2. Murder on the Quai, by Cara Black (event 6/28, 7 pm)
3. Barkskins, by Annie Proulx
4. LaRose, by Louise Erdrich
5. As Good as Gone, by Larry Watson (event 6/21, 7 pm, with Mitch Teich)
6. Kitchens of the Great Midwest, by J. Ryan Stradal
7. The Fireman, by Joe Hill
8. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
9. Hero of France, by Alan Furst
10. The Drifter, by Nicholas Petrie
Similarly The Girls has had mostly but not all (The New Yorker) raves and I thought that she and her publisher had added new stakes to the triple crown, by getting a daily review (from Alexandra Alter), Sunday review (from Dylan Landis), and two features, also from Alter plus one about writing in her garden shed in the Magazine. But the daily review was more of a roundup so i don't feel comfortable calling it whatever one would call it...the Grand Slam (referencing tennis)?
Update: One of our friends reminded me that The New York Times did have a negative review of The Girls from Dwight Garner, but try is I might, I couldn't seem to get it to come up on my search engine. Now of course, it did. Here it is. So that makes...five features?
1. Meathead, by Meathead Goldwyn
2. Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods, by John Gurda
3. Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
4. The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
5. But What if We're Wrong, by Chuck Klosterman
6. The View From the Cheap Seats, by Neil Gaiman
7. Grunt, by Mary Roach
8. Cure, by Jo Marchant
9. Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
10. Witness to the Revolution, by Clara Bingham
What indeed is the story behind Cure: A Journey Into Mind Over Body, the new book from British science writer Jo Marchant about rejecting the dichotomy between traditional and non-traditional medicine. Jennifer Senior writes in The New York Times: "Ms. Marchant, the author of Decoding the Heavens and The Shadow King, wants to acknowledge the alternative therapies that have withstood the scrutiny of Western peer review. More broadly, she wants to acknowledge the important and influential role of the mind in our overall health. What follows her introduction is a 12-chapter tour d’horizon, with the author crisscrossing the globe to make a detailed relief map of the latest mind-body research. Virtual reality therapy in Seattle! Hypnosis in Northern England! Placebo studies in Italy and Germany!"

1. Kitchens of the Great Midwest, by J. Ryan Stradal
2. The Exodus Code, by John and Carole E. Barrowman
3. The Fearless Flag Thrower of Lucca, by Paul Salsini
4. A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
5. The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George
6. A Spool of Blue Thread, by Ann Tyler
7. Girl Waits With Gun, by Amy Stewart
8. My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
9. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, by Katarina Bivald
10. The Lake House, by Kate Morton
Tyler's is just one book we recommended at the Elm Grove Library book club night, featuring J. Ryan Stradal and Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Other books that had a major pop were The Little Paris Bookshop (of course) and Girl Waits With Gun, which looks like it might be turning into a book club favorite.
1. Happy Felsch, by Thomas Rathkamp
2. Milwaukee in the 1930s, by John D. Buenker
3. Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow (the legendary Tony Awards pop!)
4. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, by Jennifer Teege
5. World War II Milwaukee, by Meg Jones
6. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stephenson
7. Exoneree Diaries, by Alison Flowers
8. Untethered Soul, by Michael Singer
9. The Residence, by Kate Anderson Brower
10. Your Favorite Band is Killing Me, by Steven Hyden (event 6/24, 7 pm, at Cactus Club)
A few more books from the Elm Grove night hit because of Jane's talking up, notably The Residence and My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me. I still miss having Deutsche Welle on my cable channel as I used to watch the German video show with some regularity. I also might have seen Teege interviewed. Here's the print version, where Teege talks about being the granddaughter Amon Göth, notorious from Schindler's List. The book was called Amon in German, because that's really all you'd need to say over there.
From DW: "Through her book and research, Teege is facing her family history. She looks through pictures of her grandmother, who temporarily lived with Amon Göth in his concentration camp villa. She often travels to Krakow to the scene of her grandfather's crimes. She meets with historical witnesses who remember the horrors of the past. She reads everything she can find about the Nazi past and talks to psychologists to help process it all. 'You think that if you don't talk about something, then it won't have any impact on you. But in my case the silence had a destructive effect,' she said."
1. Hollow Earth, by John and Carole E. Barrowman
2. Goodnight Moon board book, by Margaret Wise Brown
3. Pat the Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt
4. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr, with illustrations by Lois Ehlert
5. Oh the Places You'll Go, by Dr. Seuss
6. Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown
7. Thank You Book, by Mo Willems
8. The Problem With Forever, by Jennifer Armentrout
9. Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney
10. Thunder Boy, Jr, by Sherman Alexie with illustrations by Yuyi Morales
If you want to see the original art for Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius, it is supposedly displayed at Bowdoin College in Maine.
We had a nice post-event pop on The Problem With Forever this week, but searching the internet, I do not know why. I think those signed copies were just calling out to be bought.But alas, I think we're now out of them.
Book editor Jim Higgins profiles Kathie Giorgio, whose new collection of stories is Oddities and Endings. He notes: "Like her hero Ray Bradbury, Giorgio creates fiction in many moods and emotional colors, from quirky comedy to the darkest nights of the soul. What many of those tales share is Giorgio's skill in depicting characters shaped or stunted by their loneliness. Doris, the Catholic heroine of 'Limbo's Gates,' anguishes for decades about the eternal fate of her baby, dead from SIDS before being baptized. In a lighter tone, Audrey of 'In Your Company,' having never acquired a husband, applies her relationship skills to Newt, her pet iguana."
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