Well, let’s start with Isabel Klee’s Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir. Klee is @SimonSits on the socials, where she regularly tells stories about rescuing dogs. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About takes us through the last decade or so of her life in New York City, dealing with—wait for it—rescue dogs, heartbreaking …
Olivia Waite’s Nobody’s Baby [is] a cozy science-fictional novella about a baby that appears where no baby is expected and the subsequent investigation into who was making babies where folks aren’t supposed to be—you know. There are rules in space, especially when you are doing generational travel across light-years, but—you know. ANYWAY, this baby is here …
Here is Chuck Klosterman’s Football, a book about the singular force that shapes American life. That’s Chuck’s phrase, not ours, but it doesn’t take long to get swept up in his worldview. This is a book for both folks who like football—who will find much to agree with here—and those who don’t understand what the …
Travis Baldree is back with Brigands & Breadknives, which is the story of Fern, once a bookseller and now a lost wanderer in the company of a legendary warrior, a chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely monstrous hangover. Fern, you see, has been suffering from a bit of ennui these past months, …
Here is The Anthony Bourdain Reader, a deeply curated selection of the man’s writing—fiction and non-fiction—over the years. Through it all, as Patrick Radden Keefe makes note of in his introduction, it’s abundantly clear that Bourdain always thought of himself as a writer. Everything else—chef, TV personality, drug addict—was secondary to his desire to write. …
Stirringly atmospheric and unsettling, full of grief and love and darkness but also hope, this is completely compelling! The blessed yet cursed town of Mistaken, the vivid cast of townspeople, and the mysterious threats of the world beyond their Warding Stones all captured my imagination. Greer is a character who will stick with you long …
Here is Syou Ishida’s We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat, which is a series of stories about a mysterious clinic whose primary solution to what ails you is to give you a cat. This is one of those books which either works for you as a reader or doesn’t. If you find yourself thinking “Really?”, then …
Al-Rashid dives into the actual historical records left by the peoples who lived, loved, and died in the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, providing us with delightful snaphots of daily life circa 1900 BCE. Folks had collicky babies, needed recipes for beer, and wanted to exorcise ghosts. Preschoolers had terrible handwriting. There was …
J. Penner has written a story about a fantasy bake-off. A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic is about Arleta Starstone, a human confectioner who rises above their own social awkwardness and enters their treats into the prestigious Elven Baking Battle. Since Arleta isn’t naturally magical, she’s going to have to whip up some extra tasty treats to …
This is Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story, which is a lot of colons to swallow. We think one of those isn’t the title of the book that Reid submitted, but you know how they are with the meta-data these days. Anyway, Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story is the story of …
