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And yes, I’ve finished all of these books already:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Black-Sabbaths-Master-Reality-33/dp/0826428991/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213039076&sr=1-1\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Master Of Reality\u003c/a> by John Darnielle, Continuum’s 33 1/3 series\u003cbr>You may already know about, and perhaps own, some of the little matching volumes from Continuum Publishing’s \u003cb>33 1/3\u003c/b> series of music books. The premise is simple: in each book, a different writer dissects a seminal rock and roll album. As the years go on, the threshold for what’s considered a classic have widened considerably (Celine Dion?!) but I admire their creativity. For example, not every book is a VH1-style frothing fanboy essay on why an album Changed Music Forever. Several of them are actually novels! John Darnielle, best known as the singer-songwriter behind emotive neo-folk act The Mountain Goats, wrote this very short and affecting little novella based on Black Sabbath’s “Master Of Reality” album. The story is written as a journal kept by a teenage psychiatric hospital inmate in 1985, trying desperately to get his walkman and Sabbath tapes back from nurses who see them as signs of mental illness. I finished it in two hours, but it has stuck with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Lulu-Jonathan-Evison/dp/1593761961/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213039297&sr=1-1\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">All About Lulu\u003c/a> by Jonathan Evison, Soft Skull Press\u003cbr>A crazy, shaggy beast of a book by debut novelist Jonathan Evison, who was making a personal appearance in the Soft Skull Press booth and signed it for me. (“Dear Suzzane, sorry about the extra z!”) Evison is a master of mySpace marketing, so I’ve been hearing about this book for a while. It’s the story of young William Miller Jr., scrawny vegetarian son of a pro bodybuilder named Big Bill Miller. When Big Bill remarries, Will becomes completely, rapturously, romantically and sexually obsessed with his stepsister Lulu. There’s also Fatburger, a hot dog stand, lat spreads, a ghost cat, and a guest appearance by future governor Arnold Schwartzenegger as an unbearably cocky Mr. Olympia 1980. Entertaining, digressive, totally nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/November-22-1963-Adam-Braver/dp/0980243629/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213039447&sr=1-6\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov 22, 1963\u003c/a> by Adam Braver, Tin House Books\u003cbr>Another brief little jewel, this novel follows the events of the Kennedy assassination from a perspective I have never seen before. The butlers and nannies on the white house staff, the funeral home owner in Dallas, the forensic pathologists at Bethesda Naval Hospital, all of them bumble accidentally into a front row center view of history. In the center is Jackie Kennedy, using protocol and etiquette to keep herself from falling to pieces, while wearing a pink suit stained with her husband’s blood. Most of the dialogue is taken from testimony, interviews, White House records, and some particularly smarmy recorded phone calls with Lyndon Johnson. No mention is ever made of who the shooter might have been, or why the assassination happened. Since all the action takes place on the day of the killing itself, no one has had time to reflect. I would never have thought there was a new way to view a moment so thoroughly dissected. Turns out there is. 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I couldn’t help but think, though: New York, the early 1980s, all that shooting up, all those boys turning tricks, and no mention of AIDS? Not even as a nagging, far-off fear?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just a small taste of what will be appearing on bookstore shelves near you between now and the holidays. There’s also a hotly-anticipated new novel from Paul Auster, and no less than THREE books about witches. John Updike has written a followup to \u003cb>The Witches of Eastwick\u003c/b> called \u003cb>The Widows Of Eastwick\u003c/b>. A supernatural witch-related thriller called \u003cb>The Lace Reader\u003c/b> by Salem resident Brunonia Barry was a local hit in self-published form, and has been picked up for a major release. There’s also \u003cb>The Heretic’s Daughter\u003c/b> by Kathleen Kent, more of a straight-ahead historical fiction take on the life of Martha Carrier, one of the first accused witches hanged in Salem. Kent is Martha Carrier’s tenth-generation direct descendant. 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