Book Club Picks for May 2021 By Gilcy Aquino | May 12, 2021
Just as April showers brought the gift of May flowers, we’re bringing you the long-awaited book club picks for this month. Whether you’ve started to feel antsy stuck at home or feeling in need of a change because the path you’re on isn’t the right one for you, these book club picks are sure to keep you
Fully Booked.
by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Park Row)
Recommended for: Those of us with immigrant parents who wonder what their lives might have been like before settling down in America with a sprinkling of murder mystery thrown in for good measure.
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (David Fickling Books)
The second instalment of the Book of Dust – Philip Pullman’s new trilogy about Lyra Belacqua, set in the magical alternative reality of His Dark Materials, in which peoples souls are expressed via animal companions called daemons. This novel picks up 20 years after Pullman s La Belle Sauvage, as Lyra tries to navigate the responsibilities of adult life, a growing estrangement from her beloved daemon Pam, and a mysterious murder that threatens to overturn the security of her student life in Oxford and send her back out into a world fraught with sinister authoritarian forces.
Set during an apocalyptic future,
Radio Life shows a world where The Commonwealth, a knowledge-gathering society on the rise, is locked in a clash of ideas with the Keepers… Should ancient knowledge be kept, learned from and archived? Or should that knowledge be kept in the past where it can’t harm anyone?
When a young woman stumbles upon a finding that could change the way people gain knowledge forever, something that calls itself ‘the internet’, this difference of ideals could lead to a fight that threatens to destroy the world… again.
We spoke to
Radio Life author Derek B. Miller about Hopepunk, the inspirations behind his political thriller and what he has coming up next…