Brad Smith is compared with Elmore Leonard on the cover of his latest release, Crow's Landing.  Here's what Elmore Leonard said about his own popularity.*

"I think it's based on the fact that my books are entertaining.  It must be that simple.  My readers like the references to what's going on in the world, to television and movies, they feel a rapport with these people.  It might be just the dialogue, that the story moves very, very quickly.  They like it that you can get on an airplane in the east and finish the book before you're in L.A.  Maybe that's it."

~ *Interview with Lawrence Grobel for Playboy magazine.  Published in Endangered Species, Writers Talk About Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives, Lawrence Grobel, Da Capo Press, 2001.

Brad Smith's Latest Novel, Crow's Landing, published by Simon & Schuster, attracted attention today at Flyer's Bakery and Cafe in Dunnville, Ontario.



August, 2012, Scribner, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

 

Smith's second novel in a new series, is getting good reviews:  "[SMITH'S] BEST CREATION IS CAIN, A RUGGED CHARMER," ~ National Post

Smith's overwhelmingly successful first book in the series, Red Means Run, introduced the main character, Virgil Cane, and was named among the Year's Best Crime Novels by Booklist.

Crow's Landing is Brad Smith's seventh book.

(Author COMING SOON to The Neat Little Bookshop.  Watch for details.)

www.bradsmithbooks.com

 



This Beautiful Meadow ~ Sharon Jackson's

T's all I have to bring to-day,

This, and my heart beside,

This, and my heart, and all the fields,

And all the meadows wide.

Be sure you count, should I forget, ~

Some one the sum could tell, ~

This, and my heart, and all the bees

Which in the clover dwell.

Emily Dickenson, Poems, 1896, Third Series.

Photo: lbwalker w/favourite Emily Dickenson poem.

Late Bulletin !  Appearing tonight, Friday, Aug. 10:

David Wice, singer, guitarist, entertainer at the Cayuga Hotel,* 9:00 p.m.  David ensures that everyone has "a great time."

*Hwy. #3 at Cayuga st. (same intersection as the bookshop.)

 www.davidwice.ca

Update on Bridge-Replacement Project!

Cayuga Bridge Over The Grand

August 14 - 30 Complete freshwater mussel survey/relocation work.

September 2012 START CONSTRUCTION

Ministry of Transportation, Ontario, MTO STATUS UPDATE as posted on the Haldimand County Website, July 16, 2012.


www.haldimandcounty.ca
Search: "Our County/Public Notices/Cayuga Bridge Replacement Project."



Smile for Today ~

"The daily consumption of 40 grams of dark chocolate (chocolate containing 70% cocoa mass) may supply the body with a significant dose of polyphenols, and thus obtain benefits with respect to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer.  The preventive effect will be enhanced if dark chocolate consumption replaces or reduces the amount of the sugary and fat-filled foods consumed."

RICH IN POLYPHENOLS!
Dark chocolate (50 g) 300 mg.
Green tea (125 ml)     250 mg.
Cocoa (2 tsp.)            200 mg.
Red wine (125 ml)      150 mg.
Milk chocolate (50 g)   100 mg.


~ Foods That Fight Cancer ~ Preventing Cancer Through Diet, R. Beliveau, Ph.D., and D. Gingras, Ph.D., McClelland & Stewart, 2006.



Rain in Summer ~

How Beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and heat,

In the broad and fiery street,

In the narrow lane,

How beautiful is the rain!

How it clatters along the roofs,

Like the tramp of hoofs!

How it gushes and struggles out

From the throat of the overflowing spout!

Across the window-pane

It pours and pours;

And swift and wide,

With a muddy tide,

Like a river down the gutter roars

The rain, the welcome rain!

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) American Poet

(Photo:  files 2011 ~ lbw)

Maeve Binchy ~

May 28, 1940 ~ July 30, 2012

"Writing is a bit like going on a diet:  you should either tell everyone or no one."

"Time doesn't appear from nowhere.  You have to make time, and that means giving up something else.  Regularly.  Like sleep, for example, or drinking, or playing poker, or watching television." 

"I gave up a bit of sleep.  I had a full-time job in London, a lot of commuting, a heavy social life, a fair bit of travel, so it seemed a good idea to get up at five a.m. three times a week.  I hated it.  Of course, I hated it.  Who would like sitting at a dining table half-crazed and trying to type, when the rest of the world was sleeping peacefully. . . "

~ The Maeve Binchy Writer' Club,  Anchor Books, 2010.