I love this time of year. I love the changing leaves, the pumpkin-flavored everything, and I have kind of a sweater and boots fetish. But that is all secondary to… FALL BOOK RELEASES! Sorry, sorry, got a little excited.
Some of what’s coming looks great – and some of it not so great. Without further ado…
Visions by Kelley Armstrong
This is the book I’m currently reading. I love Kelley Armstrong, and the second book of her latest adult fiction series is fantastic (no pun intended). I do wish that the main character was a little less wishy-washy in this one, but I have high hopes – Kelley Armstrong has a strong history of kick-ass female characters who don’t wait around to be rescued.
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Soooooooo good. I really can’t do a good enough job of describing how good. There’s been a lot of buzz around this book because it features a tough woman with drive and compassion, is royalty, and ISN’T BEAUTIFUL. Or even merely pretty. That fact doesn’t make you lose the story, though… and the story is wonderful. Really, the main problem with this book is that it is the first of a series, and I read it really quickly, and now I have to wait way too long for the next one. Also that one of my kids spilled coffee all over my copy. Sigh. Waste of coffee and a great book. I guess I’m off to get another copy.
I love Neil Patrick Harris. If you have never watched 1) Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog 2)Neil’s Puppet Dreams, go do it now. Especially #1. They are both free on You Tube, and not kid friendly. Done? Ok. NPH’s Choose Your Own Autobiography drops October 14th here in Canada, and you bet I will be right there, getting my copy. It’s pure NPH style, a little truth with a lot of poking fun at himself with a dash of the absurd thrown in. Here’s the blurb from the book:
Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened?
Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further thanNeil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based-life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born to New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht.Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a hideous death by piranhas. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, and make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!
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Christie
