What to Read, and Why, This Summer
A Roundup of Santa Barbara Authors and Our Community’s Favorite Books
By Matt Kettmann | July 15, 2021
Even in this digital age, few things are as pleasurable as digging into a book on the warm sand, or on your couch, or while falling asleep in bed, and that’s whether you prefer e-readers or still like turning the page. In this week’s issue, we’re presenting a wide range of books to expand that enjoyment, most of which — whether international best sellers or self-published projects — come with Santa Barbara ties. And then we’ve got the latest on the Indy Book Club, which is reading thrillers for July. Read on, and then go read a book.
The Goleta Connection to ‘The Devil You Know’
Eileen Horne Co-Authors Bestselling Book about Evil with Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Adshead
How Bicycling Empowered Feminism
Author Peter Zheutlin Discusses ‘Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story’
Indy Book Club: Thrillers for July
Discuss Peter Swanson’s Thriller with Book Clubbers on August 6
By Caitlin Fitch
Recent Books by Santa Barbara Authors
New Pages from Jeff Arch, John Houchin, Nicole Black, and Scott Addeo Young
Colleen McCarthy-Evans’s ‘Why Am I’
Longtime Santa Barbara Creative Discusses New Children’s Book and Seven Seas Press
Cynthia Hamilton’s ‘Houses of Deception’
Mystery Writer of Madeline Dawkins Series Sets Stories in Santa Barbara
Kathleen Klawitter’s ‘Direct Hit’
Santa Barbara Author’s Medical Memoir Is Subtitled ‘A Golf Pro’s Remarkable Journey Back from Traumatic Brain Injury’
Peggy O’Toole Lamb’s ‘Darling: Letters from WWII’
Santa Barbara Author Relies on Family Correspondence to Tell Universal Tale of Soldiers Abroad
