Richelle, Book Obsessor

     Richelle's parents knew that she would love books when they found her at the ripe old age of three contentedly reading the dictionary upside down.  Ever since, she's had a terrible book obsession and will read almost anything. Almost. She just graduated college and is enjoying all of the useful things she can do with her English Literature degree. After two years of working in bookstores, her shelves have swelled beyond capacity with the many books she brings home each week. They mostly consist of classics, science fiction and fantasy, historical fiction, poetry, craft books, and lots and lots of fact & fiction about King Arthur.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

     Margaret Atwood, though she tries to shrug off the label of "science fiction writer", has written a wonderful and tightly woven narrative of a post-apocalyptic future we should hope we never see. It is the story of both Oryx and Crake, the characters who sit at the crux of this novel, but it is also the story of Snowman, the unreliable narrator who used to Jimmy. Jimmy watched the world fall apart, a world that played freely with genetics and involves the "Tub o' Nubs" fast food chain (because chickens now only consist of wings, breasts and a beak in this future). It is a hearwrenching look at a future we could create and a look into the very heart of us.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson

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The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

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Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle by Rosalind Miles

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 Indie Craft by Jo Waterhouse

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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

     I don't read as much non-fiction as I feel  I should sometimes but this book caught my eye right away. An exploration of phantom limbs and what they can tell us about our brains, this book is very detailed and yet very accessable at the same time - a must for me with any non-fiction book. Ramachandran writes with conversational ease and many of the case studies are fascinating. The forward is written by Oliver Sacks, one of the most interesting and easily recognisable figures in neurology (and one of my favorite non-fiction writers - pick up his An Anthropologist On Mars if you've never read anything by him!).

 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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