Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl

Carl is chasing his ex-girlfriend’s show-winning Persian cat Princess Donut in the middle of the night when the apocalypse happens. One minute, he’s literally in a parking lot in his underwear and bare feet begging a cat to come down out of a tree. The next, Carl, who is still just in his undies and bare feet, and Princess Donut are just trying to survive a sadistic multi-level dungeon game show brought to the masses by their new alien overlords. Complications ensue.

A special thank you to Chelsea for recommending the book to me and to Jen for enthusiastically seconding the recommendation! It’s a highly entertaining and hilarious read.

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Book Buzz: Hockey Romances, Romantasies, Reborn Space Pilots, 19th Century Chinese Americans, Jack the Ripper, the Scottish Hebrides, Korean Epic Fantasy, Rom Com Audiobooks, and Patriotic Eats

Every month, we’re profiling new-ish releases that are getting critical and commercial buzz. For September, we’re looking at the first book in two very different romance series, a space opera, the latest Lisa See book, a historical suspense novel that involves Jack the Ripper, a novel that made the Booker Longlist this year, an epic fantasy written by an author known as the Korean J. R. R. Tolkien, a rom com set on a ship, and nonfiction about iconic American food.

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Free to Be: September

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s an important historical birthday for the United States, and we will be celebrating it all year-round with our new Free to Be series. With respect to Marlo Thomas, our Free to Be posts will be celebrating unique freedoms we enjoy as Americans. And this month, we’re looking at how we’re free to create.

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