out loud the most? See contest details here and answer the Question of the Week.
Word of Mouth: Tell Us What You're Reading Tell us what books YOU are reading and loving --- or even those you don't. Five lucky reader will each win a copy THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB by Louise Erdrich. Need more details about Word of Mouth? Click here.
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