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You Don't Have To Be A Complete Nerd To Love This Novel ... But It Helps

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 7:00am
By Jason Heller

Carrie Vaughn is a veteran science fiction and fantasy author who puts her years in the scene to good use in this rollicking tale about a high-tech fantasy theme park (think Westworld) gone wrong.

(Image credit: John Joseph Adams)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


A Woman Is Committed To An Asylum For Thinking In 'The Woman They Could Not Silence'

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 6:13am
By Annalisa Quinn

In a new book, The Radium Girls author Kate Moore follows the struggles of Elizabeth Packard who, locked up by her husband in 1860 for having opinions and voicing them, finds she's not the only one.

(Image credit: Sourcebooks)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Life Gets Hectic Fast for a Heroine and Her Newfound 12-Year-Old

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:18pm
By MJ Franklin
The title character of Mia McKenzie’s novel “Skye Falling” wants to avoid chaos and human connection. Too bad for her.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 1:26pm
By Dwight Garner
In “Songbooks,” the scholar and critic Eric Weisbard surveys music writing from the 1700s to today, with special attention to voices on the margins.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'Light Perpetual' Imagines Adulthood For 5 Fictional Kids Killed In WWII Attack

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 12:32pm
By Maureen Corrigan

In 1944 an attack on a London Woolworths killed 168 people. In his new novel, Francis Spufford explores what "might have been" for five young casualties of war.

(Image credit: Simon & Schuster)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


‘Filthy Animals: Stories,’ by Brandon Taylor: An Excerpt

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 8:32am
An excerpt from “Filthy Animals: Stories,” by Brandon Taylor
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


From Poverty To Stanford, Memoir Tells A Physicist's Remarkable Tale

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Adam Frank

A Quantum Life is an important book to help understand the institutional hurdles that have kept science mostly white and male — and how the fire of inquiry can take root in a heart and lift it up.

(Image credit: Ballantine Books )

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Meet Sydney Taylor, Unsung Creator of the All-of-a-Kind Family

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Jennifer Weiner
Her books depicted a cozy Jewish family on the Lower East Side. In real life, her back story was more complicated.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


How to Destroy a Village

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Ian Johnson
Liang Hong’s “China in One Village” recounts the forces that are undermining rural areas, and the helplessness of the people who live there.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Coming Home Is Anything but Easy in This ‘Millennial Noir’

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:00am
By Jakob Guanzon
Elias Rodriques’s debut novel, “All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running,” follows a young man searching for answers after the death of his high school flame.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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