I received this book from Canongate through Nudge.Ritchie Shepherd is a former rock star turned television personality with an unhealthy appetite for girls who are much too young even though he is married and has two young children. Because he is very good at lying to himself about himself he doesn’...
A sprawling novel filled with characters and issues and malaria and cancer and lashings of science and life/death and sex. A revelation within the confines of family drama and quite unlike anything I have read before. But to be fair, I have read previous books by James Meek and it is always a revela...
Ok the only reason I requested this was to read the first few chapters of the Diviners by Libba Bray....but there were alot of other sneak peaks in here that I found very interesting and now I have a ton more book on hold at the library...great... :)
Books that I want to read/look interesting: The Dog StarsThrone of Glass - Got the ARC! The Last Dragonslayer - Got the ARC! OriginJohn Saturnall's Feast - Got the ARC! The DivinersThe Other NormalsIn Sunlight and in Shadow - Got the ARC! Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook ...
BEA Buzz Book is a collection of excerpts on galleys that was featured in the last BookExpo America. It contained atleast 30 excerpts ranged from various kinds of Debuts, Non-Fiction, YA, Children, Adult, Memoirs, Mystery and General Fiction. Along with it was publisher's information after every end...
Easily one of the best books I've read this year.
Difficult to get in to as the first few chapters are very confusing and complex as each chapter is a snippet of a different persons life. Stick with it....please!It is only when these individual stories start to interconnect, as Cindy said 'the confusion becomes more interesting than confusing.' Se...
I think I need to save this for another time, another season, since I've already overextended myself with challenging summer reads.
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