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MOLLY What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte "Perez-Reverte is expert at capturing the elegance, hypocrisy and tragedy of European high society before the Second World War. His latest, What We Become, explores the complex paths of a thief and an aristocrat in three time periods - before the Spanish Civil War, during the war, and years afterwards. The handsome thief, masquerading as a ballroom … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
SARAH H. City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin "The finale to The Passage Trilogy. I've been waiting three and a half years for this! Cronin had me with his vampire apocalypse premise, but I stayed for the substance of what he says about the human condition - love, loyalty, promise, destiny, and the power of … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week: SciFi/Fantasy Edition
MONA Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran by Laura Secor "Earlier this year, I picked up an advanced reading copy of Laura Secor’s Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran. Of the many great reads in our Middle Eastern Studies section, this new release is especially important and timely given … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Pierce Brown, author of the wildly popular Red Rising scifi trilogy, comes to BookPeople this Sunday, February 14th, at 3 PM. It will be a perfect Valentine's event since we love Pierce Brown so much. A bunch of folks here at the store have been reading and re-reading his trilogy in anticipation of Brown's visit. Welcome … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week: The Pierce Brown Edition
JESSE Vermilion by Molly Tanzer "I'm reading Vermilion by Molly Tanzer. It's a weird western that incorporates Chinese folklore. The main character, Lu Merryweather, is a 19-year-old from San Francisco who is a psychopomp (kind of like an exorcist.) She's on her way to 19th century Colorado Territory to find out what happened to some missing boys from Chinatown. … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
MATT The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts "It lives up to the first one, picking up right where Shantaram left off. In The Mountain Shadow, Roberts continues to follow the adventures of an Australian fugitive living in Bombay. Roberts mixes mafia action with philosophy and personal experience for a really good read!" You can find copies of The Mountain Shadow on … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
CHRISTINE The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 edited by Joe Hill "It is the first science fiction and fantasy collection in the Best American series. The editor is John Joseph Adams, who edits science fiction magazines and has written lots of award-winning science fiction. Joe Hill is the guest editor for this first volume of … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
MAGGIE Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan "Green Island is written from the point of view of young girl, born the day of her father's arrest and disappearance in late-40s Taiwan. Her father was taken to prison for ten years and survives only because he can work as a doctor. She, her mother, and her siblings move … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
MOLLY The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander "I'm only a chapter in, but I can already tell this book is IMPORTANT. Alexander lucidly traces the history of slavery and Jim Crow down to the mass incarceration of young black men today, and describes a civil and human rights crisis that has been shockingly ignored in … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
STACI Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen "It's about a girl named Sydney who has always been somewhat invisible - her older brother was always the charismatic popular one. At the onset of the story, her brother has just been arrested for a DWI and leaving the scene of the accident and suddenly Sydney is the center … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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