Pages turning like autumn leaves.

Bring on the fall!

I love pumpkin carving and cooler weather and sleeping with the windows opened and passing out Halloween candy and putting on homemade sweaters. And I especially love all the books that are being published this fall.

Bring on the sequels!
Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked (basis of the Broadway play) and the sequel Son of a Witch has written a third installment, A Lion Among Men.



John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick was published in 1984 but the sequel, The Widows of Eastwick, is being published in 2008.



Nelson DeMille is a very popular author on Long Island. The Gold Coast, published over ten years ago, is finally getting a sequel. The Gate House will be published in October.



Bring on the new books for long winter nights!
Some of my favorite authors are going to keep me busy until spring.

Julia Glass' new book, I See You Everywhere, "Follows the intertwined lives of two sisters--Louisa Jardine, the conscientious older sister who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, and a family, and her younger sister Clem, an iconoclastic, daring rebel--over the course of twenty-five years."



Neil Gaiman returns to YA with Graveyard Book. "Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead." Like Coraline, this will be a read-aloud Halloween book.



Another Halloween pick is Just After Sunset, a new collection of short stories by the Maine master of the macabre, Stephen King. Until its release date, check out the animated graphic novel version of one of the short stories here.



So pour a cup of apple cider and open a book. If you see the leaves piling up on my front lawn it's because I'm too busy to rake!