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This post come from our inventory manager Jan. If you could travel back in time, what would you do? What would you change? It’s not everyday you get the opportunity to read a conversational icebreaker expanded in a 273 page novel. The question discloses character. If you’re Hermione Granger, for example, you use time travel … Continue reading Every Anxious Word…Has Meaning When Time Becomes Your Road
“Tell me the difference between tragedy and comedy...There is no difference. It’s a question of perspective. Storytelling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you’re seeing.” (High school literature substitute Denton Thrasher could be the authentic voice of Lauren Groff--or another unnamed goddess of … Continue reading The Furious Fist and The Open Hand of Fate: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Weaves Through Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
Have you ever experienced deja vu? Do you feel a generalized anxiousness that something, somewhere is left unfinished or unconcluded? Like the characters in Susan Barker’s epic novel of obsession and betrayal, perhaps you are part of an intricate tapestry of woven energies and emotions appearing and reappearing on Earth. On Thursday, the New & … Continue reading The New & Noteworthy Book Club Lives & Relives Susan Barker’sThe Incarnations
The always reliable lit critics at NPR have unveiled a new feature, What We're Reading, which reviews new fiction and non-fiction that they find particularly interesting or notable.
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life Wondering about the apocalypse is nothing new--as long as people have lived on Earth, they've wondered when the end will come. But I've heard it said that my generation (the one composed of people who did most of their growing up after the Cold War ended) has been … Continue reading New This Month
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman In The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman examines 80 years of American History with a focus on the reform period that rectified the inequalities of the Gilded Age and the reemergence of those same inequalities since the 1970s. More than a history book, it also looks … Continue reading New This Month
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