Ready Player One

Title: Ready Player One Author: Ernest Cline ISBN: 9780307913142 CDs/Discs: 13 CDs, 15.5 hours Pages: 374 pages Publisher/Date: Crown Publishers, Random House Audio, c2011. Awards: 2012 Alex Awards “You’re first instinct right now might be to log out and make a run for it,” Sorrento said. “I urge you not to make that mistake. Your [...]

The Night Circus

Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Narrator: Jim Dale ISBN: 9780307938909 Pages: 387 pages Dics/Cds: 13.5 hours, 11 CDs Publisher/Date: Doubleday, c2011. Publication Date: Sept. 13, 2011 The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply [...]

Sarah’s Key

Title: Sarah’s Key Author: Tatiana De Rosnay Narrator: Polly Stone ISBN: 9780312370848 Pages: 293 pages CDs/Discs: 8 CDs, 10 hours Publisher/Date: St. Martin’s Griffin, c2007. “I’m going to our secret place,” he whispered. “No!” she urged. “You’re coming with us, you must. She grabbed him, but he wriggled out of her grasp and slithered into [...]

BBAW — Forgotten Treasure

Day four of Book Blogger Appreciation Week is here. The BBAW Content Development Team is proud to announce our theme for 2010: A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs. You’ll probably be stuffing your google reader with the new blogs you discover next week and piling onto your bookshelves with all the great books [...]

The Help

Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Narrators: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 9780143144182 Pages: 451 pages Discs: 15 CDs, about 18 hours Publisher/Date: Amy Einhorn Books, (Penguin Audio) c2009. “I want to interview you. About what it’s like to work as a maid.” [...] I turn and look at her. [...]

Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation

Title: Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation Author: Gregory Maguire ISBN:9780061689161 Pages: 200 pages Publisher/Date: William Morrow, c2009. “I won’t attempt to name Sendak’s theme. I will look at the body of his work casually, colloquially, admiringly, from several different approaches in order to show you what I see, and why I think the word [...]