NEWS4U AUGUST 2022 | BOOKS
BOOK CLUB
WITH ADAM & SAM MORRIS
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More great summer reading recommendations from the owners of Your Brother's Bookstore in downtown Evansville NINA SIMONE’S GUM by Warren Ellis
BRAKING DAY by Adam Oyebanji
Simone gave a rare
favorite kind of science
performance, fated to be one
fiction - it has social
of her last in Britain. After the
commentary, it has unique
show, Warren Ellis crept onto
vision, and it doesn’t
the stage and took Simone’s
bother to explain the
piece of chewed gum from the
nuts and bolts of the
piano, wrapped it in her stage
technology. In the far
towel and placed it in a plastic
future, a giant spaceship
bag. The gum remained with
is almost to a habitable
Ellis for twenty years - a sacred
planet around another
totem, his creative muse - until
star, and it’s almost time
Braking Day is Sam’s
On 1 July 1999, Dr. Nina
2019, when Nick Cave, his
to start slowing down. An
collaborator and great friend, asked him if he had anything he could
overworked engineer sees a beautiful woman floating outside
contribute to Cave’s Stranger Than Kindness exhibition... From there,
the ship with no space suit… and falls in love immediately,
the gum was housed in a glass case, cast in gold, and sparked a chain
knowing she might be a hallucination caused by long hours
of events no one could have predicted. Including Ellis writing a book
and lack of sleep. Sci-fi, romance, classism, and social
that is the summer’s must-read!
mobility.
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin
DISRUPTING THE GAME by Reggie Fils-Aime
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and
part memoir, part leadership
Tomorrow is a book that follows
guidance, part inspiration, all
two people in love - but not
from the life and experience
lovers - who work together as
of the former president of
creative partners in the world
Nintendo of America. The
of video game design. Where
thing that’s so interesting
success brings them fame,
about this specific iteration
joy, tragedy, duplicity, and,
of the format is that Fils-
ultimately, a kind of immortality.
Aime’s experiences are so far
The two main characters, who
out of the norm. His parents
The format of Disrupting the Game is nothing new. It’s
are strikingly imperfect, are truly
left Haiti to flee a new,
what make this book a modern masterpiece. The book’s ability to relate
dangerous government and ended up in the Bronx, moving from
to anyone who has ever had a friend is what makes it such a magical
mansions to a tiny apartment. From a near-penniless upbringing
read.
in the Bronx, Fils-Aime obstinately fought his way to the top of Nintendo of America.
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