Kester
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Malantes
“It’s really good. I’d put this on par with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. It’s going to be one of those definitive Vietnam novels.”
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Clint
Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo
“Svevo was a contemporary of Joyce and Thomas Mann. This book is about psychotherapy and quitting smoking. It’s very fun. And it’s the Voyage Out Book Club pick this month. We’ll be discussing it next Sunday.”
(The Voyage Out Book Club will meet to discuss Zeno’s Conscience next Sunday, June 26, at 5pm here on our third floor. All are welcome to join the discussion.)
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Jamie
Moondogs by Alexander Yates
“I really like this book. I grew up as an ex-pat, so it’s fun to read this take on Americans abroad. It has a fun, hyperkinetic, comic book sort of feel. And it’s really well written. It’s realistic, post-colonial fantastic weirdness all rolled up together. I’m one hundred pages in and I’ll finish it tonight.”
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Jenn S.
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
“This book will be available here some time next year. Right now it’s being serialized in the Paris Review, the first time they’ve serialized anything in 40 years. It’s great so far, really suspenseful and interesting to read this way. I’m dying to know what happens next. The main character works in some kind of gaming industry, though so far you have no details of the game he’s creating. He’s on vacation with his girlfriend and things feel idyllic, but there’s this creepy underlying feel that something ominous is coming.”
(‘The Third Reich’ will be available in book form in English some time next year. We currently have a copy on our shelves in Spanish.)
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Julie
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
“Advance readers of this book have been making the rounds here and I finally got my hands on a copy (it goes on sale this fall.) Everyone’s saying this is going to be THE big book next season, and I can see why. I dreamed about these characters last night. How’s that for not being able to put a book down? Each scene and character is colorful and vibrant. I feel as if I’ve been to this circus and eaten the popcorn. After two days of reading I’m about two hundred pages in. It’s trumping my addiction to Angry Birds right now. I love it.”
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