Blogs about: Charlottes Picks
One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson
Charlotte wrote 14 hours ago: Endings are the hardest things to stick. Even authors whose opening sentences electrify and whose pr … more →
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
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Charlotte wrote 1 day ago: It might not be what Raymond Chandler intended, but the moral this reader took away from his novel i … more →
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
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Charlotte wrote 3 days ago: So, I’ve gone over to the dark side. I’ve checked out The Tudors, the steamy Showtime se … more →
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
Charlotte wrote 1 month ago: One theory of time travel is that all moments are happening simultaneously, and we can shortcut from … more →
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, by E. L. Konigsburg
Charlotte wrote 1 month ago: I’ve literally grown up—grown older, anyway—with E.L. Konigsburg. We share a love of artists a … more →
Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko
Charlotte wrote 1 month ago: You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you’re me. I came here because my … more →
Going Bovine, by Libba Bray
Charlotte wrote 1 month ago: First, a caveat. To those of you who know this author only from her Gemma Doyle historical fantasies … more →
Eyes Like Stars, by Lisa Mantchev
Charlotte wrote 1 month ago: All the world’s a stage, literally, in this fun romp for stagestruck teens. ENTER Beatrice (Bertie) … more →
Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld
Charlotte wrote 5 months ago: With thanks to my BookExpo-attending colleague, who returned with an advance reader copy, here … more →
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
Charlotte wrote 6 months ago: “Reports had surfaced of some customers discovering live eels in their drinking water, which s … more →
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
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Charlotte wrote 7 months ago: It’s only his first day of high school, but Arnold “Junior” Spirit has had enough. … more →
The Forger's Spell, by Edward Dolnick
Charlotte wrote 7 months ago: From 1938-1945 the most famous and admired Vermeer in the world was a fake. This entertaining jaunt … more →
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore To the Revolution, by Caroline Weber
Charlotte wrote 7 months ago: If you need something to fill up the empty space where Project Runway used to be… if you pause the D … more →
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
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Charlotte wrote 9 months ago: “Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs,” I said. “We have a protractor. … more →
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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Charlotte wrote 9 months ago: In a history resembling but several degrees removed from our own, somewhere in the Greater Pelagic O … more →
The Shadow Speaker, by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Charlotte wrote 9 months ago: It’s 2070, and we’re in next-generation West Africa. Fourteen-year old Ejii Ugabe has supernatural “ … more →
The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness
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Charlotte wrote 9 months ago: The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say. … more →
Use of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks
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Charlotte wrote 9 months ago: This dark, convoluted space opera is third in Banks’s loosely-connected Culture series, but you don’ … more →
Jewels of the Tsars, by Prince Michael of Greece
Charlotte wrote 11 months ago: This lavish book showcases the gemstones and regalia belonging to the Russian imperial family from t … more →
