Category Archives: Fiction
Blueprints of the Afterlife
Early reviews sing the praises of Ryan Boudinot’s new novel, Blueprints of the Afterlife. Novelist Charles Yu calls it “a mind-bending tour of the edges of technology and possibility.” Reviewer Andrea Appleton remarks that “each scene is rendered in such captivating, … Continue reading
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Absolutely True: Banned in Richland
Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, that is. The Richland School Board decided last year that the book was too dangerous for their kids to read. “Literature used in schools ought to teach high values and character,” … Continue reading
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2012 Everett Reads! with Sherman Alexie
In case you haven’t heard, our 2012 Everett Reads! author is Sherman Alexie. From his large body of work, we’ve chosen his National Book Award for Young People’s Literature winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian as the focus … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:2 – Kelroy
The big literary celebration this year will be the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’ birth (Feb 7), but 2012 also marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the only novel by a little-known American author, Rebecca Rush. Her novel Kelroy was largely overlooked upon its … Continue reading
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Ashes
I am so over zombie books. At least I thought I was until I picked up Ilsa J. Bick’s Ashes. At the beginning of this young adult novel we meet Alex who has a brain tumor and has been given 6 months … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Fiction, Horror
New Noir
I’ve always been drawn to psychological novels that show the dark side…the internal struggles that complex intelligent characters have to wrestle with. These three new superbly crafted novels definitely have that “noir” feeling, with their cinematic intensity and vivid characters. … Continue reading
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Bored at Work
If you sit in a cramped cubicle under bad fluorescent lights, push around Sisyphean stacks of papers and bide your time until retirement—only 9 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours and 12 minutes to go, but hey, … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:1 – By the Sound
Edward Dorn’s By the Sound revolves around the day-to-day lives of two couples struggling to do more than just scrape by while living in the Skagit valley in 1958. There is some very fine writing about our wetland environment that is … Continue reading
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Readers’ Choices – The Most Popular Books at EPL in 2011
In December we ran a series of best-of-the-year posts in which the library’s materials selectors shared with you the most notable and critically acclaimed books and media of the year, along with our blog contributors’ favorite reads. Now it’s time … Continue reading
Filed under Best of 2011, Book Lists, Fiction, Library Catalog Tips, Nonfiction
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