Current Newsletter: Meet You at The Stacks (Bookstore)!

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Alyssa Sotelo, Tombolo Books in St Petersburg, Florida
• Jude Burke-Lewis, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
• Doloris Vest, Book No Further in Roanoke, Virginia
• Serena Wyckoff, Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda, Florida
• Christina Tabereaux, The Snail on the Wall in Huntsville, Alabama
• Caylee Wilson, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Florida
• Kayla Saxon, M Judson Booksellers in Greenville, South Carolina
• Jan Blodgett, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Eden Haymon, Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, Louisiana
• Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Stephanie St. John, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Melissa Gray, Blytheville Book Company in Blytheville, Arkansas

Book Buzz Feature: The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb
There’s a part in the novel when [the protagonist] Corby says he thinks that women are just stronger than men because it’s women who come and visit the prisoners. Whether they are grandmothers who are taking care of the kids and wearing their convalescent home pinafores, girlfriends, or so forth—it’s women who show up. That was my experience when I would go to visit our son. Often, I’d be one of the few men who went into the visiting room; usually, it was another father. And sometimes I would be the only guy in the visiting room. I don’t think it’s because men are necessarily cold. They don’t necessarily detach from loved ones who are male. I think so many of men’s problems come down to fear. It’s not that women don’t live with fear, but that they can more easily voice that fear.

― Wally Lamb, Interview, Oprah Daily

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
I adore Sarah J. Maas’s writing and her characters. Throughout the ACOTAR series, I didn’t care for Nesta. This book completely changed my mind. Nesta is a complex and beautiful character and I can not wait to see her in future books
― Melissa Gray, Blytheville Book Company in Blytheville, Arkansas

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