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Christopher Guest

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

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Christopher Guest

February 4, 2020

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of February 3rd and February 10th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our Sounding Off on Audio contest for February. This month's prizes are the audio versions of J. D. Robb's GOLDEN IN DEATH, read by Susan Ericksen, and Steve Berry's THE WARSAW PROTOCOL, read by Scott Brick. Submit your comments about the audiobooks you've listened to by Monday, March 2nd at noon ET, and you'll be in the running to win both these audio titles.

Also, please click on the covers above for our reviews of three books that we featured in last Friday's Weekly Update newsletter: WHEN YOU SEE ME by Lisa Gardner, which finds Detective D. D. Warren, Flora Dane and Kimberly Quincy investigating a mysterious murder from the past --- which points to a dangerous and chilling present-day crime; INTO THE FIRE, the fifth installment in Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series featuring Evan Smoak, who this time is facing his deadliest job yet; and our current New Release Spotlight title, WHEN WE WERE VIKINGS, Andrew David MacDonald's uplifting debut about an unlikely heroine whose journey will leave you wanting to embark on a quest of your own.

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February 4, 2020

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this winter. Read more about it, and enter our Winter Reading Contest by Wednesday, February 5th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE SCENT KEEPER by Erica Bauermeister, which is now available in paperback and is this month's Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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February 2020

February's Books on Screen roundup includes the feature films Emma, The Call of the Wild and The Invisible Man; the first season of "High Fidelity" on Hulu, along with the season premieres of "Outlander" on Starz and "The Sinner" on USA Network; and the DVD releases of Doctor Sleep, The Good Liar, Jojo Rabbit and Color Out of Space.

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Peter Matthiessen

In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

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Peter Matthiessen

Week of February 10, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of February 10th include NEON PREY, another nail-biting installment in John Sandford's Prey series, which finds Lucas Davenport tracking a prolific serial killer who has been operating for years without notice; SUMMER OF '69, Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel, in which four siblings experience the drama, intrigue and upheaval of a summer when everything changed; THE STATIONERY SHOP by Marjan Kamali, a beautiful and timely exploration of devastating loss, unbreakable family bonds and the overwhelming power of love; and PARKLAND, Dave Cullen's intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders --- inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.

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Week of February 3, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of February 3rd include DAISY JONES & THE SIX, a gripping novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup; OUTFOX by Sandra Brown, which finds FBI agent Drex Easton becoming a suspect's next-door neighbor after a 30-year search for a serial killer --- but can he navigate a shocking series of twists and turns to track down the truth?; Valeria Luiselli's LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border; and SEPARATE, in which Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case.

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February 3, 2020 - March 2, 2020

Here are audiobook recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of February 3rd - March 2nd.

Dan Spencer

On cable TV they have a weather channel --- 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

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Dan Spencer

Tony Dungy

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

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Tony Dungy