{"id":11702,"date":"2025-03-09T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-book-report-washington-post-critic-ron-charles-march-9\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T22:43:56","slug":"the-book-report-washington-post-critic-ron-charles-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-book-report-washington-post-critic-ron-charles-march-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (March 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With spring just around the corner, it&#8217;s time for a new crop of fresh books:\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/f8556bce-88d9-4561-9235-1e7609394860\/thumbnail\/620x924\/16f63babb503a599cbefd09103109026\/dream-state-cover-doubleday-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa#\" alt=\"dream-state-cover-doubleday-1500.jpg \" height=\"924\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/f8556bce-88d9-4561-9235-1e7609394860\/thumbnail\/620x924\/16f63babb503a599cbefd09103109026\/dream-state-cover-doubleday-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/f8556bce-88d9-4561-9235-1e7609394860\/thumbnail\/1240x1848\/ef722825755685bd1068557223e639f7\/dream-state-cover-doubleday-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Doubleday<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eric Puchner&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/744560\/dream-state-oprahs-book-club-by-eric-puchner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Dream State&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> is one of those big family novels you just want to fall into. It starts, very charmingly, with the planning for a wedding at a summer house in Montana. Cece is about to marry Charlie, but then Charlie&#8217;s best friend shows up, and their plans veer off in ways nobody expects.<\/p>\n<p>With humor and heartbreak, this sweeping saga explores the way choices \u2013 big and small \u2013 shape lives and families for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ AN EXCERPT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/book-excerpt-dream-state-by-eric-puchner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;Dream State&#8221; by Eric Puchner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/744560\/dream-state-oprahs-book-club-by-eric-puchner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Dream State&#8221;<\/a> by Eric Puchner (Doubleday), in Hardcover, Large Print Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385550669?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dream-state-eric-puchner\/1145899745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/dream-state-eric-puchner\/21595502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericpuchner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ericpuchner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/2e62392f-3a00-4d07-83ba-582cfb4ad33c\/thumbnail\/620x936\/7330ef553e0ac28df2bb423222c2f6b7\/dream-count-cover-knopf-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa#\" alt=\"dream-count-cover-knopf-1500.jpg \" height=\"936\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/2e62392f-3a00-4d07-83ba-582cfb4ad33c\/thumbnail\/620x936\/7330ef553e0ac28df2bb423222c2f6b7\/dream-count-cover-knopf-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/2e62392f-3a00-4d07-83ba-582cfb4ad33c\/thumbnail\/1240x1872\/179fe5434a220e9c8b6ddaa35389b350\/dream-count-cover-knopf-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Knopf<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fans of &#8220;Americanah,&#8221; rejoice! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/753002\/dream-count-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Dream Count&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Knopf) marks her long-awaited return to fiction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an intricately woven novel that spans continents and classes. Following four Nigerian women in North America and Africa \u2013 a travel writer, a lawyer, a banker and a maid \u2013 Adichie explores love, ambition, family expectations, and the forces that shape women&#8217;s choices. <\/p>\n<p>With her signature wit and insight, she examines privilege and power, intimacy and betrayal, and the weight of history, delivering a story as thought-provoking as it is moving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ AN EXCERPT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/book-excerpt-dream-count-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;Dream Count&#8221; by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/753002\/dream-count-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Dream Count&#8221;<\/a> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf), in Hardcover, Large Print Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dream-Count-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie\/dp\/0593802721?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dream-count-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie\/1146347143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/untitled-2724\/c7b6aa2765889f35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chimamanda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chimamanda.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/00fa25bb-d9cb-4d7b-887b-e42209f96f4b\/thumbnail\/620x942\/97564222e9e706461973bdb21d1887f5\/the-antidote-cover-knopf-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa#\" alt=\"the-antidote-cover-knopf-1500.jpg \" height=\"942\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/00fa25bb-d9cb-4d7b-887b-e42209f96f4b\/thumbnail\/620x942\/97564222e9e706461973bdb21d1887f5\/the-antidote-cover-knopf-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/00fa25bb-d9cb-4d7b-887b-e42209f96f4b\/thumbnail\/1240x1884\/2423abf3d9297727ef074c8633231747\/the-antidote-cover-knopf-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Knopf<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The history of the Dust Bowl in Nebraska gets swept up in a magical new novel by Karen Russell, called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/750408\/the-antidote-by-karen-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>&#8220;The Antidote&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (Knopf). At the center of the story is a woman known as a prairie witch, who stores memories that people don&#8217;t want to carry any more. And with farms going bankrupt and a string of murders terrifying the town, there are <em>lots<\/em> of things these folks don&#8217;t want to remember.<\/p>\n<p>A whole bunch of unforgettable characters swirl through these pages, including a lucky Polish farmer, a teenage basketball star, and a photographer whose time-traveling camera reveals more than some folks want to see.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ AN EXCERPT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/book-excerpt-the-antidote-by-karen-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;The Antidote&#8221; by Karen Russell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/750408\/the-antidote-by-karen-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;The Antidote&#8221;<\/a> by Karen Russell (Knopf), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available March 11 via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/059380225X?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-antidote-karen-russell\/1122076664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-antidote-karen-russell\/21548887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karenrussellauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">karenrussellauthor.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/ff60b2f9-143e-4294-af8c-2ac97a557db6\/thumbnail\/620x767\/ad09ca8242190300eff18bdf23890da9\/martha-stewart-gardening-harvest-cover-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa#\" alt=\"martha-stewart-gardening-harvest-cover-1500.jpg \" height=\"767\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/ff60b2f9-143e-4294-af8c-2ac97a557db6\/thumbnail\/620x767\/ad09ca8242190300eff18bdf23890da9\/martha-stewart-gardening-harvest-cover-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/07\/ff60b2f9-143e-4294-af8c-2ac97a557db6\/thumbnail\/1240x1534\/9d5de188a11ad3da49035a2c65b03c92\/martha-stewart-gardening-harvest-cover-1500.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Harvest<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The weather is finally getting warmer, the ground is about to thaw, and Martha Stewart is here to get you ready with her biggest gardening book in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/martha-stewarts-gardening-handbook-martha-stewart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Martha Stewart&#8217;s Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> (Harvest) offers her expertise to gardeners of all levels. Packed with advice about plant care, year-round maintenance and planning, this guide to trees, shrubs, specialty gardens and vegetables is filled with color photos to inspire you, even if you don&#8217;t get off your sofa or pick up a shovel. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ AN EXCERPT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/book-excerpt-martha-stewarts-gardening-handbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;Martha Stewart&#8217;s Gardening Handbook&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/martha-stewarts-gardening-handbook-martha-stewart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Martha Stewart&#8217;s Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing&#8221;<\/a> (Harvest), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available March 18 via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0063323281?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/martha-stewarts-gardening-handbook-martha-stewart\/1146852272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/martha-stewarts-gardening-handbook-the-essential-guide-to-designing-planting-and-growing-martha-stewat\/22028049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">marthastewart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for the Book Report. For these and other suggestions about what to read this spring, talk with your local bookseller or librarian.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Ron Charles. Until next time, read on!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/><em>Produced by Lucie Kirk. 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