Before writing this newsletter, I looked at the last one we did. Though it was written on March 11th, it seems like it was a lifetime ago. I feel like March has had 1,000 days in it!

With huge thanks to our team, we have kept up the pace these past few weeks. In fact, we have been trying to bring you MORE book-related content. I am now shooting two “Bookreporter Talks To” interviews each week, coming to you from my dining room studio. And this week, in addition to the Bookreporter promo video (which will be up by Thursday), we shot a video about great books for book groups --- this time from our family room. Yes, I miss the in-person camaraderie of our team, but I am loving what we are doing from a distance. This week, I am interviewing Diane Chamberlain about BIG LIES IN A SMALL TOWN and Lisa See about THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN. I had been scheduled to talk to both of them at the Tucson Festival of Books, so I am happy to be doing interviews this way!

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of March 30th and April 6th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to Carol Fitzgerald's two latest "Bookreporter Talks To" interviews: Kate Elizabeth Russell, whose debut novel, MY DARK VANESSA, is a #1 Indie Next pick and a LibraryReads Top Pick for March; and Therese Anne Fowler, whose new novel, A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, is March's Barnes & Noble Book Club selection and a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Scroll further down the newsletter for links to the videos and podcasts of these interviews.

Also, please click on the covers above for our reviews of three books that we featured in last Friday's Weekly Update newsletter: THE GLASS HOTEL, Emily St. John Mandel's highly anticipated new novel (following her award-winning 2014 bestseller, STATION ELEVEN), which revolves around two seemingly disparate events: a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea; Louise Erdrich's latest New York Times bestseller, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, which is based on the extraordinary life of her grandfather, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.; and THE LAST ODYSSEY, the 15th installment in James Rollins’ Sigma Force series --- to save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present.