Comments on: “Take a Look, It’s in a Book:” Summer Reading

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:12:58 +0000

John, thanks for that book selection! It sounds great and definitely my kind of read. I look forward to checking it out. Have you read Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? It’s another “truth is stranger than fiction” book.

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:15:27 +0000

Betsy, have you read “Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family” by Gary Pomerantz? It traces over several generations the African-American Dobbs family (John Wesley Dobbs, son of a freed slave, was the grandfather of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first African-American mayor) and the white Allen family (Ivan Allen, Jr., a local business leader, was mayor of Atlanta during the desegregation era and transcended the traditional attitudes with which he was raised to lead the community through those times without a huge conflagration). The book is particularly interesting to long-time Atlantans like Jane Gilbert and me, since we have known members of the families involved, but I think you would find that it affords insights into your adopted city and it also written very engagingly. As they used to say on “Hee Haw” (which I’m not embarrassed to quote to someone who watches “The Bachelor”), “fact is stranger than truth.”

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:45:39 +0000

Did I tell you I read the Erik Larson book? Ryan ordered it, and as usual, I stole it and read it! We should discuss soon. xoxo

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:39:03 +0000

Tucker, it makes me feel better to know that I’m not the only one with an “Anna Karenina!”

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:38:32 +0000

Thanks, Eva! I will have to check out “Roses.” I loved “The Help” (didn’t love the ending so much) and I’m excited to see the movie. Have you seen it yet?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:54:09 +0000

I enjoyed your Reading Rainbow quote! Unfortunately, It has been very hard to find time to read between Bachelorette: Men Tell All, Bachelorette: Final Episode, Bachelorette: After the Final Rose, and now Bachelor Pad…

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:56:00 +0000

Hey! I just finished reading “Roses” by Leila Meacham. ‘Gone With The Wind’ is one of my favorite books and this has a similar feeling to it; perhaps because it’s just as long! And obviously, The Help is a fabulous read.