Concord Public Library Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Ten Years In the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great BooksNick Hornby2013, 485 pagesNonfictionFor more than a decade, author Nick Hornby has contributed a monthly column to the arts and entertainment-centered magazine The Believer. In the humbly titled “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” Hornby provides a list of each book he has bought and read throughout the...
Concord Public Library Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That HappenedAllie Brosh2013, 384 pagesNon-fictionIt’s difficult to properly describe Hyperbole and a Half. Partially reworked from Allie Brosh’s wildly popular blog of the same name, partially all-new material, this book has the strange power to make you...
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A Short Guide to a Long LifeDavid B. Agus, MD2014, 186 pagesFictionDr. David Agus has distilled advice from The End of Illness into Michael Pollan-style rules anyone can understand and follow. He aims to deflate overstated health benefits – for example, neither juicers nor vitamins are as good as they sound – and to help readers take charge of their own health. His three ground rules are: “Health information is a moving target,” “the...
Concord Public Library Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Stranger HereJen Larsen2013, 267 pagesNonfictionJen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose weight, she would be unstoppable, so when diet after diet failed she decided to try bariatric surgery. This book is pided into two parts: part one involves the time before surgery when we meet her friends and family and learn she is over 300 pounds....
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The Guest CatTakashi Hiraide2014, 140 pagesFictionThe Guest Cat is a quiet, meditative book. It’s a novel in which the narrator is writing the novel, a literary technique that reminds me of one of those wooden box puzzles you open only to find more to unlock in the next layer. The narrator and his wife and most of the other human characters remain nameless, which made the story feel like a fable. Chibi (the guest of the title) and...
