Of the ten books, based solely on the summaries, I feel compelled to read only two. These snippets come from the Chronicle's Bookish blog with Maggie Galehouse.
“Cold Blue Steel,” by Sarah Cortez. From a Houston writer with a diverse resume — active-duty police officer, corporate accountant, Latin teacher, and more — comes 50 lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop. “The Secret” begins: “Love whatever can save/ your life. Your ballistic vest,/ your razored reflexes. The/ keys you rubber-banded/ to keep from jingling. The/ double-tied shoelaces that/ won’t come loose in a foot chase./ The short haircut a turd/ can’t grab in a scuffle/ to ream your face into concrete.”
“Tumbledown,” by Robert Boswell. Boswell shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at UH with his wife, Antonya Nelson. This new novel is a sad but funny book about a therapist and his patients, sanity and insanity, and the choices we make to accommodate the failures of the rational world.
I'm a tad surprised that I want to read a book of poems, but those seem interesting to me . . . go figure.
Sadly, as I'm in a Year Long Thriller Fest for reading, I won't be able to read either, at least not till next year.
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