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With the relentless snow and cold weather this winter, you may find yourself indoors more than usual in March. Here is a mix of light and serious reads to help you get through spring fever.
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler – March 9
Comedienne Chelsea Handler finds herself in unusual company. Joining the ranks of Tori Spelling, Stephen Colbert and Madonna, Handler has become one of the most popular celebrity writers. With bestselling titles My Horizontal Life and Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea already under her belt, Handler has developed a reputation of dissecting her life experiences with stark and self-deprecating honesty. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang promises more of the same. This time, she analyzes her life from youth to adulthood with topics ranging from a particularly memorable third-grade sleepover to domestic squabbles with her boyfriend. Her ability to reveal some of her most personal and embarrassing episodes and spin them into humorous anecdotes is an admirable trait and a convenient source of entertainment for readers.
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee – March 9
In this Korean War tale, Chang-rae Lee provides a multifaceted perspective of the fighting and its aftereffects. Narrator June Singer is only 11 years old when the war tears her family apart. Rescued by G.I. Hector Brennan, a man trying to escape some horrors of his own, June and Hector spend the rest of the war at an orphanage run by a caring missionary couple, the Tanners. But although June and Hector are brought together by chance, their impact on each other do not end with the war. Thirty years later, the two, now living in America, must reunite to complete a mission that will take them back to the past they both tried so hard to forget.
I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan A. Wells – March 30
“I am not a serial killer” isn’t a declaration that most people have to make. But for 15-year-old John Cleaver, this statement has become a daily mantra. John, fascinated by the stories of murderers and frequently exposed to dead bodies while working at the family mortuary, finds it difficult to rein in his violent fantasies. But when several corpses start turning up around his hometown of Clayton — each missing a body part — John must act on his hidden obsession to uncover the killer. This gory mystery — the first in a projected trilogy — will keep readers riveted until the unexpected solution
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