Track Record

Sometimes a book will come into the library that I'm already interested in, and then I find out that it's written by someone who's written other books that I enjoy. Score!

Masha Hamilton wrote, among other things, The Camel Bookmobile. While this book did not have an easy, "Hollywood" style ending, it was beautifully written and had characters that I ended up caring deeply about. Now I'm in the middle of her newest, 31 Hours, which I think will prove to be more of the same. The story covers 31 hours in the lives of various people--a mother who has a premonition that something is wrong with her son; the son, who is planning a terrorist attack that will end his life; the son's girlfriend, who finally knows what it is to love; etc. Thus far, I'm enjoying it immensely.

A while ago, I read a wonderful book called Three Sisters and Their Brother, which was about celebrity, New York city, and the ties that bind families together. At the time, I said that it seemed like The Catcher in the Rye for a whole new generation, without the self-consciousness that goes along with being The Catcher in the Rye for a new generation. When I picked up the new book, Twelve Rooms with a View, thinking that I wanted to read it, I suddenly realized that the author, Theresa Rebeck, also wrote Three Sisters. Yay!!!