@ Your Library
Welcome to town fishermen! Families of fishermen, check out the Friends of the Library book sale today, Friday, August 23rd from noon – 4 pm. All sales by donation with proceeds benefiting the Friends support of library programming. All are welcome to browse for books to take home and enjoy!
The last full week of summer is upon us, at least if you have any connections to the school year. Make sure to prioritize reading this week. Spend time every day reading something good, fun, interesting or necessary. Just read! Anyone who completed tasks in the summer reading program can still turn in the reading sheets for free books.
The Day Tripper by James Goodhand is a trippy book. Alex Dean has a good life in 1995. He’s preparing to attend Cambridge University and has a lovely girlfriend Holly. But one night he encounters a ghost from his past and wakes the ‘next day’ to find that it 2010 and life hasn’t been kind to him. The ‘next day’ is 2019 but the ‘next’ it is 1999. Can he piece together what happened that fateful night and what is happening and what happened to his past?
Having just finished spending many hours watching the Olympics with its gorgeous scenes of Paris it was fun to stumble upon Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis set in 1866. This gothic novel is about sisters, seances and the things women do to survive when the men in their life either can’t or won’t help.
I’ll be honest, the title is what sells this book. How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin begins in 1965 when a fortune-teller predicts that one day (then teenage) Frances will be murdered. Frances spends her life trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened. Nearly sixty years later, when she is found murdered, her great niece is left to pick up the case and see if she can solve the murder and inherit the fortune.
Biographies can be wonderful, but sometimes the novel can be even better. I’ll leave you to decide which is the case with Jackie by Dawn Tripp. Fiction per the author ‘can access a different kind of truth, an experiential truth that allows us to enter the emotional heart of the story.’
Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest introduces Effie as she tries to enjoy all the firsts and lasts of her senior year. But Effie is in a wheel chair and she will have to learn to speak up and fight for her dreams while deciding which dreams are worth fighting for. I know I don’t always see what is in the way as I have mobility. I hope this book will help us empathize and assist those who are dependent on the broader community. We all have ways we need community support and assistance.
Lost in America by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams is a wonderful book to browse with its photographs of the last days of architectural treasures.