Cat in the Clouds by Eric Pinder
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Catamount: A North Country Thriller by Rick Davidson
6/3/23
6/2/23
#Friday56
The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice and the rules are simple:
- Grab a book, any book
- Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
- Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
- Post the snippet to your blog and add your post url to the Linky at the host site
Here on NH Book Notes I am adding the rule that the book has to be by a NH author.
"He was unaccountably restless all night, disquieted not only by his own tumultuous thoughts, but by a variety of nocturnal sounds: the cricketlike chirp of toad-frogs, engaged on their amorous occasions in the disused sugar kettle beneath his window; the liquid trill of the mockingbird which had found daylight all too short for its throat-bursting jubilance; the lonesome wail of a freight engine hauling its mixed string of box and tank cars northward towards Vicksburg; the asthmatic chuff of the John D. Grace churning downstream from Baton Rouge to Plaquemine; and sharpening all these, the vicious whine of mosquitoes beyond the bars."
5/29/23
Book of the Week (5/29/2023)
NH native Marielle Thompson's debut novel is a compelling love story with classic Gothic inspirations.
Mexican Gothic meets Outlander in this spellbindingly atmospheric timeslip debut, as a woman struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiancé's mysterious, alluring 19th century ancestor.
Traveling to be with her fiancé’s terminally ill mother in her last days, Saoirse Read expected her introduction to the family’s ancestral home would be bittersweet. But the stark thrust of Langdon Hall against the cliff and the hundred darkened windows in its battered walls are almost as forbidding as the woman who lies wasting inside. Her fiancé’s parents make no secret of their distaste for Saoirse, and their feelings have long since spread to their son. Or perhaps it is only the shadows of her mind suggesting she’s unwelcome, seizing on her fears while her beloved grieves?
As Saoirse takes to wandering the estate’s winding, dreamlike gardens, overgrown and half-wild with neglect, she slips back through time to 1818. There she meets Theo Page, a man like her fiancé but softer, with all the charms of that gentler age, and who clearly harbors a fervent interest in her. As it becomes clear that Theo is her fiancé’s ancestor, and the tenuous peace of Langdon Hall crumbles around her, Saoirse finds she’s no longer sure which dreams and doubts belong to the present—and which might not be dreams at all . . . --Publisher's blurb
Join Marielle at Gibson's Bookstore on Friday, June 30th, 2023 at 6:30 pm where she will be discussing her debut novel!
5/26/23
#Friday56
The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice and the rules are simple:
- Grab a book, any book
- Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
- Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
- Post the snippet to your blog and add your post url to the Linky at the host site
Here on NH Book Notes I am adding the rule that the book has to be by a NH author.
From Bull by David Elliott:
"Whichever, catastrophe or farce,
The script, I think, needs to be improved:
I wear a mask that cannot be removed."
That is, in fact, all of page 56.
5/22/23
Book of the Week (5/22/2023)
The lyceum movement gained momentum in the decades preceding the Civil War, presenting members with the opportunity to participate in literary life and engage with the issues of the day. While urban lyceums played host to a who’s who of nineteenth-century intellectual life, literary societies also cropped up in thousands of villages across the nation, acting as influential sites of learning, creativity, and community engagement. In rural New England, ordinary men and women, farmers and intelligentsia, selectmen and schoolchildren came together to write and perform poetry and witty parodies and debate a wide range of topics, from women’s rights and temperance to slavery, migration, and more.
Wit and Wisdom takes readers inside this long-forgotten tradition, providing new access to the vibrant voices, surprising talents, and understated humor on display on many a cold winter’s night. Having uncovered dozens of handwritten newspapers produced by village lyceums across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, Joan Newlon Radner proves that these close-knit groups offered a vital expression of the beliefs, ambitions, and resilience of rural New Englanders. -- Publisher's blurb
5/19/23
#Friday56
The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice and the rules are simple:
- Grab a book, any book
- Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
- Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
- Post the snippet to your blog and add your post url to the Linky at the host site
Here on NH Book Notes I am adding the rule that the book has to be by a NH author.
From Strange Sweet Song by Adi Rule:
"Can he hear her heart beating all the way over there? He pushes himself off the wall with his shoulders and leaves without a word."
5/15/23
Book of the Week (5/15/2023)
Jaffrey, NH author Andrew Krivak's latest novel is a layered story of a multigenerational family saga and the horrors of war.
A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak.
Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century.
After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef’s daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq.
In spare, breathtaking prose, Like the Appearance of Horses is the freestanding, culminating novel in Andrew Krivak’s award-winning Dardan Trilogy, which began with The Sojourn and The Signal Flame. It is a story about borders drawn within families as well as around nations, and redrawn by ethnicity, prejudice, and war. It is also a tender story of love and how it is tested by duty, loyalty, and honor. --Publisher's blurb
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