Shelf Monkey
by Corey Redekop
Thomas Friesen has three goals in life: get a job, make friends, and find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three. All is not peaceable within the stacks, however, as discontent steadily rises, aimed squarely at talk show host Munroe Purvis, whose wildly popular book club is progressively lowering the IQ of North America. But the bookworms have a planplots are being hatched and the destruction of Munroe is all but assured. As Thomas finds himself swept along in the malstrom of insanity, he wonders if reading a book is all it's cracked up to be.
close this panelCorey Redekop is a librarian, freelance writer, and blogger at shelf-monkey.blogspot.com. He lives in London, Ontario.
close this panel"This will be the start of a very promising career for Redekop." Skullring.org
"You'll probably enjoy this one, as I did. . . . Redekop has managed a credible debut." The Toronto Star
"Witty first novel." “The Record
"Corey Redekop provided this year's gonzo fun with his Shelf Monkey, an utterly enjoyable novel about radical bookworms." Locus Online
"Invigorating." Literary Review of Canada
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