by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 3, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Kids are unpredictable. They suddenly love food they once thought disgusting. And sometimes they just might spontaneously combust. In Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson doesn’t dwell on the science of human combustion. Instead, he uses the phenomenon as a...
by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 1, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini is hardly a typical biography; it’s more like taking an up-close-and-personal tour of the escape artist’s life, narrated not only by author Joe Posnanski in his wonderfully entertaining prose but also by a host of...
by Tracy Horodyski | Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
“When we meet Victor Tuchman, the patriarch of New Orleans-based novelist Jami Attenberg’s All This Could Be Yours, he’s as good as dead. Which is just as well, since everyone agrees Victor is a monster. Now he languishes in comatose purgatory while the whole...
by Tracy Horodyski | Dec 29, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“In his latest book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bryson divides the body’s various parts and processes into 23 chapters, with subject headings such as “The Heart and Blood,” “The Guts” and “Nerves and Pain.” Each relatively short chapter is chock-full of...
by Tracy Horodyski | Dec 27, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“Steph Cha’s nerve-scraping novel—with its biblical, plangent title and painfully relevant plot—could be described as triggering, depending on the reader. Your House Will Pay is based on a particularly sickening episode during a particularly sickening period in...
