Notes on Books & Life
I first heard about One Amazing Thing, the newest novel from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, earlier this year, a few weeks after it came out. A coworker handed the book to me and said, “Doesn’t this look interesting?” I read the synopsis and agreed, but the book remained at the periphery of my attention until my …
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I heard about Susan Beth Pfeffer’s The Last Survivors trilogy — Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, and This World We Live In — from a school librarian who came into the store to buy books for her library. She raved about the audiobooks, which she was listening to in her …
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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia by Mary Helen Stefaniak came to me through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers program. When it arrived in the mail — thankfully, before I left! — I read a few pages and immediately put it into my suitcase. From the first page to the last, this novel had me hooked. I was …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., is a bit out of line with the sort of books I usually read. Every now and again, though, I feel the urge to read a book one of my co-workers has selected as a “staff pick” for the store. The novel, published in 1960, is …
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Y.S. Lee’s The Agency: The Body at the Tower is both the second Mary Quinn mystery and the second book I finished on my trip. (I posted about the first Mary Quinn mystery, The Agency: A Spy in the House in the spring.) This young adult trilogy is set in Victorian London and featuring newly minted …
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