Louise
Penny is the croissant pastry chef of the mystery world. Every new Inspector
Gamache book she writes doubles the layers of complexity and characterization.
By the time I got to A World of
Curiosities, I was ready to dive into a rich, layered, and deliciously
satisfying treat—and tempted to finish it in one sitting. You could read any of
her mysteries on its own, but the more time I spend in the intriguing town of
Three Pines, the more I want to live there.
Brilliant book. I love the way this
author’s mind works.
Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.
It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.
But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they've arrived in the…
I
could spend all day in a bookstore, roaming the neat spine-forward titles,
checking out the booksellers’ favorites, and nestled on the floor between the
shelves, discovering books I want to read and rediscovering the ones I always
meant to buy.
In Lewis Buzbee, I have a kindred spirit, someone who loves bookstores as
much as I do—if not more—and who has the experience of many years working in
and with them.
I stretched out this book as long as I could, as unwilling to let
this book come to an end as I am to leave the warm yellow light of a
neighborhood bookshop.
Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore - the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, the silent community of readers - sharing his passion for books and interweaving throughout the whole a fascinating historical account of the bookseller's trade.
Like
many readers, my idea of a good time is to get lost in a book, but to get
swallowed by a whale in a book? It never occurred to me to imagine trying to
survive inside a whale, but it clearly did to Susan Emswhiller.
I couldn’t get
over the fabulous combination of wackiness and practicality in Thar She Blows.
While I followed geeky,
schlubby Brian as he began to discover that he did indeed have actual skills, I
also traveled with his mother, Ann, in her quest to find the son no one believes has
survived and her transformation from beige blandness to brilliance.
Irresistible.
Caught in a redundant housewife existence, Ann never leaves her beige suburban home, her schlubby do-nothing son Brian is directionless after graduating high-school, and it looks like nothing will ever change. But when Brian is swallowed by a whale and Ann receives a garbled phone call from him, she is determined to find that monstrous beast and rescue her son. Experts, her ex, the press-everyone thinks she's crazy-but she's committed to her worthy quest. Both Brian and Ann battle their skeptical inner voices in an inspiring journey of self-discovery, reinvention, survival, and sacrifice. As mother and son face epic adventures,…
In
1941, James T. Cullowee, the Kudzu King, arrived in Cooper County, NC, to spread
the gospel of kudzu—claiming it would improve the soil, feed cattle, and even cure
headaches.
When Mr. Cullowee organizes a kudzu festival, complete with a beauty
pageant, fifteen-year-old Mattie Lee Watson wants to be crowned Kudzu Queen and
capture his attention, as she learns more about Cullowee, however, she
discovers that he, like the kudzu he promotes, has a dark and predatory side.
When she finds she is not the only one threatened, she devises a plan to bring
him down. Based on historical facts, The
Kudzu Queen unravels a tangle of sexuality, power, race, and kudzu through
an irresistibly delightful (and mostly honest) narrator.
