March 10th

NEED/Jones: Twilight fans & more will enjoy sweet & scary YA book about spooky pixies and a spunky girl and her werewolf love. (@TammyLNYC) (#) $

LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS/Clarke & Baxter: Fascinating future w/ ability to witness history, no personal privacy. Timely read. (@rotaadmiral88) (#) $

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD/Yates: Microscope on (happy?) couple in 1950s suburbia: depression, disappointment, and love (maybe?) (@vmayo) (#) $

BOOK OF NEGROES/Hill: Courageous, hopeful look @ life of female Black Loyalist. Embedded in history. Inspired, rich book. (#) $

FAT WOMAN NEXT DOOR IS PREGNANT/Tremblay: Humorous, dark portrait of life in 40s Quebec town. Rich characters & writing. (#) $

STIFF:Curious Lives of Human Cadavers/Roach: Macabre, humorous, respectful, fascinating uses/abuses of the dead. Eye opening! (@applecheeks) (#) $

SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM/Uwem Akpan African stories: child sex slave trafficking, religious/ethnic conflict. Visceral, troubling. (@mcogdill) (#) $

FRUIT/Francis: Overweight outcast 8th grader in Sarnia, ON in 84. Fast, funny & universal. Concept may be too strange for some. (#) $

WATCHMEN/Moore&Gibbons: Perfect, pivotal, DARK graphic novel. Even more fascinating now for all that it spawned. (@graphicmatt) (#) $

MERCY AMONG THE CHILDREN/Richards: Dark, frustrating, yet immensely rewarding read about poverty, human spirit and family. (#) $

YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY/Jacobs: agnostic editor is LOL, thoughtful. Grows beard, reads Bible, covets Foer’s speaking fee. (@mcogdill) (#) $

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