The Vermont Book Shop
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Book review: Marley — by Jon Clinch
(Atria Books) When we meet Jacob Marley in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” and yes, this is the selfsame man in Jon Clinch’s delectable new novel, he is a…
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Book review: Make it Scream, Make it Burn — by Leslie Jamison
(Little Brown and Company) Leslie Jamison, author of the award-winning essay collection, “The Empathy Exams,” is an astute observer of the people she investigates, holding her skepticism in…
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Book review: Street of Storytellers — by Doug Wilhelm
(Rootstock Publishing) Luke isn’t interested in learning anything about Peshawar or Pakistan, because even though his dad “had him over Christmas vacation. It said so in the divorce,”…
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Book review: This Tender Land — by William Kent Krueger
(Atria Books) The epigraph at the beginning of William Kent Krueger’s could not be more apt: “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story” from Homer’s…
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Book review: Renia’s Diary: A holocaust journal — by Renia Spiegel
(St. Martin’s Press) Renia’s diary — because that is what you hold in your hands, the diary of a young girl, a teenager, whose childhood was, as Greta…
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NER Vermont Reading Series at Vermont Book Shop
MIDDLEBURY — The NER Vermont Reading Series presents an evening of new writing with poets Sara London and Sarah Wolfson, essayist Emily Arnason Casey, and fiction writer Rahat…
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Major Jackson to speak at Vermont Book Shop
MIDDLEBURY — Poet, University of Vermont professor and guest editor of “The Best American Poetry 2019,” Major Jackson presents this new published annual collection with featured poets Didi…
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Book review: Made Holy: Essays — by Emily Arnason Casey
(University of Georgia Press) As an essay collection, Emily Arnason Casey’s new book succeeds on every level. Her writing is evocative, relatable, haunting and magical. Using descriptive prose…
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Book review: The Secrets We Kept — by Lara Prescott
(Knopf Publishing Group) As the Cold War began to intensify in the mid-1950s, the not-so-venerable C.I.A., referred to as “the Agency” in Lara Prescott’s sensational new novel, devoted…
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Author of ‘The Dirty Life’ to speak in Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — Organic farmer and writer Kristin Kimball will read from and discuss her new memoir, “Good Husbandry,” on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 6:30 p.m., at the Vermont Book…
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Book review: Frankly in Love — by David Yoon
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers) Frank Li is “Frankly in Love,” but just who is he in love with? Frank, a Korean American teen who runs…
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Children’s book author to host special story time
MIDDLEBURY —New England author Mary Beth Stevens will read her new picture book, “Tippy Finds a Home,” at a special afternoon children’s story time on Saturday, Sept. 28,…
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Book review: The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories — by Ayse Papatya Bucak
(W. W. Norton & Company) A collection of stories as refreshingly cool and bright as these last few weeks have been in our Land of Milk and Honey,…
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Book review: A Better Man — by Louise Penny
(Minotaur Books) Steadfast readers of Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache series of murder mysteries: rest assured that “A Better Man,” the 15th book in the award-winning series, will exceed…
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Book review: Dead Voices — by Katherine Arden
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers) In a follow-up to Small Spaces, Katherine Arden, bestselling author of the Winternight series, has crafted another spellbinding ghost story about…
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Book Review: Out Stealing Horses — by Per Petterson
(Graywolf Press) Rereading is its own simple pleasure, and discovering a book that you want to reread is a treasure. I first read “Out Stealing Horses” by Per…