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New Relax & Read Books
January 5, 2007
Quick! Before that class load gets heavy, take time to enjoy some recreational reading from our Relax & Read shelves.
Fiction
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Following up his best selling Kafka On The Shore (also on the R&R shelf), Murakami treats us to 24 inventive short stories that showcase his unique talents of character development.
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Haddon's last novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (yet another book currently on the R&R shelf) was an international bestseller, and this new one might be headed there as well. George Hall, recently retired, is looking forward to all the things available to him now that he has time. But he sees a spot of dark skin on his hip and immediately assumes he is dying of skin cancer. Haddon's ability to make serious stuff really funny punctuates every quirky twist of this book.
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer
Known for his political thrillers, Meltzer delivers again in this tale of a foiled assassination attempt on the president. In that attempt Wes Holloway, the self-confident presidential aide is wounded and a presidential friend is killed. But years later the worn-down Holloway sees the dead man again and realizes he is stalking the former president.
Non-Fiction
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman.
Friedland and Zellman do little to praise the talents of Wright but rather focus on the uneasy history of the Taliesin Fellowship that sprang up around him. Describing his students as a cult of misfits, the authors suggest that this communal lifestyle was rife with sex, violence and manipulation.
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