I don't think I really came into my own as a writer until I started to blend the two for my novels. Some nonfiction writers say they have a hard time writing fiction because they'd have to make everything up from scratch, while some fiction writers say they struggle with writing nonfiction because they have to stick to the facts and can't shape the story to their liking. Parker's Cheap Shot, was published in May. Parker estate to continue the late author's popular series about famed private eye Spenser. (The author also resides in Mississippi with his family.) The fourth in the series, The Forsaken, was released July 24.Ītkins was also chosen by the Robert B. He has written more than a dozen novels, among them the Quinn Colson series, about an Army Ranger who returns from Iraq and Afghanistan to become sheriff of his native Tibbehah County, Miss. Marilyn Dahl, editor, Shelf Awareness for ReadersĪce Atkins is a former journalist who received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a series of articles investigating an old unsolved murder. We'll bring you more summer reminiscences in the upcoming weeks. But it was the start of my journey to loving all kinds of literature and the need for 'fluff' as well as the weighty stuff." Kristin McConnell, Shelf Awareness sales manager, chose Watership Down, the summer before fourth grade: "It was the perfect book to read in the orchards during a week at Grandma's house." Our children's editor, Jennifer Brown, recalls getting lost in The Thorn Birds the summer before 10th grade, and "then having an argument with my (beloved) 10th-grade English teacher about my belief that it was 'literature.' Was it so different from The Scarlet Letter, I wondered-a man of the cloth getting involved with a laywoman. Natasha and Andrei were more real to me than my family. I saw Cossacks and Russian nobility dressed for balls and the threat of Napoleon everywhere I looked.
Cindy Heidemann, PGW sales rep, said hers is from the summer she was 12: "I read War and Peace and it colored the entire month of July. I asked a few other people about their summer books.
Doolittle, and Enid Blyton's The Adventure Series (Kiki the parrot!). There I'd read until it got too hot or my mom called me to come inside. When I think of summer reading, I think of childhood-wasn't it always sunny then? I would get up early, take a blanket, a book and an apple out onto the lawn, and plop down next to a pale pink climbing rose. A few weeks ago, Shelf Awareness ran an article about a summer reading round-up with five great Southern bookstores, and one question struck me in particular: Looking back at your life of reading, do you have one book in particular associated with a certain summer?
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