This came to The Shelves from my cousin, Ann. I love audiobooks and I think this will be particularly good to listen to: Life by Keith Richards: The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and… Read more
Another great new novel – The Whites by Harry Brandt: The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege—by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge. Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime… Read more
“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die—” – Will Herondale, from the Shadowhunter series by Cassandra Clare Read more
Reading in the sunshine – should only be another 4 or 5 months before I can do that here. Read more
This one sounds interesting – a woman with an unusual background and a husband who may not be trustworthy. Monday’s Lie by Jamie Mason: From the acclaimed author of the “ripping good” (The New York Times) debut novel Three Graves Fullcomes a new thriller about a woman who digs into her unconventional past to confirm what she suspects: her husband isn’t… Read more
This sounds so unusual! Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson: Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their… Read more
He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your supermarket, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him. What you don’t know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage.… Read more
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the books that made me love reading, A Wrinkle in Time Read more
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay: A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are… Read more
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