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Required
Reading
The best companions on sunny holidays are escapist
beach reads. ’Cause do you really want another
good-for-you Margaret Atwood book?
Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
(Riverhead Books,
$32.50)
Nick Hornby tackles the intertwined
themes of music, romance and
regret in his latest novel. When
lonely Annie starts up an unlikely
correspondence with the object
of her ex-boyfriend’s musical
obsession – the elusive, reclusive
Bob Dylan-esque singer-songwriter
Tucker Crowe – she has no idea
how powerful their connection will
be. It’s the original lad lit author’s
best since High Fidelity.
Cassette from My Ex
by Jason Bitner (Griffin, $29.50)
On that note, editor Jason Bitner recalls the bygone
days before iPod playlists and file-sharing, when
audio cassettes could hold the key to someone’s
heart. The creation of the perfect sonic calling card
was an art – the ultimate audio valentine – and 60
contributors (from novelist Rick Moody to Joe Levy,
editor of Blender) explore it in this anthology of
short, bittersweet memoirs.
The Brutal Telling
by Louise Penny
(McArthur & Company, $34.95)
There’s nothing quite like cozying up with a cold-blooded killer.
The Brutal Telling is the latest in Canadian author Louise Penny’s
award-winning and internationally bestselling series of Chief
Inspector Gamache whodunits. Set in the not-so-sleepy fictional
Eastern Townships village of Three Pines, it hits so close to home
that you might never look at your friends and neighbours quite
the same way again.
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