Posted in Quizzes & games on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the answers to last week’s quiz. I’ve noted the titles and authors of the novels along with the year(s) in which they appeared on the bestseller lists.
Globetrotting relative of Patrick Dennis: aunt (Auntie Mame [1956 #4] and Around the World with Auntie Mame [1958 #4])
B.F., Anderson Crow and Lady Rose each had [...]
Posted in Quizzes & games on November 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The answer to each of these clues is in the title of a bestselling vintage novel published before 1960. See how well you do at sorting out the family connections. Think of it as practice for holiday gatherings.
Globetrotting relative of Patrick Dennis
B.F., Anderson Crow and Lady Rose each had one.
A red black woman
They married into [...]
Posted in 1939 Bestselling Novels, 1959 Bestselling Novels, My Top Pics on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve come to the end of the novels I’ve reviewed here this year from the bestsellers of 1959, 1949, 1939, 1929, 1919, and 1909. It’s time to reflect on what’s the best reading today from the bestseller lists of those years.
From 1959, I choose Robert Ruark’s Poor No More as the best of list of [...]
Posted in 1948 Bestselling Novels, 1949 Bestselling Novels, Mystery, Romance, tagged Frances Parkinson Keyes, New Orleans on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dinner at Antoine’s is an endlessly pleasing novel.To a murder mystery Frances Parkinson Keyes adds two love stories, a conspiracy to overthrow a Latin American government, and generous dollop of New Orleans insider tittle-tattle.
Posted in 1908 Bestselling Novels, 1909 Bestselling Novels, Adventure, Romance, tagged Civil War era, Cumberland Gap, John Fox Jr., mining, rural America, steel on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was John Fox Jr.’s first big success, making the bestseller list two years running. The melodrama survives as a curiosity, but it’s too splintered to endure as a novel.
