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Wondering what the GeekMoms have been reading this month? The list includes some dashed hopes, a historical crime thriller, a little Neil Gaiman, some middle age fiction, and a romance that blends a native American tribe with a genteel family in early America.
Laura has been on a novel-binge lately. She's run across two she describes as fantastic. She says Truth in Advertising by John Kenney is sharp and funny. It’s follows a man whose work life is absorbed (hah) by making a diaper commercial and whose personal life is barely perceptible. The passages skewering corporate absurdities and urban trendiness are hysterical. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a mysterious friendship between a teenaged girl and a stranger. A key plot point is AIDS, but there are many other layers having to do with art, sibling relationships, love, and adventure. and being true to oneself. The subject matter sounds grim but the book isn't.
Amy dove right into her review copy of Adam Rex's Unlucky Charms
This month, during her Air War College break, Patricia has been reading Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Duggard. Perhaps some of you saw the docu-drama on the National Geographic Channel over President's Day weekend? This book turns the well-known account of the Abraham Lincoln assassination into more of a crime-thriller novel, stitching together years of research and accounts of the days and hours leading up to the assassination, as well as the days between the assassination itself and John Wilkes Booth's death almost two weeks later. She's just about finished with the book (Lincoln is dead, Booth is still on the run), and has enjoyed it very much. It truly does read like a crime thriller. A touch that Patricia really enjoyed was how every chapter ends with a line such as "Lincoln has but twelve days to live." Closer to his death it becomes "Lincoln has nine hours to live." After all, we know how the story goes, right?
Sophie has managed to read quite a lot this month, beginning with a re-read of the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins for her book club. She has been making her way through a number of graphic novels for Comic Book Corner including Neil Gaiman's Coraline and several Twilight Zone adaptations. She has also been reading The Official Illustrated Guide to The Twilight Saga which fleshes out the backgrounds of interesting characters who were sadly overlooked in favor of packing in more Bella and Edward. Finally she has just finished reading her book club's latest pick, Life, Death and Vanilla Slicesby Jenny Eclair, a dark look at life in England over the past several decade through experiences of one family.
After finding a forgotten book recommendation in her purse, Kris Bordessa picked up Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati. Set in the late 1700s in early America, this piece of historical fiction brings together a genteel English family and the Mohawk Nation as Elizabeth Middleton, newly arrived in the wilds of New York, stands for what's right - and the man she loves. The story is told passionately and reminded Kris very much of The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon, which she loved. Imagine her surprise when she finds that characters from Gabaldon's series make an appearance in Donati's book. It was like getting a glimpse of an old friend. Kris already has the next book in the series, Lake in the Clouds, on order.
What have you read lately?
