Welcome to Shelf Control — an original feature created and hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies.
Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! Fore more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here.
Want to join in? Shelf Control posts go up every Wednesday. See the guideline sat the bottom of the post, and jump on board!
My Shelf Control pick this week is:
Title: Soon I Will Be Invincible
Author: Austin Grossman
Published: 2007
Length: 319 pages
What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads):
Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he’s lost every battle he’s ever fought. But this prison won’t hold him forever.
Fatale—half woman, half high-tech warrior—used to be an unemployed cyborg. Now, she’s a rookie member of the world’s most famous super-team, the Champions. But being a superhero is not all flying cars and planets in peril—she learns that in the locker rooms and dive bars of superherodom, the men and women (even mutants) behind the masks are as human as anyone.
Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining first novel, brimming with attitude and humor—an emotionally resonant look at good and evil, love and loss, power and glory.
How I got it:
I bought it.
When I got it:
Several years ago, I think — probably at one of our library sales, where I seem to get most of my Shelf Control books!
Why I want to read it:
Who doesn’t love a good superhero story? It’s got some great reviews from people I trust, and just strikes me as a fun, not particularly heavy, amusing kind of book. Maybe a good vacation read?
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Bookshelf Fantasies 
We don’t always have to read heavy books! I like to mix it up!
Me too. 🙂
This book sounded so good to me but when I tried to read it last year I just couldn’t get through it and ended up putting it down.
Hmm. Good to know! Sometimes, the synopsis ends up being the best part of the book.
While looking up my reaction to The Undertaking of Lily Chin, I also rechecked my notes on this book and thought I should clarify that I was listening to the audiobook version and the narrator was so flat that I quit. I did note that I should try to find a print copy. So, might stil turn out to be a worthy book.
Ah, that gives me more hope! Sometimes, I just don’t get on with certain narrators.
This sounds interesting!
Are you doing a Shelf Control post for this week?
Sorry, no — I’m out of town on family business and have had no time for anything! I’ll be back to my normal posting schedule next week.