The James Logan Courier

By John Mark Eberhart
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading," British writer Lady Mary Wortley Montague wrote two centuries ago, "nor any pleasure so lasting."

Book lovers would argue nothing has changed. Reading requires no Internet connection, no cell phone, hardly a chair.

And now autumn looms, and with it the annual harvest of new books. Here are a few.

QUOTABLE FALL TITLES
"When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. Dementia, as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mother's core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks-old vase of flowers." — "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones." "Moon" will be published Oct. 16.