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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the October 30th issue include:


Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving. Random House. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...if you're a fan of ambitious, chaotic, plot-and-character-driven storytelling, you'll love this book." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (27 reviews). Kindle edition $15.40. Price Alert: Hardcover edition of this book is selling for $15.47 at Amazon. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto - pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River...depicts the recent half-century in the United States as 'a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.' From the novel’s taut opening sentence...to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp."
$9.99 or less alternative: Irving's earlier novel A Widow for One Year.

Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk. Knopf. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...Pamuk successfully retains his role as literature's guide to Istanbul...which, like Pamuk is caught between two worlds and fully belongs to neither." Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $15.92. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie... A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, The Museum of Innocence also plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional - its emergent modernity, its vast cultural history." - from the hardcover edition.
$9.99 or less alternative: Pamuk's earlier novel, Snow.

Tempted, by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast. Book 6 in the House of Night series that began with the publication of Marked in 2007. St. Martin's Press. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...It's only when they reach the killer cliff-hanger that you'll accuse them of moving too swiftly." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99. Price Alert: Hardcover edition of this book is selling for $9.89 at Amazon. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"So...you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang. Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions... Aphrodite’s visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal. Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn’t go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her..." - us.macmillan.com.

The Children's Book, by A. S. Byatt. Knopf. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...massive, highly researched...brings to life England between Victoria 1895 and the end of World War I." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (26 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"If you buried The Children's Book under a few inches of leafy mulch, it might begin to sprout - that's how alive it is, how potent. David Copperfield, Prospero, Jane Eyre, and others haunt this novel, poised on the cusp of the 20th century, in which a raggedy kiln worker's son crosses class boundaries to practice pottery; a lovely matriarch writes dark fairy tales; children waste away from toxic family secrets; and ambitious women strain against tradition. Byatt is a master storyteller, but even more spellbinding than this novel's descriptions of nature and the supernatural is its intensely personal narrative of the Great War, where dreams of justice and mercy die hard." - Cathleen Medwick for O, The Oprah Magazine .

The Humbling, by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...an entertaining inquiry into the relationship between sex and creativity, sex and age, and sex and the ego (see a theme?)" Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.30. Price Alert: Hardcover edition of this book is selling for $12.87 at Amazon. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, 'are melted into air, into thin air.' When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. 'Something fundamental has vanished.' His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: Roth's novella, The Dying Animal.


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