October 2019 Loft Reads

October was filled with the beauty of the changing seasons. 

We had a vacation and did some hiking at our favorite preserves and spent days shopping for books in-stores nearby. One of the books I purchased was a lovely copy of  A Treasury Of The World's Best Loved Poems which I'm enjoying. It starts with Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and ends with The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss.

 

In the mail this month I  received the thrillers The Line Between and A Single Light written by author  Tosca Lee. Lee is a multi-award winning, New York Times, IndieBound, and Amazon bestselling author of eleven novels. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and optioned for TV and film. I find her prose to be interesting, entertaining and unsettling. So, in keeping with the season, I started her thrillers on Halloween.





Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 days was written like a journal. Andrea Wilson Woods shows us many lives that come to terms Adrienne's diagnosis of Hepatocellular carcinoma and you see Adrienne's days are filled with humor, courage, joy, and love. 

Flying Alone by Beth Ruggiero York was an interesting read and I thought it was appropriate that York pointed out the regulations and dangers and importance of not exceeding your capability or that of your aircraft. 

Natalie Hart was a pleasure to interview. She is the author of Pieces of Me which was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa First Novel Award. 




Hart specializes in conflict and post-conflict environments and has worked extensively across the Middle East, including 3 years in Iraq. The interview is located here.




We were able to harvest the last of the tomatoes before our first snowfall of the season which appeared on October 31st.

October's top 10 audience was from the United States, Canada, France, Netherlands, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, Indonesia, and Italy