Laura

I coordinate author events, marketing, and manage the website at Bookworks, and have worked here since 2007.  I'm a professional violist, having just finished my M.M. at UNM, and I perform with groups like Santa Fe Pro Musica, Opera Southwest, and other artists around Albuquerque and Santa Fe.  The number of books I own is growing exponentially the longer I work here, and I've started building a nice collection of current-ish fiction.

Right now, I'm reading an upcoming book called My American Unhappiness.

Favorite authors in no specific order:

John Irving

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Jose Saramago

Evelyn Waugh

Umberto Eco

Margaret Atwood

Kate Christensen

Joshua Ferris 

ANYTHING by Scarlett Thomas or Amelie Nothomb! 

 

Laura's recent recommendations listed below: 

These will be updated soon!  Check out Mary Roach's Packing for Mars, Justin Cronin's The Passage, and Adam Langer's The Thieves of Manhattan.

$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781590201114
Availability: In Stock at Warehouse – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Overlook Press, 9/2008

War Dances (Hardcover)

$23.00
ISBN-13: 9780802119193
Availability: In Stock at Warehouse – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grove Press, 10/2009

Tokyo Fiancee (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781933372648
Availability: In Stock at Warehouse – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Europa Editions, 12/2008

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427801
Availability: In Stock at Warehouse – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Picador, 2/2009

Tongue (Paperback)

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9781596916517
Availability: In Stock at Warehouse – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Bloomsbury USA, 6/2009

Swamplandia! (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780307263995
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf, 2/2011
One of Granta Magazine’s Best Young American Novelists, Russell proves it with this hysterical book about a family in the Everglades and their dying tourist attraction Swamplandia!, which features a family of alligator wrestlers (yes, really!) When a rival amusement park begins (The World of Darkness, featuring the “rings of hell” – descriptions of this attraction were my favorite in the book), threatening Swamplandia!, Ava vows to save the park, find her missing sister, and become a national award-winning wrestler like her mother.

The Illumination (Hardcover)

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780375425318
Availability: In Stock at Warehouse – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Pantheon, 2/2011
An early favorite of 2011 for me – it’s very Saramago-esque, and tells the interlocking stories of several people who are affected by a notebook (containing really wonderful I-love-you-because statements) in a world in which pain manifests as visible, beautiful light. This isn’t a plot-driven book, but it’s wonderful and ethereal, like everything Brockmeier writes.




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