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September 20, 2008

This Sunday in The Baltimore Sun

This Sunday in YOU, get a review of two mysteries by Rita Mae Brown.

Hounded to Death (Ballantine Books/Random House/304 pages/$25) is a tidy, parlor-style mystery that will please fans of the Sister Jane Arnold series. But newcomers looking for the grittier, bloodier sort of detective styling will be disappointed.

The Sand Castle (Grove Press/Atlantic/112 pages/$18.95) has all the components of earlier Husenmeir books, but in miniature. Tales within the story are sad and sweet, but as told through the eyes of a 7-year-old often seem too precocious. Even Husenmeir fans may find it lacks depth and heft.

There are also capsule reviews of Tonight at Six by Michael Olesker, Jealous Witness, poems by Andrei Codrescu, and Mary Elizabeth Garrett by Kathleen Waters Sander.

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 5:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Hi!
I have linked to your Read Street Blog from my Squidoo Lens about Laura Lippman. Hope you do not mind. Stop by and make a comment on it. Thanks and I enjoy your blog. I am always looking for new authors to read and I find your blog a good source.

Posted by: Mickie | September 20, 2008 1:46 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.