The Midnight Library by Matt Haig has been described as an uplifting book for book lovers, and it involves alternate realities so that automatically piqued my interest. I’ve been busy with some other projects and life stuff, plus struggling to get through some more “downer” type books, so I thought I’d switch to this one …
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam has been a pretty buzzy book this year, helped along by reports of it being soon to be adapted into a Netflix movie starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. It’s a tense story about a family on vacation and the arrival of some strangers. Leave the World Behind …
Jodi Picoult’s The Book of Two Ways drew me in with its premise involving Egyptology, long-lost love and multiple timelines. It’s one of those books that I knew right off the bat that I was a good reader for. In the story, the main character, Dawn, navigates two possible timelines for herself. There’s one where …
Coming soon (when available)! What to Know About Ready Player Two Ready Player Two will be released on November 24, 2020. Ready Player Two is the sequel to Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel, Ready Player One, which was adapted into a big blockbuster film by Steven Spielberg in 2018. Wil Wheaton narrates the audiobook for Ready …
Coming soon (when available)! What to know about Whereabouts Whereabouts is set to be released on May 4th, 2021 by Knopf. It seems like a bit of an experimental project for Lahiri. She originally wrote this book in Italian, and then translated it herself into English. From an article about the book: “Feeling foreign in …
