This week’s new release looks like fun: a story about a teenage girl who discovers her family’s true calling when her parents sent her away for the summer: her Uncle Mort is a Grim Reaper, and he’s going to teach her the family business. Here’s the description from Goodreads: Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her […]
Lauren Groff wrote a book called The Monsters of Templeton a few years ago, and I’ve been waiting for this follow-up since I finished the final page of Monsters. Arcadia unfolds during the late 1960’s and is a coming-of-age story about a boy who grows up on a commune. It looks like a fun read, […]
I have been a fan of Anne Rice since I discovered Interview With the Vampire back in 1976. In fact I still have the original paperback copy, torn and dog-eared and practically in tatters from many readings. If you have also read this wonderful book, try to remember how it felt to read it before […]
Hitting bookshelves and digital reading devices today is Matt Ruff’s latest, The Mirage, a mind-bending alternate history tale of “what if:” What if the events of 9/11 were reversed, and America attacked Iraq instead of the other way around? Here’s the description from Amazon: 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the […]
Hitting bookshelves and libraries tomorrow is Margot Livesey’s latest, The Flight of Gemma Hardy. I am sad to say I’ve never read her before, but that will change because I really want to read this book! Here’s the description from Amazon: When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native […]
Welcome to 2012 and the first “Read Me!” of the year! If you saw the post of my Top Ten Books I’m Excited to Read in 2012, you’ll recognize The Rook. It’s described by reviewers as a “supernatural thriller,” which gets my attention right away. Here’s the blurb from Amazon: “‘The body you are wearing […]
This week I’m recommending another young adult title. Legend by Marie Lu is a dystopian tale of a future Los Angeles. It has received great reviews, including a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, who I consider to be the go-to place for book reviews. I have not read it yet, but I have some fellow […]
I’m sticking with my “retro” theme this week, and recommending a new release that once again takes us back in time to explore the roots of technology and online social interfacing. We’re not going back quite as far as Ready Player One, but we are rewinding fifteen years to 1996, the time when the internet […]
Finally, it’s here. Seems like I’ve been waiting forever for the new Stephen King book. Out today is 11/22/63: A Novel, King’s massive (960 pages) epic time travel story, about Jake Epping, a man who discovers a portal to the year 1958. His friend Al, who just happens to have the portal in the storeroom of his […]
Although my interest in Gregory Maguire’s OZ series has waned since I (tried to) read Book #3, A Lion Among Men, I am still going to recommend the final book in the series, Out of Oz, out this week. The story that started out sixteen years ago in Wicked: The Life and Times of the […]