We're an Open Book
Nori from Read Write Love 28 seems to always be coming up with awesome ideas and this fall she created the Book Blogger Creativity Project as a way for new and more experienced bloggers to connect and also inspire some creativity. I was lucky enough to be on Team Chocolate and we decided to play 20 questions !
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- Release Date: April 6, 2013
- Genre: Contemporary
- Audiobook Hours: 13 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
From the opening lines–which describe a serial killer’s thoughts as he disembowels his recent victim –this book hit my squick button. Hard. I can do gritty, but Game had more body mutilation and necrophilia than I like in my….everything. I was prepared to return this audiobook to the library but I was driving so I kept listening. I’m glad I did because once I got past the prologue, I was dipped right back into a story that was like watching my favorite procedural crime shows. From its twisty mystery, acerbic humor and constant supply of WTF-ery….
- Release Date: October 2, 2012
- Pages: 336
- Genre: Fantasy
- Publisher: Tor Books
Well, it’s time for to me fill my “Reading Outside of My Usual Genre” quota for the year.
I came across this book on NPR books where Amal El-Mohtar discussed how awesome the diverse covers for this book were and how Max Gladstone became one of his favorite authors. I had a Fantasy space in my Summer Book Bingo, so when I saw this was available on Scribd I started reading.
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- Release Date: September 1, 2015
- Genre: Contemporary
- Pages: 352
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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I picked this up from my library’s Overdrive because A.S. King is pretty much an auto-buy for me. Plus Jenn and Preeti at The Bookrageous Podcast gushed about this book in their interview with King.
King’s books tend to be near impossible to describe, so I’ll just give the premise that is in the prologue of the book. After drinking a petrified bat (stick with me here) Glory O’Brien is able to see people’s infinities–the lives of their ancestors and their descendants. As she starts putting the pieces of these visions together she realizes the near future isn’t looking so great…especially for women.
King strikes a great balance between the surreal and the real. I like how she gives her characters conflicts with small personal stakes and giant stakes. In this book there is Glory’s fear of committing suicide like her mother and uncertainty about her post high school life paired with visions of a coming war.
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