I get to read a book about books and reading! The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller An editor and writer’s vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all… Read more
Another new book! Lineup by Liad Shoham A brutal rape in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood has the police baffled. There are no witnesses, suspects, or clues, until the victim’s father steps in and finds overwhelming evidence pointing to Ziv Nevo. Veteran detective Eli Nahum questions Nevo, but can’t get anything out of him. That’s because Nevo has a secret.… Read more
Oh boy, do I have a stack of books to share with you! Check this out…A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory by Sara Midda From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it… Read more
I’ve got a stack of new books to tell you about! First off, Three Hundred Million by Blake Butler: Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic… Read more
October is apparently Mystery Month here on the Shelves – lots of new mysteries for me to read! Next on the pile, Want You Dead (Detective Superintendent Roy Grace) by Peter James: Single girl, 33, redhead and smouldering, love life that’s crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and—who knows—more maybe? In Peter James’ Want You Dead, thirty-year old… Read more
This is one I am really looking forward to – I’ve read a couple of the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novels and enjoyed them all. So nice to have a new mystery delivered to my door! Check out To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie: Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his… Read more
Another new mystery series! Check out Risky Undertaking: A Buryin’ Barry Mystery by Mark de Castrique: When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site expanding a local cemetery, the dual occupations of Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro, North Carolina’s most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther… Read more
I’ve got a stack of new books this week! New books are always fun, and I’ll be sharing them over the new week or so, giving you an early chance to check them out. First up, Caught Dead: A Rick Van Lam Mystery by Andrew Lanh: One of the beautiful Le sisters is dead. Hartford, Connecticut’s small Vietnamese community is stunned.… Read more
I love a good mystery and this sounds terrific: One of Us by Tawni O’Dell: Dr. Sheridan Doyle—a fastidiously groomed and TV-friendly forensic psychologist—is the go-to shrink for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office whenever a twisted killer’s mind eludes other experts. But beneath his Armani pinstripes, he’s still Danny Doyle, the awkward, terrified, bullied boy from a blue-collar mining family,… Read more
Also on the TBR list, Man V. Nature: Stories by Diane Cook: A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal… Read more