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David Tennant

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

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David Tennant

S.W. Straus

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character.

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S.W. Straus

Molière

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

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Molière

April 15, 2016

Last Friday/Saturday, my body battery ran down, and I kicked it back a few notches, vowing to give in to being tired and just take it easy. I reached for a book that I have been hearing a lot about, I LET YOU GO by Clare Mackintosh, which will be in stores on May 3rd. I see why it’s getting buzz; it has one of the most perfect twists that I have read. Here’s the plot: A young boy is killed by a hit-and-run driver as he is walking home from school with his mother. Who was behind the wheel? The action moves from page one and does not stop --- really fine plotting. When one is not moving like I was for those 48 hours, it’s wonderful when the storyline gallops away.

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Early April 2016

I just returned from a lovely 45-minute walk from a book preview event downtown (yes, I got lots of steps in today!). I don’t know about you, but I cannot wait until it’s warm enough to read outside again. There’s something special about finding the perfect bench or shady spot on the grass and settling down with a new book. Speaking to that, our intern, Erin, shared the photo on the above left of her sitting on a bench with her newest read, TELL ME THREE THINGS, which is one of our featured reviews. Soon....very soon....we will be doing this every day!

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April 15, 2016 - April 29, 2016

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of April 15 - April 29.

Lucy Keating, author of Dreamology

Vibrantly offbeat and utterly original, Lucy Keating’s debut novel combines the unconventional romance of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" with the sweetness and heart of Jenny Han.

For as long as Alice can remember, she has dreamed of Max. Together, they have traveled the world and fallen deliriously, hopelessly in love. Max is the boy of her dreams --- and only her dreams. Because he doesn’t exist.

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Monica Hesse, author of Girl in the Blue Coat

An unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times

The missing girl is Jewish. I need you to find her before the Nazis do.

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion.

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Julie Buxbaum, author of Tell Me Three Things

What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met?
 
Julie Buxbaum mixes comedy and tragedy, love and loss, pain and elation, in her debut YA novel whose characters will come to feel like friends. Tell Me Three Things will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.

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April 15, 2016

We’re noticing a #trend in entertainment right now that we’re not super happy about. We saw it in Batman v Superman, and we’re about to see it in this week’s hot ticket, Captain America: Civil War, and later this month in The Huntsman. Friends are fighting everywhere we look. To put it mildly, the #team is turning on itself, and it’s not a great look for anybody. Sure, we can assume everyone kisses and makes up in the end (at least Ben and Henry do in our dreams), but the premise remains troubling. When did the villain stop being a casual outsider and rather someone from within? Listen, we may be getting a bit cynical in our old age, but we blame the studios for monetizing all this intra-squad beef. And Taylor Swift a little, too.

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