Hold Up the Sky

by Patricia Sprinkle, due out March 2010.

The Sweet By and By: A Novel

This book by Todd Johnson was recommended in the March issue of Southern Living. Click HERE to read more about it.

Promising Author

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_4qwVLqt9Q

 

Have any of you read Kelly Corrigan's work?   Enjoy the video.

Ann 

 

 

South of Broad

New Pat Conroy books, set for publication in September 09!

The Help

This recommendation is from Karin Gillespie, co-author of the Sweet Potato Queen's Big Ass Novel...

A Hundred Years of Happiness by Nicole Seitz

I read about this book on A Blog by Southern Authors (link at right). This author paints her cover art, too. Check out her website. This isn't her first book, but this short clip has me intrigued. It comes out March 2009.

Food for Thought: Retreat Recap

The Bluestockings have returned from our annual weekend away and it was nearly perfect (having Ann there would have made it 100%). There were laughs, movies, shopping, more laughs, food, and yes, we had our book discussion thank-you-very-much. We mapped out our selections for 2009 and are looking forward to our 2010 weekend adventure! We did that after we spent all day out in public attired in identical Life Is Good tees (book themed, of course). I hope those who saw us had a good laugh; I'm sure they were wondering where our red hats were but we are NOT that kind of group!

The Retreat

The Bluestockings are READY for our retreat this weekend. Pillars of the Earth is our book and it surely will take all weekend for us to discuss...except when we are eating, shopping, or having a cocktail (or all three!).

2008

01/17/08 - pb - The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
02/15-17/08 - retreat - A Diverse Collection of Biographies

03/20/08 - aw - Snow Flour and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

04/17/08 - jc - The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

05/15/08 - as - The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom

06/18/08 - mc - The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel by Jill C. Browne

07/24/08 - kb - The Ruins by Scott Smith

08/14/08 - cc - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

09/11/08 - aw - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

10/09/08 - pb - Good Family by Terry Gamble

11/06/08 - mc - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

12/11/08 - as - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Characters

Here's a link to a flow chart of the characters in Pillars of the Earth:
http://www.ken-follett.com/images/trees/POTE_WWE_character_tree_v2.pdf