Paul's picks

Paul, a bookseller at Gibson's Bookstore  Booklover ever since my mother read "Fox in Socks" to me every night as a child. Yes, her tongue was, eventually, numb. Left graduate school just to work in a bookstore. Managed Borders stores in Braintree & Concord when the chain was still "a collection of fine stores" & strived to make them a wonderful place to both work & shop. When not selling books, I'm often reading them: mostly experimental fiction, avant-garde poetry, and nature books. Sometimes graphic novels. Sometimes memoirs. And, with the help of my oldest daughter, I have a good handle on what young adult novels are "so so good!"

Sky Ward (Hardcover)

$22.95
ISBN-13: 9780819573575
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Wesleyan, 2/2013

Paul's March 2013 pick

Sky Ward by Kazim Ali
A linguistic soaring collection of new poems from Ali, this collection explores desperation and desire and grace through word- and space-play, but remain grounded in the most daily human experiences. The candor and unease riffling the surface of these poems makes their beauty all the more startling.

 


$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781611800166
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Shambhala, 11/2012

Paul's December 2012 pick

Hunger Mountain by David Hinton
A series of walks up the mountain outside his back door provides Hinton with an opportunity to examine how the study of Chinese landscape painting, poetry, and his own family life have shaped his own world view. Both poetic and down-to-earth, this small book offers vast rewards, from ruminations on the origins of the cosmos to the transient beauty of a falling snowflake.

 


$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780670025114
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Viking Adult, 10/2012
Paul's November 2012 pick

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

Throughout this mesmerizing book, Macfarlane chronicles numerous journeys, most on foot, a few by boat, following the old ways, the trails & pathways used down through the centuries to take people from place to place a back again. It is a book haunted by the landscapes & seascapes of the past, but always look forward to what we will learn from them in the unknowable future. An Odyssey for the post-modern world.

Mother and Child (Hardcover)

$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781582438184
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Counterpoint, 6/2012

Paul's July 2012 pick 

A meditation on the mystery & beauty contained within a simple human life, Maso's new novel chronicles the wanderings of a mother & child through untamed & wonderous landscapes, both of the mind & of the earth.

It is an awesome book! Read it soon!


Love, an Index (Hardcover)

$18.00
ISBN-13: 9781936365791
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: McSweeney's, 3/2012

Paul's June 2012 pick

Love, an Index by Rebecca Lindenberg

A multifarious collection of serial poems linked by sadness & joy & longing, as well as the details of the poet's relationship with another poet, who disappears while hiking a volcano. Lindenberg's voice both sings of & matter-of-factly recounts their love, her loss, and one way to go on living even though haunted.


$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307592736
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf, 3/2012

Paul's April 2012 pick

A fascinating chronicle of a woman coming to terms with her life on the pacific crest trail, learning the true meaning of "putting one foot in front of the other" as a guide to living.


$17.95
ISBN-13: 9780393340730
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 2/2012

Paul's February 2012 pick

A fascinating meditation on the fraught territory between fact and fiction, truth and accuracy, knowledge and entertainment, this slim book chronicles the development of an essay written by D'Agata through the questioning & clarifying feedback provided by Fingal. Wonderfully insightful, it's also beautifully arranged on the page.


$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780872865150
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: City Lights Publishers, 5/2011

Paul's January 2012 pick

A beautiful ink-washed graphic novel set in San Francisco, with many of the geographical landmarks of the bay area making an appearance, the Golden Gate Bridge, Twin Peaks, the Mission District, in which the collaboration between image & text is fraught with provisional meaning. All the panels are devoid of people, but never of life. Moving in a slow uncertain tender way.


$45.00
ISBN-13: 9780670022700
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Viking Adult, 10/2011

Paul's November 2011 pick

A fascinating approach to the telling of history, using objects left behind by ordinary men & women to chronicle the passing of the world's civilizations. Kaleidoscopic & endlessly surprising. The photographs of the objects are as illuminating as the stories themselves.


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