By Washington Put up ebook critic Ron Charles
As you search for what to learn subsequent this spring, think about a number of titles I’ve loved not too long ago:
Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, “Romantic Comedy” (Random Home) is – shock! – a romantic comedy.
It is a couple of girl named Sally who writes sketches for a TV present like “Saturday Evening Reside.” She’s decided by no means to fall in love with anyone on the studio once more, however then a handsome pop star arrives to host the present, and Sally cannot determine if that is the true factor or a punchline.
READ AN EXCERPT: “Romantic Comedy” by Curtis Sittenfeld
“Romantic Comedy” by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random Home), in Hardcover, Giant Print, eBook and Audio codecs, out there April 4 by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
Rebecca Makkai’s new novel forces us to think about how tales of murdered girls are become lurid leisure.
“I Have Some Questions for You” (Viking) begins when a preferred podcaster is invited to show at her previous prep faculty. Arriving again on campus, she begins to recollect the demise of her highschool roommate, and the sloppy investigation that despatched a Black man to jail.
Greater than 20 years later, might re-examining that case convey justice, or simply extra thriller?
READ AN EXCERPT: “I Have Some Questions for You” by Rebecca Makkai
“I Have Some Questions for You” by Rebecca Makkai (Viking), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio codecs, out there by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
“Birnam Wooden” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is the primary novel from Eleanor Catton since she gained the Booker Prize in 2013 for “The Luminaries.”
This time round, Catton has delivered a thriller swirling round a plot of land in New Zealand. Some radical environmentalists wish to use the land for a free vegetable backyard, however an American billionaire is stealing a fortune’s price of minerals close by.
Each events suppose they will use and deceive the opposite, however the outcomes are a lethal catastrophe.
READ AN EXCERPT: “Birnam Wooden” by Eleanor Catton
“Birnam Wooden” by Eleanor Catton (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in Hardcover, Giant Print, eBook and Audio codecs, out there by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
Poets have at all times spoken their verse aloud, however about 50 years in the past a group of voices emerged to create spoken-word poetry, a vibrant new type of expression, celebration and resistance that is attracted tens of millions of followers.
Joshua Bennett, one of many style’s most fun and educated writers, offers a wide-ranging cultural historical past of this kind in his new ebook “Spoken Phrase” (Knopf). It is a story that takes him from the Obama White Home to Broadway to road corners and cafés throughout the nation to listen to the track of America.
READ AN EXCERPT: “Spoken Phrase: A Cultural Historical past” by Joshua Bennett
“Spoken Phrase: A Cultural Historical past” by Joshua Bennett (Knopf), in Hardcover, Giant Print, eBook and Audio codecs, out there March 28 by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound
For extra options on what to learn, contact your librarian or native bookseller.
That is it for the E book Report. I am Ron Charles. Till subsequent time, learn on!
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