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Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 10:25am
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Jacob's grandfather told wild stories about the orphanage he'd been in as a child, a home where the children were invisible, or could conjure fire, or fly. In his dying breath, he urges Jacob to "find the bird. In the loop. Tell them what happened, Yakob." Jacob travels to Wales to find the orphanage that was bombed in 1940 and yet somehow still exists, and bring a message to the headmistress who died in the bombing but is very much alive.
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Posted on Monday, January 9, 2012 - 12:10pm
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Those who loved The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger’s first novel, should be prepared for a different type of story. Rather than two central characters, there are several: twin sisters Edie and Elspeth Noblin; Edie’s husband Jack and their twin daughters, Julia and Valentina Poole; and the other tenants in Elspeth’s apartment building in London – Martin, who suffers from OCD, and Robert, Elspeth’s bereaved lover (the book begins with Elspeth’s death). Under the terms of Elspeth’s will, Julia and Valentina move from Chicago to Elspeth’s flat in London, bordering Highgate Cemetery. Elspeth, now a ghost, learns to communicate with them and with Robert. But Elspeth and Edie have been keeping a secret from everyone for over twenty years, and only a terribly tragic event can bring it to light. Her Fearful Symmetry is, essentially, a ghost story, where neither the living nor the dead can let the other rest.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 10:34am
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If you’re looking for a light, quick, and laugh-out-loud funny read, one of these (or both!) is up your alley – especially for fans of Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, and The Office. Fey and Kaling both write about growing up, how they got into comedy and show business, and their experiences working in the business. Both books are full of funny stories from childhood and the teen years, the authors’ struggles to break into comedy, and stories about their professional and personal lives. Both books are organized more or less chronologically as a series of brief essays; the chapters are short and sometimes unrelated to the chapters before or after. Fey and Kaling write with voices that are personal, witty, conversational, and down-to-earth – Bossypants and Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? are hard not to like.
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Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 12:44pm
The end of the year is an excellent time to catch up on ideas for reading. Take a look at the lists below to make sure you didn't miss something great from 2011!
New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2011
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2011
GoodReads: The Best Books of 2011
Boston Globe: Best Non-Fiction Books 2011
Boston Globe: Best Fiction Books 2011
Amazon: The Best Books of 2011
Barnes and Noble: The Best Books of 2011
Publishers Weekly: Best Books of 2011
USA Today: The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2011
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Posted on Friday, December 23, 2011 - 12:39pm
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Young adult author David Levithan transitions into adult fiction with a slender, beautifully crafted novel written with a unique structure: each page begins with a word and its part of speech, followed by a “definition” of anywhere from a sentence to a few pages. These definitions tell the story of a relationship between two people, from the first stages of meeting, dating, and moving in together to their perseverance through each other’s mistakes. Levithan transitions effortlessly between tenderness (“yearning, n. and adj.: At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect”) and humor (“flagrant, adj.: I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste”). Under “love, n.,” however, he is smart enough to offer only, “I’m not even going to try.”
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