Dear Readers, I don’t know about the weather where you are but here, at The Shelves, there has been a blizzard of books! I have towering stacks of books covering just about every available surface! I am tempted to engage in some typical blizzard behavior and make a French Toast Run (go to the grocery store for eggs, milk and bread) and pretend I am snowed in with my lovely stacks of books.
Now, I have to face the fact that I may not be able to read all of these right away. I have a job. I have a social life. I have things to do that, sadly, keep me away from my reading. And if I do my usual New Books posts (2 per week), it will quite literally be months before I get to tell you about all of the books – in fact, there’s a good chance that the review will appear before the New on the Shelves post does! So, I wanted to take a minute and share this bounty with you. I will still be putting up New on the Shelves posts, because I assume if you are hanging out here you like to hear about new books. I will still be getting to the reviews as quickly as I can. But in the meantime, take a minute to click on some of these links and check out all the great new reading in our future! (And if you’re a little jealous – that’s okay. I forgive you.) So here, in no particular order, the Book Blizzard of 2015:
John the Pupil by David Flusfeder
Throne of Darkness by Douglas Nicholas
Silverblind (Ironskin Book 3) by Tina Connolly
Forgiving Maximo Rothman by A. J. Sidransky
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
Mark of the Beast by Adolphus A. Anekwe
Island: How Islands Transform the World by J. Edward Chamberlain
The Forgetting Place by John Burley
The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
Lucky Alan: And Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
The Peripheral by William Gibson
The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life by Brian Wansink
Now admit it – you’re jealous. And if you’re like me, a little intimidated. That is quite a reading list! I’d stay and chat, but I need to get a few pages done before the end of the day.