BOOK NEWS
Wacky David Sedaris comes to the Buell
Bestselling author, playwright, radio commentator and satirist David Sedaris will share his off-center take on modern life in an appearance Oct. 30 at the Buell Theatre.
Sedaris is best known for his books, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and his public radio program “This American Life.”
Sedaris has been the subject of some controversy of late, fielding charges of either exaggerating or totally making up parts of his biographical books. Tickets for his 7:30 p.m. show are $32 and $34. 303-893-4100 or or through all TicketWest locations and King Soopers stores. |The Denver Post
Early start on reading When the first day of school rolls around, kindergarten and pre-K students in Lackawanna and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania could be carrying their own copy of a familiar book.
United Way of Lackawanna County’s Success by 6 program and the Wayne County Children’s coalition have been passing out copies of “A Splendid Friend, Indeed,” by Suzanne Bloom as part of the statewide program, “One Book, Every One Child.” The program began in 2006 to promote literacy to Pennsylvania preschoolers. | thetimes-tribune.com
FIRST LINE
Salt By Jeremy Page, $24.95
Finding a man buried up to his neck in mud. That’s how it’s meant to have started. Him in the mud and her pushing a pram towards him over the saltmarsh. He’s on one side of a creek and she’s on the other. The pram is full of samphire and there’s more of it in her hands and by her feet. Bright green samphire on black, oily mud, the start of this story has very few colours. And against the mud – quite unexpectedly – she’s seen the shocking blond hair of the man.
“She said she nearly tripped over him. That her wellies nearly kicked him like he was a washed-up fishing buoy, till at the last second – the very last second, which was also their first – he’d smile politely, and said hello.”
MOST BORROWED FROM LIBRARIES
Fiction
1. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
3. I Heard That Song Before, by Mary Higgins Clark
4. Simple Genius, by David Baldacci
5. Step on a Crack, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Nonfiction
1. The Measure of a Man, by Sidney Poitier
2. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
4. The Lost Boy, by Dave Pelzer
5. The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
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