Current Newsletter: Read These Next! Bringing summer reading to a new level

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Emily Liner, Friendly City Books in Columbus, Mississippi
• Mikey LaFave, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia
• Julia Paganelli Marin, Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Preet Singh, Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur, Georgia
• Kim Baldwin, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee
• Jackie Davison, The Lynx in Gainesville, Florida
• Hannah DeCamp, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia
• Robin O’Bryant, Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers in Auburn, Alabama
• Kat Egan, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Liz Feeney, E. Shaver, Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia
• Doron Klemer, Octavia Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Courtney Ulrich Smith, Underbrush Books in Rogers, Arkansas
• Carly Crawford, Novel in Memphis, Tennessee
• Sarah Blackwell, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Kim Brock, Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, Kentucky

Book Buzz Feature: So Far Gone by Jess Walter
Rhys is a former environmental reporter for a local newspaper. I was a newspaper reporter for about seven years, and still think of myself in many ways, almost as a spot-news novelist. So, I’m still drawn to write stories as they’re happening.

It was very easy at first for me to inhabit this character, Rhys, and then fill him with the rant that I find myself perpetrating in my own head all the time. And then, as always happens with fictional characters, the political becomes personal, and you start knowing much more about this cranky old guy who has moved up to the woods and spent the last seven years doing nothing but reading books and writing an incredibly ambitious book called The Atlas of Wisdom that he thinks is going to be the thing that people remember him by.

― Jess Walter, Interview, Lithub.com

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C. B. Lee
I am very much a fan of these Remix Classics. I read several of these as a kid, and I never saw anyone who resembled me, and I’m sure other people of various backgrounds, abilities, and sexual orientations did not see themselves either. Just providing a slight twist to these stories breathes new life into these classic tales, and they feel great to read.
― Kim Brock, Joseph-Beth Booksellers Lexington in Lexington, Kentucky

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