Holter Graham’s performance of this bestselling first novel is a home run. This book is about baseball. It is about the perils, the beauties, the anguish of love—both gay and straight. It is about college and literature, especially nineteenth-century American novels. And, as for many good books, it is metaphorically about much more. Graham offers the equivalent of a full-cast production. Conversation drives this book, and Graham reproduces the interactions so realistically and effortlessly that the listener feels like a silent participant. All the major characters—male, female, young, old—have distinct and consistent voices. Between conversations, the narrative moves along at an easy, listenable pace. All in all, this book has something for everyone. R.E.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
“The booksellers I’ve met in the last few years, both here and elsewhere, at stores large and small, are without exception bright, passionate, book-eating people. I think of booksellers as emissaries of higher truths, of beauty and wisdom and humor and, above all, pleasure.” Novelist — and bookseller — Emma Straub riffs on the pleasures of putting books in readers’ hands in a guest post.
Here are fifty incredible literary works destined to become classics (in no particular order!). Many are Pulitzer Prize winners, but there are a few dark horses. If your favorite literary masterpiece has not been included, fret not, the comments section awaits! Tell us about any we’ve missed, any you disagree with, or any you think are […]
Sometimes, when you’ve had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, you need a one-two punch combination of your favorite things to cheer you up. That’s when you need to draw upon the magical marriage of cereal and books—two of life’s greatest things, paired together for a perfect pick-me-up. What could be better than a […]