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April’s Featured Review
Murder Behind the Mike by Raymond Leslie Goldman (1942)
Quote of the Month
…[Daddy] knew that many forces in our society made it possible for him to come from the life of a sharecropper to that of a comfortable and enlightened citizen, and he felt because he had been successful in his climb, that he had a lifelong obligation to assist others who were less fortunate than himself. One of his favorite themes was: “Jesus said, ‘As you do unto the least of these, ye do unto Me,’ and in a democracy like America, Johnny, as we do unto our least privileged citizen, whether he’s Catholic, Jew, or Protestant, Native or foreign born, Negro or white, you do unto America.”
From Fear on Trial by John Henry Faulk (1963)
New Book Reviews
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908)
Gaston Leroux
In his classic “locked room” mystery, The Hollow Man, author John Dickson Carr broke the fourth wall long enough to tell readers he thought the best detective novel ever written was Gaston Leroux’s The Mystery of the Yellow Room. If you take into account that Leroux’s book was published in 1908—twelve years before Agatha Christie’s first novel—Carr may well have been right.
Blue Highways (1982)
William Least Heat Moon
Even if you’re not that interested in traveling the backroads, Heat Moon’s stories offer something for just about everyone. It’s a reminder that life is often sweeter when you exit the interstate, and spend quality time on the Blue Highways.
The African Queen (1932)
C.S. Forester
If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll want to read the book. It takes you places the movie doesn’t. And it may have you asking: is it the battered little boat or the woman Rose who is really The African Queen?
Coming Soon!
Anecdotes of Music and Musicians (1948)
Helen L. Kaufmann
Greatest Short Stories, Vol. V (1940)
P.F. Collier & Son (editors)
Home Port (1947)
Olive Higgins Prouty
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
Christopher Morley
Read a Banned Book!
Good Old Reads supports the awareness efforts of the American Library Association, PEN America, and the Texas Freedom to Read Project regarding the wholesale book bans in American public schools and libraries.
