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Love Your Library, September 2023

By Rebecca Foster on | 22 Comments

Thanks, as always, to Elle for her participation, and to Marcie for sharing some of her latest library borrowing on Twitter – I mean X. (Can’t get used to that change.)

Thanks also to Jana for posting about the books she has out, and what is new for the autumn at the library where she works.

I’ve been stocking up on books for upcoming challenges and buddy reads (R.I.P., 1962 Club, L.M. Montgomery readalong, Margaret Atwood Reading Month, etc.), with a big novella stack to be borrowed later in the week.

My reading and borrowing since last time:

 

READ

  • The Three Graces by Amanda Craig
  • Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin
  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

 

SKIMMED

 

CURRENTLY READING

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
  • The Seaside by Madeleine Bunting
  • Penance by Eliza Clark
  • The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett
  • By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah (for book club)
  • Reproduction by Louisa Hall
  • Weyward by Emilia Hart
  • Findings by Kathleen Jamie (a re-read)
  • Milk by Alice Kinsella

 

CHECKED OUT, TO BE READ

University library stack at left.

 

RETURNED UNREAD

  • The Fascination by Essie Fox – Turns out the gorgeous sprayed edges were not enough to get me to read this (the bottom book pictured below is Weyward).

 

What have you been reading or reviewing from the library recently?

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Love Your Library, August 2023

By Rebecca Foster on | 27 Comments

Thanks to Elle and Jana for participating this month!

My reading and borrowing since last time:

READ

  • Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt
  • One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker
  • Protecting the Planet: The Season of Giraffes by Nicola Davies
  • Rhubarb Lemonade by Oskar Kroon
  • August Blue by Deborah Levy
  • La Vie: A Year in Rural France by John Lewis-Stempel

&

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati (2022; 2023)

[Translated from the Italian by Elena Pala]

My final #WITMonth selection (I’m pleased with my total of nine, after these four and those four!) and a perfect choice for readers of Shaun Bythell’s bookshop diaries. Instead of a lovable grump in Wigtown, you get a tiny town in the Tuscan hills and a stock of mostly women’s literature and bluestocking gifts curated by an outspoken feminist poet in her sixties. She relied on crowdfunding to open the shop in 2019 – and again to rebuild it after a devastating fire just a couple of months later.

Set during the first five months of 2021, this gives lovely snapshots of a bookseller’s personal and professional life without overstaying its welcome or getting repetitive. Donati has an adult daughter and a 101-year-old mother who was only just losing independence. Although she generally feels supported by the people of Lucignana, some 30% are naysayers, she estimates, and not everyone shares her opinions – she’s outraged when the council cuts down all the trees in the central square.

While keeping the focus on books, she also manages to give a sense of her family’s convoluted wartime history, local politics, and shifting Covid restrictions. I especially enjoyed hearing about her 25-year career in publishing; Edward Carey, Michael Cunningham, and Daša Drndić were ‘her’ authors and she has juicy stories to tell about all three.

Each entry ends with a list of that day’s orders. It’s fascinating to see which are the popular authors in translation – Maeve Brennan, Emily Dickinson, Fannie Flagg, Kent Haruf, Jenny Offill, Vita Sackville-West, Ali Smith – as well as plenty in various European languages. Sometimes, no doubt, the stock reflects Donati’s own taste. [A couple of the English titles are rendered incorrectly: “Longbourne House” by Jo Baker and “Woman, Girl, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo should have been caught before this went to print.]

In short, she’s a bookish kindred spirit (“I like books that make you discover other books – a virtuous cycle that should never be broken. The only eternity we will ever experience here on earth”) and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about her fairly uneventful yet rewarding days. This, too, was perfect (summer) armchair travel reading.

 

SKIMMED

  • The Orchid Outlaw by Ben Jacob

 

CURRENTLY READING

  • The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett
  • The Three Graces by Amanda Craig
  • Reproduction by Louisa Hall
  • Milk by Alice Kinsella
  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
  • Wild Fell by Lee Schofield

 

CHECKED OUT, TO BE READ

 

RETURNED UNFINISHED

  • The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker – I read the first 82 pages. This was capable hist fic but without the spark that would have kept me interested.
  • King by Jonathan Eig – Requested after I’d only read two chapters. It’s a massive biography, so I’ll have to get it back out another time when I can give it more attention.

 

What have you been reading or reviewing from the library recently?

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Love Your Library & Miscellaneous News, July 2023

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Thanks, as always, to Elle for her faithful participation (her post is here).

Today happens to be my 10th freelancing anniversary. I’m not much in the mood for celebrating as my career feels like it’s at a low ebb just now. However, I’m trying to be proactive: I contacted all my existing employers asking about the possibility of more work and a few opportunities are forthcoming. Plus I have a new paid review venue in the pipeline.

Tomorrow the Booker Prize longlist will be announced. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to think about it, but over the past few months I did keep a running list of novels I thought would be eligible, so here are 13 (a “Booker dozen”) that I think might be strong possibilities:

Old God’s Time, Sebastian Barry

The New Life, Tom Crewe

Fire Rush, Jacqueline Crooks

The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright

The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff

Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad

Hungry Ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein

August Blue, Deborah Levy

The Sun Walks Down, Fiona McFarlane

Cuddy, Benjamin Myers

Shy, Max Porter

The Fraud, Zadie Smith

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

 

See also Clare’s and Susan’s predictions. All three of us coincide on one of these titles!

Back to the library content!

I appreciated this mini-speech by Bob Comet, the introverted librarian protagonist of Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist, about why he loves libraries … but not people so much:

“I like the way I feel when I’m there. It’s a place that makes sense to me. I like that anyone can come in and get the books they want for free. The people bring the books home and take care of them, then bring them back so that other people can do the same. … I like the idea of people.”

I recently added a new regular task to my library volunteering roster: choosing a selection of the month’s new stock (30 fiction releases and 9 fiction) and adding them to a PDF template with the cover, title and author, and a blurb from the library catalogue or Goodreads, etc. The sheets are printed out at each branch library and displayed in a binder for patrons to browse. I was so proud to see my pages in there! There are three of us alternating this task, so I’ll be doing it four times a year. My next month is October.

On my Scotland travels last month, I took photos of two cute little libraries, one in Wigtown (L) and the other in Tarbert.

I’m currently on holiday again, with university friends in the Lake District for a week (Wild Fell, below, is for reading in advance of a trip to, and on location in, Haweswater), and you can be sure I brought plenty of library books along with me.

My reading and borrowing since last time:

 

READ

 + 3 children’s picture books from the Wainwright Prize longlist:

  • Blobfish by Olaf Falafel: Silly and with the merest scrape of an environmentalist message pasted on (the fish temporarily gets stuck in a plastic bag).
  • The Zebra’s Great Escape by Katherine Rundell: Loved this super-cute, cheeky story of a little girl whose understanding of animal language allows her to become part of a natural network rescuing a menagerie held captive by an evil collector.
  • Grandpa and the Kingfisher by Anna Wilson: Nice drawings and attention to nature and its seasonality, but rather mawkish. (Adult birds don’t die off annually!)

SKIMMED

  • A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs – The backstory is Biggs getting divorced in her thirties and moving to NYC. Her eight chosen female authors are VERY familiar, barring, perhaps, Zora Neale Hurston (thank goodness she chose two Black authors, as so many group biographies are all about white women). Do we need potted biographies of such well-known figures? Probably not. Nonetheless, it was clever how she wove her own story and reactions to their works into the biographical material, and the writing is so strong I could excuse any retreading of ground.

 

CURRENTLY READING

  • One Midsummer’s Day by Mark Cocker
  • King by Jonathan Eig
  • Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
  • Milk by Alice Kinsella
  • Wild Fell by Lee Schofield

 

CHECKED OUT, TO BE READ

Lots of lovely teal in this latest batch.

 

RETURNED UNFINISHED

  • Undercurrent by Natasha Carthew – This was requested after me. I read 21% and will either pick it up on my Kindle via the NetGalley book or get it out another time.
  • The Gifts by Liz Hyder – I’ll try this another time when I can give it more attention.
  • Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson – I loved The Ninth Child, but have DNFed her other two novels, alas! I even got to page 122 in this, but I had little interest in seeing how the storylines fit together.
  • The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers – I’m awful about trying mystery series, usually DNFing or giving up after the first book. I just can’t care whodunnit.

 

What have you been reading or reviewing from the library recently?

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Love Your Library, May 2023

By Rebecca Foster on | 18 Comments

Thanks to Elle for her monthly contribution, Laura for her great reviews of two high-profile novels, Birnam Wood and Pod, borrowed from her local library, and Naomi for the write-up of her recent audiobook loans, a fascinating selection of nonfiction and middle grade fiction. I forgot to link to Jana’s post last month, so here’s her April reading, another very interesting set.

My biggest news this month is that we now have a Little Free Library in my neighbourhood. This project was several years in the making as we waited for permissions and funding. The box (and a wooden bench next to it) were hand-crafted by my very talented neighbours, and the mayor of Newbury came to officially open it on the 7th. There are also a few planters of perennials and a small cherry tree. It really cheers up what used to be a patch of bare grass next to a parking area.

I’m the volunteer curator/librarian/steward so will ensure that the shelves are tidy and the stock keeps turning over. I try to stop by daily since it’s only around the corner from my house. We’ve ordered a charter sign to link us up with the organization and put us on the official map. Anyone visiting Newbury might decide to come find it. (I, for one, look out for LFLs wherever I go, from Pennsylvania to North Uist!)

My library reading and borrowing since last month. I’m back in the States for a visit just now, so don’t currently have any library books on the go. It felt prudent to clear the decks, but I’ll have a big stack waiting for me when I come back!

 

READ

 

SKIMMED

  • Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
  • You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd

CHECKED OUT, TO BE READ

RETURNED UNFINISHED

  • All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore – I hadn’t heard of the poet and had never read anything from the publisher, but took a chance. I got to page 16. It’s fine: poems about former love interests, whether they be boyfriends or aggressors. There looks to be good variety of structure. I just didn’t sense adequate weight.
  • The Furrows by Namwali Serpell – My apologies to Laura! (This started off as a buddy read.) I pushed myself through the first 78 pages, but once it didn’t advance in the Carol Shields Prize race there was no impetus to continue and it just wasn’t compelling enough to finish.

 

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Love Your Library, April 2023

By Rebecca Foster on | 18 Comments

Cheers to Elle and Laila for participating this month! Thanks also to Laura for her review of The Marriage Portrait and Naomi for a write-up of her recent Atlantic Canada reads, all from the library.

Last month Jana mentioned the non-media items that her library lends out. This reminded me of some interesting kits my library system offers: “wellbeing bags” (a joint venture with the local council) that contain an identical assortment of colouring sheets, card games, short self-help books and language learning tools; and “Reminiscence Collection” boxes specific to a particular decade or experience, geared towards the elderly. I wonder if they have been found to be helpful when working with people with dementia.

Yesterday was the start of National Library Week in the USA. Book banning and censorship are, alas, perennial news items in relation to libraries there. This week the Washington Post’s Ron Charles featured the Llano County, Texas counter-protests in his newsletter (so often my source of bookish news). The list of books banned is ridiculous. A federal judge in Austin paused the bans, prompting county commissioners to float the idea of closing down the library system entirely. Many turned out to support keeping the libraries open. You can read more about the case here.

As for my own library reading since last time (some great stuff this month!):

 

READ

  • Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
  • Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
  • Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova*
  • Two Sisters by Blake Morrison
  • The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
  • Rain by Don Paterson
  • Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott (a re-read)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas

*My first-ever e-book loan! I couldn’t figure out how to get the file to open on my e-reader, so I read it on my PC screen, 10 pages or so at a time, as a break between doing other things.

 

CURRENTLY READING

  • I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux
  • Shadow Girls by Carol Birch
  • Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
  • The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail
  • All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore
  • The Boy Who Lost His Spark by Maggie O’Farrell
  • The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
  • Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (a re-read for book club)
  • Glowing Still: A Woman’s Life on the Road by Sara Wheeler
  • In Memoriam by Alice Winn

SKIMMED

  • This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships by Matthew Fray
  • Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
  • Between the Chalk and the Sea by Gail Simmons
  • The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (a re-read for book club)

 

RETURNED UNFINISHED

  • How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz – I read the first 40 pages. A voice-driven novel about a middle-aged immigrant re-entering the work force, it has a certain charm but also (the Spanglish!) a slightly irksome quality.
  • Milk by Alice Kinsella – I was enjoying this a lot and had gotten to page 116 before it was requested on an interlibrary loan. I’ll pick it back up as soon as it returns to West Berkshire.

 

RETURNED UNREAD

  • The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier – The first few pages didn’t grab me, but maybe I’d try it another time.
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – This seems like it would make a good holiday read, so I’ll wait until the demand for it dies down and try it later on.
  • A Complicated Matter by Anne Youngson – This was requested; I was also doubtful that I felt like reading yet another WWII novel just now.

 

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Love Your Library, March 2023

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Thanks to Naomi for writing about her fascinating selection of recent library audiobook reads, all of them nonfiction; plus several Canadian novels read from the library. I appreciate Elle for being my most faithful participant; here’s her latest borrowings. And welcome to Jana, who has contributed for the first time with a post about what her library system has to offer: the different ways she can access audiobooks, the non-media items that can be borrowed (such as gardening tools from a Library of Things), and take-home activity kits.

Have you heard of the “Human Library”? The tagline is “Unjudge someone.” The idea is that you sign up to hear about someone else’s experiences that are quite different to your own. Events are online or in person and have involved ‘human books’ from 85 countries. “We host events where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books and have conversations they would not normally have access to. Every human book from our bookshelf, represent a group in our society that is often subjected to prejudice, stigmatization or discrimination because of their lifestyle, diagnosis, belief, disability, social status, ethnic origin etc.” I would be fascinated to hear from anyone who has taken part in this initiative.

 

As for my own library use since last month:

READ

  • Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
  • A Fortunate Man by John Berger
  • Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
  • The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent
  • Maame by Jessica George
  • Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
  • Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
  • England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial
  • Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
  • Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain after Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
  • His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  • The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore
  • We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
  • Manorism by Yomi Sode

 

CURRENTLY READING

  • Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
  • Shadow Girls by Carol Birch
  • How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
  • This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships by Matthew Fray
  • Islamic Mystical Poetry, ed. Mahmood Jamal
  • Two Sisters by Blake Morrison
  • Rain by Don Paterson

I also have some lovely piles out from the public library and university library to read soon.

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Love Your Library, February 2023

By Rebecca Foster on | 36 Comments

Thanks to Cathy, Elle and Sarah for contributing with their recent library borrows!

While shelving in the large print area at the library I noticed something I’d never seen before: a “Dyslexic Edition” of a novel. I opened it up and saw that it has large type, but various other features: the font is a sans serif, in medium to dark blue, and there are lots of short sections rather than lengthy paragraphs. Instead of passages being in italics, they appear in bold face. The overall effect is fewer words on a page and maximized readability. We shelve these with large print, but there are plans to pull them out for a future display on disability awareness. There are also some children’s series geared towards dyslexic and reluctant readers, as well as the “Quick Reads” books put out by the Reading Agency for adult readers who may struggle with literacy.

This isn’t library-specific, but most of you will have heard about the new UK expurgated versions of Roald Dahl children’s books commissioned from the consultancy Inclusive Minds by his literary estate. Dahl’s work still flies off the shelves at my library. What’s more, it’s inspired countless other writers with his particular brand of snarky/edgy humour. Apparently the specific changes made are to, in hundreds of places, replace words like “fat,” “stupid” and “ugly.” In general, I’m leery of censorship, preferring that parents speak to their children about the appropriate use of words or, if that can’t be guaranteed, adding an introduction or afterword. (The unaltered “classic” Dahl collection will still be sold, too.)

Yet I am sympathetic in this case because I know how hurtful some stereotypes can be. For instance, we have Jen Campbell to thank for this addition to The Witches (who are portrayed as bald and wearing wigs): “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.” She has various genetic conditions including alopecia and has long been opposed to casual associations of disfigurement with evil in popular culture.

What’s your take?

 

And my own library reading since last month:

READ

Plus a load of picture books about winter and snow; I reviewed them here.

CURRENTLY READING

  • A Fortunate Man by John Berger
  • The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent
  • Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
  • Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain after Dark by John Lewis-Stempel
  • His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
  • Manorism by Yomi Sode

I also have the rest of the Folio Prize poetry shortlist out on loan to read soon. A lot of the other books pictured in this post have already gone back unread. I never consider that a problem, though, as it still helps libraries retain funding, and authors get royalties!

 

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Love Your Library, January 2023

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Elle has been reading loads from the library (and discovering the freedom of DNFing or not reading the library books you borrow; this is not a problem in the least, and it still helps the library’s statistics!). Naomi always finds interesting books to read and review from her library system. Margaret’s “My Life in Book Titles 2022” almost exclusively featured books she’d borrowed from libraries. Through Twitter I saw this hilarious TikTok video from Cincinnati Library about collecting book holds. If only I could be so glamorous on my Tuesday volunteering mornings. Washington Post critic Ron Charles’s weekly e-newsletter is one of my greatest bookish joys and I was delighted to see him recently highlight an initiative from my hometown’s local library system. Whenever I go on the cross trainer, I read library books or my e-reader so exercise time isn’t ‘lost’ time when I could be reading.

Since last month:

 

READ

  • A Night at the Frost Fair by Emma Carroll
  • Bournville by Jonathan Coe
  • A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
  • The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner
  • Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
  • Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

CURRENTLY READING

  • Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
  • Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (for our women’s classics book club subgroup)
  • How to Be Sad by Helen Russell
  • Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
  • City of Friends by Joanna Trollope (for February’s book club)
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

 

My library system has a ton of new books on order – I set up an alert so I would be e-mailed a weekly digest of all 2023 adult fiction and nonfiction releases added to the catalogue – so my reservation queue is nearly full now with all kinds of tempting stuff, including a new biography of Katherine Mansfield and a bereavement memoir by Blake Morrison, whose And When Did You Last See Your Father? was my favourite nonfiction read of 2018. In fiction, I’m particularly excited about The New Life by Tom Crewe, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz, and Maame by Jessica George.

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Love Your Library, November 2022

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Eleanor got loads of her R.I.P. reads from the library last month. Several of my novellas for this month have come from the public library, and before long it’ll be time to gather up a few holiday-appropriate reads.

I cut down my library volunteering from four hours a week to two, to claw back a little more time for work and for myself – between adjusting my meal times and walking there and back, it felt like I lost the whole of my Thursday afternoons, and already I enjoy having them free.

Early next month the library will close for two days for a complete stock take. I’ll go in on my usual Tuesday morning to help out with that for a few hours. I know to expect a lot of standing and repetitive work, but we’ve been promised tea and cake at break time!

Since last month:

READ

  • Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw
  • Fair Play by Tove Jansson
  • The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

CURRENTLY READING

  • Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
  • Pages & Co.: The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co. #5) by Anna James
  • Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat
  • Leap Year by Helen Russell
  • The Family Retreat by Bev Thomas
  • Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

 

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Love Your Library, September 2022

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How embarrassing to find out from a fellow blogger’s post that two North American readers host a weekly meme for library borrowing. It’s called Library Loot (title envy!), and you should feel free to participate in that in addition to or instead of my monthly event.

Pretty soon it will be time to stock up on horror and short books for R.I.P. and Novellas in November. For now, I’m still working on some short story collections, and plan to skim a bunch of nonfiction I’m interested-ish in (but not enough to read every word) to make space on my card. I did have reserves on three Booker-shortlisted titles, but admitted to myself that I don’t actually want to read them and cancelled my holds. The one that I do still plan to read is Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, a perfect read for #NovNov22, if not before.

 

Since last month:

READ

  • Brief Lives by Anita Brookner (for book club)
  • Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
  • The Boat by Nam Le
  • Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
  • This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
  • Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
  • Summer by Edith Wharton
  • The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood

 CURRENTLY READING

  • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
  • State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (a reread)
  • Leap Year by Helen Russell
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Plus various new releases on loan or on hold.

 

What have you been reading or reviewing from the library recently?

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