We're at it again! The books never stop coming. Here are some more books you can really sink your teeth into:
Title: The Sound of My Voice
Author: Ron Butlin
What's It About: Morris Magellan is a fully-functioning alcoholic. From society's point of view, he lives a successful life with a well-adjusted family, the full white-picket-fence lifestyle. But underneath is the storm. The Sound of My Voice is a poignant, sometimes heart-wrenching story of the duality of life, the façade and the internal struggle. There is no summing up, coming clean, or easy answers. All that exists is the internal sound of their voice keeping them marching down the tightrope of mental stability.
Title: Out of the Corner: A Memoir
Author: Jennifer Grey
What's It About: The star of Dirty Dancing takes a humorous, frank, and self-deprecating look at her time in Hollywood, including the minor plastic surgery that caused her abrupt loss of professional identity and career. As the publisher describes it, "Distinctive, moving, and powerful, told with generosity and pluck, Out of the Corner is a memoir about a never-ending personal evolution, a coming-of-age story for women of every age."
Title: Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 3: Amazon Adventure!
Author(s): Neil Barrett Jr., Michael Golden, Renee Witterstaetter, Steve Englehart, Claude St Aubin, Andrew Pepoy, Ed Murr, Bob Almond & Neil Vokes
What's It About: Another trip into the crazy world of DNA-modified dinosaurs, both on and off the island. This time, it's off to the Amazon. Including Jurassic Park Annual #1 and the three-part Raptors Hijack series, rejoin Ian Malcom, Robert Muldoon, Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and, of course, the Raptors in these classic comics tales. Each episode if written by a different author and illustrator pair.
Title: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Author: Malinda Lo
What's It About: 1950s San Francisco, a young woman explores her sexuality, finds first love, and navigates her place in Chinatown, the world, and beyond. Beautifully, respectfully, and sensitively told, this story of one young Chinese-American woman's journey towards self discovery explores concepts of prejudice, class, sexuality and the LGBTQ+ experience, immigration, ethnicity, politics, and so much more.
Title: The Hazel Wood
Author: Melissa Albert
What's It About: The reader of this title explained the book to me as "if Stephen King wrote Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass." Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have lived a life on the road, one step ahead of the uncanny bad luck that follows biting at their heals, but when Alice's grandmother, a reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Title: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Author: Lori Gottlieb
What's It About: If you've ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a therapist, this might be the book for you. Gottlieb tells of her own experiences as a working therapist seeking help for herself. This book has been covered by numerous book clubs, and in fact is tomorrow's book club title, and I have yet to meet someone who has read it that hasn't had a lot to say about it.
Title: The Anthropocene Reviewed
Author: John Green
What's It About: The author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska shares a collection of deeply moving personal essays about the current geologic age and the humans which have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity.
Title: The Blacktongue Thief
Author: Christopher Buehlman What's It About: Sir Galava, survivor of the brutal goblin wars, is handmaiden of the goddess of death. She searches for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Kinch, lucky to escape alive after his recent botched robbery, finds himself fatefully entangled with Galava. Now they are on an epic quest fraught with dangers and mutual enemies, crazy magic and creatures the like of which are the tales of legend.
With so many amazing titles, I keep finding more books and graphic novels that I want to try out. Maybe you will too.
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