Books Are My People Weekly Newsletter
out today, paperback releases and more!
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My son graduates from high school this week, so it’s been a crazy time and not much reading is getting done, but I’m getting excited for summer reads!
June will be our independent reading month (this is a change from the previous schedule) with a culminating zoom for paying subscribers at the end of the month.
I’m also going to try and put together an additional zoom about book covers where we talk about them and draw / paint them because that was fun! Stay tuned. That event will be open to all.
Let Me Help You Discover Books You Might Not Otherwise Read!
Out Today: (I’ve starred the ones I’ve read)
A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi
Sisters heal their relationship in the south of France.
key words: sisters, Basque Country, healing
Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane (This is a paperback release!)
Barnett is getting married in his mother farmhouse. The only problem is, she doesn’t know it.
key words: Louisiana, wedding, small town
The Editor by Sara B. Franklin
Did you watch the TV series Julia? That’s where I first met Judith Jones. Legendary editor and the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century--including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath--finally gets her due in this intimate biography.
key words: biography, Judith Jones
The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth
The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it.
key words: microbiographies, book lovers
I’m A Fool to Want You: Stories by Camila Villada
Nine stories inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves.
key words: short stories, speculative
You Are Here by David Nicholls
When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for.
key words: humor, marriage, divorce, romance
The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr
A gripping page-turner of one of history's most heroic uprisings and an actress whose personal war never ends, The Goddess Of Warsaw is filled with secrets, lies, twists and turns, and a burning pursuit of justice no matter the cost.
key words: historical fiction, World War II
Paperback Releases:
Mister Magic by Kiersten White
Castmates from a hit children’s TV show reunite and reminisce about the magic man and their deadly last day of filming. Are they reunited by choice, or have they been lured into a trap?
*The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three
*The Measure by Nikki Erlick
A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life?
Online Writing, Reading and Art Events This Week (three things I love!)
Events for Readers and Writers:
Tuesday, May 28th at 3 pm pt:
was a previous guest on my Books Are My People podcast. (Listen Here) She will be speaking with Mesha Maren at Malaprop’s Bookstore, which you can watch virtually. Click here to RSVP.Wednesday, May 29th at 9 am PT I will be hosting my Read With Me culminating zoom for Lexi Freiman’s The Book of Ayn. If you’re a paying subscriber, details have been sent to you.
Sunday, June 2 at 10am PT Rachel Lyon author of The Fruit of the Dead will host a free workshop. Click here to sign up.
Art Events:
Tuesday, May 28th at 1:30 pm PT
joins in one of her Draw Your World sessions. (For Patreon and Paying Substack Subscribers)Thursday, May 30th at 8 am PT
will be drawing / painting lizards! (For Paying Substack Subscribers)Thursday, May 30th at 4 pm PT,
will be hosting an Art Hang Party where she will be drawing clouds. Click here to join.
Loved this Patreon session with
where we painted Trixie! I can’t stand wasting paint, so whenever I have extra paint on my palette, I paint it into my sketchbook and then use it as a background as I have in this image.I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week! Any new releases out today that you’re excited to share? Leave me a comment!
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Thank you for sharing about our Leaping Lizards session! 🦎🩷 Can’t wait for this Saturday with the Sneaky Artist too!
I’m looking forward to reading the David Nicholls book. Good idea to do an independent reading for June.