Are you tempted to stay inside this weekend? To curl up with a good book? Well, you’re in luck, because, after a particularly dreary week, we thought it would be a good time to round up some hibernation fare for you. Oh, my little lambs, hunker down and get these books read, for soon we will be roaring into Spring!
Here’s what we’re reading:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Lost City Radio, Daniel Alarcon
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
Frost Burned, by Patricia Briggs
The Wilderness Warrior, Douglas Brinkley
A Partial History of Lost Causes, Jennifer DuBois
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden
Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Drinking with Men, Rosie Schaap
Love is a Canoe, Ben Schrank
Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys
Mort, Morte, David Henry Sterry
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
Leave It to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
…and here’s what our readers had to say:
I just finished Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter; it was a wonderful read that swept me away to the beaches of Cinque Terre, sunny Hollywood, and my home state of Idaho – far, far away from this dreary weather! –Sara
Right now I’m burning through the newest Mercy Thompson book, FROST BURNED, by Patricia Briggs. It’s the seventh book in the series (the first new entry in two years) and follows coyote skinwalker Mercedes Thompson. The Mercy books are kinda like TRUE BLOOD (or, rather, Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse books), but a zillion times better because Mercy is a capable, independent badass that relies on her smarts, and not her sex appeal. She’s also a VW mechanic by day. Gotta love that. –Thea
The Jokers, by Albert Cossery. I recently discovered this author, who passed away five years ago, and now I want to read everything he’s ever done. –Randall
Recently finished a tome of a book, The Wilderness Warrior. Absolutely fascinating book about Theodore Roosevelt’s crusade to create the National Parks and preserves that we take for granted today. Especially interesting to me in light of our calendar relationship with the Audubon Society. [And I ] just finished Icy Sparks, a book about a girl suffering with undiagnosed Tourette’s. I highly recommend it. –Janet H.
Drinking with Men by Rosie Schaap. A funny, wise memoir celebrating the camaraderie and cheer and comfort of the neighborhood bar – a love letter of sorts – by a past Workman employee and a future Workman author! My favorite passage so far (I’m about two-thirds of the way through) begins on page 47 with the phrase, “It is hard to say exactly when I became Irish.” (She’s a Jewish girl from New York.) –Megan
I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) in 7th grade, and I loved it, but I also had a sneaking suspicion that I wasn’t getting every joke. Now I’m rereading it, and it turns out I was right: It’s hilarious—an absurd romp through space and time. (Ooo!) –Avery
I’m catching up on what everyone else has already read: I just finished Wild, by Cheryl Strayed. I was mostly amazed that her memory was so good—I can’t remember what I did last week, and her decades’-old recall was impeccable. Also, how fascinating that she had given herself a new last name after her divorce. (“Strayed” does seem a perfect fit, though a little judgmental, don’t you think?) And then last night I started reading Wolf Hall. All I can say is, great first chapter! –Suzie
Workman author David Henry Sterry (The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published), has written a quirky, rather strange, but compelling novel, Mort, Morte. I started it, on the train, yesterday. –Michael R.
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