The Book We're Talking About This Week

Monday, June 11, 2012 The Book We're Talking About This Week "The Red House" by Mark Haddon Doubleday, $25.95 Publishes on June 12, 2012 What is it about? The novel tells the story of a family through alternating viewpoints. A rich doctor, Richard, invites his estranged sister, Angela, and her family to spend a week with his family at their English vacation home in the country. Of course, tension is high. Why are we talking about it? Haddon's first novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was so good that we couldn't help but pick this one up as well. Who wrote it? Mark Haddon, the author of Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction award winner and international bestseller "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time." He also wrote New York Times bestseller "A Spot of Bother." In addition to this, he has written and illustrated award-winning children's books and television screenplays. Who will read it? Fans of Haddon's first novel, fans of dramatic family novels, such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and "Freedom." What do the reviewers say? To read the rest, click here! More on HuffPost Books: Chuck Palahniuk: Where I Like To Read WATCH: Stephen Colbert: The Most Overrated Classic Book You Can Pay To Be Chased By Zombies At Comic-Con The 15 Best Answers From Michael Ian Black's Reddit AMA Promoting New Book Is My Book Gay? BLOG POSTS James Franco: Summer Reading, Part 3: Remembering the Lovely Details of The Virgin Suicides The extensive detailing that gives the novel its raison d'être makes me think of Vladimir Nabokov --- especially since Nabokov, in Lolita, was as eager as Eugenides is here to mix pop-culture references and incredibly apt metaphors. John Lundberg: A Powerful New Poetry Community for Youth PowerPoetry.org springs out of the success of last year's award-winning documentary To Be Heard, which followed three teenagers for four years as they struggled to grow up in a tough Bronx neighborhood. Kimberly Butler: Bradbury Lives! I would like to think that when we escape our earthly imprisonment, all the answers of the universe are revealed to us. I can see Ray, singing the body electric, dancing amongst the stars, reveling in the glory of it all. Jeffrey Wasserstrom: A Quick Q & A on China With Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Ian Johnson I recently caught up with Ian Johnson, an old friend and sometimes co-author, and asked him some of the sorts of questions I thought he might get when he is part of an upcoming Asia Society panel on contemporary China. John Stanley: Buddhism and the Unconscious Recent neurological studies have been exploring Jung's insight, leading to discoveries that have many important implications, including how we might understand traditional Buddhist teachings today.

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