Stuff Dutch People Hate by Colleen Geske You've all heard what the Dutch love: stroopwafels, bicycles and of course, gezelligheid. But what about the things that make their blood boil? While the title of this book may sound negative, you'll see that the Dutch are defined just as much by [...]
The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky rom-com where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween. by Damla “I point at the starlit sky and the [...]
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view- a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man's Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe [...]
by Else (This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series. You can find part 1, 2, and 3 here.) I AM BACK! I have returned to gush about the love of my life, my one true love, Malazan Book of the Fallen. We're up to book four already! Time flies [...]
Termination Shock by Neil Stephenson Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics. One man has a Big Idea for reversing [...]
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at [...]
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. A thrilling re-evaluation of the creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million [...]
What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Ayoama What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find [...]
by Else (This is the third installment in an ongoing series. You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here.) Welcome back to the series that is going to go on for so long, at the end you'll be sick of me. But I still won't be sick of my [...]
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place. Her name is Auri, and she [...]
