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Apr 24th, 2013
Buzzy Books - Your Summer Reading List!
According to Entertainment Weekly, there are three books that need to be on your summer reading list. They're awfully good at picking these things--and last year's hottest of the hot Gone Girl was written by one of their own former writers. So here you go! Think SUMMER! Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson - What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her... Read More » -
Jan 14th, 2013
Buzzy Book - Tenth of December
George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year. A bold statement from the New York Times magazine, especially just three days into the new year. But they make a good point and they're not alone in their belief. The book world--from The Guardian to The Onion's AV Club and all... Read More » -
Nov 23rd, 2012
Buzzy Book - Marbles by Ellen Forney
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney is popping up all over the book media--the buzz is on! You may already be familar with Forney's work; she illustrated The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, and she has been cartooning and illustrating since 1992. In Marbles, Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her... Read More » -
Oct 20th, 2012
Buzzy Book - The Lighthouse Road
Local author Peter Geye has been getting terrific buzz about his new novel: The Lighthouse Road. Reporting from the Heartland Fall Forum, (the Midwest Independent Booksellers and Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Associations annual conference, Publishers Weekly wrote that "If there was one book that created a huge buzz at the show, it had to be The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye. Booksellers were so... Read More » -
Sep 18th, 2012
Buzzy Book - The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
The buzz is building for The Cutting Season by Attica Locke. Wonderfully reviewed in the New York Times, and chosen by Dennis Lehane as the first title in his new imprint, this mystery is being talked about as the must read of the season. From our catalog: Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the past and the present coexist uneasily. The estate's owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist attraction, complete with full-dress re-enactments and carefully restored slave quarters. Outside the... Read More »
