Book cover Marty Feldman is probably most famous for playing Igor in the 1974 Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein. He died in 1982, and his autobiography sat in the attic of his widow's home until her death in 2010 when it was discovered by Mark Flanagan. Flanagan had it transcribed, exactly as it was found, including photo inserts and published without further editing. This book is in desperate need of editing....
Book Cover This follows four main characters who had gone to high school together back in the early 2000s, and on one night in 2013, all came back home to their hometown of New Canaan, Ohio. After the prelude, the first section of the book follows Bill Ashcraft, a drifter who is loaded up on drugs. Appropriate to the character - for the parts where we are following his narrative - the story is jumping back and forth between his past and present with no direct warning in-between, full of non-sequiturs, and frankly - hard to follow....
Book cover The world building is probably the thing I liked the most about Catching Stars. There are people who have magical abilities and a larger group of people who don't. Within magic users, there are different types of magic users. There are kingdoms and politics, palace intrigue, roving gangs, sailing ships, petty rivalries and fierce prejudices. Though the story is quite different, the emotional feel of the world is similar to the book Steeplejack by A....
I got an advanced readers copy of this book from the first day of BookExpo. It is supposed to be released in September 2018, but that is preliminary, and the date could slip. Book cover I don't usually read true-crime genre books. If I had never read the Nabokov fiction, Lolita, I would have never been interested enough in this book to read The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman....