Thursday, June 17, 2010
IF THEY'D KEPT THE ORIGINAL TITLE, I SUSPECT IT WOULD NOT HAVE SOLD AS WELL: I have to give EW credit this week--rather than going with a Toy Story 3 cover or an Eclipse cover (likely in part because they did "sexy vampires" last week), but with a cover that features (in its main photo) nothing but the cover of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It's the first purely book-centric (J.K. Rowling had the cover in November 2007 as Entertainer of the Year, in part off film versions of the books) EW cover since September 2002 (Stephen King claims he's quitting, and featuring a music review of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This"). Of course, we're going to get a massive sparklevamp cover package next week, I expect (and it makes sense, since Eclipse will dominate the 4th of July weekend), but credit where credit's due. Consider this an open thread to discuss what you're reading now and what the rest of us should be.
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I love books, okay? I just think that TS3 is the biggest event this week. I was so excited for it that I went back and rewatched the first ten minutes of Up the other night.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians for the Twin Cities book club Books and Bars. I'm also attempting to read all 3 of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy. I've finished book 1 of Quicksilver, so I'm like 1/9 of the way through: http://www.girldetective.net/?cat=51
ReplyDeleteI finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, which is more like book 2 continued than book 3, IMO. Good, but not as fast a read as the first two were for me.
Tana French's The Likeness is out in paperback, and I highly recommend it and its predecessor, In the Woods.
The Age Of Innocence (Wharton is acerbically funny as all get out, and besides that it's a fascinating look at 1870's New York City), and Robert Luis Borges' Collected Fictions.
ReplyDeleteAnn Rule's book on The Green River Killer, and I suspect that I will finally start Jasper Fforde's latest (from christmastime) while at an airport this weekend.
ReplyDeleteIn the past month, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (preferred Sharp Objects but this was pretty good), What the Dead Know, 3-9 of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Little Face by Sophie Hannah, which led me to re-reading her The Wrong Mother and then I reread parts of The Magicians because my online book club was discussing it, and I couldn't remember specifics from the ending. (I'm sure there's more, but that's what I'm remembering right now.)
ReplyDeleteI really like In the Woods and The Likeness, although the latter a little less. Her newest book comes out next month and I'm looking forward to it.
I have A Place to Come to by Robert Penn Warren and A Certain Slant of Light out from the library.
After a week on the beach of only reading, I recommend The Faculty Club (Danny Tobey) - a John Grisham/Harry Potter cross breed of what happens at an Ivy League Law School behind closed doors.
ReplyDeleteNot ridiculously hard on the brain, but enjoyable...
I'm reading Ian McEwan's Solar. That man knows how to turn a phrase.
ReplyDeleteComing to the end of "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving, which is okay, but has gotten way too wacky and icky for my tastes and I'm not enjoying it nearly as much as I liked some of his other books. Also (reading on my husband's new Nook) halfway through "Orange is the New Black," a memoir of a year in minimum security prison by Piper Kerman.
ReplyDeleteComing up in the summer reading pile: "Sunnyside" by Glen David Gold (who wrote one of my favorite books ever, "Carter Beats the Devil") and "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Wiener, which (no sucking up intended) I expect to be the perfect take-on-vacation book.
Recently finished the Simpsons Oral History which was pretty disapointing, and Terry Teachout's Louis Armstrong bio, Pops, which was great. Also, finally got to Friday Night Lights, which was fascinating in that it (unlike the TV show) made me root against the Panthers, not for. Loved it, and found the afterword about how Bissinger was kind of villified in the town intriguing. Plan to start the 4th Song of Ice and Fire book next, but am hesitating given how much I'm sure I've forgotten about books 1-3.
ReplyDeleteThat was me.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently reading Daniel Radosh's "Rapture Ready." On tap for the rest of the summer include The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Larsson's Millenium trilogy (like the rest of America, apparently) and maybe The Magicians or maybe actually finish American Prometheus.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine." I absolutely love it.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for a book that just grabs me and I can't put it down, so in the meantime I'm reading a few that are good and worth reading:
ReplyDeleteBury Me Deep by Megan Abbot
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield
Re-reading Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows in anticipation of the movie(s)
I'm also eagerly anticipating reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad which has been getting raves and a friend will be loaning me.
Also, since I know we have a few fans in here of Robin Benway's Audrey, Wait! (and since she's a friend) I have to tout that her next book, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June will be out in early August and is wonderful! I know I'm biased, but really, it's true!
I am at the beach this week with 3 other women. They are each reading a different book from the Millenium trilogy, and having just finished the 3rd book last week, it is hard for me not to run through the room and just start yelling spoilers.
ReplyDeleteI just finished Madness by Marya Hornbacher which was a frightening look into living with Bipolar disease, Chuck Palahnuik's latest Tell All (which wasn't as good as some of his previous ones) and Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, which was great.
How is Orange is the New Black? Looks intriguing.
ReplyDeleteYou'll be happy to know that I'm likely to bring Carter Beats the Devil on vacation and FINALLY read it.
Am currently slogging through Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado for book club. Not enjoying it. But the same book club recently read Patricia Highsmith's Deep Water, which was amazing and wonderful to discuss. Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteNext up is Lidia Newton (real title is longer) by Jane Smiley for another book club, and then I have to decide what I'm taking with me on vacation.
This reminds me - who here is on Goodreads? I'm linked up on there with a few people from here, but if anyone else wants to find me, I'm there as "marshaferz".
Come to think of it, we could create an ALOTT5MA group on Good Reads and then I'd always have good recs of things to read... ;-) Anyone game?
ReplyDeleteIn the Woods was amazing! I read it one go, at the edge of my seat. I haven't read The Likeness yet, but have heard mixed things. Did you read it, and if so would you recommend it?
ReplyDeleteCurrently reading Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge. Holds up really well for mid-80s SF. Will probably read Terry Pratchet's Nation, which I'm not sure why I haven't gotten to yet. Thinking of picking up some Hammet or Chandler, to see the roots of all the hard-boiled detective pastiche I've read.
ReplyDeleteCurrently reading to son: THe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Is EW really asking if there will be a fourth book? How do they expect that to happen, exactly?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Maret - I loved Audrey, Wait!, and didn't know she had a new book coming out!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Lidie Newton, Marsha. Much more than some of Smiley's other books.
ReplyDeleteLarsson's brother and parents own the copyright in the books under Swedish law and could, theoretically, commission additional books in the series, written by an "author for hire" in the V.C. Andrews/Robert Ludlum model (both of whom have continued "publishing" after their death). Complicating matters is that Larsson's longtime companion/common law wife is in possession of a laptop which contains Larson's notes/manuscript for additional volumes (allegedly, at least 75% of Novel IV, and potentially, outlines for up to 7 total books in the series). The two sides have been feuding (brother and parents want the laptop to commercially exploit it, companion doesn't want to give it up, as she claims the books have been/will be modified from how Larsson would have wanted it. She can't hire her own ghost or finish the books herself, because they're derivative works of the first three. It's just a mess.
ReplyDeleteCurrently reading Countdown by Deborah Wiles, a kids' book that takes place during the Cuban missile crisis. My kids/YA nightstand has another book taking place at the same time, This Means War!, which I think is more lighthearted; The Ghosts of Asbury High, which is the latest by Jaclyn Moriarty and looks like a lot of fun; Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone, by Dene Low, which I think got a YA Edgar award; and Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Material, by Rosalind Wiseman (author of nonfiction Queen Bees and Wannabes, which was turned into Mean Girls).
ReplyDeleteAdult nightstand has The English American, by Alison Larkin (described as a light-hearted memoir of a British girl adopted into an American family and now going back to look at Britain); The Guinea Pig Diaries, by A.J. Jacobs; The Spellmans Strike Again, by Lisa Lutz (family of P.I.s who can't stay out of each others' business); and The Natural, by Bernard Malamud, because we just saw the movie as part of our Family Baseball Film Series, and I couldn't figure out why what happened to Roy Hobbs in the beginning of the movie happened. Just read and thoroughly enjoyed Funny Business by Leonard Marcus (conversations with funny kids' authors). Will get from the library when I move up in the hold list: Cathleen Schine's latest, The Three Weissmans of Westport.
Reading to son: recently read The Wednesday Wars (which I was so happy he liked as much as I did -- fans of boys, Shakespeare, baseball, and recent historical fiction, go get it!), he just finished The Westing Game, and last night we started Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, which is an incredible book and not like anything else out there. Highly, highly recommended.
<span>Argh - I didn't mean to write that much, sorry!</span>
ReplyDeleteSunnyside seems right up my alley. I absolutely LOVED Carter Beats the Devil (so, if memory serves, does Barney Stinson - isn't he the tv character with the print of the book's cover on his wall?). I recently saw that the film version of Carter may be back on the front burner with Warners, after several years in which Tom Cruise took his option exactly nowhere.
ReplyDeleteI'm in a nonfiction phase right now - recently finished House of Cards about Bear Sterns demise and am 1/3 through Goldman Sachs. I have Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail, Gillian Tet's Fool's Gold and Michael Lewis's The Big Short lined up for the rest of the summer. At some point, I will squeeze in Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Imperfectionists (which started promisingly) and will finally finish David Mariniss's Rome 1960, which has been sitting halfway read on my coffee table since I unpacked my boxes from a move a month ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Nicole Krauss's The History of Love. I also just finished what I'm calling "the damned Dragon Tattoo book." I was very disappointed and won't be reading the other two.
ReplyDeleteI'm dkdykstra on GoodReads.
Huh. Didn't notice the the bold/italic/underline option.
ReplyDeleteMarsh - Yay! I think you'll love Carter. (And if you don't... well, I'll just have to disown you.)
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying Orange, but it's not great. There are times where she glosses over details that I'd want to know, or doesn't describe something very well. She also seems to go out of her way to make sure we know that she's not a racist, that she realizes that she attains certain privileges by being white, etc. However, it's a fascinating look at the day to day life inside a prison, and for someone like me, it has a "this is what it would be like if it were me" feel to it. (And it makes me feel bad that I wasn't there more for Michael when he went through it...)
Adam - would love to see what they do with a film version, although I fear that the book has so much going on that it would need to be cut to shreds.
LB - Have you read Ann Patchett's "Truth and Beauty," about her friendship with Lucy Grealy? It makes a great companion piece to Grealy's book. (In fact, I read Patchett's first, then sought out Grealy's.)
ReplyDeleteNothing to apologize for. And so glad to hear that kids are still reading The Westing Game! It remains my favorite book ever.
ReplyDeleteOooh, I didn't know GDG had a new book out - excellent! I, too, loved "Carter Beats the Devil" and "Sunnyside" sounds very interesting.
ReplyDeleteAdam C. - I saw that poster in Barney's apartment, too. I don't know if it's the cover of the book or just a poster of Charles Joseph Carter. Either would make sense given Barney's love of magic (though I personally don't see Barney as much of a reader).
The Big Short is fantastic. I finally understand what a CDOs and tranches are but the best thing about this book is Lewis's description of the fascinating characters who were prescient enough to see exactly what was going to happen. I've been recommending this to anyone who will listen.
ReplyDeleteI'm about halfway through Chindi by Jack McDevitt. I was intrigued at the start, but my interest is waning - not much is happening, the characters are a bit thin, and some tics in the writing style are bugging the crap out of me. (Enough with the italics, Jack.)
ReplyDeleteNext up is The Maltese Falcon for a book club, then maybe some light summer stuff like Kristin Chenoweth's A Little Bit Wicked or one of the Susan Issacs or Carl Hiassans I have waiting in my "To Be Read" pile. I also feel an 87th Precint marathon coming on, but I'm trying to put it off until later this summer. At the moment I'm really just killing time until the next Hunger Games book comes out.
Make that 87th Precinct.
ReplyDeleteI just read The Westing Game last year - based solely on all the good things I'd heard about it around here. Loved it! Thanks, y'all!
ReplyDeleteSome theatre friends of mine have a book group going via facebook where we are trying to read everything on this giant master list of plays some teacher gave us once. We are on one a week, and this week is Othello. So I am also reading whatever is up for the week. Some week's this is not pleasant. This week is not one of those weeks.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read that much of her work, but I absolutely loved Susan Isaacs' Magic Hour.
ReplyDeleteI actually read that first because I liked Bel Canto, so I found some other of her books, and then moved on to Grealy's. It was striking to read the differences in perspectives.
ReplyDeleteLoved History of Love.
ReplyDeleteNot only still reading it -- his teacher assigned it! I LOVE her. The kiddo had to be careful to avoid spoilers since he'd read it with me earlier in the year, and he had great fun hearing everyone's theories.
ReplyDeleteThink we've mentioned this here before but I read Columbine by Dave Cullen a while back and it was a great read. Really kind of intriguing the way I formed my views of the incident and surrounding events through early media info - only to find out most of it was inaccurate.
ReplyDeleteGenevieve mentioned Queen Bees and Wannabes. If you have a daughter anywhere close to middle school age, read this book immediately! My daughter is a sophomore in college now but some of the insights I found in that book were lifesavers during the late-middle school through high school years. I'm happy to report, the college girls she has met thus far seem to be a bit more together.
Oh, Sunnyside is wonderful. It is hilariously funny, and then it often skips right from there to heartbreaking in a moment. It's like Catch-22, in that respect, but with more heart.
ReplyDeleteI'm about halfway through The Help by Kathryn Stockett (excellent so far) and just finished The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Thought The Red Tent was pretty good but probably not something I'd have selected on my own (it was a book club selection).
ReplyDeleteNext up is either Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald or finishing The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I started it months ago but couldn't really get into it and it has been sitting on an end table in my living room ever since. I plan on giving it one more chance before deciding if I should abandon it for good.
Vernor Vinge and Iain M. Banks are two authors who reliably re-wire my brain. Love those guys.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear it, Sue - that's one of the books on my shelf! My favorite of hers is Lily White, but I've enjoyed all of them in varying degrees. I like that her stuff is sort of chick-lit-ish, but with heroines that don't make me want to strangle myself (or them).
ReplyDeleteDeanna, I'm with you on Dragon Tattoo -- I don't get the big deal. The first 150 pages I found long and tedious, and even after it picked up I didn't find it as good a thriller as Connelly, Crais, Coben, Lehane, or a host of others. I've heard the other two are better, but I'm not sold.
ReplyDeleteAnd Kenedy Jane, I cannot rave enough about Columbine -- it's fascinating and intense and chilling and absorbing. I have yet to talk to one person who has read it and not found it a tremendous read on a variety of levels.
The Imperfectionists is also terrific.
ReplyDeleteI recently read The Imperfectionists, which got what may be the best review I've ever seen in the NYT (though from Christopher Buckley, who may be less demanding than others). It was excellent. Before that I read Lydia Diamond's play "Stick Fly," which I mostly liked but became far too heavy-handed as it went on. Before that was Turow's "Innocent," which works extremely well and is probably an A- (to Presumed Innocent's A+), even though Turow has given up on the approach that made P.I. the amazing book it is (lots of little details that aren't relevant to the plot but made Kindle County vividly real). But the best book I've read recently is a political tract -- Tony Judt's "Ill Fares the Land," a full-throated defense of social democracy. And the book that I keep thinking about is Paolo Bacigalupi's The Wind-Up Girl, which recently won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel.
ReplyDeleteI'm sort of rereading Fahrenheit 451 now, but I've been busy so it's been on hold a bit. And last night, someone finally convinced me to read "The Name of the Rose." Finally, based on a recommendation from The Slate Political Gabfest, I've read a few of the short stories from Matt Debenham's collection The Book of Right and Wrong. They are both funny and poignant.
Oops - the recommendation was from the Slate Culture Gabfest, not from the Political Gabfest.
ReplyDeleteOwning a kindle means never having to justify your tastes, so I've been reading lots of highly girly books lately -- Kathy Griffin's "Official Book Club Selection," Pamela Ribon's "Why Moms Are Weird" -- I am now reading "Sh*t My Dad Says" to counter the last.
ReplyDeleteI read the whole Millenium trilogy, and while Deanna and Maret are right -- those first 150 pages are TEDIOUS -- they pay off in the third book, as Hornet's Nest takes all of the working parts of the storyline and dovetails them nicely. In other words, by the time I got halfway through book three, I understood why I needed to know so much about Millenium's staff tree. But seriously -- they drink too much coffee, these characters, and they eat way too many open sandwiches for me to believe any one of them has a balanced diet.
Sunnyside is on my this-summer list too. Carter Beats the Devil is one of my favorites. Glad to hear it's good!
ReplyDeleteTruth and Beauty is pretty great. I still haven't read Autobiography of a Face, although I've been meaning to.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea, Marsha! I'm on as smkuenn. I really like Goodreads a lot. So much better than tracking the books I read each year in a notebook. (Does anyone else do this?)
ReplyDeleteExactly. :) And Magic Hour, interestingly enough for Isaacs, has a male protagonist. And it totally works.
ReplyDeleteI am reading on the bf's recommendation Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Which is surprisingly good and a lot more insightful into his headspace than probably he even realises. As for fiction the new Lionel Shriver is next on the list and I finished in record time Mr Pettigrew's Last Stand which I can't recommend highly enough as a palate cleanser before diving into something more challenging.
ReplyDeleteDo you like The Magicians? I keep picking it up, carrying it around the book store, and putting it back down again. I can't ever make the commitment.
ReplyDeleteI'm on as Callie. I'm only on one goodreads group for my favorite book-related podcast, Books on the Nightstand. The ALOTT5MA group would be a fantastic idea!
ReplyDeleteIn the last month I've read <span>Shanhai Girls</span>, by Lisa See, which I ADORED and have lent to several other people since; Carrie Fischer's memoir <span>Wishful Drinking</span>, which was a fun insight into her life, but I kinda regretted buying in paperback, even if I did learn that the snake monster in the trash compactor was called the Dionaga, which my Star Wars loving hubby didn't even know; <span>Lost City of Z</span>, which I liked less than I thought I would- lots of icky descriptions of maggots and skin infections, which I almost couldn't get through; <span>The Lightning Thief</span>, which was ok... a friend of mine is reading the rest of the series and he loves the 5th one, so I'll probably push through the rest of them at some point; <span>Voyager</span>, the third book in the Outlander series, and my favorite so far- it's over 1000 pages, and I finished it in less than a week, I just loved it so much; and finally <span>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</span>, which I had to sit with for awhile, but now I feel like it will stay with me for a long time. I just started Carlos Ruiz Zafon's newest <span>The Angel's Game</span>. I love his writing, so very much.
ReplyDeleteI've also listened to <span>South of Broad</span>, by Pat Conroy, which was so classic Conroy, you either love him or you hate him, and I love him; <span>The Alchemist</span>, which I had never heard of but grabbed because Jeremy Irons narrated... it's a nice fairy tale, but probably not something I'll grab again. I'm currently listening to <span>The Strain</span>, by Guillermo del Toro, narrated by Ron Perlman, who is dry, but in a good way. That is such a creepy book, such a great take on the vampire idea.
Also, just wanted to throw my 2 cents in on Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo... I was very bored and disappointed. I'll probably give the other 2 a try at some point, but I don't feel the need to run out and get them.
For all you Westing fans -- Ellen Raskin's (not readily available) backlist is being reissued in January, including Newbery Honor Book Figgs & Phantoms.
ReplyDeleteI just finished Nick Hornby's <span>Juliet, Naked</span>, and liked it, but I always like his stuff. I hope someone will remind me of a novel that was recommended here a while back that's about music and liked by several people.
ReplyDeleteCurrently, <span>Just Kids</span>, by Patti Smith, which is wonderful. And <span>A Gate at the Stairs</span> by Lorrie Moore (I LOVE her other stuff but so far am only liking this one, but enough to stay with it).
Tina, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of "The Song Is You" by Arthur Phillips.
ReplyDeleteBased on earlier recommendations here, I read it back in January. I'm in the minority and didn't care for it at all. Thought it was a lazy mish-mash of Harry Potter and Bright Lights, Big City. Then there's a sprinkle of Narnia and a WTF ending. Bits and pieces were interesting, but overall frustrating as it didn't follow up.
ReplyDeleteWe rewatched Toy Story earlier this week and Toy Story 2 last night. Guess what I'm going to watch this weekend?
ReplyDeleteI didn't even realize that Fforde had another book out. I'm so behind. I've got to finish the latest Elizabeth George and then read the latest Donna Leon before I can even think about that. Plus, I think that the new Lindsey Davis book is coming out soon....
ReplyDeleteSaying something is like Catch-22 is a good way to get me to NOT read it.
ReplyDeleteJSG - fantastic news!!! I've never liked Figgs as much as Westing Game (still my very favorite book) and The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) but anything that gets people reading Raskin is fine by me.
ReplyDeleteRaskin amazes me - she illustrated all her own books, and was a hghly-regarded illustrator long before she was a writer. She designed the first book jacket for A Wrinkle in Time! And her middle name is Ermingard, which is, for no real reason, very cool.
I was skeptical about Fforde's new book (a completely new universe from the Thursday Next books, and not one that sounded appealing to me - a society based on percentage of color people can see). But once I got into it, I found it very exciting and pretty compelling.
ReplyDeleteSo glad her backlist is being reissued! I loved Mysterious Disappearance as a kid (and enjoyed it as an adult), and remember not really liking Figgs as a kid but need to try it again as an adult, as obviously the Newbery committee saw good things. And I'd especially love to see more kids reading Mysterious Disappearance and learning about the glub-blubs and Mrs. Carillon's Pomato soup.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea she was an illustrator until Fuse 8's countdown of the top 100 kids' novels earlier this year - so cool that she did one of the best Wrinkle jackets.
OK, I usually keep my nonfiction fairly light or biographical, but it sounds like I should read (and could enjoy) The Big Short. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteA Little Bit Wicked was fun. A good summer read.
ReplyDeleteFather's Day tickets at IMAX 3D showing, baby! (Jenn., perhaps we'll be at the same theater...)
ReplyDelete<span>Genevieve -- I would not tell you NOT to read Lewis (as one reviewer said, he's incapable of writing a bad sentence), but if you find you don't have the patience, he did a great number of interviews about the book on any number of NPR and NPR-like shows, in which he laid out the story/argument pretty well. I can recommend in particular his discussions with Terry Gross (Fresh Air – you can get to the audio via this site -- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124690424 -- see “web extras”), and Christopher Lydon (http://www.radioopensource.org/michael-lewis-big-short-and-our-appetite-for-apocalypse/).</span>
ReplyDeleteHere is the interesting NY Times magazine piece, The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23Larsson-t.html
ReplyDeleteI loved The Magicians and sought out Lev as a result - he's a lovely, smart guy who is currently at work on a sequel. Bill, I hear everything you're saying and I think the response is just that it's intentionally drawing from all of those works - it's a postmodern take on the Harry Potter phenomenon. That said, I get that it's not for everyone.
ReplyDeleteApril, May, and June is awesome - read an advance copy and loved.
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of Books on the Nightstand and I'm new to goodreads but I really enjoy the site. I'd love to see a group from here over there!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Russ!
ReplyDeleteCallie, you'll need to be more specific - there are a zillion Callies. Or just friend me!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty new to goodreads... I added a username of calliekl, but I'm not sure if it took? Getting used to this whole social networking thing!
ReplyDeleteI agree it's intentionally drawing from all those. I just thought it was doing so in a superficial way.
ReplyDelete****SPOILERS******
A bunch of college kids, drunk with power and and a lot of alcohol, complain about how miserable they are with unlimited power. After graduating, the get meaningless jobs before tripping off to fairyland where they deal with real consequences. Then the main protaganist ends up with an old girlfriend he stopped caring for 300 pages previously.
*****END SPOILERS*******
That's it, thanks. It just went on the Amazon list, with Sunnyside and a few others from this thread.
ReplyDeleteI'm still catching up on books-that-will-be-books in a few years, so, sadly, don't have too much to add. I'm curious if/when anyone reads The Passage, the promotion for which both annoyed and interested me at BEA.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to note that anyone in the DC area who wants a glimpse of what's new and coming up this fall, particularly in the children's book world (including LOADS of free galleys and great book signings), should consider checking out the American Library Association Annual Conference next weekend. The floor is open all day Saturday and Sunday and an Exhibits Only pass is only $25.
I liked "The Song Is You" quite a bit more than I liked "Juliet, Naked," and I'm generally a Hornby fan (but more of "High Fidelity" and "About A Boy" than his more recent books).
ReplyDeleteWish, wish, wish I wasn't going to be busy Sat./Sun.!! Would love to hear a report on the ALA Conference.
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