NEWS4U JUNE 2022 | BOOKS
BOOK CLUB
WITH ADAM & SAM MORRIS
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Get a jump on your summer reading list with these four excellent recommendations from the owners of Your Brother's Bookstore in downtown Evansville EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid
THE PRINCESS BRIDE by William Goldman
too-real and fantasy, Exit
by legendary screenwriter
West tells the story of a
William Goldman (Butch
couple fleeing their war-torn
Cassidy and the Sundance
homeland through a series
Kid, All the President’s Men),
of magic doors that can take
The Princess Bride is a
them anywhere in the world.
beloved classic that people
It’s part love story, part
of all ages can enjoy. A story
social commentary, and all
within a story, the fable of
beautifully written. Groups
a princess who falls in love
of refugees coming from
with a farm hand has never
every conflict and corner of
been told better. Giants,
Blurring the lines between
Originally published in 1973
the world mingle, merge,
Rats of Unusual Sizes, six-
and split, looking for a new home. If you can step through a
fingered men, and a Greek with an inconceivable brain all help to
closet door in Chicago and walk out of an Italian bistro, where
fill in a quirky cast of characters you won’t soon forget. This trifecta
would you go? What does the world look like if borders are no
of adventure, humor and romance culminates in a truly fun and
longer a barrier?
satisfying story for even the pickiest of readers.
SEA OF TRANQUILITY by Emily St. John Mandel
STILL JUST A GEEK by Wil Wheaton
man has been obsessed with
memoir is a collection of
the end of its existence. Sea of
blog posts, with commentary
Tranquility is a book that burns
added a few years later, with
slow, but burns bright keeping
more commentary added
the reader captivated. The story
sixteen years after that. It’s
takes place over multiple time
an interesting and refreshing
periods: a man in Canada in
attempt at a memoir, a genre
1912, a woman searching for
that by its nature tends to
the brother of an old friend
go stale quickly. Normally,
in 2022, an author (from the
once a memoir is published,
moon) on an Earth book tour in
the opinions and memories
Since the dawn of humanity,
Wil Wheaton’s annotated
2203, and a group of scientists
that are written in it are set
analyzing if the world is just a simulation in 2401. As the story comes
in stone and “canon.” Not in this case. Wheaton re-examines not just
together, the connections between the timelines are revealed until the
his memories, but also his writing style, mindset, and level of self-
essence of the narrative is exposed leaving the reader to ask what does
awareness, showing on a very real level how experience changes
being real even mean.
with perspective.
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