Three Upcoming Book Club Reads for April

Three of my book clubs have made their selections and here are the books that we will be reading. Please feel free to read along if any of the books interest you, we'll start reading these on Wednesday, April 1st.


For the Rory Gilmore Book Club: The Metamorphosis      

This is the edition that I will be reading (since it's the only I have).


Book: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

Description:

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

Library Read-a-thon books #14 and #15: 52 vol #3 and African-American Classics (comic book)

Since these are the last two books for the library read-a-thon I thought I would post them together.

Book: 52 volume #3 (issues #27-39) by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid with illustrations by various artist (art breakdowns by Keith Giffen)

Source: Library

Description:

After the INFINITE CRISIS, the DC Universe spent a year without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman -- a year in which those heroes were needed more than ever as the fate of the world hung in the balance.

The DC Universe's most eventful year continues in this latest volume of the acclaimed series with Booster Gold, Renee Montoya, Black Adam, The Elongated Man, Animal Man, Lobo, Starfire and Adam Strange taking center stage.

Book: African-American Classics (Graphic Classics volume #22) edited by Tom Pomplun and Lance Tooks

Source: Library

Description:

African-American Classics presents great stories and poems from America''s earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy. Also featured are eleven poems, including Langston Hughes'' "Danse Africaine" and "The Negro," plus Paul Laurence Dunbar''s "Sympathy" (''I know why the caged bird sings... '')

Currently Reading: Bad Houses

I would like to thank NetGalley for letting me borrow a copy of this to review for my honest opinion.

If you visit my blog then you know I love finding something different to read. And Bad Houses definitely peaked my interest and it's a comic book. Well at least the premise seem interesting, hopefully it is. I'll start on this later today when I have more time to read it.


Book: Bad Houses by Sara Ryan and with illustrations by Carla Speed McNeil

Expected release date: November 12th

Description:

Lives intersect in the most unexpected ways when teenagers Anne and Lewis cross paths at an estate sale in sleepy Failin, Oregon.

Failin was once a thriving logging community. Now the town's businesses are crumbling, its citizens bitter and disaffected. Anne and Lewis refuse to succumb to the fate of the older generation as they discover — together — the secrets of their hometown and their own families. 

Bad Houses is a coming-of-age tale about love, trust, hoarding, and dead people's stuff from award-winning creators Sara Ryan (Empress of the World) and Carla Speed McNeil (Finder).