June 11, 2012
An Edgy Trip to 1970s New York City: Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin
Though he grew up in Ireland, McCann somehow pulls off an authentic native's story of New York City in 1974, when hookers and heroin and breakdancers and arson defined the Bronx, and the Vietnam War and disillusionment hung like a cloud over everything.
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving