For today’s Nook Daily Find, B&N is featuring an excellent police procedural novel by Michael Harvey, The Chicago Way, which kicked off his Michael Kelly series; the latest installment was released in June, The Governor’s Wife. We don’t get many kid’s books in the Audible Daily Deals; Wendy Orr’s Nim’s Island sounds like it’s a good one and it’s under a dollar today. Over at Kobo, Megg Jensen’s The Song of Eloh Saga features six fantasy novels and a novella for 99 cents and is getting decent reviews. In the Kindle Daily Deals, I’m picking up a novel by Charles Bukowski and another by Sharon Sala that I’m missing; I can also recommend Timothy Zahn’s Warhorse and the biography of Eleanor Roosevelt looks like it would be a good read.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is three novels by Charles Bukowski for $1.99 each [Ecco / HarperCollins].
Post Office
“It began as a mistake.” By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.
With all of Bukowski’s trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library’s collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast’s coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
More Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the US
| Romance | Mimosa Grove ($1.99) by Sharon Sala [RosettaBooks] |
| SciFi & Fantasy | Warhorse ($1.99) by Timothy Zahn [Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy] |
| Biographies & Memoirs | Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch ($1.99) by Edna P. Gurewitsch and Geoffrey C. Ward [Open Road] |
| Kids | Three books by Kevin Lewis and Daniel Kirk for $1.99 each [Disney Hyperion]:
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More Daily Deals
| Audible Daily Deal | Nim’s Island ($6.99 Kindle; |
| Nook Daily Find | The Chicago Way: Michael Kelly #1 ($1.99 Kindle, B&N) by Michael Harvey [Vintage / Random House] – Amazon Significant Seven, August 2007; Publishers Weekly Starred Review |
| Kobo Daily Deal | Throne of Glass ($0.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Sarah J. Maas [Bloomsbury USA Childrens] – Amazon Best Teen Book of the Month, August 2012 – and The Song of Eloh Saga ($0.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Megg Jensen [indie] |
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