As promised last week, I am featuring Colson Whitehead’s newest, Zone One, in bookstores and online today. Arriving on the heals of season two of The Walking Dead (AMC), Zone One is a Zombie Novel, one I am very excited to read. Yes folks, zombies are everywhere. The trend is alive and well and not […]
Jeffrey Eugenides is one of those writers who takes his time writing books, and it shows. His first book was The Virgin Suicides, a creepy and sad little story set in the 70’s that was made into an extremely creepy and sad movie. His second book, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, and is […]
Fall is always a busy time for publishing, it seems. Best-selling authors oftentimes release their latest and greatest in the fall. I mean, when was the last time Stephen King didn’t release a novel in October or November? (And yes, he has a new novel coming out this fall. More on that later.) This week […]
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 […]
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 […]