Spring Preview: Quirky Books We Love
Discover our spring preview of quirky books we love, featuring standout fiction like Daniel Handler's *Adverbs* and Sarah Waters' *The Night Watch*, plus unique picks like *Cancer Vixen* and *Before the Dawn*. Perfect for readers seeking offbeat, memorable spring reads.
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The meaning of tingo and other extraordinary words from around the world
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
The story of three women in post-World War II London, their love affairs and the mysterious young man who will have a powerful impact on their lives. From the author of "Fingersmith".
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Adverbs
by Daniel Handler
Hello. I am Daniel Handler, the author of this book. Did you know that authors often write the summaries that appear on their book's dust jacket? You might want to think about that the next time you read something like, "A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers." Adverbs is a novel about love -- a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love with David -- or maybe it's Joe -- who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the end of the novel, it's Joe who's in the taxi, falling in love with Andrea, although it might not be Andrea, or in any case it might not be the same Andrea, as Andrea is a very common name. So is Allison, who is married to Adrian in the middle of the novel, although in the middle of the ocean she considers a fling with Keith and also with Steve, whom she meets in an automobile, unless it's not the same Allison who meets the Snow Queen in a casino, or the same Steve who meets Eddie in the middle of the forest. . . . It might sound confusing, but that's love, and as the author -- me -- says, "It is not the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done." This novel is about people trying to find love in the ways it is done before the volcano erupts and the miracle ends. Yes, there's a volcano in the novel. In my opinion a volcano automatically makes a story more interesting.
