On Monday 26 December 2011, Booktown's Readers Panel got together to discuss their favorite books they read in 2011.
John Deaderick
Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
My Name is Will by Jess Winfield
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Alison Jones-Pomatto
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Galveston by Nic Pizzolato
What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz
My New American Life by Francine Prose
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Cameron Cobden
True Grit by Charles Portis
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin
Eric Tomb
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
Poems by Anna Akhmatova , edited and translated by Lyn Coffin
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
The audio of this program will be up soon.
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On Thursday 7 July 2011, I talked with Santa Cruz teacher and writer Sarah Juniper Rabkin about her recent book What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding a Home in the World (Juniper Lake Press). She will read from and sign her book at 2 PM on Saturday 16 July at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive, Grass Valley.
To hear the interview, click here.
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John Deaderick, Cameron Cobden, Alison Jones-Pomatto: favorite books of 2010
On Sunday 23 January 2011, Booktown's Readers Panel got together to discuss their favorite books they read in 2010.
John Deaderick
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (with a nod to her Oryx and Crake)
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Cameron Cobden
Malazan Book of the Fallen (10 volumes) by Steven Erikson
Eric Tomb
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
Julian by Gore Vidal
Gun With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo
No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July
The Greek Poets edited by Peter Constantine et al
Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia
The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel
Washington Rules by Andrew Bacevich
Alison Jones-Pomatto
Long Song by Andrea Levy
Great House by Nicole Kraus
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulus
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Thieves of Manhattan by Adam Langer
To hear this program, click here.
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On Sunday 9 January 2011I talked with Nevada City/Sacramento novelist Bill Pieper about his latest novel What You Wish For (Strategic Book Group). He will read from and sign his book at 2 PM on Saturday 22 January at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive, Grass Valley.
To hear this interview, click here.
I talked with Bill about his earlier novel Gomez on 23 January 2006.
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On Monday 13 December 2010 I talked with Nevada County author Hock G Tjoa about his new book The Battle of Chibi (Red Cliffs), a translation of central chapters of the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. He will read from and sign his book at 2 PM on Saturday 18 December at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive, Grass Valley.
To hear this interview, click here.
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On Wednesday 10 November I recorded an interview with Santa Monica author (and former Nevada County resident) Susan Suntree about her most recent book Sacred Sites: The Hidden History of Southern California (University of Nebraska Press). Ms Suntree will appear at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive in Grass Valley at 2 PM on Saturday 13 November to discuss and sign copies of her book. We also mentioned her earlier book of poems Eye of the Womb, which has just appeared in a bilingual English-Spanish edition.
To hear this interview, click here.
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The radio program Booktown has ended but I will still occasionally post some audio interviews and written comments about books that interest me. The first few look like they will have to do with books about China and the Chinese.
On Monday 6 September 2010 I recorded an interview with San Francisco author Trina Robbins about her recent book Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press). Ms Robbins will appear at Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters/Tomes, 671 Maltman Drive in Grass Valley at 2 PM on Saturday 25 September to discuss and sign copies of her book.
To hear this interview, click here.
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