Boston.com Book Club's next read is "Something Wild" boston.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from boston.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary, as well local in-person events as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lectures & learning • The San Diego County Bike Coalition presents “City Cycling” at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 17, online. The virtual class is designed to help riders become more comfortable sharing the road. Class topics include general bike safety, legal rights and responsibilities, and emergency maneuver skills. Free. • The La Jolla Community Center presents “ Spanish for Beginners” starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 23, at 6811 La Jolla Blvd. The eight-week course runs through Wednesday, Aug. 11. $140 for Community Center members; $160 for non-members.
Portland Commissioner Carmen Rubio on taking office in turbulent times bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Reply (Maggie Shipstead) Bestselling author Maggie Shipstead will chat with author Chloe Benjamin about her latest acclaimed novel Great Circle at 6 pm on June 23 via Zoom. Shipstead is the New York Times bestselling author of Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Her latest novel centers on Marian Graves, a daredevil aviator determined to chart her course in life – at any cost – to be the first to fly around the world north-south over the poles. In 1950, near the end of her historic attempt, she vanished in Antarctica. Hadley Baxter is a scandal-plagued movie star who sees her career lifeline in a new role: the lost pilot Marian Graves.
Waukesha County writer Amy E. Reichert s The Kindred Spirits Supper Club has a shaker full of ingredients for quality romantic comedy: a self-conscious heroine, a handsome available man, a bucolic setting and a fizzy ghost who doubles as a yenta. In Kindred Spirits, unemployed journalist Sabrina (please excuse my involuntary shudder) is back home with family in Wisconsin Dells as she heals from some wounds. The Monroes have a secret: The women can see and communicate with ghosts of the recently (and occasionally not-so-recently) deceased, helping them move on to the next world. As with corporeal forms of human entanglement, Sabrina would prefer not to get involved, but over time the perky ghost Molly has become a combination of BFF, imaginary friend and romantic guardian angel for her.
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Or buy the whole trilogy at Amazon and Bookshop The key to gifting books is to know your audience: What do they like to read? For my history buff friends, I always recommend Wolf Hall and the other two books in Hilary Mantel s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell during the reign of Henry VIII (assuming they have not read them yet). Both Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies won the Booker Prize, and the third volume in the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was nominated. Awards aren t everything, but these books truly shine with unique storytelling, shifting perspectives, and prose that makes you feel like you re inside Cromwell s head.