Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Terry Fator
Entertainer Terry Fator, who performs at The Mirage, has noticed that, during the fall, winter and spring, “I’ll read more biographies.”
Then, he says, “I’ll read my fantasy and other things during the summer.”
His literary plans for this summer include rereading the entire Harry Potter series to “get ready for the new Harry Potter book that comes out in July.”
Fator discovered Harry Potter around the time the third book in the seven-book original series was released. “I read them and I loved them,” says Fator, who then became a regular at the midnight bookrelease parties where each new volume was celebrated.
Fator — who says he’s a fast reader who usually finishes a book in just a few days — also plans to include on his summer reading itinerary volumes in the multivolume “Xanth” series by Piers Anthony and rereading a few favorite books by C.S. Lewis.
Author and College of Southern Nevada professor Laura McBride says she just finished her second novel, so she will have plenty of time to “read other people’s books.”
A“American Copper” by Shann Ray uthor Laura McBride — whose debut novel, “We Are Called to Rise,” was an award-winning critical success — is looking forward to a busy summer of reading.
“I just finished my second novel,” McBride says. “Now, all I’m going to do this summer is read other people’s books.”
One book on McBride’s summer reading list is “Peace Like a River” by Leif Enger and “Opening Belle” by Maureen Sherry, the latter a novel based on the author’s own experiences “as a young woman working on Wall Street,” McBride says.
Also on the list: Eleanor Brown’s “The Light of Paris” and “American Copper” by Shann Ray, which McBride says is set in Butte, Montana, a locale familiar to her family.
During a trip to Missouri, a friend recommended “Bettyville,” a memoir by George Hodgman. “It’s gotten a lot of press, about a gay writer in New York City who goes back to a little town in Missouri,” McBride says.
“And then I’m really excited about ‘Stoner’ by John Williams,” McBride says, a novel first released in 1965 that chronicles the pedestrian life of a Midwestern college professor.