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Fri, 05/16/2008

Ann Brashares, author of The Last Summer (of You and Me) - our blogger for the week of 5/19:

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Ann Brashares is our guest blogger during the week of May 19th. If you have any questions for her add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about The Last Summer (of You and Me):

From the author of the multimillion-copy, #1 bestselling series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants comes a heartbreaking first adult novel.

Ann Brashares's series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, has made her one of the most successful contemporary authors, shipping more than 8 million copies over the last five years and winning even more millions of passionate fans. Now, like Judy Blume (Summer Sisters) before her, Brashares turns her spectacular gifts to adult readers. In The Last Summer (of You and Me), Brashares uses her remarkable storytelling, emotional insights, and talent for capturing relationships to weave a rich, textured, mature novel that will resonate as clearly with readers in their forties as in their twenties.

Set on Long Island's Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page-turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss, and growing up. It is the story of a beach community friendship triangle-Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they've grown up with-and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them.

As wise, compelling, and endearing as her Traveling Pants series, and as lyrical, thoughtful, and moving as the best literary women's fiction, this novel is sure to win an entire new generation of adult fans.

Posted by Penguin Group USA on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 3:36pm. in
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Fri, 05/16/2008

Lincoln Hall Signs at Barnes & Noble on his Dead Lucky Tour:

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Here are some stats about Lincoln Hall:

  • He is Australian
  • He attempted to climb Everest with no Oxygen in 1984 but turned back before reaching the summit.
  • In 2006, at the age of 50, Lincoln was given another chance to reach the summit. This time, he made it.
  • Later that day, Lincoln was left for dead on Mount Everest, with no oxygen or shelter.
  • Lincoln Hall was one of 12 climbers to be officially pronounced dead on Everest in 2006, and remains the only person to be declared dead so high on Everest and live to tell the tale.
  • Dead Lucky is his eighth book.

    • You would expect a man who "died," spent a night alone in Mount Everest's "Death Zone" and lived to tell the tale to be quite serious about his experience. After all, he went through one of the most harrowing ordeals imaginable and as a constant reminder is missing several fingers due to frostbite (a serious handicap for a writer.)

    And Lincoln Hall does speak seriously about those famous events of 2006. But he also has a sense of humor about them.

    Posted by Penguin Group USA on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:03pm. in
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    Fri, 05/16/2008

    Mo' Better Austen, by Laurie Viera Rigler:

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    There were only about two months between the end of The Jane Austen Book Club's run in movie theatres and the beginning of Masterpiece Theatre's months-long Austen extravaganza. Four new films! One new biopic! Two rebroadcasts! Those of us who have to manage a serious Austen habit thought we'd died and gone to Janeite heaven.

    Then, on April 6, 2008, it all ended. The end credits rolled on the last installment of Sense and Sensibility, and we were left to fend for ourselves.

    The message boards and blogs swelled with the lamentations of Austen fans everywhere. What would we do? Where would we turn?

    Of course we had Austen's six novels to re-read, and we would never tire of doing so. And we would continue to play our Austen DVDs till they skipped or our players wore out.

    But, like any addict, there's no such thing as enough. We want more. More, I tell you. More.

    So, if anyone out there in the world of film and television is listening, please take note: There can never be too many adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. Or Emma. Or Sense and Sensibility. Or Northanger Abbey. Or Persuasion. Or Mansfield Park.

    Posted by Penguin Group USA on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 11:17am. in
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