Well, had a bit of a snag with one of the sites I chose to keep tabs on. It would seem Salon's What to Read page stopped being updated one year ago today. So I decided to check out NPR Books instead, which is much more helpful. I find the author interviews to be particularly interesting. Recently, as I've been listening to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk on Overdrive I've been wondering about the authors motivation/inspiration. There are a few articles about the book on there that shed a bit of light so I found that of particular interest. Overall, it's a great and seemingly comprehensive resources.
The other resource I've been trying to check periodically has been Mystery Readers International. Pessimistically, this website sort of reaffirms for me the things I don't like about the mystery genre. The site seems geared towards fans of the Cozy Mystery genre. Optimistically, it provides various recipes involving chocolate. I look forward to attempting some of these if I can find a rare moment of free time.
At Pikesville, the most popular books are probably those on our Thriller and Staff picks displays. They seem to fly off the tables and often need to be replaced. For me, replacing the thrillers is more about recognizing authors than anything else. Patterson, Coban, Baldacci, and Child are typically on this table. If those tables doesn't stop the customer, the new fiction section usually does. The staff picks table is, of course, quite a bit more diverse. This is always more challenging for me to replace because I always blank on books I've read and have to wander around the shelves to remind myself.
From Amazon's Best of the Month list The Atomic Weight of Love caught my eye. Be forewarned, my comments are based entirely off of the synopsis I read. It looks like somewhere in between a love story and a female empowerment or self discovery story. She is pulled between her career and love. The setting seems important. In this case, by setting I mean the US through the different decades of the 20th century. The main character seems to transform as she is influenced by the different men in her life. From the Mad Men era into the contentious 1970s. I'm thinking of Forest Gump, except Jenny is a physicist.
A read alike for this might be Joy by Anne L. Watson. Judging by its description, it appears to be another story of an independent woman who is coping with changing relationships and other factors in the world around her. At the risk of sounding sexist, I these books will be popular with women. I think there is some buzz around The Atomic Weight of Love because it is the first book by lawyer turned author, Elizabeth J. Church.
The other resource I've been trying to check periodically has been Mystery Readers International. Pessimistically, this website sort of reaffirms for me the things I don't like about the mystery genre. The site seems geared towards fans of the Cozy Mystery genre. Optimistically, it provides various recipes involving chocolate. I look forward to attempting some of these if I can find a rare moment of free time.
At Pikesville, the most popular books are probably those on our Thriller and Staff picks displays. They seem to fly off the tables and often need to be replaced. For me, replacing the thrillers is more about recognizing authors than anything else. Patterson, Coban, Baldacci, and Child are typically on this table. If those tables doesn't stop the customer, the new fiction section usually does. The staff picks table is, of course, quite a bit more diverse. This is always more challenging for me to replace because I always blank on books I've read and have to wander around the shelves to remind myself.
From Amazon's Best of the Month list The Atomic Weight of Love caught my eye. Be forewarned, my comments are based entirely off of the synopsis I read. It looks like somewhere in between a love story and a female empowerment or self discovery story. She is pulled between her career and love. The setting seems important. In this case, by setting I mean the US through the different decades of the 20th century. The main character seems to transform as she is influenced by the different men in her life. From the Mad Men era into the contentious 1970s. I'm thinking of Forest Gump, except Jenny is a physicist.
A read alike for this might be Joy by Anne L. Watson. Judging by its description, it appears to be another story of an independent woman who is coping with changing relationships and other factors in the world around her. At the risk of sounding sexist, I these books will be popular with women. I think there is some buzz around The Atomic Weight of Love because it is the first book by lawyer turned author, Elizabeth J. Church.
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