Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Appeal of Reading Mysteries--

A recent Newsweek magazine featured the appeal of mysteries and thrillers for those seeking summer reads (I know--summer is moving on) and the magazine editor was happy to dish. Jon Meacham likes to promote reading mystery novels and even says as much during a visit earlier this year in Charlotte on a radio talk show (Meacham was in Charlotte as a guest speaker at a university about the media, politics and bias). As I remember during the radio show, he said he likes to throw in a line about reading good mysteries as a tip for graduates during commencement speeches.

Here's a photo of Meacham from Google.

In that particular weekly column, Meacham wrote about the fun of reading mysteries and takes the opportunity (nicely, I'd add) to offer reader suggestions for several authors.
I liked it.