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5 Short Stories Which Make Their Collection (or Anthology) Worth Buying~ post by BenIt seems my supervisors are foolish enough to let this madness continue. So, once again, it's short fiction time.Time has passed. Perhaps we've started to branch out since the last post. A short story collection or two may have passed over our … Continue reading Short Fiction Time Continued: Anthologies
Top Shelf in August: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway Reviewed by Matthew Describing a Nick Harkaway novel never fails to bring a smile to the listener of my rambling reviews. The premise always seems crazy and my enthusiasm excessive. “Well his first book is kind of a trucker, horror, post-apocalyptic novel that comments on the vile nature of … Continue reading Top Shelf in August: TIGERMAN by Nick Harkaway
The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski ~post by Katie P. Linda Przybyszewski is worried about American women. More specifically, what they’re wearing. It’s one thing for women to have largely lost the desire or skills to make their own clothes, but it’s another, immeasurably more tragic … Continue reading THE LOST ART OF DRESS: Compelling & Timely
Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson ~post by Salvador One of my all-time favorite books during my 10 years at BookPeople would surprise most people. It’s the simple story of a robot uprising. More specifically, it’s about an artificial intelligence that becomes aware, escapes into computers around the world, then launches a worldwide attack on humanity … Continue reading ROBOGENESIS: More Heart
The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey ~post by Sarah H. With all the post-apocalyptic fiction coming out these days, it’s hard to know which of them should make it on to your reading list this summer. The Girl With All The Gifts has so much more to offer than being just a … Continue reading THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS: Prepare Your Brain to Get Drop Kicked
Conversations by César Aira translated by Katherine Silver ~ post by Ben It’s a wonderful feeling to discover a new author. Whether in a sparkling new debut, or that recommendation which you’ve put off reading, there is a particular freshness when opening the title of someone you’ve never read before. Newly released translations can act … Continue reading CONVERSATIONS: Original and Intelligent
~review by Sara H. The Klaatu Diskos Series by Pete Hautman The Obsidian Blade (2012) The Cydonian Pyramid (2013) The Klaatu Terminus (2014) Tucker Fey’s parents have suddenly gone missing after a strange phenomenon is witnessed above their house - a perfectly circular shaped distortion of light. After weeks of his parent’s increasingly strange behavior, … Continue reading THE KLAATU DISKOS SERIES: Imaginative and Seamless
(This review was first posted on the MysteryPeople blog.) Come, Sweet Death! by Wolf Haas Reviewed by Andrew H. Wolf Haas has a voice to be reckoned with. His series of novels starring Detective Brenner is already wildly popular in his native Austria and in Germany, and it is only a matter of time until … Continue reading COME, SWEET DEATH! Funny, Full of Suspense
Each month, Jan, one of our intrepid booksellers, picks a different topic and tells us about her must-read books in that genre. This month she’s vloggin’ about books that feature her favorite fictional libraries! Books Discussed In This Blog: Lirael by Garth Nix "What I love about this Library is that I KNOW that Garth … Continue reading Book Vloggin’ With Jan: Favorite Fictional Libraries!
Landline by Rainbow Rowell Reviewed by Consuelo I was hesitant as I started Landline. I haven’t read Attachments, and I was worried that Rainbow Rowell’s grown-up characters would not have the same grip on me that her young adult characters did when I read Eleanor & Park and Fangirl. My hesitation didn’t last long as I … Continue reading LANDLINE: A True Look At True Love
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