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FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 9:21 AM

Hello,

Two questions:
First, what would you recommend for a patron who really enjoys dark
fiction? 
I recommended Breece D.J. Pancake to him (he loved Breece), Cormac
McCarthy
(he loved Cormac) -- more authors like that, but I've exhausted my
knowledge
base.  He's  a very literate patron and reads non-stop.  He's not the type
of
patron who's interested in looking at Novelist (though I've printed some
things
for him there) or the fiction advisory reference books. 

Second, I have a patron who is leading a "Body, Mind, and Spirit" Bookclub
-
her first selection is _Tuesdays With Morrie_ - do you have any other
recommendations of possible titles for her bookclub?

I'm in the midst of summer reading planning, so replying directly to me at

[removed]@aol.com would be most appreciated.

Thanks for any leads,
Maggie Bollar
[removed]@aol.com
Children's Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
www.new-carlisle.lib.oh.us

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 9:56 AM

How about "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus for dark fiction?

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: [removed]@wepl.lib.oh.us
REC'D: 4/12/04, 12:45 PM

The very first title that comes to mind when I hear "dark fiction" is Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry. Im not sure if this is the type your patron would enjoy. Roddy Doyle is not necessarily a dark author, but that book was the darkest and heaviest in my memory. I feel rather dark and heavy just thinking about it. Even so, an excellent book.

Mary Liderbach
Assistant Manager
Willoughby Public Library
30 Public Square
Willoughby, Ohio 44094
(440)942-3200 X101
[removed]@wepl.lib.oh.us

----- Original Message -----
From: Fiction_L Administrator <[removed]@webrary.org>
Date: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:19 am
Subject: dark fiction and bookclub

> Hello,
>
> Two questions:
> First, what would you recommend for a patron who really enjoys dark
> fiction? 
> I recommended Breece D.J. Pancake to him (he loved Breece), Cormac
> McCarthy
> (he loved Cormac) -- more authors like that, but I've exhausted my
> knowledge
> base.  He's  a very literate patron and reads non-stop.  He's not
> the type
> of
> patron who's interested in looking at Novelist (though I've
> printed some
> things
> for him there) or the fiction advisory reference books. 
>
> Second, I have a patron who is leading a "Body, Mind, and Spirit"
> Bookclub-
> her first selection is _Tuesdays With Morrie_ - do you have any other
> recommendations of possible titles for her bookclub?
>
> I'm in the midst of summer reading planning, so replying directly
> to me at
>
> [removed]@aol.com would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks for any leads,
> Maggie Bollar
> [removed]@aol.com
> Children's Librarian
> New Carlisle Public Library
> www.new-carlisle.lib.oh.us
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Keddy Outlaw" <[removed]@hcpl.net>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 5:26 PM

"Dark" (in a literary way) favorites of mine:

Michael Cunningham
Richard Russo
Richard Ford
Patrick Conroy
Scott Spencer
Annie Proulx
Paul Auster
Russell Banks
Milan Kundera
Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan

I'm sure there are more, but we are very busy digging out after Easter!

-Keddy Ann Outlaw
Branch Librarian
West University Branch
Harris County Public Library
6108 Auden St.
Houston, TX 77005

?Subject: dark fiction and bookclub
From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:19:55 -0500

Hello,
what would you recommend for a patron who really enjoys dark
fiction?
I recommended Breece D.J. Pancake to him (he loved Breece), Cormac
McCarthy
(he loved Cormac) -- more authors like that, but I've exhausted my
knowledge
base. He's a very literate patron and reads non-stop. He's not the type
of
patron who's interested in looking at Novelist (though I've printed some
things
for him there) or the fiction advisory reference books.

Thanks for any leads,
Maggie Bollar
[removed]@aol.com
Children's Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
www.new-carlisle.lib.oh.us

FROM: "Colcord, Lisa" <[removed]@GLENDALEAZ.com>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 5:47 PM

A Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
Some of Margaret Atwood's are dark, like Oryx and Crake and A Handmaid's
Tale

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

"We could, for example, have pointed out that Darwin's theory of
evolution explains how lower life forms can evolve into higher ones,
which in turn makes it entirely reasonable that a human should evolve
into an orangutan (while remaining a librarian since there is no higher
life form than a librarian)."

Terry Pratchett
The Science of Discworld

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Keddy Outlaw
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:23 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Dark Fiction

"Dark" (in a literary way) favorites of mine:

Michael Cunningham
Richard Russo
Richard Ford
Patrick Conroy
Scott Spencer
Annie Proulx
Paul Auster
Russell Banks
Milan Kundera
Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan

I'm sure there are more, but we are very busy digging out after Easter!

-Keddy Ann Outlaw
Branch Librarian
West University Branch
Harris County Public Library
6108 Auden St.
Houston, TX 77005

?Subject: dark fiction and bookclub
From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:19:55 -0500

Hello,
what would you recommend for a patron who really enjoys dark fiction?
I recommended Breece D.J. Pancake to him (he loved Breece), Cormac
McCarthy (he loved Cormac) -- more authors like that, but I've exhausted
my knowledge base. He's a very literate patron and reads non-stop.
He's not the type of patron who's interested in looking at Novelist
(though I've printed some things for him there) or the fiction advisory
reference books.

Thanks for any leads,
Maggie Bollar
[removed]@aol.com
Children's Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
www.new-carlisle.lib.oh.us

FROM: "Bookbitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 9:32 PM

Some dark fiction authors:

Pinckney Benedict
Don DeLillo
Andre Dubus III
Ralph Ellison
Carson McCullers
Sylvia Plath
Thomas Pynchon
Jose Saramago
Edith Wharton

Nonfiction for the book group:

A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS by Dave Eggers
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY: A Memoir of Life in Death by
Jean-Dominique Bauby
A CHILD CALLED IT by Dave Pelzer
GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen
ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN' by Rick Bragg
A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar (the book is considerably different from
the film)
THE UNABRIDGED JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH by Karen V. Kukil (Editor), Sylvia
Plath (Author)
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT by Oliver Sacks
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
TRAVELING MERCIES: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
HAMLET'S DRESSER by Bob Smith
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert
M. Pirsig

and a few fiction:

LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold (actually, her memoir, LUCKY, might be
interesting for that group too)
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN by Mitch Albom

Hope this helps!

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
www.pbclibrary.org

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com
WIN APRIL SHOWERS OF BOOKS!
Last Lullaby; Past Due; Liars & Thieves; Mortification; The Bride Stripped
Bare; Bobby Fischer Goes to War

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/13/04, 8:54 AM

One of the "darkest" authors I know is Barry N. Malzburg. Some dark noir
writers include Eugene Izzi, George Pelecanos, John Ridley, Andrew
Vachss, & David Walker.

>>> [removed]@hcpl.net 4/12/04 5:23:14 PM >>>
"Dark" (in a literary way) favorites of mine:

Michael Cunningham
Richard Russo
Richard Ford
Patrick Conroy
Scott Spencer
Annie Proulx
Paul Auster
Russell Banks
Milan Kundera
Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan

I'm sure there are more, but we are very busy digging out after Easter!


-Keddy Ann Outlaw
Branch Librarian
West University Branch
Harris County Public Library
6108 Auden St.
Houston, TX 77005

?Subject: dark fiction and bookclub
From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <[removed]@webrary.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:19:55 -0500

Hello,
what would you recommend for a patron who really enjoys dark
fiction?
I recommended Breece D.J. Pancake to him (he loved Breece), Cormac
McCarthy
(he loved Cormac) -- more authors like that, but I've exhausted my
knowledge
base. He's a very literate patron and reads non-stop. He's not the
type
of
patron who's interested in looking at Novelist (though I've printed
some
things
for him there) or the fiction advisory reference books.

Thanks for any leads,
Maggie Bollar
[removed]@aol.com
Children's Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
www.new-carlisle.lib.oh.us

Marsha Valance
Management Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1436
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

FROM: Curt Heuer <[removed]@centurytel.net>
REC'D: 4/13/04, 9:34 PM

One of my colleagues recommended Nicci French.

Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/13/04, 2:43 PM

You want dark? Andrew Vacchs definitely fills the bill. Not to mention Kay
Hooper's romantic suspense - quite dark.

IMHO, of course.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Bessie Makris" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 4/14/04, 10:31 AM

This author might be of interest to your book club leader:

Sue Bender
EVERYDAY SACRED
PLAIN AND SIMPLE

Second, I have a patron who is leading a "Body, Mind, and Spirit"
Bookclub
-
her first selection is _Tuesdays With Morrie_ - do you have any other
recommendations of possible titles for her bookclub?

I'm in the midst of summer reading planning, so replying directly to me
at

[removed]@aol.com would be most appreciated.

Thanks for any leads,
Maggie Bollar
[removed]@aol.com
Children's Librarian
New Carlisle Public Library
www.new-carlisle.lib.oh.us

Bessie Makris
Allen County Public Library
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

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