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Bethanne Patrick

What's in Your Bookbag?
March 27, 2007

I rarely have time to wander through big-box bookstores (I'm too busy reading!), but last Friday night, with a spare hour between work and family time, I found myself across the street from one. It's not temptation, it's my vocation... so in I went.

I managed to get out with only five books in my bag, but I could have grabbed more. There were so many interesting new titles on the Fiction and Non-Fiction tables. I decided on Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World and Heyday by Kurt Andersen. And Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, and How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, and Grand Avenues by Scott W. Berg.

Whew. Quite a varied and tempting haul. What would you have chosen?

Posted by Bethanne Patrick on March 27, 2007 | Comments (2)

March 27, 2007
In response to: What's in Your Bookbag?
Lucy P. commented:

I have so many books queued up on my nightstand that buying more right now seems hopeless. However, I have recently begun listening to Audiobooks on my iPod on my way to work, so maybe in a future blog you can make some recommendations for those of us who have more time to listen to a book than to read one!

March 28, 2007
In response to: What's in Your Bookbag?
JOANN commented:

I am also wanting to read "Grand Avenues", preferably before I go to D.C. in two weeks! My new indie store just called to tell me that "Stoner" by John Williams (a reprint of a 1965 novel) has arrived. I would also buy "The God of Animals" by Aryn Kyle and "Skinner's Drift" by Lisa Fugard. Yesterday I bought "Three Cups of Tea". Like I needed another book!