Today will be the first of two posts about the books we are excited to read next month. With summer just around the corner, we thought it’s about time we help you start stockpiling beach-literature!
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It’s America, post industrial revolution and a corrupt extreme left-wing government is causing an economic crisis. Funded by the steel industry, the government is not best pleased when Hank Rearden discovers a new alloy that is both stronger and cheaper than steel; so they use scientists to prevent him from bringing it to market, setting the scene for some hard-hitting anti-establishment fiction.
The last we saw of Lisbeth Salander, she was clinging to life. In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest she is still in hospital, but is now also the victim of a conspiracy to charge her for two murders and the attempted murder of her own father! With only her doctor and Mikael Blomkvist, editor of Millennium Magazine on her side, Lisbeth’s future looks bleak – especially with a policeman in the hospital room with them at all times!
If you’re looking for something totally different to read this summer, consider Circle of Assassins by Steven Rigolosi. It is written in a style that is totally different from anything you are likely to have read before and involves everybody’s favourite subject-matter…assassinations!
Candace Smith was seven years old when her father explained her mother had run away with another man, before loading a big barrel into his pickup truck and driving far out of state to her grandparents’ house. If never even occurred to her to ask why the bathroom would smashed to pieces and drenched in blood…
Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road is a book that is almost guaranteed to move you, despite the fact that reading it is one of the most harrowing experiences you can subject yourself to using a book. McCarthy never explains what has happened to the earth, but it has been left barren and grey, covered in ash and with barely a single living thing left.
In some ways, Lyra’s world is the same as ours; in other ways it is totally different. There’s an Oxford, for example, but her Oxford is home to a Jordon College, where Lyra has spent her entire childhood. It’s also primarily inhabited by humans though, as Lyra soon discovers, her world is shared by witches, fighting bears and all manner of ghasts and ghouls as well! For all the similarities however, it is the differences between our world and Lyra’s that form the foundation of this incredible story, the first book of Pullmans’ His Dark Materials – arguably one of the greatest trilogies of all time.
from thebookshelfmo.com
Although these days there seem to be almost as many genres within art than individual pieces, the first of all genres actually predate the Hellenic era. Even the plays of Sophocles were defined primarily as tragedy, although he was known to write the occasional comedy as well . Nowadays, genres are not limited to plays or even to fictional novels; everything from movies and comic books to poetry and works of non-fiction have their own genres, although some of these are harder to define because they fall into too many different categories.
There are many advantages to selling books online, be they books you’ve written yourself, a personal collection you’re looking to sell on, or stock you want to sell for a profit. Probably the most useful part about selling them online is that, unlike selling from a high street shop or market stall, there is little – if any – financial investment required to get going! After all, you can’t always guarantee enough people will buy books every month for you to pay the rent, especially on a shop in a town centre!
