Heather's picks

Heather, a bookseller at Gibson's Bookstore

I'm a New Englander by birth and by choice. Truly, I love the 603. I try to enjoy the little things and find humor in the everyday. Which is good because I have a little boy and everyday is a new experience with plenty to laugh about. What this means in terms of my reading preferences is that I will vacillate any where between award winners and classic literature to popular fiction and fantasy. Lately I'm reading lots of kids books too. I enjoy crafting, cooking, writing, long walks on the beach, moonlight, ice cream, bubbles, glitter,...wait, that's just silly.

Book List

The Night Circus (Hardcover)

By Erin Morgenstern

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780385534635
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Doubleday, 9/2011

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Heather's January 2012 pick

Set in Le Cirqu Des Reves, a circus where anything is possible and held only at night , a competition blooms between magicians turned star-crossed lovers. The novel is an excellent example of true magic, transporting the reader into a candle lit world of paper and illusion with the scent of caramel popcorn in the air. Morgenstern seduces her readers with lush prose, constructing a beautiful and shimmering world delicately balanced between the light and dark of ambition and dreams. I would agree with Morgenstern when she writes, "put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it?" Reading the novel, you can't help but become one of the Reveurs, the dreamers and biggest fans of the Night Circus.

A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five (Hardcover)

By George R.R. Martin

$35.00

ISBN-13: 9780553801477
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bantam, 7/2011

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November 2011

This book is totally worth all the hype built up around it. This is the fifth in the Song of Ice and Fire series and even this far along George R.R. Martin is still proving he can come up with some great surprises. HBO picked up the series and is doing a really stellar job with the project. I suggest starting to read them now so you can compare the books to the screen version, always a fun pastime. The reason these books are so worth while? The characters. True to life, no one is pure evil or wholly good. I love that I've found myself cheering for the "bad guy" on more than one occasion. They are vivid and complex stories about family, honor and survival. And sometimes about surviving the politics of a family with or without honor.