Book cover (paperback) This is the 1989 book that later became a movie (which I never saw). This won the Booker Prize. We follow a quintessential British Butler named Stevens sometime after World War 2 on a journey to look up an ex-employee. The journey itself is beautifully and descriptively written. While the main thread is the journey, the bulk of the story is Stevens' recollection of his past....
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....
This is a story about the journey that brings together Pug, who's searching for a new family, and Piggy, who's searching for a new friend. That text is lifted almost directly from the piggyandpug web site, but it's a short book, so hard to not spoil anything... This is a children's illustrated book, from Monolith Press, 32 pages. I was at BookExpo at the end of last week, and I got an opportunity to flip through this book with the book's publicist, Susan, watching me intently for reaction....
I read this book in only two days, which is way shorter than I usually read, especially a book of 416 pages. I generally only read on weekends, and usually only for a few hours at a time. This book really had me hooked from start to finish. I definitely lost sleep for reading. Will Dando, a struggling New York musician, dreams up 108 predictions. A line of information and a date for each....