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Making Up Your Own Mind By Edward Burger: We solve countless problems—big and small—every day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions—much less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Are we doomed to this muddle—or is there a practical way to learn to think more effectively and creatively? … Continue reading New Releases 11/13
Nine Perfect Strangers By Liane Moriarty: From Liane Moriarty—author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Truly Madly Guilty, Big Little Lies, and The Husband's Secret, the New York Times bestsellers What Alice Forgot and The Last Anniversary, and The Hypnotist's Love Story—comes her newest hit, Nine Perfect Strangers. Nine people gather at a remote … Continue reading New Releases 11/6
Our first book-club meeting ended with a lingering image. As we were wrapping up our discussion Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, one participant chimed in with a scene from the TV show Mad Men that had come to mind while reading the book. In the scene, housewife Betty Draper shakes out a picnic blanket, nonchalantly tumbling … Continue reading ATX SciRead Bookclub Recap + Preview
Amongst the Liberal Elite By Elly Lonon: Getting woke is hard. As this couple is discovering under 45’s regime, it takes more than listening to NPR on our daily commutes and watching Jon Stewart cameos on our phones in bed while we sip craft beer from artisanal glassware made by at-risk women on another continent … Continue reading New Releases 10/30
The Three Beths By Jeff Abbott: Local author Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels. He is the winner of an International Thriller Writers Award and is a three-time nominee for the Edgar award. His newest hit is a psychologically intense and emotionally gripping suspense novel about a daughter's desperate … Continue reading New Releases 10/23
Friday Black, by debut author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, creates a universe that mirrors humanity’s darkest sins and despairing hopes. Adjei-Brenyah creates relatable and ordinary characters that are thrust into a hyperbolized structure of the world and his superlative writing easily breeds dark wonders that invoke raw reactions. I opened this book with no specific expectations … Continue reading Top Shelf November: Friday Black
Play by Play By Verne Lundquist: One of America’s most beloved sportscasters turns the spotlight on his own life, chronicling his incredible life covering Southeastern Conference football and some of the most iconic moments in sports history over the last five decades. Verne Lundquist began his career at KTBC-TV in Austin. He joined CBS Sports … Continue reading New Releases 10/16
By Cathy Maxwell I had so much to tell you in the September column, but then I was caught up in the hurricane evacuation in North Carolina. It is a long story. It included four dogs, two cats, one grandson, and a betta fish. All are safe and I’m back in time for the curious … Continue reading The Romance Bookshelves—Where Vampires and Christmas Collide
The Voyage Out Book Group has been meeting for a decade now, and it has been a blast. We choose books in three-month chunks. Three months of novels from Japan. Three months of novels from the American South. Three months of novels from the Balkans. The reason for these chunks? We wanted to find a … Continue reading Voyage Out Book Club: Reading Is Social
The Baltimore Book of the Dead By Marion Winik: The Baltimore Book of the Dead—sequel to the beloved The Glen Rock Book of the Dead—is another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir. Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the … Continue reading New Releases 10/9
