The Vermont Book Shop
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Book review: The Guide — by Peter Heller
(Knopf Publishing Group)If you read “The River” by Peter Heller, you will have a good idea of just what kind of literary territory you are venturing into —…
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Book review: Damnation Spring — by Ash Davidson
(Scribner)Be prepared to fall hard, fast and deep for the people who inhabit this debut novel by Ash Davidson as they navigate changing livelihoods, a changing climate, and…
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Book review: Dark Waters — by Katherine Arden
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)In this hair-raising novel by Vermont author and Middlebury College alum, Brian, Ollie and Coco, still banded closely together for safety, make…
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Book review: Once There Were Wolves — by Charlotte McConaghy
(Flatiron Books)Inti Flynn, biologist — impulsive, idealistic yet deeply knowledgeable and passionate about reintroducing wolves as a way of rewilding environments and thus combating climate change — cannot…
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Author hosts virtual book launch with The Vermont Book Shop
On Tuesday, Aug. 10, Burlington-based author Nancy Hayes Kilgore will launch her new book “Bitter Magic” with a virtual event beginning at 7 p.m. Kilgore, winner of the Vermont…
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Book review: This Is Your Mind On Plants — by Michael Pollan
(Penguin Press)In his distinctive journalistic form, Michael Pollan, food writer and garden sage, takes a closer look at three plant “drugs” humans use to alter our consciousness: opium,…
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Book review: Mona at Sea — by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
(Santa Fe Writer’s Project)Mona — also known as Sad Millennial, infamous star of a viral video captured as her much-deserved job vanished before her eyes in the economic…
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Book review: The Startup Wife — by Tahmima Anam
(Scribner Book Company)Asha, daughter of Bengali immigrants, is a coder, and a brilliant coder at that. She is developing an algorithm that will attempt to endow AI, artificial…
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Book review: Fox and I: An uncommon friendship — by Catherine Raven
(Spiegel & Grau)For someone like Catherine Raven — natural history teacher, former national park ranger, and self-professed loner — consorting with a fox, or appearing to anthropomorphize a…
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Book review: Seven Days in June — by Tia Williams
(Grand Central Publishing)It would clearly give away too much, but imagine for a second if this book title was “Seven Steamy Days in June” and you would have…
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Book review: How the World is Passed — by Clint Smith
(Little Brown and Company)Clint Smith, poet, educator and writer, is the perfect tour guide for this road trip to America’s most racially-charged settings, as he visits, in person,…
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Book review: Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft — by Samantha Silva
(Flatiron Books)This biographical novel is a fictionalized historical account of the birth of Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter and the days immediately following. Wollstonecraft was courageous, with a sensibility and…
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Book review: Legends of the North Cascades — by Jonathan Evison
(Algonquin Books)By every measure, Dave Cartwright was a hero and a legend in his small Pacific Northwest town — star quarterback of the Vigilante Falls high school football…
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Book review: With Teeth — by Kristen Arnett
(Riverhead Books)Sammie and Monika’s marriage is not unusual. They’ve assumed roles, chosen at first, but, as time has passed, those roles, and how they have come to define…
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Book review: Punch Me Up To The Gods — by Brian Broome
If you’ve been feeling numb around the edges lately, as, wearily, year two of the global pandemic marches on, you are sure to be fully woken up by…
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Book review: Project Hail Mary — by Andy Weir
(Ballantine Books)The title of Andy Weir’s latest sci-fi thriller immediately imparts a good sense of the plot, taking its name from the common American idiom which refers to…