Happy Friday, and especially happy Baltimore Book Festival, everybody! I'll be there for a couple of hours today, and then again on Sunday for Dave's panel. So if you see us there, please do say hello!
And Warren St. John, author of this year's One Maryland One Book, will also be there. If you have read, or plan to read, "Outcasts United," there is a book discussion tomorrow morning at 10:15, and St. John himself will speak at noon Sunday. And today, we're giving away two copies of his book about refugees from Liberia, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan coming together over a youth soccer team in a small southern town.
When I'm not seeking out a few of my own favorite authors at the festival this weekend -- Ree Drummond, Holly Black and Scott Westerfeld -- I'll be reading a spooky little book by Clare B. Dunkle titled "The House of Dead Maids." It's a prequel to Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" and gives an account of Heathcliff's dark past that "doomed" his future. I'm not a huge fan of the Brontes, but if anyone can attempt to explain why Heathcliff and Cathy were so spectacularly awful to each other and everyone else, I'll give it a shot.
But of course we have a winner to announce! Congratulations, Kris T., you've won "Fall of Giants!"
Now, let us know what you're reading!