The Vermont Book Shop
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Book review: The Captive — by Fiona King Foster
(Ecco Press) In a nation split by irreconcilable differences, one woman, rigid and unyielding in her determination, imprinted with a legacy of familial misconduct, takes on the task…
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Book review: The Fortunate Ones — by Ed Tarkington
(Algonquin Books) It was just too good to be true. Charlie Boykin, a boy whose life had been marked by misfortune — his father gone before he was…
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Book review: Skunk and Badger — by Amy Timberlake
(Algonquin Young Readers) Badger, a rock scientist without steady rock work, but most assuredly on the precipice of an Important Rock Discovery, lives in his Aunt Lulu’s brownstone,…
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Book review: Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures
(Random House) Be prepared to be amazed as you enter the world of fungi, from yeast to psychedelics, mycelial networks to metabolic masters. You’ll learn about fungal worm-hunting…
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Book review: The Best American Travel Writing 2020
(Mariner Books) Robert Macfarlane, author of “Underland,” “The Lost Words” and “The Lost Spells,” as guest editor this year, ushers readers into this most peculiar time, a time…
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Book review: The Wim Hof Method — by Wim Hof
(Sounds True) You’ve probably heard of the Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, who has set numerous world records with his ability to withstand…
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Book review: The Boy In The Field — by Margot Livesey
(Harper) On the surface, this small serious novel, droll in moments, concerns the individual experiences of three young people who, having been witness to and actors in a…
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Book review: The Thursday Murder Club — by Richard Osman
(Pamela Dorman Books) Richard Osman, the hugely popular star of numerous British quiz shows, has delivered an intricately plotted and delightfully devilish mystery in her debut novel, and…
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Book review: A Series Of Fortunate Events — by Sean B. Carroll
(Princeton University Press) It is always edifying to expand your mind in the contemplation of big ideas, and author Sean Carroll is very adept at creating such an…
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Book review: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X — by Les & Tamara Payne
(Liveright Publishing Corporation) Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, conducted hundreds of hours of interviews, and pored over books, newspaper accounts and court documents, to construct this epic…
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Book review: The Cold Millions — by Jess Walter
(Harper) In the harsh, cold landscape of early 20th-century America, futures and fortunes are being made, much as they always are, on the backs of the underpaid and…
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Book review: Shuggie Bain — by Douglas Stuart
(Grove Press) A decade in the childhood of Hugh Bain, called Shuggie, son of Shug Bain, hackney driver, and Agnes Bain, in decaying public housing, framed by year…
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Book review: Erosion: Essays of Undoing — by Terry Tempest Williams
(Picador USA) At the close of a recent virtual conversation about her new collection of essays, Terry Tempest Williams, educator, naturalist, writer and activist, howled towards the sky…
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Book review: The Revisioners — by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
(Counterpoint Press) Now in paperback, “The Revisioners” is award-winning author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s second novel, and a national bestseller. It is a lively, expansive and deeply moving book…
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Book review: House of Correction — by Nicci French
(William Morrow & Company) Okeham, England: a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Tabitha grew up here, and now has returned to her hometown, renovating a…
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Book review: More Miracle Than Bird — by Alice Miller
(Tin House Books) As a young woman whose world is subsumed by the onset of World War I, Georgie Hyde-Lees, in a bid to salvage a sliver of…