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| "If you can read, even if you can't afford education, you can go on and learn about anything you want to know. There's a book on everything." —Dolly Parton |
| The Thread's Must-Read |
| "The Widow Nash" by Jamie Harrison Buy this book Sometimes serendipity brings a book into your life at just the right time. Maybe it's a memoir that reminds you that we all have to tap into reserves of resilience at certain points in our lives. Perhaps it's a biography that reveals a new and rewarding facet of someone you’ve long admired. Or maybe it's what happened to me on a recent hiking trip. I had put a hold on “The Widow Nash” at the library months ago, and at last I was next on the list. So I found myself reading a weird but wonderful novel about the early frontier days of Livingston, Mont., as I hiked in the mountainous West. The story follows Dulcy Remfrey, the daughter of a eccentric inventor who travels the world searching for a cure for his deteriorating health. As a young girl, Dulcy goes along on many of these journeys. Years later, as her father is dying in Seattle, he hands over his cache of journals. The idea of the journals and how they influence Dulcy’s life was inspired by the notebooks that the author herself inherited from her great-great-grandfather, a mining engineer in Cornwall, England. Dulcy's story takes a turn when — fleeing a wealthy and violent man with the means to pursue her — she stages a fall from a train and vanishes into the frontier. Harrison’s descriptions of the way people lived at the time are vivid and compelling, and the citizens themselves are fascinating. As one newcomer says, “People are holier than thou everywhere, but this place has a sense of humor.” -Kerri Miller |
| This Week on The Thread |
| Dolly Parton gives the gift of literacy: A library of 100 million books In 1995, the entertainer and philanthropist started the Imagination Library, inspired by her father, who couldn't read and write. Now, it mails free books to more than a million kids each month. More |
| A brilliant and barbed memoir of the Iraq War "Eat the Apple" by Matt Young Buy this book In his experimental new memoir, Matt Young conveys the chaos of his three deployments in Iraq. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Young "a frank, funny and mercilessly self-lacerating narrator." More |
| Michelle Obama to release "deeply personal" memoir in November The former first lady tweeted Sunday that the book, to come out a week after the 2018 midterm elections, is called "Becoming." More |
| Curl up with a truly cozy mystery "The Tuscan Child" by Rhys Bowen Buy this book This tale of an RAF pilot, the Italian woman who rescues him after a crash, and 30 years later, his daughter, is so skillful and comforting that you may not even notice the fact that there's a war on. More |
| Sherman Alexie apologies amid sexual misconduct allegations "Over the years, I have done things that have harmed other people, including those I love most deeply," the author said in a statement. "To those whom I have hurt, I genuinely apologize. I am so sorry." More |
| A sequel two decades in the making "Green Sun" by Kent Anderson Buy this book Kent Anderson's new novel is a sequel to 1997's "Night Dogs," and it picks up with antihero Hanson, once an English teacher, now working as a police officer in Oakland — bad attitude entirely intact. More |
| Patton Oswalt on his late wife's search for The Golden State Killer "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" by Michelle McNamara Buy this book Before Michelle McNamara died in 2016, she was working on a book that aimed to bring a serial rapist and murderer to justice. "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" has now been published. More |
| Children's publishing house takes food literacy literally Teaching kids how to eat healthfully and appreciate the cultural diversity of food begins with getting books about these themes into their hands, says Readers to Eaters' founding publisher. More |
| How civilization was shaped by sugar fungi "The Rise of Yeast" by Nicholas Money Buy this book Without yeast, bread wouldn't rise and beer wouldn't foam. As Nicholas Money's new book, "The Rise of Yeast," points out, it leaves its mark on other foods, too, including coffee, and even chocolate. More |
| "Black Panther" fans, here's your next read "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" by Jason Reynolds Buy this book If you've been gripped by the excitement of T'Challa, Wakanda, and more, bookseller Jeffrey Blair knows what to put on your reading pile. More |
| The enduring lyricism of W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk" "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois Buy this book The collection of essays about black American life has been republished for Du Bois' 150th birthday anniversary — and still has plenty to say to those encountering it. More |
| More than just nostalgia, "Time Pieces" is a multilayered memoir of Dublin "Time Pieces" by John Banville Buy this book Irish writer John Banville's new book is a shimmering, frequently elusive book about a city, but also an inquiry into memory, shifting attention, and — above all — time as it passes and becomes the past. More |
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