A contortionist folds herself into a tiny box. A young girl’s gown changes from white to black in front of your eyes. A magical ice garden waits to be explored within a black and white striped tent. Welcome to the Night Circus, a place where imagination is real, and reality is whatever you can imagine. […]
A Spy at Home is not the kind of book I usually choose to read. Nonetheless, as a new book review blogger it is flattering to be asked to review a book by a writer who visits your website. So I set off to read it, and discovered a new sub-genre: the international spy thriller/domestic […]
Just released today is my pick of the week: The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar. It is the story of Araceli, a Mexican live-in maid for the Torres-Thompsons, and what happens when she wakes up one morning to find herself alone with the two Torres-Thompson boys and no parents in sight. After trying and failing to […]
This week I have two books that are worthy of mentioning. First, Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck. The Invention of Hugo Cabret was one of the most surprising and beautiful books that I read back in 2007, and Wonderstruck is his follow-up in the same vein. Of the 629 pages in the book, over 450 of them are […]
This is the first book I’ve ever read by Glen Duncan, and he’s written eight books. Where have I been? I wonder. I have a lot of catching up to do, because I loved this book. I love werewolf stories. There is something appealing about a character who is compelled to commit monstrous acts, but […]
Another week, another book! As I told a friend recently, I wish I could freeze time and catch up on my “to read” list. Since my kids are getting ready to start school next week (yes, already!), my reading time has been taken up with school registration, buying school supplies, PTA duties, and the general […]
Continuing with my theme of circus-inspired stories, this week’s new read is Among the Wonderful by Stacy Carlson. Like last week’s recommendation, Carlson sets her book in the strange and wonderful world of showman P.T. Barnum, this time in 1840s New York City. Barnum arrives in New York and purchases a natural history museum, which he proceeds […]
I hope to make this a regular feature on Books, Bones & Buffy, and if all goes well, I plan to recommend at least one newly released book per week that will be available at your local bookstore or library. Trust me, this book is going to be big (at least, it should be!). This week, The […]
A long time ago, maybe in the early 90’s, I received a catalog in the mail from this guy named Mark V. Ziesing. I can’t remember now how I got on his mailing list, but it was a good thing I did, because I proceeded to buy books from him, slowly at first, and then […]
OK, I’ll admit it. I know Brett Battles personally. In fact, Brett and I met years ago, when we were both freshmen in high school, during auditions for the school play The Pajama Game. (He got a part, I didn’t.) Since then, we’ve gone our separate ways, lost touch and gotten back in touch again […]