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2025-02-18

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Familiaris'

“And in northern Wisconsin, in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John Sawtelle and his new pup walked down a dirt road toward a farm that would turn out to be unoccupied and for sale."
  Betty Martin author
2025-02-11

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Briar Club'

“June sunshine poured over the street, the sounds of a jazz saxophone drifted over from next door, somewhere on Capitol Hill Senator McCarthy was waving lists of card-carrying American Commies, and a new guest had come to the Briarwood boardinghouse.”
  Betty Martin author
2025-02-04

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Birnam Wood'

“The Korowai Pass had been closed since the end of the summer, when a spate of shallow earthquakes triggered a landslide that buried a stretch of the highway in rubble."
  Betty Martin author
2025-01-28

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Breath of the Dragon'

Full disclosure…this week’s book is very different than my usual selections. It might help to know that I have always loved a good action movie.
  Betty Martin author
2025-01-21

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'Jackie: A Novel'

“Jackie is a novel, a work of fiction inspired by the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. It is the story of a woman who projected a myriad of selves and who was, at her core, a deeply private person, with a nuanced and formidable intellect."
  Betty Martin author
2025-01-14

  Martin's Must-Reads: 'The Little Liar'

“1943. 'It’s a lie.' The large man’s voice was deep and hoarse. 'What’s a lie?' Someone whispered. 'Where we’re going.' 'They’re taking us North.' 'They’re taking us to die.'"
  Betty Martin author
2025-01-07

  Martin's Must-Reads: "The Backyard Bird Chronicles"

“These pages are my obsession with birds."
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-31

  Martin's Must Reads: 'China: The Novel'

“January 1839. At first he did not hear the voice behind him. The red sun was glaring in his face as he rode across the center of the world. ‘Mr. Jiang!’ He heard it this time. ‘Jiang Shi-Rong! Wait!”
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-24

  Martin's Must Reads: Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story of children on the cusp...
  Betty Martin author
2024-12-17

  Martin's Must Reads: 'A Girl Named Zippy'

I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and Haven Kimmel’s autobiography A Girl Named Zippy took me back to those glorious days of childhood freedom and innocence. Haven grew up in the 1960’s in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana, population 300....
  Betty Martin author