Two New Books to Think About

Two older authors are publishing new books in the next few weeks and I'm thinking these might need to be book purchases and not kindle purchases.    

First, Maurice Sendak, at the age of 83, is publishing his first book in many years. Bumble-Ardy is the   

story of a 9-year old orphaned pig who has never had a birthday party. There is an interview of Sendak done by Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air here where he talks about the death of his longtime partner and his thoughts on growing older.  He says his favorite part of the book is after throwing his own costume birthday party, when his aunt returns she says, "Okay smarty, you've had your party but never again." Bumble-ardy replies, "I promise, I swear, I won't ever turn 10."    


Second, Terry Pratchett has a new book coming out next month. Snuff is a new Discworld novel (the 37th, at best guess)  that    

finds Lady Sybil and City Watch Commander Sam Vimes on a vacation. As they say, hilarity ensues. Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease four years ago, has continued to write by dictating to a personal assistant, and made the journey to Madison, Wisconsin this past summer to be the honored guest at the North American DiscWorld Convention. A new book is great news.