Sybil’s Reading Tips

Westporter Sybil Steinberg, contributing editor and former book review section editor for Publishers Weekly, Friday addressed about 80 attendees at the Suzuki Music School, 246 Post Road East, with her review of books for spring/summer reading. Among her review of 23 fiction, 14 nonfiction she said her favorite fiction books are “Disappearing Earth,” by Julia Phillips. She referred to it as “an astonishing debut novel, a real thriller,” and “Lost and Found,” by Nell Freudenberger, which she describes it as “intellectually challenging and heart-breaking.”  Among nonfiction recommendation Steinberg identified her favorite as “Madame Fourcade’s Secret War,” by Lynne Olson,  “a riveting suspense of a literary thriller about the woman who led the largest espionage network in France during World WarI II.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com