Lariat Reading List
This past Thursday I attended the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Author Section at the Texas Library Association conference. Authors Benjamin Ludwig, Matt Goldman and Lisa Wingate were there.
Each of the presentations was warm, funny, and inspirational. Ludwig who has won many awards for Ginny Moon said he wanted to write about a kid looking for her own voice.
Each of the presentations was warm, funny, and inspirational. Ludwig who has won many awards for Ginny Moon said he wanted to write about a kid looking for her own voice.
Ludwig is a teacher and he comes across many kids who don't speak in class because of their troubling circumstances.
For reasons that make sense only to her Ginny tries to get her biological mother to kidnap her from her foster family.
The second presenter used to write television screenplays for Seinfeld but has since turned his attention toward murder mysteries.
His mystery, Gone to Dust, features Nils Shapiro who is faced with an enigmatic situation--a body covered in vacuum dust.
Goldman admits that one of the main reasons he added this detail to his crime novel was he hope to baffle fans of CSI.
Though he no longer writes comedies Goldman makes his characters relatable and quirky.
Before We Were Yours has been on the New York Times best seller lists since August 2017. Lisa Wingate explained that she first ran across the story of Georgia Tann while watching a history documentary.
Wingate brings the character of Rill and the other "river rats" to life as only she can. Since Rill is the oldest, she feels responsible for the plight of her siblings. She feels doubly devastated when she and the others are taken to the Tennessee Children's Home Society.
The story of these siblings and the later generation that reconnects with them is a rare achievement.
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