Once again, my issue of Bookmarks Magazine has me adding titles to my to-read/wish list. These are the titles that caught my eye from the latest issue:
The Children’s Book
by A.S. Byatt: In Byatt’s latest, she looks at the lives of the Wellwood family from the Victorian era through World War I. Olive Wellwood is a famous children’s book author who also writes private books for each of her seven children. Family secrets are plentiful and the Great War looms.
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood: When a natural disaster destroys most of human life, only two women survive. Can they remain in hiding? Are their families and lovers alive? What about the men from nearby Painball prison? As gene-spliced animals roam the land, it is indeed a strange new world.
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby: Duncan is obsessed with the singer Tucker Crowe. When Duncan breaks up with Annie, she begins an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, who is on the verge of releasing his first album in ten years.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd: Here Ackroyd posits a world where Mary Shelley, author of the Frankenstein story, knows Victor and his Creature personally.
Angel Time: Songs of the Seraphim by Anne Rice: Rice offers a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins in her 29th book. In the present day, a soulless man – a contract killer – meets someone who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. He is carried back in time to the 13th century on a quest for salvation.
Other books that caught my eye:
The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Last Child by John Hart
The City and the City by China Mieville
Twitter: bookfanmb
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I read the Last Days Of Summer back in January. It’s one of my favorite books of the year!!! I hope you’ll read it. I recommend it to everyone I know who loves books.
.-= Mary´s last blog ..Winner of Table Manners by Mia King =-.
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says:
Mary – well, now I can’t wait to read it!
Twitter: youvegottaread
says:
This is a nice list! I’ve got my eye on more than a few of them. I am really wondering about Anne Rice. She went overkill on the vampires (she lost me mid-way through), then she wrote about Jesus for awhile. I love her writing, and am pondering the notion of picking her back up again. I’m waiting for a review of this one!
.-= Sandy´s last blog ..The Castle in the Attic – Elizabeth Winthrop (audio) =-.
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Sandy – I’ve never read any of Rice’s vampire fiction, but I did read Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and thought it extremely well-written. I’m curious to see what she’s like in a different genre.
Unfortunately I let my subscription to Bookmarks lapse but I must get to the bookstore soon to pick this up. I didn’t know Nick Hornby had a new book coming out so I’ll be looking forward to it.
And, I’m with Sandy, I used to love Anne Rice but then she sort of lost me halfway through her vampire chronicles. It’s been forever since I’ve read one of her books. Maybe I should give her new one a try!
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Iliana – I know – I was so excited to hear about a new Hornby!