That was the title of Booklist's'latest newsletter, so obviously I had to share. While the poor folks in Chicago suffer through this prolonged winter also (side note: if anyone is warm anywhere in the U.S. please let me know so I can immediately come visit you), they are snuggling up with some choice Harper books. Starred reviews went to Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Joe Hill's NOS4A2.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: "Gaiman mines mythological typology… to build the cosmology and the theater of a story he
tells more gracefully than any he’s told since Stardust."
NOS4A2: "In Heart-Shaped Box (2007) and Horns
(2010), Hill showed hints of an enlarging literary toolbox. With this
700-page opus, the tool set is complete, and Hill has indeed built
something very big."
The next two months are going to bring some excellent reading opportunities IMHO.
– Annie
PS: Anyone going to be at TLA? Neil Gaiman will be speaking there!