It’s a New Glen David Gold Novel!
Posted on | April 6, 2009 | 4 Comments
I’m going to make this blog on Saturday and post it on Monday because according to Google, Monday is going to be (HOLY CHRIST!) 72 degrees. My plan for Monday is to wander the streets in a bikini and lie on the hot cement when I am felled by heat exhaustion. So I might not be around the internet. Unless I can access the internet through the heat waves coming off the asphalt.
Also, I own no bikini.
So, my exciting news is sort of not that excited for like everyone except me and Steve, so really, you don’t have to make a comment today or you can just jump right to the comments and say something about bikinis.
I went to one of my former places of employment the other day to harass my ex-editor and rifle through the galleys. AND I FOUND THIS:
ZOMG IT’S THE NEW GLEN DAVID GOLD!
I have been waiting seven long years for a new Glen David Gold novel. His first book, Carter Beats the Devil, is one of my and Steve’s favorite books. In fact, it’s one of the favorite books of every single bookseller I’ve ever worked with. It’s a perfect entertainment novel. It’s funny, has a great plot and *there’s magic on every page* (that was a little in joke between me and Steve.) There’s not magic on every page, but Carter (the hero) is a magician. And it’s set in California (specifically Oakland) at the time of the earthquake and Carter is such a great guy and it’s just OHMYGOD I love that novel. I’ve read it three times.
It’s also Gold’s first novel. And I feared it would be his only novel. I feared this because his wife is Alice Sebold of Lovely Bones fame and I thought, well, we’ll never see a book from Gold ever again because I sold so many copies of the Lovely Bones in hardcover, I still have the ISBN memorized (0316666343). It’s not logical, people.
Anyway, I just want to say THANK YOU to Glen David Gold, who one time came into my bookstore and I WAS NOT THERE, but he read my little handwritten review (it’s called a shelf talker, for you non-bookselling people) and he liked it. HE SAID HE LIKED IT!!! This made my year. Except, I also thought, huh, WHY DIDN’T YOU RETURN, GLEN, YOU LIVED UP THE STREET????
I have sort of a complicated relationship with Glen David Gold.
It’s internal.
Voice-driven.
He doesn’t know I exist.
(God, please let him have a google ego search. I HAVE A VERY POPULAR BLOG *Shush, Fan Club*, MR. GOLD, I WILL TOTALLY INTERVIEW YOU AND POST IT HERE! EMAIL ME!!!!!)
So, I started reading Sunnyside last night and so far, so good. Sooooooo gooooood. Except I read just three pages because the night before I went out drunking, which involved a lot of bourbon and a pitcher of sangria — alcohol allergy: CURED! And then I had four hours of sleep and so I went to bed at 8. And read three pages, which I enjoyed very much before I slept. So, anywayz, I’m a bit late on the draw pitching this for a review for money. So, I’m going to review it here, Internet. HERE! When I’m finished. It’s 550 pages.
Look for it in the distant future.
Happy Monday!
And if you see me passed out on the sidewalk, just pour some water on my lips and let me be.
Tags: bikinis > Glen David Gold > Portland > Sunnyside
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April 6th, 2009 @ 10:42 am
I ate about 72 pieces of cake this weekend.
I’ll never wear any of my 6 bikinis again.
I’ll mail them to you.
April 6th, 2009 @ 11:53 am
I’m glad you made it three pages into Sunnyside before you had to start drinking. That beats my record.
April 6th, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
I can’t believe I have to follow Glen the author’s comment.
I got nothing.
What he said.
April 30th, 2009 @ 9:24 pm
I found your blog, which is awesome, by googling Mr. Gold’s new novel. I was also a Carter multi-reader and basically that book is the only thing I give as presents. Anyhow, how was Sunnyside?? Like the rest of the non-industry folk, I have to wait a couple of weeks, so I am understandably anxious!