I wanted to
post this last week but alas I was on a mountain and could not. That means some
of the books I am super excited about this month have already been released,
but you'll forgive me, right? I mean it doesn't really matter. There's some
gems in here too; February, the month of ski holidays and Valentine’s looks
like A Good Book Month. Depending on your view point this is either a good or bad
thing as my January book ban has been lifted and I can now buy ALL THE BOOKS.
All the boooooooks. Yep, my book haul for February is gonna be a big one.
So, what do
we have. What's being released this month that's made its way onto my radar?
I love Anne Tyler. I've loved her since I read A Slipping Down Life when I was fifteen (which is still my fave a
whole lifetime later…) Anne Tyler's like the
apple crumble of authors you know? Delicious and familiar and comforting and I
really can't wait for this. I don’t have to either: it’s out tomorrow.
I have a
bit of an author!crush on Neil Gaiman. I don't know if that's because of his
hair or his writing. Mebbes it's both. Either way I am super excited for Trigger Warning which sounds like a
short story collection of delightfulness and which I want. I love everything of
Neil's that I've read so far, especially ESPECIALLY Stardust and Neverwhere
and The Graveyard Book (still love
Silas so hard) and I really really want to read this. Trigger Warning was released on the 3rd. If you already
have your copy then let me know what you think!
Everyone
knows about Lemony Snicket,
right? And I'm working my way through those books and I think they're ok. They
haven't rocked my world thus far but I like them. Why'm I so excited about We Are Pirates! then? Because you
know what, if you haven't read Handler’s Adverbs
then you're doing life wrong. Seriously. It's so amazing. So SO amazing
and....and actually, I'ma talk about it on Thursday so just come back then,
please?As for this. God it sounds equally amazing.
[We Are Pirates! is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives.
Also, it's about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home]
Touch is really really good, it’s released
on the 26th and I will be
reviewing it here on Friday so make sure to come back then for a sneaky read,
til then though, if you want a reason to get excited about it: the first word
is Josephine. Clearly this is excellent.
Holy Cow - David Duchovny which I read last
week and talk about here and which, look I'm not going to lie, this book is
really fucking weird. But it's also funny and sentimental and well worth a
look. It was released on the 3rd. Just you know, be prepared for the
weird okay?
I'm reading
this now and so far I love it. It kind of feels kind of like Eleanor and Park
and also kind of like The Craft (anyone else remember that film? I loved that
film) and also kind of like nothing I've ever read before and it's so cool, so
cool it kind of makes me want to be
it. It’s about this girl called Meche, and tells her story as a teenager in the
80’s in Mexico, where she was friends with a couple of misfits and her Dad was
her hero and she thought she’d found some kind of magic in music – with old vinyl
records as objects with enough power to bring down high school bullies and a Grimoire written in a notebook - and her story in the present day, coming back
to Mexico from Oslo to bury her now estranged Father and desperately opposed to
seeing any of her old pals. The two stories are woven together, the then and
the now, and the story is so interesting and well thought out and I really
really like it – so far at least. Release day is Thursday so again, not long to
wait."Toby's life was perfectly normal . . . until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test.
Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team of nurses. They're looking for any sign of sickness. Any sign of their wards changing. Any sign that it's time to take them to the sanatorium.No one returns from the sanatorium."
How good does that sound
though? I know: really freaking good. Bleak
but compulsive. Tfios for the dystopian fan. That's how it's been described
and seriously, has this book been written for me? This is the book I am reading
next because I cannot wait. It’s
released on the 26th and if it’s as good
as I want it to be you shall likely need to drop all things to read it.
Another
book released on the 26th and THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD. Here, have the
blurb:When Zach and I were born our parents must have counted and recounted: limbs, fingers, toes. The complete set. They would have been disbelieving – nobody dodged the split between Alpha and Omega.Nobody.Born as twins. Raised as enemies.One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega; the only thing they share is the moment of their death.The Omegas live in segregation, cast out by their families as soon as their mutation becomes clear. Forced to live apart, they are ruthlessly oppressed by their Alpha counterparts.The Alphas are the elite. Once their weaker twin has been cast aside, they’re free to live in privilege and safety, their Omega twin far from their thoughts.Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside: no missing limbs, no visible Omega mutation. But Cass has a secret: one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose.The potential to change the world lies in both their hands. One will have to defeat the other to see their vision of the future come to pass, but if they’re not careful both will die in the struggle for power.
I've heard whispers of this book here and there and Jen
talks about it on her most anticipated books of 2015 video. It feels like Snow
White with a twist. I'm excited to see how it's going to pan out. It's "a fairytale more Grimm than Disney"
and it was released on the 5th so have at it! I’m going to download this
on payday (because sadly I do not have the space to own physical copies of all
the books I want to read) and I’m really looking forward to it.
