Nov 07, 2012
Here are the books currently featured in the Sunday papers!
This week, the Pioneer Press [1] is featuring fall nonfiction by Minnesota authors including Profound Blessings by Catherine Capra-Leaf, A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury by Louise Mathewson, Hmong and American: From Refugees to Citizens [2] edited by Vincent K. Hart and Mary Louise Buley-Meissner, Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota by Stewart Van Cleve, A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland by Charles Lachman, and Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald [3] by Michael Schumacher. Also profiled was A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the Lives of Andre and Magda Trocme by Richard P. Unsworth.
On the Minneapolis side in the Star Tribune [3], My Ideal Bookshelf [4]by Thessaly La Force showed up in The Five Spot (five faves section). In the Books [5] section, nonfiction titles reviewed include Hallucinations [6] by Oliver Sacks, Custer [7] by Larry McMurtry, and The Fun Stuff [8] by James Wood. Reviewed short stories collections included It Takes You Over by Nick Healy and Blasphemy [9] by Sherman Alexie. The lone novel reviewed was Flight Behavior [10] by Barbara Kingsolver.
Happy reading!
- Newspapers [11]