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