June Newsletter

Judy Blume, Laurell K. Hamilton, Annie Barrows, Robert Kurson, and tons of new books! Find your next great read! View this email in your browser Hi Ravi, Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads—giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to help you find your next favorite book! You started reading Operation Blue Star: The True Story 261 days ago. --> Update Your Progress EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS Judy Blume The giant of children's lit plumbs an unusual event from her own girlhood—when three planes crashed in her hometown—for her new novel for adults, In the Unlikely Event. More Laurell K. Hamilton After 22 years with her hard-boiled heroine Anita Blake, the paranormal queen reflects on how her bestselling series has evolved and chats about her latest, Dead Ice. More GOOD MINDS SUGGEST Annie Barrows's Favorite Books About Small Towns Visit tiny towns with big heart in these five recs from the author of The Truth According to Us, set in 1930s West Virginia. Annie suggests: More... Robert Kurson's Favorite Books About Pirates Sail the high seas in his new nonfiction adventure, Pirate Hunters, and try this treacherous top five of swashbuckling books. Robert suggests: More... DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT Erika Swyler With circus mermaids, traveling tarot readers, and a bona fide family curse, her debut novel, The Book of Speculation, blends carnival history and bookish lore. More BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall An eccentric English earl, hoping to reintroduce a pair of gray wolves into the wilds of his Cumbrian estate, hires zoologist Rachel Caine, a woman coping with a surprise pregnancy after a one-night stand, in this literary novel. More The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck History buff Rinker Buck recounts his real-life odyssey traversing the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail (what's left of it) in a mule-drawn covered wagon (really!) with just his brother, a dog, and their wits. More A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) In this new work of psychological horror, a hit reality-TV show documents what happens when a desperate family asks a priest to perform an exorcism on their daughter, who is showing signs of schizophrenia...or something else? More Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado (Goodreads Author) From stacked jury selection to innocent plea bargaining out of fear, is our criminal justice system fundamentally broken? Law professor Benforado uses court cases and psychological studies to reach a damning verdict. More Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey (Goodreads Author) On the run from an abusive ex, Jess takes refuge in an abandoned London house. When a letter is delivered from Dan, a 90-year-old WWII veteran searching for his lost love, Jess decides to help in this historical love story. More More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author) Aaron really wants to forget his life—his rough childhood in the Bronx, his dad's death, and most recently his confusing feelings for a certain boy. He turns to a memory-relief institute for options in this raw novel for teens. More DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS Bookshare This online library with more than 300,000 titles offers tools for readers with print disabilities. Find out how you can help make reading accessible for everyone! More GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST Want your words to reach millions of people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the ¡POETRY! group and vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our June winner! Under the table by Barnaby Wilde (Goodreads Author) There's a sort of springy wire underneath my dining table, That's in a kind of runner down each side. It should go round a pulley thing in order to enable, Each of the extending leaves to smoothly slide. But I think the springy wire must have fallen off the pulley As the metal slider thingy doesn't work. Instead of sliding smoothly it no longer opens fully, It just judders to a stop in little jerks. So now I'm lying on my back underneath the dining table, Trying to work out what's gone amiss. But the metal covered runner thing that holds the springy cable, Is preventing me from seeing what it is. I prod it with my finger and I pull the springy cable, But I can't see far enough along the track. And the rail that runs from end to end that's underneath the table, Is digging rather sharply in my back. I think that maybe if I took off both the wooden sliding panels, I could re-attach the wire thing again. As long as I could poke it back along the metal channel, I might hook it round the pulley with my pen. But, is it really worth it? I can feel my will desert me, When I see it's held each side by seven screws. That's twenty eight in total just to get the beggar free, And twenty eight to put back in once it's been loosed. Thirty minutes later and I've unscrewed twenty seven, But the last one's gone and got a busted head. I wish I hadn't started and I've lost the will for living, But eventually I free the broken thread. Now I'm studying the cable that's fallen off the pulley, And I'm blowed if I can see what holds it on. But I poke it down the channel and I hook it back on fully, Can't help thinking that it won't stay there for long. Now if you think it wasn't easy taking out the bloody screws, It's ten times harder getting them to go back in. Because gravity's against me and I'm really not amused, Indeed my patience now is wearing rather thin. But, finally I'm finished and that springy wire cable, Is back around the pulley wheel again. However, when I pull the leaf out to extend the flipping table, Nothing happens to the one the other end. So, was it all a waste of time dismantling the slider thing, Two hours discomfort lying on my back? Well, there is a tiny benefit from all that disassembling No wire now hanging down beneath the track. And the other little consequence of this minute adventure, Is that I went out and wrote this little song. So if you're feeling musical, while I have your attention, Why don't you clear your throat and sing along ... ...There's a sort of springy wire underneath my dining table, ... Read More Poetry With love, The Goodreads Editorial Team Follow on Facebook @goodreads Follow on 2015 Reading Challenge Goodreads Blog Want to work at Goodreads? We are hiring a VP of Advertising Revenue, a Senior UX Designer, Software Engineers, a QA Engineer, and Product and Program Managers. Check out our Jobs Page for more details and to apply. 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