In what will hopefully become a regular feature on Reading Local, “Literazzi” will be a series of posts with reader-submitted photo’s of themselves or others (with permission) reading in public. If you would like to be featured in a future Literazzi post please email your picture to literazzi@readinglocal.com.
Our first Literazzi snapshot was submitted by Celeste Thompson and features Paul Thompson reading Henry Hughes‘ latest book of poetry, Moist Meridian. The photo location is Orenco Station in Hillsboro.
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This review is provided courtesy of Reading Local contributor Gilion Dumas. You can read more of Gilion’s reviews and other book musings on her fabulous blog, Rose City Reader.
Judgment Calls is a pretty good first effort from the daughter of legendary mystery writer James Lee Burke. Like her heroine, Samantha Kincaid, Alafair Burke was a Deputy District Attorney in Portland, Oregon. Her book is packed with colorful details of life in a DA’s office, although their inclusion sometimes interrupts the flow of the story.
The book has a decent plot with enough complications to keep it moving along at a good pace. The conclusion is a little far fetched, but Burke builds up to it reasonably well so it did not come completely out of the blue.
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This review is provided courtesy of Reading Local contributor Gilion Dumas. You can read more of Gilion’s reviews and other book musings on her fabulous blog, Rose City Reader.
Four brothers, twin sisters, a father with minor league baseball in his blood, and a Bible thumping mother form the story skeleton of The Brothers K. David James Duncan packs a lot of meat on these bones in his very long, very elaborate, quasi-biographical novel of the Chance family of Camas, Washington.
The first half of the book centers on the baseball career of Hugh “Smoke” Chance, latter known as “Papa Toe” for reasons almost too outlandish to believe. Hugh’s life as a triple-A lefty pitcher stumbles along through interruptions great and small, as his family steadily adds children and his wife rides herd. This part of the book is an engaging account of growing up in small town America in the 1950s and early ‘60s. It has the same steady, powerful flow of the Columbia flowing past Camas.
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