Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian -- Avi Steinberg
Steinberg, a Harvard graduate, takes a job at as a librarian at Boston prison. With little experience and latitutde, he creates a welcomed and welcoming space for a wide range of inmates. The stories he learns change his life.
Abraham Lincoln-- Vampire Hunter -- Seth Grahame-Smith
A fascinating twist on the reasons behind the American Civil War.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-- Seth Grahame-Smith
A brilliant paroday.
The Uncommon Reader -- Alan Bennett
Queen Elizabeth's accidental encounter with a bookmobile at Buckingham Palace, turns her into a voracious reader.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Shirley Jackson
Merricat Blackwood and her agoraphobic sister Catherine live in isolation in a small New England town. The poisoning deaths of the rest of their family several years before are the reason the townspeople shun them.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
APRIL 2011
Twilight -- Stephenie Meyer
Total Edward fan. Better late than never.
New Moon -- Stephenie Meyer
Not as good, but I still kept reading.
Eclipse -- Stepenie Meyer
Aw, just get er done, already!
Midnight Sun -- Stephenie Meyer (as of yet, officially unpublished; available on her website.)
Edward's story. Yes, I'm obsessed.
Breaking Dawn -- Stephenie Meyer
Nice way to end the series. I think I'm over it.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner -- Stephenie Meyer
Okay, now I'm over it.
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe -- Judy Fong Bates
Ten year old Su Jen (Annie) emigrates with her mother from Communist China small town Ontario in the early 1960s. She is reunited with the father she barely remembers who runs a restaurant. As Annie acclimates to her new life, her mother is miserable and pines for her lost life.
Total Edward fan. Better late than never.
New Moon -- Stephenie Meyer
Not as good, but I still kept reading.
Eclipse -- Stepenie Meyer
Aw, just get er done, already!
Midnight Sun -- Stephenie Meyer (as of yet, officially unpublished; available on her website.)
Edward's story. Yes, I'm obsessed.
Breaking Dawn -- Stephenie Meyer
Nice way to end the series. I think I'm over it.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner -- Stephenie Meyer
Okay, now I'm over it.
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe -- Judy Fong Bates
Ten year old Su Jen (Annie) emigrates with her mother from Communist China small town Ontario in the early 1960s. She is reunited with the father she barely remembers who runs a restaurant. As Annie acclimates to her new life, her mother is miserable and pines for her lost life.
Friday, March 4, 2011
MARCH 2011
Hillbilly Gothic -- Adrienne Martini A funny, poignant first person narrative of post-partum depression.
Hot Time the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 adn the Making of Theodore Roosevelt -- Edward P. Kohn An interesting portrait of New York City during one its worst, but mostly forgotten, natural disasters.
The Best Laid Plans -- Terry Fallis As a condition of leaving Parliament Hill just before an election, speech writer Danial Addision is required to find a Liberal candidate to run in an historically Tory held ryding. He convinces an ornery Scottish engineering professor at the University of Ottawa to put his name on the ballot. Mayhem and hilarity ensues.
The Somnambulist -- Jonathan Barnes Edward Moon is a conjurer and detective, with an enigmatic sidekick known as the Somnuambulist. He is asked to aid the investigation of a grizzly and puzzling death, and as the investigation progresses, weirder events take place. A satirical and mesmerising take on Dickensian characters and Victorian novels
Hot Time the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 adn the Making of Theodore Roosevelt -- Edward P. Kohn An interesting portrait of New York City during one its worst, but mostly forgotten, natural disasters.
The Best Laid Plans -- Terry Fallis As a condition of leaving Parliament Hill just before an election, speech writer Danial Addision is required to find a Liberal candidate to run in an historically Tory held ryding. He convinces an ornery Scottish engineering professor at the University of Ottawa to put his name on the ballot. Mayhem and hilarity ensues.
The Somnambulist -- Jonathan Barnes Edward Moon is a conjurer and detective, with an enigmatic sidekick known as the Somnuambulist. He is asked to aid the investigation of a grizzly and puzzling death, and as the investigation progresses, weirder events take place. A satirical and mesmerising take on Dickensian characters and Victorian novels
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
FEBRUARY 2011
The Strain -- Guillermo Del Torro & Chuck Hogan
A 777 arrives at JFK from Germany, and upon landing, goes dark. Everyone on board is dead. Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, a CDC specialist, is called in because it is believed that an unknown virus killed the passengers. In fact, an evil vampire has killed everyone and is well on his way to infecting all of New York. A good read, even if you don't like this sort of thing!
The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise --Julia Stuart
Balthazar Jones is a Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London, is chosen to be the overseer of the Queen's new Royal Menagerie. His wife, Hebe, is a clerk at the Underground's Office of Lost Property. Both are suffering from the loss of their eleven year old son, Milo. A whimsical tale, full of whacky characters. Charming and sad.
Lost in a Good Book -- Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next is back to work as a Literary Detective and has discovered a new Shakespearian play, but the Goliath Corporation wants her skills to rescue one of their own from The Raven. To get her to comply, they erase her new husband.
The Lotus Eaters -- Tatjana Soli
Helen Adams goes to Vietnam in the late 1960s as a photographer haunted by the death of her brother. She captures the horrors and beauty of the war and wins many awards and accolades, and cannot escape her past or her future.
The Bone Cage -- Angie Abdou
Digger and Sadie have both qualified to represent Canada in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he as a wrestler, she as a swimmer. Both have dedicated their lives to attain this goal, but is it enough? What happens when tragedy strikes? When the Games are over?
A 777 arrives at JFK from Germany, and upon landing, goes dark. Everyone on board is dead. Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, a CDC specialist, is called in because it is believed that an unknown virus killed the passengers. In fact, an evil vampire has killed everyone and is well on his way to infecting all of New York. A good read, even if you don't like this sort of thing!
The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise --Julia Stuart
Balthazar Jones is a Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London, is chosen to be the overseer of the Queen's new Royal Menagerie. His wife, Hebe, is a clerk at the Underground's Office of Lost Property. Both are suffering from the loss of their eleven year old son, Milo. A whimsical tale, full of whacky characters. Charming and sad.
Lost in a Good Book -- Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next is back to work as a Literary Detective and has discovered a new Shakespearian play, but the Goliath Corporation wants her skills to rescue one of their own from The Raven. To get her to comply, they erase her new husband.
The Lotus Eaters -- Tatjana Soli
Helen Adams goes to Vietnam in the late 1960s as a photographer haunted by the death of her brother. She captures the horrors and beauty of the war and wins many awards and accolades, and cannot escape her past or her future.
The Bone Cage -- Angie Abdou
Digger and Sadie have both qualified to represent Canada in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he as a wrestler, she as a swimmer. Both have dedicated their lives to attain this goal, but is it enough? What happens when tragedy strikes? When the Games are over?
Monday, January 3, 2011
JANUARY 2011
New Under the Sun -- Kevin MajorShannon Carew has returned to Newfoundland after nearly 20 years away to work with Parks Canada on the revamping of three historical sites: L'anse Aux Meadows, L'anse Amour and the Basque site at Red Bay. Interspersed with Shannon's story, are the stories of Shanawdihit, the last Beothuk, William Cormack, the Scottsman who studied the Beothuks and Nonosa, a Beothuk leader.
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief -- Wendelin Van Draanen
Samantha Keyes secretly lives with her grandmother in subsidized senior housing after her mother abandons her to pursue an acting career. Sammy witnesses a burglary in a hotel across the street and sets out to solve the crime. YA
Samantha Keyes secretly lives with her grandmother in subsidized senior housing after her mother abandons her to pursue an acting career. Sammy witnesses a burglary in a hotel across the street and sets out to solve the crime. YA
Man in the Woods -- Scott Spencer
Paul, a talented and successful carpenter, takes an unplanned detour to a park off the Taconic Parkway. There, he encounters a man savagely beating a dog and before he knows it, he has killed the man. Paul attempts to continue his life unaffected by this, but it haunts him and his family in numerous ways.
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously -- Adrienne Martini
Adrienne gives herself a year to knit Alice Starmore's Mary Tudor sweater, an out of print pattern with exceedingly difficult yarns to obtain. A fascinating look at the contemporary community of knitters and an inspiration to attempt more difficult projects.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet -- David Mitchell
Jacob De Zoet, a company clerk, arrives at the Dutch East India outpost in feudal Japan in 1799, with the intention of returning to the Netherlands a wealthy man in five years time. He befriends a young interpreter, becomes enchanted with a Japanese midwife, and dramatically alters his future.
Essex County Vol. 1 -- Tales from the Farm -- Jeff Lemire
Ten year old Lester moves to his uncle's farm in rural Ontario after his mother dies. He wears a superhero mask and cape, and imagines he is supposed to save the world from alien invaders. Uncle Ken, a bachelor, doesn't know what to make of his nephew. Jimmy, the gas station attendant, a one time NHL hockey player, befriends the boy and assists in fighting the aliens. A beautifully depicted graphic novel.Effigy -- Allisa York
Dorrie is the fourth wife of Hammer, a Morman farmer in mid=1880s Utah. He marries her solely for her taxidermy skills, so that she can create a lifelike archive his hunting prowess. Dorrie has no memory of her life before the age of seven, and through flashbacks of all the characters, the mystery of Dorrie's life and events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre unfold in a haunting way.Thursday, December 2, 2010
DECEMBER 2010
Worth Dying For -- Lee Child
Reacher is back! He lands in Nebraska, where he solves the 25 year old mystery of a missing girl, rights wrongs and avenges.
Two Parties, One Tux and a Very Short Film About The Grapes of Wrath -- Steven Golman
Mitchell and David, best friends, are juniors in high school. Mitchell is not the most popular guy and David, a baseball jock, has just come out to Mitchell. Mitchell struggles with this information, as with all the attendant issues of being seventeen. A hilarious and tender coming of age story. YA
The Passage -- Justin Cronin
Government conspiracies, biological warfare, vampires, armegeddon, and Amy, a young girl who saves the world.
Reacher is back! He lands in Nebraska, where he solves the 25 year old mystery of a missing girl, rights wrongs and avenges.
Two Parties, One Tux and a Very Short Film About The Grapes of Wrath -- Steven Golman
Mitchell and David, best friends, are juniors in high school. Mitchell is not the most popular guy and David, a baseball jock, has just come out to Mitchell. Mitchell struggles with this information, as with all the attendant issues of being seventeen. A hilarious and tender coming of age story. YA
The Passage -- Justin Cronin
Government conspiracies, biological warfare, vampires, armegeddon, and Amy, a young girl who saves the world.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
NOVEMBER 2010
Annabel -- Kathleen Winter
Wayne Blake, born a hemaphrodite in 1960's Labrador, is not told of his condition. Only his parents and midwife know, and the secret they keep has resounding repurcussions.
Ape House -- Sara Gruen
Isabel Duncan and her conversant bonobos are violently separated by a terroristic group of animal rights activists. When the animals reappear as the stars of a new reality television show, Isabel does everything in her power to get her "family" back.
The Eyre Affair -- Jasper Fforde
In an alternate reality, Special Ops Thursday Next is on the hunt for a devious literary criminal, Acheron Hades, who has stolen Dickens' original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewhit. With the help of a machine that enables people to enter books and characters to leave the pages, Hades intends on wreaking havoc on the world. (Inkheart for adults)
Crow Lake -- Mary Lawson
Kate and her baby sister Bo are raised by her teenaged brothers after their parents are killed. The townspeople of their small northern Ontario town all pitch in to help. Told in the voice of the grown up Kate, the story of her family's heartbreaking loss is one that cannot be put down.
Where Mercy is Shown, Mercy is Given -- Doug "Dog" Chapman
Yes, I did, although I hid the cover while on the subway.
Wayne Blake, born a hemaphrodite in 1960's Labrador, is not told of his condition. Only his parents and midwife know, and the secret they keep has resounding repurcussions.
Ape House -- Sara Gruen
Isabel Duncan and her conversant bonobos are violently separated by a terroristic group of animal rights activists. When the animals reappear as the stars of a new reality television show, Isabel does everything in her power to get her "family" back.
The Eyre Affair -- Jasper Fforde
In an alternate reality, Special Ops Thursday Next is on the hunt for a devious literary criminal, Acheron Hades, who has stolen Dickens' original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewhit. With the help of a machine that enables people to enter books and characters to leave the pages, Hades intends on wreaking havoc on the world. (Inkheart for adults)
Crow Lake -- Mary Lawson
Kate and her baby sister Bo are raised by her teenaged brothers after their parents are killed. The townspeople of their small northern Ontario town all pitch in to help. Told in the voice of the grown up Kate, the story of her family's heartbreaking loss is one that cannot be put down.
Where Mercy is Shown, Mercy is Given -- Doug "Dog" Chapman
Yes, I did, although I hid the cover while on the subway.
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