Beach Reads

Another column for the North Shore Outlook! This one is titled "Beach Reads"

BEACH READS

It’s a beautiful summer day - warm and sunny with a few gentle breezes. You’ve set up your umbrella, spread out your towel, donned your sunglasses and hat and applied your sunscreen. Now you reach into your bag and pull out …the perfect beach read! Here are some suggestions from the North Vancouver District Public Library:

NON-FICTION:
Wonderful Tonight : George Harrison, Eric Clapton and me by Patti Boyd
Losing It : and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time by Valerie Bertinelli
It’s not easy being married to rock gods – they’re egotistical, demanding, unfaithful, drug and alcohol abusing workaholics. But these two women write about their relationships and lives with amazingly little bitterness and regret, and a lot of sweetness and honesty.

Whatever You Do, Don’t Run : True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
In this fun, fearless memoir, Allison shares his experiences taking "guests" through the African wilderness, trips that often don't go quite as planned, due especially to the unpredictability of the animals around them.

FICTION:
Well Bred and Dead by Catherine O'Connell
Meet Pauline Cook, who, despite being close to running out of money, shops when the going gets tough. Cook, a widowed Chicago socialite, is devastated by the apparent suicide of her friend, gay society columnist Ethan Campbell. The police turn up a stash of birth certificates in Ethan's apartment, and Pauline begins to wonder if her boon companion—always a bit cagey about his past—was who he claimed to be.

The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
This story of notorious East London criminal Sid Malone and crusading woman doctor India Selwyn Jones takes many melodramatic turns between their first antagonistic meeting in 1900 and their final passionate rendezvous in 1907. Donnelly leads the reader through turn-of-the-century England from the Houses of Parliament to ale houses and whore houses, and from London to Africa and beyond.

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller (a so-called "Lincoln lawyer" who works out of his car) takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.

Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
After years of hard work, Gina Foxton hosts her own local Georgia cooking show, Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. When her show gets cancelled and she catches her boyfriend cheating, Gina decides to try out for a show on the Cooking Channel. Trouble is, the execs also have their eyes on Mr. "Kill It and Grill It" Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show named Vittles. The competition between Gina and Tate ramps up when the network decides to turn their competition into a reality show.

HOT OFF THE PRESS:
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
Keye’s latest traces the intertwined stories of stylist Lola, journalist Grace,
Grace’s sister Marnie, an old friend Alicia and a man that binds all their lives.

Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
The author of The Devil Wears Prada tells the story of three best friends
who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.

Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
James Bond returns! Agent 007 is called back into action to track a
power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate who proves to be his most dangerous
adversary yet.