Current Newsletter: Happy Pride!

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Ryan Kelly, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Doloris Vest, Book No Further, Roanoke, Virginia
• Alyssa Sotelo, Tombolo Books, St. Petersburg, Florida
• Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Alea Lopes, Oxford Exchange, Tampa, Florida
• Jennifer Jones, Bookmiser, Marietta, Georgia
• Rachel Randolph, Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tennessee
• Caleb Masters, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Ashton Ahart, Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Caleb Masters, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Joshua Lambie, Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia
• Thomas Wallace, Reading Rock Books in Dickson, Tennessee
• Charlie Marks, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, Virginia
• Courtney Ulrich Smith, Underbrush Books, Rogers, Arkansas
• Flora Arnsberger, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Jordan April, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Kimberly Todd, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
• Ian McCord, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia
• Judith Lafitte, Octavia Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Jessica Nock, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Julie Jarema, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia

Book Buzz Feature: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
I guess a lot of the fantasy I read as a kid was very much in the shadow of Tolkien, and in Lord of the Rings there is an objective right and wrong. You either give in to Sauron or you fight him, and the text leaves no doubt which is good and which evil. Not that I ever lost interest in Gandalf and Aragorn but as the years went on I started to find Saruman and Boromir more interesting. People who fall from grace, or rise to it. Characters in flux, in turmoil, weighing greater good against personal good, with mixed motives, with uncertain outcomes. People who surprise the reader. In our world, everyone thinks they’re in the right. Battles aren’t of good against evil, but one man’s good against another’s.

― Joe Abercrombie, Interview, GrimDark

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki
This poignant story paints those subtle shifts from childhood to adulthood for Rose as she spends time at a lake house with her parents, who are going through a rough patch, and her younger friend Windy, who suddenly seems immature. It’s a quiet story, full of melancholy and growing pains, but still so lovely and achingly honest.
― Julie Jarema, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia

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