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 I prowled through the craft stores this week looking for orange and brown. Time to change "the look" in the store and at home - a bittersweet task. Entirely dark at 9 pm now but that means more hours to read! I'm finishing Siddhartha and Gilead, reading a little Emily Dickinson and realizing that I've misplaced a couple of books I started this spring. Where could they be?
I love belonging to goodreads.com because I find out about so many great reads and get to read the reviews my friends post there. This no-cost site is that place where all my lists can all reside - the books I have read, my reviews and the books I hope to read before I die - sort of my literary Bucket List.
We are gearing up for a wonderful and busy autumn. Inklings will soon celebrate our 9th anniversary. We have chosen a book that many of us have read and loved as our Anniversary Celebration Book for 2009. It is Labor Day by Joyce Maynard. We think you are going to like it to. Kind of fun that the special begins around Labor Day, too, don't you think? During September, Labor Day, usually $24.99 will be only $17.49! Read it and get ready to buy a stack for Christmas gifts. The coupon below is reusable - buy as many copies of Labor Day as you'd like!
Sue Domis of Inklings Bookshop reviewed Labor Day:"What a surprise! I didn't expect to be so moved by this book. It is simply great in a quiet gentle way. This is a coming of age story, a story about a lonely agoraphobic single mother, & an escaped convict who brings love & wisdom to them both. My heart was really touched by the characters & I hope they'd have a good ending. I still think about them, a few months after I've read the book. That's the sign of a great read for me!
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By Jim Lynch
Northwest
writer Jim Lynch has written a very different book from his earlier gem
The Highest Tide. This was a different and refreshing read. The
character, Brandon, was a wonderful ploy for the author  to use as the
center of the novel and to have him react with all the other
characters. Living in the Northwest I am familiar with the border area
and the drug problems occurring there. It was interesting to read how
Lynch views these problems with his own sense of humor. This is a
touching and funny novel, and Brandon is a wonderful new literary
character, a dyslexic, a nature artist, and a socially awkward young
man who should live in literary history. ~Sue Domis
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My Year of Cooking Dangerously By Julie Powell
 Read the book before watching the movie
which opens in theaters on August 7. Nearly thirty and trapped in a
dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by
cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in
Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a new-found respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life--lived with gusto. In paperback: $14.99
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