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This week I read a book by a French cartoonist called The Mental Load. It’s both a feminist education and the story of the artist’s own journey toward feminism, beginning with the mental load of managing a household and covering topics such as cutting a woman’s perineum during childbirth without her consent and the inevitable … Continue reading New & Noteworthy Book Club discusses Red Clocks
The Skaar Invasion By Terry Brooks: It's finally here! The second book in the epic 4-part conclusion to the entire Shannara series, The Skaar Invasion follows The Black Elfstone in The Fall of Shannara quartet, in which a devastating army is cutting a bloody swathe across the Four Lands, at peace now for generations. We … Continue reading New Releases 6/19
A Taste for Vengeance By Martin Walker: Bruno, the beloved chief of police in the idyllic French town of St. Denis, is back! And this time he's investigating the disappearance of a British tourist with a lot more secrets and connections than he could have anticipated. We're so excited that Martin Walker is coming to … Continue reading New Releases 6/12
Our memories create the reality of our world. They are our cornerstones of our truth that we touch back upon as we grow and shape ourselves into the people we are. So, what happens when memories disappear? The Book of M by Peng Shepherd is a masterpiece and it’s a necessary book to add to … Continue reading Top Shelf for June: Book of M
Blood Standard By Laird Barron: Award-winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with a novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that’s as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw. When a mob enforcer is forcibly returned to upstate New York, he's supposed to have peace and … Continue reading New Releases 5/29
Kevin Powers' first book, The Yellow Birds, won the Pen/Hemingway prize for first book and was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction. Powers' new novel, A Shout in the Ruins, weaves together stories that span over a century of life in the post-Civil War South. Kevin Powers was kind enough to answer our questions ahead of … Continue reading Kevin Powers on his influences, favorite books, & more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Less is out today in paperback! The story of an aging (failed) novelist who travels the world in order to avoid an awkward wedding, Less is THE heartfelt comedy of human error to read this summer. We're so excited that we get to … Continue reading New releases 5/22
post by BookPeople guest blogger Cathy Maxwell Graduations are in full force, school is ending, and life is about to become sane as we plan for those lazy days of checking out called “heading to the beach.” I love a beach book with Southern sass. That is why I’m a huge fan of Mary … Continue reading The Romance Bookshelves—Beach Reads
“The day before Deming Guo saw his mother for the last time, she surprised him at school. A navy blue hat sat low on her forehead, scarf around her neck like a big brown snake. ‘What are you waiting for, Kid? It’s cold out.’” So opens Lisa Ko’s The Leavers, National Book Award Finalist, winner … Continue reading New & Noteworthy Book Club discusses The Leavers
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins A CIA-pacifist-anarchist is blackmailed by his own grandmother into freeing her blue parrot in the Amazon, where, of course, he slurps some Ayahuasca and falls victim to a shamanic curse. Need I say more? Toy boat racing with art school girls? 10 million Joyce and Rimbaud jokes?? … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
