April Newsletter

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View this email in your browser SPONSORED BY Now playing in select theatres, Us Weekly raves Jane Eyre is, "Romantic, thrilling & often scary!" Hi Jennifer, Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads—giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to connect people through reading! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS Jean M. Auel Prehistoric fiction fans have waited three decades for The Land of Painted Caves, the conclusion to the epic Earth Children series set 25,000 years ago. More Ted Dekker The best-selling thriller writer borrows from the darkest recesses of his imagination in The Priest's Graveyard, a new novel about a man and a woman seeking vigilante justice. More IN THE WORKS Coming Soon: Smart Recommendations What do you get when you combine the Goodreads database of 100 million book ratings with fancy algorithmic technology? One more way to find a great book! We hope this powerful book recommendation system will enhance our community and be smarter than anything you've seen before. Learn more IN BED WITH... Arthur Phillips's Favorite Plays Within Other Works The novelist shares a list of works embedded with plays, not unlike his own The Tragedy of Arthur, a "memoir" featuring an undiscovered Shakespeare quarto. More Blake Butler's Favorite Surrealist Literature The David Lynch of books shares his top five works of weirdness in honor of his new domestic dreamscape, There Is No Year. More FEATURED AUTHOR GROUPS Alan Bradley The mystery writer chats about clever Flavia de Luce, his 11-year-old sleuth. This wee chemist with a fondness for poisons is the heroine of A Red Herring Without Mustard. More Megan McCafferty The young adult novelist will talk about Bumped, her satire about a future dystopia where no one over age 18 can get pregnant and teen breeders propagate the human race. More Jim Frederick The executive editor of TIME magazine and author of Black Hearts joins veterans from the Iraq War to discuss modern warfare and on-the-ground reporting. More DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT Rebecca Rasmussen In the novel The Bird Sisters, two spinsters recall the fateful 1947 summer that turned their lives upside down. Rasmussen shares an image of her muse—her grandmother. More MOVERS & SHAKERS The Pale King by David Foster Wallace Full of grisly and hilarious anecdotes, this posthumous novel relates the mind-numbing boredom of an Internal Revenue Service office. Wallace casts himself as an acne-riddled new recruit among a motley crew of bureaucrats. More The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure (Goodreads Author) Road tripping from Wisconsin's big woods to the banks of Minnesota's Plum Creek, memoirist McClure recounts her obsession with Laura Ingalls Wilder. She attempts butter churning and searches for her lost girlhood along the way. More Elizabeth I by Margaret George Opening in 1588 as the Spanish Armada is poised to strike, this historical novel chronicles the iconic life of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, who weathered a lifelong power struggle against her cousin and rival, schemer Lettice Knollys. More Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (Goodreads Author) A rebel doctor is accused of murder after transfusing a patient with animal blood in this nonfiction, 17th-century whodunit. Superstition pervaded medicine, and the nascent practice of blood transfusion would be banned for 150 years. More Friendship Bread by Darien Gee (Goodreads Author) One recipe resets a woman's life in this small-town tale. Still reeling from her son's death, Julia receives an anonymous gift of friendship bread. She reluctantly makes her own loaf and shares the batch with new friends. More Enclave by Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Author) Born underground, heroine Deuce battles zombies who prowl the labyrinth of tunnels below and goes on a dangerous journey of survival with a mysterious boy. Hunger Games fans will love this young adult adventure. More DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS First Book This literacy nonprofit has distributed more than 80 million books to disadvantaged children throughout North America. More LITERATURE AT EVERY LATITUDE Comilla, Bangladesh: 23° 27' N 91° 10' E My Kind of Girl by Buddhadeva Bose Four strangers stranded overnight in a train station swap bittersweet stories of true love, lost love, and unrequited love in this poignant Bengali novella. More NEW FEATURE Genre Pages Love historical fiction? Craving a juicy memoir? Check out our genres pages and explore hundreds of sub-genres. From fantasy, try paranormal, and even specify shapeshifters or witches. You can also customize the main page to your favorite categories. Find exactly what interests you, or stumble on something unexpected! More EVENTS NEAR YOU Sandra Beasley on tour for the book "I Was the Jukebox: Poems" date April 07, 2011 11:59PM location Sweet Briar , College, 764 Elijah Rd, 2, USA, Sweet Briar, VA, The United States description A poetry reading featuring John Casteen (For the Mountain Laurel) and Sandra Beasley (I Was the Juke... More Ray Brown on tour for the book "I Have His Letters Still" date April 07, 2011 11:59PM location Bridgewater College, 402 E College St, USA, Bridgewater, VA, The United States description I will present a paper at the Conference: Working Class Poetry Bridging the Gap Between an Employee... More Ray Brown on tour for the book "I Have His Letters Still" date April 08, 2011 02:15PM location Bridgewater College, 402 E College St, USA, Bridgewater, VA, The United States description I will present a paper at the Conference: Working Class Poetry Bridging the Gap Between an Employee... More GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST Want your words to reach 4 million people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the ¡POETRY! group to vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our April winner! Riding Backwards on the Train by S. Jane Sloat (Goodreads Author) It's not unpleasant: perpetual surprise. But instead of feeling I'll arrive, the world appears to pour towards whatever I'm getting away from. Cows and foliage blur by and I try to imagine easing into couch cushions, or the plunge back onto the bed, quilt whooshing up from behind. Still, I can't shake the faint dyslexia reverse riding brings, the suspicion I'm rushing assbackwards into the future, kick-me sign tacked to my spine, a breech birth with no eye for what's ahead until it crashes into the past, the inkling I'm a fool doing the backstroke smack up against the wall of the pool. For National Poetry Month, this month's winner will receive a copy of Horoscopes for the Dead, autographed by the poet Billy Collins. Read more poetry With love, Jessica, Elizabeth, and the Goodreads Team P.S. Goodreads is hiring software engineers, a user interface developer, an advertising operations manager, an office manager, and a customer care representative! TRIVIA In Les Misérables, Marius falls in love with... Eponine Fantine Cosette SPONSORED BOOK Heart of the Matter The New York Times Bestseller— now in paperback from Emily Giffin "A modern-day Jane Austen." —Vanity Fair A powerful and provocative novel about marriage and motherhood, love and forgiveness. Read an excerpt » Add to my books Want to read more? Set a goal, and Goodreads will help you meet it! You can track your progress and challenge your friends. Get started The Catcher in the Rye Quiz Question 1 of 11: What is the protagonist's name? 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