Word: book-of-the-month
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...first big-name novel of the new year shapes up as a bookstore hit and a literary hit or miss. In Cress Delahanty, Jessamyn West (The Friendly Persuasion, The Witch Diggers) camps on a familiar theme, the growing pains of a lively, sometimes lonely adolescent. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for January, Cress is episodic in form, and never takes a deep enough drag on its subject to give anyone a sharp sense of reality, but as a kind of filter-tipped "Life with Daughter," it makes engaging light reading...
...Spirit of St. Louis, a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for September, Airman Lindbergh. 51, gives a full and earnest account of how he planned and piloted his plane to international fame...
Told in the first person with a fine ear for shopgirl patter, Westward the Sun (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice) is clearly aimed at readers with hammocks up and guards down...
...Tiki, the publishing tide has run strongly seaward. And so, apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm...
...novel. Kingfishers Catch Fire, is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June. It tells the story of Sophie Ward, a 35-year-old Englishwoman who has kept her looks, but whose brains have always been somewhat scattered. Left a widow in India with two children and a tiny pension, Sophie decides not to go home to the austere safety of Britain but to rough it in the Vale of Kashmir, where the scenery is breathtaking and the people are delightfully unspoiled. When her small daughter Teresa hears about this, she makes a face, because she would much rather...