HAPPY ACCIDENTS, by Jane Lynch
EMMY-WINNING COMIC actor Jane Lynch’s memoir! Candid, dryly funny; maybe a bit too detached for some readers?
Grade: B PLUS
HAPPY ACCIDENTS
Hyperion
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
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EMMY-WINNING COMIC actor Jane Lynch’s memoir! Candid, dryly funny; maybe a bit too detached for some readers?
Grade: B PLUS
HAPPY ACCIDENTS
Hyperion
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
COMIC WRITER AND ACTOR Mindy Kaling’s hilarious observations are a delicious cocktail of whimsy and snark.
Grade: B PLUS
IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME? (AND OTHER CONCERNS)
Crown
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
TROUBLED ADULTS WITH childhood secrets are center stage in Laura Lippman’s latest, but Baltimore is the star.
Grade: SOLID B
THE MOST DANGEROUS THING
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
VETERAN MYTH INVESTIGATOR Joe Nickell looks into many legends of supernatural critters with wit and insight.
Grade: SOLID B
TRACKING THE MAN-BEASTS: SASQUATCH, VAMPIRES, ZOMBIES, AND MORE
Prometheus Books
2011
Tags: History of Science, Nature Writing, Non-Fiction, Science, Sociology, Solid B Reviews
MAGIC ON LONG ISLAND? Yes, and mythology too, in YA star Melissa de la Cruz’s engrossing debut for adults. SOLID B
WITCHES OF EAST END (BEAUCHAMP FAMILY SERIES #1)
Hyperion
2011
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
MAGIC ON LONG ISLAND? Yes, and mythology too, in YA star Melissa de la Cruz’s engrossing debut for adults.
Grade: SOLID B
WITCHES OF EAST END
Hyperion
2011
Tags: Fantasy, Novels, Solid B Reviews
FASCINATING TRUE CRIME story of an 1874 kidnapping–the first recorded kidnap for ransom in the US. Chilling!
Grade: SOLID B
WE IS GOT HIM: THE KIDNAPPING THAT CHANGED AMERICA
The Overlook Press
2011
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Social History, Solid B Reviews, True Crime, United States
GRITTY, ABSURDIST NOIR caper–a new genre for Eoin Colfer!–stars an Irishman at odds with the New Jersey mob.
Grade: B PLUS
PLUGGED
The Overlook Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
GRANT MORRISON’S TRIPPY meditation on the psychology, sociology, and spirituality of comics is one wild ride!
Grade: B PLUS
SUPERGODS: WHAT MASKED VIGILANTES, MIRACULOUS MUTANTS, AND A SUN GOD FROM SMALLVILLE CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN
Spiegel & Grau
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Comics, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social History, Sociology
EXTRAORDINARY, POETIC, EVOCATIVE memoir by Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina is powerful, unforgettable.
Grade: A MINUS
ONE DAY I WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS PLACE
Graywolf Press
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Africa, African Writers, Kenya, Kenyan Writers, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, South Africa, Uganda