I received a copy of this book from the author, through a friend who lives in the DC area. Ginsburg’s story of what happens in a Maryland suburb during a world-wide power outage was pretty fascinating, although the premise requires a bit of a leap: terrorists have banded together to attack power grids covering most of…
I can see why this book shows up on so many best-of-2014 book lists. What I liked most about it is that it’s a post-apocalypse story about people that seem very real. I love The Stand, but I’m always more interested in the regrouping that happens than the whole good versus evil battle. Station Eleven…
In The Year of the Flood, Atwood does something unusual: she writes a book that’s set in the same time and place as her previous book, Oryx and Crake, but from the perspectives of different characters (see my review here). In an interview on Amazon, she says that one reason for this was to address…
For me, there are two indicators of a good book. One is that as soon as I finish it, I want to go back and reread the first few chapters. Two is that I find myself thinking about the book days after I’ve put it down. Oryx and Crake was that kind of book. The…
I described The Passage to my sister as “a long slog” and she thought that was exactly the right word. This book was billed as THE book to read this summer; it was hyped in the New York Times, NPR, Good Morning America. I really wanted to like this book — nothing like a little…
The Book Stop 