“The title is a bit of a misnomer – it should really be called “The Little Paris Bookshop Takes On The World.” The main character, Jean P., buys a floating barge and turns it into a floating book apothecary. He believes that books can heal you, and has the ability to read a person’s soul and figure out what book to prescribe them. However, after losing his love twenty years previously, he has turned himself off to any emotions. When he un-moors his little bookshop from the shore and goes on his adventures, he brings a writer with writer’s block and encounters a host of other characters on this voyage. His travels awaken the passions he has forgotten, and through food, dancing, thinking and looking, he finds what he has been missing for so long.” The Little Paris Bookshop hits the shelves in June. Pre-order now.
“It’s an award-winning speculative fiction space opera that is both meticulously researched and beautifully descriptive. If you follow humanity’s trajectory from where we are now to 300 years from now (under the assumption that we’ll do nothing to avert the impending ecological catastrophe that is just over the horizon), the results are both incredible and terrifying. But the human spirit preservers no matter how many mistakes we seem to make.” You can find copies on our shelves and via bookpeople.com.
“It’s an epistolary novel. Williams puts together letters and journal entries to give you everyone’s perspective, but only in bits and pieces, so you only slowly find out the whole plot as the novel builds to a crescendo of political drama and vengeance. The book feels like history in a way that I haven’t found in historical fiction before.” You can find copies of Augustuson our shelves and via bookpeople.com.
“I was unsure going into this book – I live in a natural state of skepticism about war books written by men. I think I like it? There’s a conceit of no punctuation around dialogue, and it skips perspective a lot – but we’ll see how I feel when I finish it for the New and Noteworthy Book Club meeting this Thursday night!” The New and Noteworthy Book Club meets the last Thursday of each month and will be discussing The Narrow Road To The Deep North this Thursday, February 26, at 7 pm. Books for book clubs are 10% off at the registers, and book club meetings are free and open to the public.
“As someone who reveres the OED, what an astonishing story to find out that this bedrock of lexicography was largely sourced from a madman. I’m only about a quarter through the novel so far. The author frames the tale as a mystery to start with, and I like the book quite a bit.” You can find copies of The Professor and The Madman on our shelves and via bookpeople.com.
Wow, looking forward to reading “The Little Paris Bookshop” ! Sounds like something I would enjoy reading because I believe that books are indeed very special. 😀
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Augustus by John Williams
The Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and The Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
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Wow, looking forward to reading “The Little Paris Bookshop” ! Sounds like something I would enjoy reading because I believe that books are indeed very special. 😀