Top 10 Reasons To Buy My Wife’s Book
Tethered: A Novel, out in paperback today.
10. NYT called it a “hypnotic debut.”
9. Paris Match compared her writing to Henry James and Emily Dickinson.
8. Borders likes it too, it’s their August Spotlight: http://www.borders.com/online/store/ArticleView_mystery0809
7. Marie Clair Australia called it ”a haunting and multilayered debut novel, with a killer twist.”
6. If reading it in English doesn’t work for you, there’s always French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese and Chinese: http://amymackinnon.com/foreign-editions/
5. Paperback is cheaper.
4. It has a new Reader’s Group Guide that answers some questions and makes you ponder others.
3. She’ll visit your book club: http://amymackinnon.com/book-clubs/
2. In the acknowledgments, you can see where she actually told me, in front of God and everyone: “You were right.”
2.1. I liked it. The book, I mean. Gritty. Real and surreal at the same time. I’ve been in those places. Liked the Boston Herald cameos.
1. And like I said …
… she’s hot.
Topics: books, husbands and wives, literary
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:48 am on Tuesday, August 11, 2009
10 Responses to “Top 10 Reasons To Buy My Wife’s Book”
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August 11th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
You’re right. Mrs. C (or Ms. M, if she prefers) is indeed lovely.
August 11th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
11. Start reading Tethered: A Novel on your Kindle in under a minute.
I just did.
August 11th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Many thanks, RH and TBH.
August 11th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Wow, that’s great news. I’m sure the paperback will sell like wildfire. You go, Amy!
I would love to be in a book club discussion with Amy. Tethered is such a meaty novel, with deep, serious themes, and multi-faceted characters. I can’t think of a better book-club choice. I just emailed a friend with a book club to suggest this–and invited myself, of course.
I heard Amy speak at Grub Street (writer’s conference here in Boston) and she was dynamite. Thought-provoking, supportive, friendly, inspiring.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I can’t wait to read what your kids write!!! Here’s to the Mighty, Mighty Crittenden Clan!
August 11th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Have ordered the book from Amazon, because the reviews are positive and intriguing. It’ll be a while before I can render an opinion (not that my opinion means beans), since I’m engaged in other online book clubs, but eventually, I’ll review for your satisfaction/murderous revenge.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Dude!
How the heck did you get a woman of such quality to wife up with you? Did you order one of those “Hypnotize Women” guides from the back of a comic book, and actually got a CIA Psycho War training guide by mistake?
Come on, bud. How’d you do it? Fess up.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:03 am
It was the “Hypnotize Women” thing. I also got some nifty x-ray specs, got out of my deadend job, grew back my own lush natural hair, stopped getting sand kicked in my eyes and learned how to draw a pirate! I’ve never looked back.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:07 am
But thanks for doubting my abilities. CIA Psycho War training guide … bah!
August 12th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Uh, Reason #1 is pretty strong reason there, Jules.