Reader’s Choice: Starter Villain
June 23, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Reader’s Choice: Shannon Lindsay
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
MILS catalog record (SPL copy on order)
“Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place. Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn’t all giant laser death rays and lava pits.” – From publisher website
About Shannon
Hometown: I was born in Calgary, Alberta, but really consider Maine to be the place I come home to.
Current residence: Deer Isle, Maine.
Connection to the island: I came to the island in 2021 as a winter renter in Stonington without having ever been to the island. Everyone said it was beautiful here, but I literally gasped when I crossed the causeway. Now I’ll never leave.
Why do you read? I read to learn, to escape and to imagine the world differently.
What genre do you hate to read? Anything with too much fighting or cruelty. No escape there.
Last book you LOVED: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.
Currently reading: You Only Call When You’re in Trouble by Stephen McCauley. (MEH.)
Why did you choose Starter Villain? My sister-in-law is a librarian, and recommended this book because it’s so funny and quirky and weird. (Also, CATS!) She knows my taste well.