Westport Public Library BOOK blog

A great fringe benefit of working at the Library is seeing and talking about all the books. Our interests are varied; it's fun when someone with whom you work shares your passion for forensic mysteries or cookbooks or a certain author. Alexander McCall Smith has four different series of books - and many fans among the staff. His Scottish lilt is music to the ears of those who prefer audio books. Wallace Stegner is a perennial favorite. A classic novelist, his superb writing enhances his history and environmental books, also. Two of his fiction titles are book club favorites: Crossing To Safety and Angle of Repose. Ivan Doig, who like Stegner, evokes the western landscape in his fiction, is another favored author. The unusual story of Jeanette Walls in Glass Castle has fascinated readers. A glossy celebrity columnist who survived a childhood of abject poverty and neglect, her memoir is another book club favorite. Others: The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlan, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
And the latest cookbook favorites? Heat by Bill Buford & Peppers: a Story of Hot Pursuits by Amal Naj.