Winter Reading Series: Keeping the Feast

Lisa from Books on the Brain and TLC Book Tours and I are teaming up again!

Last summer we introduced our reading series, focusing on fun, great beach books. When Lisa reached out with Keeping the Feast I thought it was the perfect selection for a Winter Reading Series. It’s time to take inventory, set goals for 2010 and reevaluate life as the New Year approaches.

Our first selection is a perfect winter read called Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food and Healing in Italy by Paula Butturini.

From the author’s website: John and I met in Italy, where I too was a foreign correspondent, for the old United Press International. We fell in love, transferred to Warsaw in the waning days of Communism and four years later married in Rome. Twenty-three days after our wedding, John was shot in the back while covering the Romanian uprising against Nicolae Ceausescu. Infection, illness, and a family tragedy followed, and although John eventually recovered from his physical wounds, the process of healing had just begun.

Synopsis: A story of food and love, injury and healing, Keeping the Feast is a memoir of nourishment and restoration in Italy after a long period of tragedy, and a contemplation of the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family, friendship, and grace.

To participate: Visit Lisa’s website to sign up – she is hosting the February book discussion (with author participation) and has 20 copies of the Keeping the Feast to give away.

Keeping the Feast will be in stores on February 18th, 2010, and the discussion will take place on February 16th – with the author participating ‘live’ for an hour! Lisa will post details for the discussion about a week before along with an email reminder to those who’ve won the book. I will post a reminder here as well.

I hope you will read with us - our Summer Reading Series was a huge success!  If you haven't participated in an online discussion, it's an easy way to discuss a book with others and the author (a bonus).  Feel free to visit our discussion of Beach Trip to get a understanding of how the discussion will work.