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Dear Readers. 

I agree with Preston Stafford that my book selections should be more reflective of the state that the book is representing.   However, it is difficult to find books that are always in groove with the state; when I find a book that is more fitting for a state I will redo the State's suggestion.   Until then, I will continue to look for where the author lives and use that as my state selection.   I would love to hear from my readers if they have any suggestions of books they feel best fit the landscape of the state they live in (or know well).  Until then I will have to luck onto books, and hope they represent some part of the authors home state.

Thank you very much, Gregorio Roth

50 States of Reading: Wisconsin

BSI Lakeland, Florida- Loving Frank is a love story, or a passion story of two married people who find love outside of their marriages.  Amanda Ross in the Daily Mail of the U.K. poignantly tells why the story is important to readers today:

Nancy Horan grew up surrounded by the work of the celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in Oak Park, Illinois.  She lived on the same street as Lloyd Wright’s most infamous client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, their affair rocked society yet very little has been written about her. Biographers of Lloyd Wright, and admirers of his work have glossed over the relationship, concerned that the unsavoury personal details would diminish his architectural achievements.  Nancy was fascinated by the highly educated Mamah, who inspired such passion in Frank that he left his wife and six children to be with her, a scandalous act at any time, but particularly so in 1909.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1092279/Wild-passion-high-society-Loving-Frank-Nancy-Horan.html#ixzz0zmykSRK4


A review by Gregorio Roth will be coming at the beginning of October... look for it!!!!!

This book represents Wisconsin

50 States of Reading: Tennessee

"When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his wife, he didn't kill her himself." So begins Mr. Peanut which examines marriage.  A dangerous topic to discuss  according to Scott Turrow; "In many ways it would have taken less courage to present a sympathetic portrait of Osama Bin Ladin than it did to write this novel, which flouts the treasured conceptions of love and marriage many of us depend on to make it through the day." 

New York Times Full Review