Page 9 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week: 10 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-10 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The Book Censor's Library: A Novel By: Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain, read by Cindy Kay for Tantor -- "A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government."

• The Way: A Novel By: Cary Groner, read by Byron Wagner for Spiegel and Grau -- "The world has been ravaged by a lethal virus and only the young have survived. Cities and infrastructures have been destroyed, countries no longer exist as they

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Release Week: 3 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-03 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEATURED PICK:

• Queen of Fury: The Queens of Fate Trilogy, Book 2 By: Natania Barron, read by Philip Battley and Lucy Rayner for Tantor -- "The gorgeous second volume in Barron's female-led Arthurian romantic fantasy trilogy. One by one the kings of Braetan kneel before King Arthur under a banner of peace. Hwyfar, eldest daughter of King Leodegraunce and famed libertine of Carelon, has returned to Avillion to find her father ruined by madness and a usurper poised to take the throne. Reluctantly she takes

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Release Week: 26 November 2024

Posted on 2024-11-26 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

(bit late, enjoying family time!)

PICKS:

• Darkly: A Novel by Marisha Pessl, read by Imani Jade Powers for Books On Tape -- "Arcadia “Dia” Gannon has been obsessed with Louisiana Veda, the game designer whose obsessive creations and company, Darkly, have gained a cultlike following. Dia is shocked when she’s chosen for a highly-coveted internship, along with six other teenagers from around the world. Why her? Dia has never won anything in her life. Darkly, once a game-making empire renowned for its ingenious

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Release Week: 19 November 2024

Posted on 2024-11-19 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEATURED PICKS:

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel By: Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, read by Brian Nishii for Random House -- "From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times."

• The Last King of California By: Jordan Harper, read by Stephen Graybill for Mulholland -- "This stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the

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Release Week: 12 November 2024

Posted on 2024-11-12 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• We Shall Be Monsters: A Novel By: Alyssa Wees, read by Valerie Lohman and Zura Johnson for Random House -- "A girl marked for death ventures into the wooded realm of the fairies to rescue her mother in this dark, lyrical fantasy about vengeful witches, beastly fathers, and the stories mothers tell to keep their daughters safe."

• The Great Library of Tomorrow By: Rosalia Aguilar Solace, read by Frankie Corzo for Blackstone -- "Fueled by the same collaborative heart and boundless imagination that

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Release Week: 5 November 2024

Posted on 2024-11-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Dungeon Crawler Carl

The new paperback/ebook is out, audiobook isn't out until next year cries THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

This one's been delayed a few times, but I'm glad to see it finally out:

• Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin, read by Michael Crouch and Alyssa Bresnahan for Recorded Books -- "These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s

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Release Week: 29 October 2024

Posted on 2024-10-29 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• This Will Be Fun: A Novel by E. B. Asher, read by Alexander Cendese, January LaVoy, and Hope Newhouse for Harper -- "Everyone in Mythria knows the story of how best friends Beatrice and Elowen, handsome ex-bandit Clare, and valiant leader Galwell the Great defended the realm from darkness. It’s a tale beloved by all—except the heroes. They haven’t spoken in a decade, devastated by what their quest cost them. But when they all receive an invitation to the queen of Mythria’s wedding, it’s a summons

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Release Week: 22 October 2024

Posted on 2024-10-22 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEATURED PICK:

• Absolution: The Southern Reach, Book 4 by Jeff VanderMeer, read by Bronson Pinchot for Blackstone -- "Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy. Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, there are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises... a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. It is the

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Release Week: 15 October 2024

Posted on 2024-10-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

(in progress)

PICKS:

• Polostan: Bomb Light, Book 1 By: Neal Stephenson, read by January LaVoy for Harper -- "The first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age."

• The Ancients: A Novel By: John Larison, read by Dani Martineck for Penguin -- "A richly imagined, sweeping novel of hope, love, and adventure set in the unforgiving world of our own descendants."

• The Mountain Crown: Crowns of Ishia, Book 1 By

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Release Week: 8 October 2024

Posted on 2024-10-08 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FICTION PICKS:

• The Witches of El Paso: A Novel By: Luis Jaramillo, read by Raquel Beattie for Simon and Schuster -- "A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richly imagined and empowering story of motherhood, magic, and legacy."

• Our Evenings: A Novel By: Alan Hollinghurst, read by Prasanna Puwanarajah for Random House -- "Dave Win, the son of a a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a

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