NEWS4U NOVEMBER 2022 | BOOKS
BOOK CLUB
WITH ADAM & SAM MORRIS
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Check out these great recommendations from the owners of Your Brother's Bookstore in downtown Evansville ILLUMINATIONS by Alan Moore
LIBERATION DAY by George Saunders
most important and most
in English” (Time) is back
influential comic writer in
with a masterful collection
the history of comics. That's
that explores ideas of
just an opinion, but we're
power, ethics, and justice,
willing to die on that hill.
and cuts to the very heart
Illuminations is a collection
of what it means to live in
of short stories that Alan has
community with our fellow
been writing over the past
humans. With his trademark
forty years. From ghosts
prose - wickedly funny,
and otherworldly creatures,
unsentimental, and perfectly
the four horsemen of the
tuned - Saunders continues
Alan Moore might be the
The “best short story writer
apocalypse, and theoretical
to challenge and surprise:
Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations
here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that
is exactly that - a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary
encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre
legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
fantasy and brutal reality.
UZUMAKI by Junji Ito
THE COWARD by Stephen Aryan
since 1998, but Sam finally
was part of a band of
got around to reading it. It’s
warriors who went to
symbolic and weird, and all
kill the Ice Lich and save
about spirals slowly infecting
the world, but Kell came
a small seaside Japanese
back alone. With the Lich
town. Body horror abounds,
defeated, his icy grip on
and a series of seemingly
the world loosened and
unconnected body horror
it was as safe as Kell’s
concepts slowly form into a
secret (the coward killed
single spiraling mythos as
the Ice Lich by accident).
the town itself is, also, slowly
That is, until a new evil
forming into a spiral. Even
moves into the Ice Lich’s
This one’s been around
Years ago, Kell Kressia
more horrifying than the terrible things happening to the people are the
castle and the world is in peril once again. That’s a lot of
people themselves, who begin to take the absurd as ordinary. Incredibly
summary, but the book is a fresh play on a lot of fantasy
influential, you can see Uzumaki in a lot of weird fiction today.
tropes and is frankly a delight.
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