Happy 2016, book nerds! Now that you’ve had some time to recover from all those champagne wishes and caviar dreams, it’s time to get down to business: planning your book club’s 2016 picks. Selecting each month’s book requires walking a fine line between art and science, pre-planning and sheer luck. What will get people talking? How do I […]
Is there anything better than a new book by a favorite author—that pleasant feeling of near certainty that it is going to give you exactly what you need? As I settled in with Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky, I was hoping it would trigger the same feelings as his earlier books, embody the qualities that have made him one of […]
Since the 1984 publication of The Summer Tree, his debut novel and the first in the now-classic trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay has been recognized as a leading voice in fantasy, writer of books filled with lush prose, vivid characters, and intricately considered worlds. Next year, he will release his 13th novel, Children […]