New England Crime Bake, 2008

Do you write mysteries?  Like to read mysteries?  There’s still time to sign up for the 2008 New England Crime Bake Conference, run by the New England Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and the New England Chapter of Sisters in Crime.  The conference will be held this year in Dedham, MA, November 14, 15 and 16, and Harlan Coben is the guest of honor.  Registration closes November 7 (or when capacity is reached), and is $220 for non-members.

Love mysteries but can’t attend the conference?  Read the blog, with posts from well-known mystery writers, or look at the schedule here.  Or go hear one of your favorite authors at an upcoming New England event sponsored by the Speakers Bureau of the Sisters in Crime.

Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again, by Roger H. Martin

This is the chronicle of a college’ president’s sabbatical spent as a first year student at St. John’s College in Annapolis.  Martin weaves the classics into the meaning of what he is experiencing as a 61 year old second time around freshman and his observations of the young people starting out in their college lives.  Both funny and poignant–a must read for adults of all ages.

RATING: * * * * * One of the best books I’ve read
Reviewed by: Nancy J.

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Celebrate National Reading Group Month!

An initiative of the Women’s National Book Association, October is National Reading Group Month! Celebrate the joy of shared reading, and if you don’t already belong to one, join or start a book group! (Book Group Buzz has a great list of Book Group Resources.)

Events will be held around the country, including  a readers’ round-robin at Hotel 140 in Boston (140 Clarendon St.), Sat., Oct. 25; 2-5 p.m., with Joan Anderson (The Second Journey, Hyperion); Ann Harleman (The Year She Disappeared, Univ. of Texas Press); Jennifer Haigh (The Condition, HarperCollins); Judith Nies (The Girl I Left Behind, HarperCollins); Deborah Noyes (Angel and Apostle, Unbridled Books); and Gina Ogden (The Return of Desire, Trumpeter). Contact: Laurie Beckelman, lbeckelman@aol.com, or Katherine Dibble, kdibble@att.net.