Current Newsletter: Meet Philosophers and Fools Bookstore

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Jamie Southern, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Mekhala Villegas-Rogers, Tombolo Books in St Petersburg, Florida
• Amy Jones, As The Page Turns in Travelers Rest, South Carolina
• Rachel Watkins, Avid Bookshop, Athens, Georgia
• Melissa Taylor, E. Shaver, Bookseller, Savannah, Georgia
• Lynne Phillips, Wordsworth Books, Little Rock, Arkansas
• Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Nath Mayes, Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky
• Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina
• Jude Burke-Lewis, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
• Jamie Kovacs, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Stephanie St. John, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Katlin Kerrison, Story on the Square in McDonough, Georgia

Book Buzz Feature: Food Person by Adam Roberts
I could spend years in a cookbook shop and never get bored. Where do I begin? I love the weirdness of cookbooks; how they capture the larger culture of a specific time-period and tell the tale through the prism of food. Take, for example, one of my cookbook treasures: The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Cookbook by Robin Leach. It’s a time capsule of the eighties — glass block, Dynasty-style hairdos, Brooke Shields — and the food is as awful as the fashion. Or another favorite: A Treasury of Great Recipes by Vincent and Mary Price, a collection of all the menus that the famous horror maestro and his wife collected over their world travels in the ‘40s and ‘50s and the meals that they hosted for their friends in their exquisite Hollywood home. If I could jump into the pages of a cookbook, it might be that one.

― Adam Roberts, Interview, OutSFL

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
The Damned by Renée Ahdieh
The Damned picks up right where The Beautiful left off and introduces a few new POVs to keep things interesting. With Bastien now a walker of the night and Celine’s memories forgotten, the intrigue and drama are thicker than ever. Bastien is determined to become better than his uncle, while his sister Emilie is back from the dead as the head of the wolves. Fans of the first won’t be disappointed with this next thrilling volume in the series. The only disappointment is having to wait for the next! Renee Ahdieh is a skilled writer who has beautifully brought back the classic vampire, along with the fey and werewolves, intertwined. This is a must read for anyone who missed the classy vampires of Anne Rice, but loved the romance of True Blood.
―Katlin Kerrison, Story on the Square in McDonough, Georgia

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