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Diamonds and Raspberries
Down and dirty reviews of 'New York Times
bestsellers'
by Melanie
Jennings
Melanie Jennings is the Book Reviews Editor at Writers
Monthly. She is also the principal of
Lighthouse Communications, a technical and marketing writing
business in San Diego. She has an MFA in fiction from
Mills College and a doctorate in American Literature
from UCSD.
Melanie has taught creative writing and published
poetry and fiction in such publications as In the
Grove, spelunker flophouse, Crab Creek Review, and
Redwood Coast Review. She has been awarded writing
residencies at the Espy Literary Foundation and the
Jentel Foundation.
P.S.
Melanie buys her bestsellers at L & L Bookstore, 3741 Avocado Blvd., La
Mesa, CA, 91941, phone (619) 660-8646.
Dark
Star Safari, by Paul Theroux,(Houghton Mifflin)
A
couple of cat books sitting around meowing
Life
of Pi, by Yann Martel (Harcourt)
What
Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson (Random House)
Visions
of Sugar Plums, Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s)
To
America: Personal Reflections of an Historian, by Stephen E. Ambrose
(Simon & Schuster)
My
Losing Season, Pat Conroy (Talese/Doubleday)
Four
Blind Mice, James Patterson (Little, Brown)
Baudolino,
Umberto Eco (Harcourt)
The
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)