Fiction
The Addams Family: An Evilution - H. Kevin Miserocchi; "More than 200 cartoons, many previously unpublished, document the history of the ghoulish clan. Chapters are dedicated to individual characters, with descriptions by Addams himself (1912-88)."
The Easter Egg - Jan Brett; "Hoppi, a small but industrious bunny, takes a tour of the woods and sees how other rabbits are preparing fancily decorated eggs in the hopes of being chosen to assist the official Easter Rabbit."Incarceron - Catherine Fisher; "An infamous prison, where inmates don't believe there is an outside world."
The Infinities - John Banville; "A mathematician's ideas have recast the world, and Greek gods join his family around his deathbed."
Little Bee - Chris Cleave; "Themes of immigration and national identity resonate far and wide. All the buzz has attracted Hollywood, and a movie adaptation with Nicole Kidman is in the works."
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight - Gina Ochsner; "Ochsner's first novel links the grim anomie of post-Soviet Russia to the delirium of magic realism."
The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek - "reprints the complete 1903-5 run of a Sunday strip whose every episode could be flipped upside-down to show the second half of its narrative."
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Grace Lin; "Traditional folktales embroider a Chinese girl's adventure."
Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread - Ava Leavell Haymon; Poetry
Nonfiction
The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar; "Life is full of choices. How do we make them?"Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler; "More humorous personal essays from the comedian."
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - David Grann; "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
The History of White People - Nell Irvin Painter; "Free of any geographic or linguistic moorings . . . a race known as 'white.'"
Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference - Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu; "Nobel Peace Prize-winner gets to the heart of what it means to be human."
The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything, Second Edition: The Essential Companion for Everyday Life - Amy D. Bernstein and Peter W. Bernstein; "This handy guide is a wide-ranging and lively GPS for answering the many bewildering questions we have every day." - Tom Brokaw
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them - Elif Batuman;
Sasha: "How are you doing?"
Anton: "Don't even ask."
Sasha: "What's that you're reading?"
Anton: "Dostoyevsky."
Sasha: "That's why you're upset."
Anton: "Thanks for the information."
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History - David Aaronovitch; "The supposed murder of Diana, Princess of Wales; the 'staged' moon landing; the pseudohistory of Christianity unveiled in The Da Vinci Code; and many more."
"Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!" Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics - Vern; "The online commenter is back with essays on everyone from Jean-Claude Van Damme to Ingmar Bergman."
1 comment:
I have many bewildering questions. I find it interesting (and great) that you want to read a book about a bunny named Hoppi. Guess I better get started writing my book.
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