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Karen, besides, you really need to read the first Charles Todds as your starter kit. You learn so much about the characters. There's another reason not to click.

Ooo OO for those of us who grew up being threatened by our parents that we'd become like the Collyer Brothers if we didn't clean up our rooms, this is interesting;
NEW book by Doctorow: Coming in Sept I think
Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow (Random House)

Description: From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World's Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.

Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers-the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers-wars, political movements, technological advances-and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.

Man, my mom was even better than I thought at mind control, and I KNEW she was good--I didn't regain consciousness til I hit 40.

Look what's on Early Review offering:


Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson (Bloomsbury)

Description: "A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative…vivid and meticulously researched."-San Francisco Chronicle

In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with a narrative history of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand.

A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey (Bloomsbury)

Description: "Riotously funny, utterly enthralling…Dempsey's a hoot."-Minneapolis Star Tribune

It began innocently enough, when two eccentric guests at Luke Dempsey's weekend home pointed out a small bird flitting through his garden. Dempsey, entranced, found himself falling head over heels. Before he knew it, he and his friends were off on an epic birding journey down the backroads of America, in search of the country's rarest and most beautiful birds. A Supremely Bad Idea is the hilarious story of their trip-what WildBird magazine calls "as close as we have to Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods."