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Book Review: ‘Isola,’ by Allegra Goodman

Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 5:00am
By Joumana Khatib
Allegra Goodman’s novel “Isola” tells the story of a 16th-century Frenchwoman’s extraordinary fight for survival.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘A Season of Light,’ by Julie Iromuanya

Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 5:00am
By Cleyvis Natera
In Julie Iromuanya’s novel “A Season of Light,” a Nigerian American family in Florida experiences aftershocks from their father’s trauma during the Biafran War.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Victorian Psycho,’ by Virginia Feito

Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 5:00am
By Jac Jemc
Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 3:03pm
This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 2:38pm

UnCovered Review by Tiffanie Haynes, ACLS Mays Landing Branch Manager

This book was a great way to start the year. I discovered it because I was looking for a book that broke the fourth wall and this book does that in a truly funny and original way. One of the best parts of this book is that the author is constantly interacting with the reader. If you’re a person who uses audio books, I highly recommend the audio version. He makes sure that even those of us who tend to let our minds wander during audio book readings are brought back with a little laugh. He is also constantly giving summaries so you’re never lost about what is going on within the book. It is definitely a new spin on the detective novel. The title is a spoiler but in the best way as you try to figure out how all of these wonderful family members committed murder.

Source: UnCovered Reviews


Book Club: Read ‘Orbital,’ by Samantha Harvey, With the Book Review

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 10:30am
By MJ Franklin
In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


James Carlos Blake, Novelist of Outlaw Life, Is Dead at 81

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 10:07am
By Michael S. Rosenwald
His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of life.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Secrets feed on time in the masterful novel 'Mothers and Sons'

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 9:38am
By Maureen Corrigan

Adam Haslett's compelling novel focuses on the strained relationship between an asylum lawyer and his mother. It's a beautiful appreciation of the all-too-human mess of life.

Source: NPR Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘Fearless and Free,’ by Josephine Baker

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 9:22am
By Lesley M. M. Blume
“Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Michael Palin on His Diaries and Adventurous Life

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 5:01am
By Darryn King
In an interview, the Monty Python veteran looks back on his experiences performing in the revered sketch troupe and touring the world as a travel host.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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