Baseball, psychoanalysis, and literary luminaries are the stars of today’s Nonfiction spotlight: Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever by Kevin Cook “Entertaining, well-researched history…”–Publishers Weekly, starred review Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews “This thorough dismantling of one of modernity’s founding figures is […]
Tag: starred review
Check Out Our Stars! (08/14/17)
All of the today’s featured titles have received at least 2 starred reviews! To Die In Spring by Ralf Rothmann 3 starred reviews! “Brilliant…Spare and elegant, the novel paints a quietly harrowing picture of the lasting effects of human violence and offers brief, poignant glimpses into the natural world (especially when members of the animal […]
SOURDOUGH + DEAR FAHRENHEIT 451 = September 2017 LibraryReads picks!
HUZZAH! Both SOURDOUGH by Robin Sloan and DEAR FAHRENHEIT 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence are September 2017 LibraryReads picks! SOURDOUGH by Robin Sloan “Having launched himself with MR. PENUMBRA’S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist in first fiction with best-book and Alex Award claims to fame, Sloan […]
#thrillerthursday (08/03/17)
Hey hey hey welcome to another #thrillerthursday! Today we’re talkin’ about: Gone Gull by Donna Andrews “In her 21st outing (after Die Like an Eagle), Meg is helping out her grandmother at the newly opened Biscuit Mountain Craft Center. A spate of vandalism at the center keeps Meg occupied while her irascible grandfather hunts for […]
Flatiron Books is Seeing Stars! (7/31/17)
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence “Library lovers will dig the apropos subject headings she gives each letter; fellow bibliophiles will swoon at her well-articulated feelings about her favorites; all will find the breakup notes oddly cathartic (“I’m putting you in a Little Free Library”) and appreciate her book’s final, […]
#thrillerthursday (7/20/17)
It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: The Breakdown by B.A. Paris A Library Journal Spring 2017 Editors’ Pick “This psychological thriller is even harder to put down than Paris’ 2016 best-seller debut [and LibraryReads pick] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS; schedule reading time accordingly. With two in a row, Paris moves directly to the thriller A-list.” — Booklist, […]
#bookbday (7/17/17)
Happy EARLY #bookbday to you! Happy EARLY #bookbday to you! Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin “Shopsin weaves a marvelous patchwork quilt of stories about a Manhattan that doesn’t exist anymore—that of 1970s Greenwich Village, where her father opened Shopsin’s General Store… An artistic ode to a way of life that people now living in […]
GLASS HOUSES + EMMA IN THE NIGHT = August 2017 LibraryReads picks!
HUZZAH! Both GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny and EMMA IN THE NIGHT by Wendy Walker are August 2017 LibraryReads picks! Glass Houses by Louise Penny A Library Journal Summer Fiction pick! “A meticulously built mystery that follows a careful ascent toward a breaking point that will leave you breathless. It’s Three Pines as […]
#thrillerthursday (7/13/17)
It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: The Devil’s Muse by Bill Loehfelm “A rookie New Orleans cop discovers that regular rules don’t apply during Mardi Gras, when a shooting sets off a cascading series of violent events. Loehfelm doesn’t need showy murders or gory scenes to writes crime stories with grit that stay lodged in your […]
Nonfiction on the Shelves (07/12/17)
Mothers + daughters, a celebrated writer’s home-life, female aviators during WWII and death… All topics explored in today’s featured titles: I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella “The Edgar Award–winning Scottoline and her writer daughter, Serritella, have been investigating human foibles in a series that now reaches its eighth […]
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