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Hello Friends and Intrepid Explorers of the great and unfathomable depths of the eternally expanding, perpetually ineffable, gloriously vast and deliciously mysterious book multiverse! As ever, we here at the BookPeople blog have returned from our own amazing adventures sailing said galactic seas to bring you the latest in newsy goodness from the far reaches … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
~post by Bosco About ten years ago, my Mom met and fell in love with a straight up nerd whom she later married. My mom is an academic. She has a doctorate. She chaired the department where she taught English at a small state University. I grew up in a kind of dorky intellectual environment. … Continue reading Reading with Pops: A Feast for Dragons, A Dance with Crows
HARDCOVER FICTION AFTER DEAD by Charlaine Harris Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels—a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next. With characters arranged alphabetically, Bestselling Author Charlaine … Continue reading New Releases – 10/29
Clint Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino "This is not so much a novel as a series of beautifully descriptive passages. The literary conceit here is - Don Juan sits in the palace of Kublai Kahn, telling him of his travels around the ruler's realm. These fantastic descriptions of imaginary cities take the reader on a … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
___________________________________________ Tommy A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. "I'm just finishing A Dance with Dragons and about to start reading Ready Player One, which I've really been looking forward to getting into. A Dance with Dragons is the exposition we've been waiting years to get. It fills in the holes left by … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Here's what caught our eye in the book world this week, in no particular order: A little book by a science fiction writer came out this week, something called A Dance with Dragons. I think the author's name is George R. R. Martin or something. According to the New York Times it gave brick-and-mortar bookstores … Continue reading As the Book World Turns
HARDCOVER FICTION The Last Werewolf by Glen David Duncan - Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Here is a powerful, … Continue reading New Releases
_______________________________________ Nick - The Thousand Summers of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell "I'm only a little over a hundred pages in, but I'm already enjoying it. From what I understand, it only gets better the further you go. Right now, the stories of Japan at that time and of the Dutch East India Trading … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
_____________________________________________________ Danny - Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin "A lot of people lauded this book as unique to the fantasy genre and I was still expecting cliche fantasy, but was taken aback by how entertaining and different from normal fantasy novels it is. Full of bickering, backstabbing, politics, and people trying to … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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