Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans I loved every page of this compelling, funny, suspenseful book. Imagine “Rear Window” meets a queer, teen version of “The Lovebirds.” Bianca is endearingly awkward and charmingly honest as a narrator and character, and the good people who enter and stay in Bianca’s orbit are …
“Disability Pride Month is an important time to honor the diversity and uniqueness of each person in the disability community and celebrate people who have disabilities.” –National Health Council From The Neverending Bookshop: July is Disability Pride Month! And our owner, Annie, is a high-functioning physically disabled person! So we celebrate every year with extra …
From family of friends of Chandler O’Leary, through her website: “Our dear friend Chandler passed away on April 2 from sudden and severe pneumonia. She was just 41 years old, and leaves behind an astonishing body of work as an author and artist[. . . ] “In her short life, she filled countless sketchbooks and …
Once I started this book, I couldn’t put it down. Claire Dederer aptly asks questions and ruminates on separating the art from the artist (or monster) from many different angles. I especially loved the exploration of what it means to be a fan and caught up in parasocial relationships. Between clever analysis and examination, there …
If you’re a poetry fan, you’ve likely already heard about Judas Goat, Seattle poet Gabrielle Bates’s debut collection. Bates is one of the voices on the Poet Salon podcast, and these last few years her poems have been appearing in some of the nation’s most celebrated literary journals. Judas Goat is thoughtful and foreboding, using …
Justina Ireland caught my attention with a duology set in an alternate history where the Civil War ended early… due to the dead rising from their graves after Gettysburg. It shouldn’t have worked. Hell, I’ve been tired of zombies (and their myriad knockoffs) for years and I went in with a jaundiced eye. But Ireland …
[L]ast year I was quite taken by the book Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree […] I’ll be up front, this book owes a lot to L&L, which the author freely admits in her afterword. Which was nice because, yes, I was looking for something similar to… Reyna moves to a remote village on the …
Fascinating story about Major Taylor, the first Black person to become a world champion in sports. Biking was then the most popular sport in America. The extraordinary Taylor was a heroic athlete who broke racial barriers, battling Jim Crow laws and attitudes, even those of his colleagues. Inspiring and riveting. –Krijn, Queen Anne Book Company, …
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Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Ripe is red hot, blazing as fast as a comet. Every sentence keeps the tone in perfect place. This is a novel of workplace and existential dread, paralleled perfectly. I loved all the discussion about space, black holes, quantum physics, universe theories, etc. It’s something that I love to think about in general, and so …