Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and books on tape. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Tonight we Celebrate the C authors and great Characters who often feel like our Companions in life. I have often said how important it is to me to like at least some of the characters in a story. Many authors are able to make a character so complex and interesting that he or she seems real. Many of them are larger than life, of course.
It takes courage to write a book and get it published. I salute our authors.
Once again, I can’t list all the C authors or even all of the books that I like for the ones that I listed so please add yours in the comments. We can talk about favorite characters, too.
NON-FICTION
Cable and French
The Gobi Desert
Cahill, Thomas
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Carey, Robert Sir
Memoirs of
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
If only he had mentioned Shakespeare!
Catton, Bruce
This Hallowed Ground
Chatwin, Bruce
In Patagonia
The Songlines
Ciardi, John (poet)
Poems
The New Fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (poet)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Collins, Billy (poet)
Sailing Alone Around the Room
FICTION
Caputo, Philip
Rumors of War
Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote
Chabon, Michael
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Gentlemen of the Road
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing along the Borderlands
Telegraph Avenue
The Final Solution
Chase, Richard
Wicked John and the Devil in Grandfather’s Tales
http://deareurydice.blogspot.com/...
video of RC telling the story
http://storylabx.tumblr.com/...
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton
The Cherry Orchard
Three Sisters
Chisholm, P. F. also Finney, Patricia
A Famine of Horses
A Season of Knives
A Surfeit of Guns
A Plague of Angels
A Murder of Crows
Conrad, Joseph
Victory
Lord Jim
Conroy, Pat
Lords of Discipline
The Water is Wide
Citadel
Prince of Tides
Beach Music
Craven, Margaret
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Crichton, Robert
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Cummings, E. E. (poet)
The Enormous Room, memoir of WWI
CHILDREN’S/YA
Cleary, Beverly
Ramona series
Cooney, Carolyn
Burning Up
Flight 116 Is Down
Face on the Milk Carton
What Happened to Janie
Voice on the Radio
Tune in Anytime
Whose Baby Is This?
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Bud, Not Buddy
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
MYSTERIES
Camilleri, Andrea
Mystery series with Inspector Montalbano also a TV series
Child, Lee
Jack Reacher stories
Christie, Agatha
Murder in Retrospect
Death Comes as an End
Mousetrap and Other Plays
Church, James
A Corpse in the Koryo (Inspector O)
Hidden Moon
Bamboo and Blood
The Man with the Baltic Stare
Coben, Harlan
Just One Look
There Will Be No Second Chance
Tell No One
Collins, Wilkie
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
Connelly, Michael
Closers
Lincoln Lawyer
Fifth Witness
Cotterill, Colin
The Coroner’s Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun)
Thirty-three Teeth
Disco for the Departed
Curse of the Pogo Stick
The Merry Misogynist
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
Slash and Burn (the best one…very funny)
Craig, Philip
Death in Vineyard Waters
Vineyard Blues
Crais, Robert
Last Detective
Forgotten Man
Demolition Angel
Hostage
Monkey’s Raincoat
Free Fall
Lullabye Town
Sunset Express
LA Requiem
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
Cherryh, C. J.
Foreigner series
Fortress in the Eye of Time series
Collected Short Fiction
Angel with a Sword series
Pride of Chanur series
Brothers of Earth
Hunter of Worlds
Faded Sun Trilogy
Serpent’s Reach
Merchanter’s Luck
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Hammerfall
Forge of Heaven
Downbelow Station
Cyteen
Rim Runner
Devil to the Belt 2 in one
Heavy Time
Hellburner
Finity’s End
Clarke, Arthur C.
Rendezvous with Rama series
Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Czerneda, Julie
3 featuring the adventures of Esen-alit-Quar.
Beholder’s Eye
Changing Vision
Hidden in Plain Sight
A Thousand Words for Stranger
Ties of Power
In the Company of Others
Survival
The C list of authors is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Diaries of the Week:
Write On! How to have Voice.
by SensibleShoes
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Self-publishing 101: A kitten and summer reads by Daily Kos authors
by akadjian
http://www.dailykos.com/...
'Britain's Schindler,' Who Saved Hundreds Of Jewish Children, Dies At 106
By NAOMI KOPPEL
LONDON (AP)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Note: Youffraita sent another letter and she wanted us to know she misses us and will soon be back.
She said:
Here’s one for the book people. Just bought a copy of Tim Powers’ novel Earthquake Weather. It’s a sequel of sorts to his novels Last Call and Expiration Date. They are all in the best tradition of contemporary fantasy with a magical world overlying and commingling with our own. (set mostly in Vegas-Last Call-and CA).
She thinks that Tara would like them and may have met Tim Powers and his wife Serena. She says they are a lovely couple.
NOTE: Robert Fuller says in a comment below:
May I Have Blessing For My Son Adam's Debut Novel?
My son Adam has written a corporate/media conspiracy thriller called The Anonymous Source. Here is the information on his web site:
http://acfuller.com/...
It seems to be launching quite well. It was number one on Amazon's financial thriller three days ago, and it's still in the top 10 today. I'm going up to Seattle for his official bookstore launch party at Lowercase Brewing at the end of the month.
Author of The Rowan Tree: A Novel.
by Robert Fuller on Wed Jul 01, 2015 at 10:22:29 PM EDT