Be Prepared
by Vera Brosgol
MADE-UP
A bad (well, mostly bad) month in Vera Brosgol's own childhood turns out to be the perfect source for a smart, subtle, and entertaining graphic novel that anyone thrown into a new situation will appre... (Tom)
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner
MADE-UP
Romy Hall has a son, a past, and the impossible sentence of two life terms plus six years to serve in a remote central California prison, which she's just beginning when this novel opens. If this is a... (Tom)
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
TRUE
I was drawn to this book, the third in Rovelli's recent series of short introductions to the mind-blowing propositions of modern physics, by its inexhaustibly poignant and fascinating subject: time. H... (Tom)
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