My reading tide is fiercest throughout the winter months. It is because I dislike being cold, and prefer cozying up on the couch with my cat, my book, and a warm mug of cider and slowly, quietly, pass the long evenings.

Are there other book-loving souls in Winston-Salem who share this habit? 

My winter months are full of a variety of reading. Here’s what I’ve read and am reading so far this winter:

The Little Book by Selden Edwards — I gave this book 3 (out of 5) stars. It started off promising, but I felt that by the end the author was trying to pack too much into it. I think the fact that the author spent over 30 years writing it made him feel as though he had to include everything, when he should have left more to the imagination.

Synopsis from Goodreads: “The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend’’s son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he is —still his modern-self —wandering in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: fin de siècle Vienna. It is 1897, precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth.”

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin – I gave this book 4 stars. I enjoyed the first book in the Song of Ice and Fire saga very much. This second book I found started off in the same fashion, but towards the middle lagged. It did pick up near the end and left me on quite a cliff-hanger, guaranteeing that I will pick up #3 (as if I wouldn’t anyway). I have seen a few of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” and find it to be good, though not as good as the books!

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin – I gave this book 3 stars. I am being sucked into the mystery genre more and more. I love inspectors, especially from other countries. I feel that Rankin’s Rebus will be just as entertaining as Mankell’s Wallander, and I’m eager to continue the series.

Synopsis from Goodreads: “Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders…and he’s tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain’s elite SAS. Now he’s an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn’t just one cop trying to catch a killer, he’s the man who’s got all the pieces to the puzzle.”

First Lady by Michael Malone – I gave this book 4 stars. I love the wit and intelligence Michael Malone puts so gracefully into his novels. This is the second in the Justin and Cuddy series that I’ve read and I hope he will write more. I wonder if it’s possible to enjoy his books more if you’ve lived in Piedmont North Carolina your entire life? I doubt it, because I already enjoy them so much. I find his total comprehension and inclusion of North Carolina, more specifically Hillsborough and Raleigh, to be enlightening without being overly colloquial. (Not to mention, the author is one heck of a nice guy!)

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies – I gave this book 5 stars. It doesn’t happen often. This book is incredibly complex, while being extremely quick to read. I made myself slow down while reading in order to absorb the subtleties of Davies’ language. I appreciate him making small-town Canadian life so real for the reader, while not being overly sentimental. How lovely and how strange is this little book that is essentially about nothing remarkable. Spanning the majority of the 20th century but capturing an entirely different world from what I’ve known. I love this quote about the book and find it quite true:

“Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.”

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown – I am currently reading this book now. I sat down to start it yesterday over morning coffee and found that I quickly went through 60 pages. Without my full assessment to tell, I’ll include the synopsis from Goodreads:

“The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. See, we love each other. We just don’t happen to like each other very much. But the sisters soon discover that everything they’ve been running from-one another, their small hometown, and themselves-might offer more than they ever expected.”

I hope you’ll join me at Reynolda Manor library on
Wednesday, February 15th, to hear Eleanor Brown talk about her
debut novel. It will be out in paperback and I think it is a perfect book club selection (as well as a fun and quick winter read!)
Check out details: www.bookmarks.roundtablelive.org.
The event is FREE!

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-01-06-Edwards06_CV_N.htm By Carol Memmott

This demure, self-assured woman is rarely recognized when she’s out and about in this horse-centric city nestled in Kentucky’s Bluegrass region. But she rocked the book world and the sensibilities of readers in dozens of countries with her debut novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.

The story of a physician who in 1964 gives away his Down syndrome newborn and tells his wife their daughter died just after birth hit the sweet spot on best-seller lists and, more important, in readers’ hearts.

Edwards, 52, is a portrait of tranquility as she talks about the success of Memory Keeper’s and her new follow-up novel, The Lake of Dreams. She knows how much people loved her first book, and she knows it’s a tough act to follow — especially because some fans had hoped she would write another book about Phoebe, the adored Down syndrome girl at the center of the tale.

Nothing, she says, could have prepared her for readers’ response. “It had been so exciting but distracting to think about this whole world who had read Memory Keeper’s Daughter.”

But success hasn’t changed her.

The modest home in a middle-class Lexington suburb where she and her family have lived for more than a decade does not reflect her financial success. It’s decorated simply, accented by artifacts she and her husband collected during the five years they spent teaching English in Malaysia, Japan and Cambodia in the 1990s after she completed her graduate work in linguistics.

Even though she had published an award-winning short story collection, The Secrets of the Fire King, in 1997, it was Memory Keeper’s that brought her fame. Published in hardcover in 2005, it sold a healthy but modest 60,000 copies. It became a huge best seller in paperback a year later, thanks to a perfect alignment of publishing strategies— and energetic hand-selling by booksellers, especially independents. The staff at the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, for example, was so enthusiastic they decorated their display window with a gauzy, white baby dress superimposed over a black background — just like the haunting cover of the book. Fervent fans told friends and family about the remarkable novel and the tragic secret at its center. The book also became, and still is, a book club staple.

It was Edwards’ storytelling prowess that gave the book its punch. “We all have secrets. We’ve all kept secrets. We’ve had secrets kept from us and we know how that feels,” Edwards says. “It’s a universal experience that connected with people.”

That resounding connection is the reason booksellers like Brooke Raby of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington still recommend the book. And Edwards is greeted warmly by the store’s booksellers when she stops in for a visit.

And those who understand the story because of personal experience have embraced it, too. “Kim did a wonderful job depicting Phoebe as a delightful child and young woman,” says Eileen Miot of Paris, Ky., a huge fan of the book, whose 3-year-old daughter, Marie-Claire, has Down syndrome. But it’s the love at the center of the story, she says, that has made it universally popular. “Everybody understands a story about love and missing out on love.”

Edwards tells a very different tale in The Lake of Dreams. It’s the story of Lucy Jarrett, who returns to her hometown of Lake of Dreams after her mother is injured in a minor car accident. Lucy had fled Lake of Dreams a decade before, after her father’s death by drowning.

Her visit becomes a search for resolution from the heartbreak she suffered after her father’s death, as well as a detective story when she discovers old letters in her mother’s house. They lead her to investigate what happened to the letter writer, Rose, her great-grandfather’s suffragette sister who was forced to give up her illegitimate daughter. The fictional town in which the novel is set is located in the Finger Lakes Region of New York state, where Edwards grew up. “I knew the lakes well,” says Edwards who shows a visitor a tiny, painted Asian bowl that holds pieces of shale she gathered on a Finger Lakes beach more than a decade ago. The bowl sits on her writing desk and was an inspiration during the creation of The Lake of Dreams. “One of the pleasures of writing the book,” she says, “was to be able to dwell in that landscape in my imagination again. It’s very beautiful.”

“I love Memory Keeper’s Daughter, but in some ways I think The Lake of Dreams is a stronger book,” Edwards says. “I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.”

The Book Club Social also made me realize that just about all our events are good for one type of book group or another. Our next three author events are great examples:

1. “A Conversation With Kim Edwards” will be held on Thursday, January 19th at 7:30pm. The event will be at UNCG in the Elliott University Center Auditorium. This is for the paperback release of Kim’s newest novel The Lake of Dreams. So why is this event good for book clubs? Glad you asked.

Kim Edward’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter broke all kinds of records for sales and was probably the most popular book club title for several years running. Her follow-up, though on a different topic, is no less book club-able (no, I don’t think that is a word but I’m using it anyway). With tickets priced at only $15 each, why not attend? If your entire book club wants to come, talk to us about discounted ticket prices. AND, if you want to meet Kim, have some hors d’oeuvres and such with her and get a signed book added to the mix, you can pay $75 and come to the Premier Reception which will begin at 6:00pm. Get your tickets here.

2. Eleanor Brown’s Weird Sisters  has been called a “gracefully written novel…about three sisters finding their separate yet interconnected ways in the world.” (The Boston Globe) Compared to The Help and The Postmistress for its accessibility and engaging storytelling, Weird Sisters is certainly a book club-able (there’s that word again) choice for 2012. We are hosting the paperback release at the Reynolda Manor branch of the library on Wednesday, February 15th, at 7:00pm. Books will be for sale at the event. This event is FREE and open to the public, we just ask that you make reservations so we’ll know how many people to expect. You can reserve your space for you and your entire book club here.

3. Guilford College Presents David McCullough with Support from BOOKMARKS. For all of you non-fiction lovers out there, this event is definitely a must-see of 2012. We’re very excited to be a part of this event which will be held on Tuesday, February 28th, at 7:30pm. It will be at Reynolds Auditorium and tickets can be purchased through UNCSA by clicking here. I find it is always nice to mix up your book club books and add in some non-fiction. David McCullough has won countless awards for his remarkable biographies and books on history, including 2 Pulitzer Prizes! If there’s anyone you should read for non-fiction, it’s David McCullough. All of his backlist books are available in paperback and you can also purchase copies of his newest book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, at the event.

I know everyone is busy with the holidays. But if you’re like me, you feel a sort of let down after the holidays…without anything big to look forward to. Well…no reason to feel that way this year with so many wonderful book events to get excited about. We hope you’ll join us for these three amazing events in January and February and stay tuned for many more events of 2012 which will be announced soon!

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“At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father’s unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family’s rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be idle curiosities, but soon reveal glimpses of a hidden family history. As Lucy explores these traces of her lineage—from an heirloom blanket and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained-glass windows, both in her hometown and beyond—a new family history emerges, one that will link her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yield dramatic insights that will free her to live her life to its fullest and deepest.

With revelations as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her best-selling phenomenon, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards now gives us the story of a woman’s homecoming to the lake of her childhood, and the discovery of a secret past that will alter her understanding of her heritage, and herself, forever. A powerful family narrative and a story of love lost and found, The Lake of Dreams is an arresting novel in which every vibrant detail emerges as an organic piece of a puzzle.  With her signature gifts for lyricism, suspense, and masterly storytelling, Kim Edwards’s new novel will delight those who loved The Memory Keeper’s Daughter and mesmerize millions of new fans.” 

Lake of Dreams  is already catching readers’ attention: it’s #1 bestseller in Australia, #8 in Canada, #10 Indie Next List, Heather’s Pick at Indigo Books for 2011, and an Indie Next List pick for January 2011. Book clubs will love Lake of Dreams as much as they did Memory Keeper’s Daughter.

Join us for
“A Conversation With Kim Edwards”
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
UNCG – Elliott University Center Auditorium
7:30 pm (Doors open at 6:45)

Join us at 6:00pm for a special Premier Reception. General Admission tickets are $15, Student tickets are $12, and Premier Reception tickets are $75. Get tickets here.

Email BOOKMARKS for discount information.

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Salemtowne presents:

“Welcome to Mitford”
February 3-5 & 9-12, 2012
Shows are Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm

By Robert Inman from the novels by Jan Karon

Father Tim is the beloved bachelor who leads the flock of Lord’s Chapel in the mountain community of Mitford. His life changes radically when he takes in teenager Dooley Barlow, an unruly orphan. And even more radically when Cynthia Coppersmith, a pretty and perky children’s author, moves in next door and he learns what it means to fall in love.

Join us on Thursday, December 8th
at BOOKMARKS Book Club Social

Hosted by Forsyth County Public Library
4:00pm-5:30pm in the auditorium
To make your reservation, click here.

Invite your book club friends for this
FREE event! 

As you all know, BOOKMARKS is a triad based literary nonprofit whose mission is to champion literacy, promote cultural diversity through reading, and offer enrichment and education through literary experiences celebrating books and authors. We are doing some amazing things – including hosting our annual book festival (to be held on Sept. 8, 2012), bringing authors into classrooms to meet with students (2,500 students in 2011!), and holding author events throughout the year.

BOOKMARKS Children's author, Megan Bryant, reading to kindergarteners at Bolton Elementary as part of our Authors in Schools Program

The 62nd National Book Award Winners:

Fiction: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Poetry: Nikky Finney, Head Off and Split
Young People’s Literature: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again

Here are some interesting statistics for the 2011 Awards:

In 2011, there were 1,223 books submitted for the National Book Awards. The number of books by genre:

[from WFU website: http://ipe.wfu.edu/faculty-resources/faculty-profiles/dr-stephen-boyd/]

…For nearly twenty years, Winston-Salem resident Darryl Hunt spent every day in a dreary prison cell serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. In spite of a trial that was devoid of physical evidence tying Hunt to the scene of the crime, he was convicted of first-degree murder in 1984. Hunt was just nineteen years old at the time.

Facing perhaps the cruelest fate a human being can endure, Hunt maintained his own innocence, and his spirit remained unfettered as he called on God to give him strength and to comfort him. As his days behind bars grew in number from the hundreds to the thousands, Hunt’s faith in God only intensified and served as much more than a means of preserving a glimmer of hope for life outside of prison.

Nine years after being convicted, DNA evidence surfaced indicating that Hunt, an African American, could not have committed the crime, yet the appeal of his conviction was denied. In 2003, his attorney, who served him for eighteen years pro bono, threw one last “hail Mary” pass in the form of a motion to compare the DNA in the 1984 rape kit to a state database of DNA profiles. Miraculously, he got a “hit.” Finally, the real murderer was found and Hunt was freed.  Hunt’s remarkable story gained national recognition and became emblematic of Winston-Salem’s historically tense race relations.

Building upon his experience, Hunt founded the Darryl Hunt Project with community leaders to help prevent the criminal justice system from convicting innocent parties, educating the public about faults in the system, and helping ex-offenders re-enter society and become productive, contributing citizens.

Just one year after Hunt’s exoneration, Wake Forest student Rashad Daker had the opportunity to transcribe Hunt’s daily journal entries that he wrote during his imprisonment, an assignment that Daker chose as part of Professor Stephen Boyd’s “Religion and Public Life” course. Daker and Hunt are both practicing Muslims, and according to Boyd, both individuals found the experience cathartic and spiritually engaging.

In addition to Daker’s work with the Darryl Hunt Project, each student in Boyd’s class worked with a local nonprofit organization that is addressing a significant need in the community. For instance, one student worked with Advocacy for the Poor, researching issues related to poverty, affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger. The in-class portion of the course focuses on issues of religious leadership, social entrepreneurship, the separation of church and state, and the differences among service, advocacy, and community organizing, as well as their roots in three dominant theological paradigms in Christian history.

Boyd also sees great value in simply getting students involved in projects off campus – outside the “Wake Forest bubble.”

“As a student, it is easy to get consumed with life on campus,” said Boyd. “Students sometimes forget there is an exciting world outside the ‘Wake Forest bubble’, one that is full of challenging issues that can be gratifying to work on.”

The students and the organizations were not the only ones touched by the course, however. Boyd described the experience as “the most rewarding course I ever taught” and is offering it for the second time in 2011.

Making Justice Our Business: The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work of Faith will be available for purchase from Wake Forest University Bookstore. A book signing by the author will follow the program. This program is free and open to the public. For information: www.bookmarksnc.org / 336-788-7023.

BOOKMARKS and Emmanuel Baptist Church present Stephen Boyd,
author of Making Justice Our Business:
The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work of Faith
Monday, November 28 at 7 p.m.
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1075 Shalimar Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27107
Free and Open to the Public

And on December 8th, at the Book Club Social, we’re going to be giving away tons of books and other prizes!

For over 25 years, Algonquin Books has discovered and cultivated talented writers and championed their works.

“We’re passionate about each and every book we publish. But our greatest satisfaction comes from seeing those same titles enthusiastically embraced by book clubs around the country.”

Algonquin offers a wide range of titles that are perfect for book clubs. Have you ever heard of a little book called Water for Elephants? Well, that’s just one of Algonquin’s many book club bestsellers. Their fiction and nonfiction books explore a wide range of themes, characters, and settings — all delivered with expert storytelling ability. And with their new book club section on their website, they even offer you fun ways of enjoying these books with your club, including: interactive online catalog, featured wine pairings for each of their book club titles, and award-winning authors interviewing other bestselling authors about their work. 

Algonquin will be giving away copies of their super book club catalog, as well as $150 worth of books to one lucky winner. The winner will receive a catalog and can pick the books they want from it. Algonquin will ship your free books to your doorstep!

I hope you already enjoy Algonquin’s books in your book club. I know my book clubs do. As a matter of fact, it’s where I first read Julia Alvarez and Sara Gruen. Here are some additional Algonquin titles that are good for book clubs:
 Mudbound by Hillary Jordan is a riveting page-turner, set in 1940s Mississippi Delta. The storytelling is fierce and deeply human. It won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction in 2006, which is awarded biannually to a first literary novel that addresses issues of social justice.

Jordan’s newest novel, When She Woke, is proving to be every bit as popular with readers. A new take on The Scarlet Letter, When She Woke is a “timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated, but “chromed” and released back into the population to survive as best they can.” Debuting as a #1 Indie Next Pick, When She Woke is destined to be a book club favorite.

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick is about a man who places an ad in the paper for exactly what the title says, “a reliable wife.” Catherine Land answers this ad and it is on the platform of a train station that the book opens on Ralph Truitt as he, and the reader, anxiously await Catherine’s arrival. But Catherine is not exactly all she pretends, and Ralph has some hidden motives of his own. It is a story of the desperation of love and the lengths a person will go to in order to achieve atonement. A fast-paced and completely engrossing book.

Saving the World by Julia Alvarez interweaves past and present, literature and science, in a compelling ongoing story of two strong and courageous women. Alma discovers, while researching her next novel, that in 1803 a Spanish doctor crossed the ocean with over twenty orphaned boys in order to bring the smallpox vaccine to the new world. Accompanying the orphans was a nun, Isabel. Alma imagines Isabel’s journey — the heartbreak, struggle, and hardships of being a lone woman on this long and unimaginable voyage — in her new novel. Meanwhile, Alma makes her own difficult trek to the Dominican Republic, Julia Alvarez’s own childhood home. Gathering strength from Isabel’s story, Alma manages her own dangerous voyage into the unknown.

Meet Algonquin Books and Enter for your chance to win
on Thursday, December 8th
at BOOKMARKS Book Club Social

Hosted by Forsyth County Public Library
4:00pm-5:30pm in the auditorium
To make your reservation, click here.

Invite your book club friends for this
FREE event! 

  Stephen Boyd is the J. Allen Easley Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University. He teaches courses on the history of Christianity and Christian thought, gender studies, and religion and public life.  He has been awarded The Don Schoonmaker Faculty Prize for Community Service (2005) and the The Reid Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1989). He is the author of Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology, The Men We Long to Be, and the editor of Redeeming Men: Religion and Masculine Identity. Boyd has served as co-chair of the Men’s Studies in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion, President of the American Men’s Studies Association, and was a founder of Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (C.H.A.N.G.E.) in Winston-Salem.

Boyd will talk with Reverend Dr. John Mendez of Emmanuel Baptist Church about his book which addresses race, religion and the criminal justice system. Additional commentary and discussion will be provided by other participants in the 18 year struggle to free Hunt.

The Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice grew out of one man’s determination to help others after serving more than eighteen years for a crime he never committed. The project is a non-profit organization with three primary goals:

• To provide assistance to individuals who have been wrongfully incarcerated.
• To help ex-offenders obtain the skills, guidance, and support they need as they return to life outside the prison system.
• To advocate for changes in the justice system so innocent people won’t spend time in prison.

The Project’s most important asset is Darryl Hunt. He has spoken to over 200 conferences, schools, film festivals and religious groups to spread his message of reform and compassion. He has played a pivotal role in the state-wide effort to pass a Death Penalty Moratorium Bill and has appeared before a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the death penalty appeals process. 

His appearances have contributed to the state-wide adoption of new laws requiring information sharing with defense counsel, procedural changes in eyewitness identification and what is being called the Hunt Effect— a more alert and critical attitude among jurors—in legal proceedings. Mr. Hunt travels nationally speaking on behalf of the Project’s mission.

At the press conference on the day of his release – Christmas Eve 2004 – Darryl Hunt made two statements, characteristic of his forgiving and resolute spirit, that serve as inspiration for the DHPFJ. Of his friend, Sammy Mitchell serving a sentence for a crime related to the Deborah Sykes murder investigation, Hunt declared, “No matter what you think of Sammy Mitchell as a person, he is just as innocent as I am.”

Of the challenges he and many others – innocent and guilty – face on their release, he said, “If we don’t show love to them while they are in prison, we can’t expect them to show love for us once they are out.”

While the Deborah Sykes murder investigation and conviction sharply divided Winston-Salem along racial lines for almost twenty years, Mr. Hunt’s spirit and conviction have attracted a bi-racial, interfaith group of people to work together on the Board of Directors and Board of Advisors of the DHPFJ. Guided by his vision, this group of African-American and European-American leaders adopted initiatives to address the racially divisive effects in our community of the flaws in the criminal justice system.

  Making Justice Our Business: The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work of Faith will be available for purchase from Wake Forest University Bookstore. A book signing by the author will follow the program. This program is free and open to the public. For information: www.bookmarksnc.org / 336-788-7023.

BOOKMARKS and Emmanuel Baptist Church present Stephen Boyd,
author of Making Justice Our Business:
The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work of Faith
Monday, November 28 at 7 p.m.
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1075 Shalimar Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27107
Free and Open to the Public