Five 2009 Novels

I’m always looking for the latest thing to hit the bookstands.  Here are 5 knockout novels recently published: 1. Burn by Linda Howard – Money changes Jenner Redwine’s life when she wins a lottery jackpot. But it also costs her plenty: Her father rips her off and disappears, her fortune-hunting boyfriend soon becomes her ex, [...]

22 Year Old Author Publishes 9th Novel!

I want this book:  A Madness of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin.  Here’s a description of the plot: “Two years after his untimely death, Matthew Swift finds himself breathing once again, lying in bed in his London home.  Except that it’s no longer his bed, or his home. And the [...]

Chick lit, Blogger Style

Maureen Lipinski’s debut novel, A Bump in the Road, looks like it is written blog-style, which sounds kinda different and interesting.  Here’s a description of the book from the publisher’s website: When twenty-seven-year-old event planner and blogger Clare Finnegan got married, she didn’t mind moving out of the city. After all, a suburban existence didn’t [...]

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel

Sex, sex, and more sex.  That’s what it sounds like this book consists of.  It’s not due out until December 26th, but you can pre-order it at amazon.  It’s called Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel, and it’s by bestseller Walter Mosley.  Tom Callahan at bookreporter.com had this to say about the novel: “Well, anybody who [...]

The Man Who Sold More Books Than Rowling

I have been coming across a lot of Indian blogs lately.  While I haven’t been intentionally seeking them out, I do enjoy getting a different cultural perspective on things.   Recently, I came across a post by “Guru” (an abbreviation of his name and not a claim to any special spiritual knowledge or powers).  The post [...]

The Abstinence Teacher

I’ve decided to feature write-ups on 26 recent novels, one for each letter of the alphabet.  Why?  Because that’s the kind of thing book geeks do for fun.  I’m starting with The Abstinence Teacher, scheduled to be released in mid October 2007, by Tom Perrotta.  Here’s what Daniel Field at ReadJunk had to say about it: [...]