You might have seen the triple announcements and immediately thought to yourself that Pythagorean might be releasing a book. I hate to break it to you but am not, at least not yet. I'm here to announce new books that will be coming out pretty soon. New books come out everyday but what makes the ones that i want to announce pretty special are the authors.
I have never mentioned her before here on this blog but she's my favourite female writer. I haven't read much written by women to be very honest but of the ones I've read, she's the best. Her name is Sally Rooney. She's so good. She is such a fantastic writer. I have read all three of her books and i loved every single one of them. She's releasing a new book titled Intermizzo on the 24th of this month.
[A description of the book from Goodreads]
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
I am looking forward to it so much. I've heard a bit about it from one of the hosts of the Backlisted podcast who happened to get an advanced copy. If you're looking to prime yourself for the book, there's an essay that Sally Rooney published in The New Yorker called Opening Theory. Pretty much an excerpt from the book. If you can't, Sally read the entire thing for The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice. You can check your podcast apps for it. It's such a delight to listen to.
The next person on the list who's releasing a new book as well needs no introduction. Neal Stephenson. One of my favourite writers out there. The title is Polostan getting released on the 15th of October. Below is the description of the book from goodreads;
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
If you haven't read a single Neal Stephenson, what the hell are you waiting for? Maybe you could get started with him with Polostan. It's a really short read compared to other works of Neal.
The last person releasing a new book very soon is Michel Houellebecq 🐐. The title is Annihilation. The thing about this book is it has been out for a while now although published in french. The one getting released which i am announcing is the english translation.
A brief description of the book from goodreads:
It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.
As the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer scientists at the DGSI – the French counter-terrorism agency – scrambling for answers.
An advisor to the country’s Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father Édouard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When Édouard has a stroke, his children – Cécile, a fervent Catholic; Aurélien, a sensitive artist; and Paul, the government bureaucrat – have an opportunity to repair their strained relationships, as they determine to free their father, who is in a coma, from the medical centre where he is wasting away.
Houellebecq’s latest novel reveals new sides to his writing, adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage, disgust and irony that have powered both him and his earlier works to international fame.
It comes out in two days—19th of September.
I can't wait to dig into these books. It's actually quite rare that i read a book within the first few weeks or months after its release. The only time I ever did this was with Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. I can't wait to dig in. I hope you dig in too.