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January 9, 2013
Largehearted WORD Books of the Week - January 9, 2013
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week.
WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and a basketball league (and anything set in a bar). We're a small operation, just 1000 square feet and four people, but we read too much, so it all works out. If a weekly dose of WORD here isn't enough for you, follow us on Twitter: @wordbrooklyn.
WORD also hosts the monthly Largehearted Lit reading series, featuring authors who participated in this blog's Book Notes series and musical guests.
Finding Camlann
by Sean Pidgeon
Arthurian legend plus a comparison to A.S. Byatt's excellent Possession? Molly is 100% sold.
Gun Machine
by Warren Ellis
The multitalented Ellis (the comics writer, not the musician) set his new novel in NYC, where a cop finds an apartment full of guns -- all of which are connected to previously unsolved murders. If this is anywhere near as fascinating (and cheerfully out-there) as Ellis's first novel, Crooked Little Vein, we're bound to be hooked.
Y
by Marjorie Celona
Jenn says, "This is a harsh novel, honest, with rough edges that catch you and abrade, but with just enough sweetness and insight to balance it out. A house is not a home, and sometimes a mother is not a mom, and these hard truths are the remit of Y."
The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir
De Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed and A Very Easy Death have attention-grabbing new covers -- all the more reason to give them a read, if you haven't already!
WORD Brooklyn links:
WORD website
WORD blog
WORD on Twitter
WORD's Facebook page
WORD's Flickr photos
also at Largehearted Boy:
other Largehearted Word Books of the Week (weekly new book highlights)
Online "Best Books of 2012" Lists
52 Books, 52 Weeks (my yearly reading project)
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly comics & graphic novel highlights)
Book Notes (authors create music playlists for their book)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
