@ Your Library
We are halfway through June. Summer reading time is speeding by. Be sure and grab a book or magazine and give yourself time each and every day to slow down and appreciate the skills reading and learning provide.
I often recommend that adults read juvenile non-fiction to learn a bit about a subject they are interested in and need to learn about. I will also recommend youth and teen fiction to adults if they are looking for a quick read or sometimes just a great book. Today I’ll focus young adult titles that are great fun, quick to read and might expand our world. I had lots of fun reading The Assasin’s Guide to Babysitting Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker. This romp of a book is likened to John Wick and X-Men for teens. Annika Rose by C.M. Johnson is another thriller between a father and his daughter and the vulnerable young woman who moves in next to them.
Bryan Bliss is a Minnesota author writing about the hard parts of life and making it funny in Dispatches from Parts Unknown. Gary D. Schmidt is another author who explores the world including its difficult parts and Jupiter Rising, his latest is no exception, this time exploring the role sports can play in helping kids and teens cope with all that life throws at them. Neal Shusterman is another author who seems to know the depths of life and explores it through science fiction including his latest All Better Now which explores a deadly virus that leaves survivors in a state of total happiness. Is it worth the risk?
It can be so much fun to imagine real worlds with slight differences, like dragons in London in 1923 in A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson or the older titles by Scott Westerfeld that explores World War I as a steam punk showdown between east and west where the east has developed mechanical machinery and the west has genetically engineered beasts (like whales that fly) in the trilogy that begins with Leviathan.
Imagine making a pact with the devil to live forever, but it also curses you to be forgotten by everyone you meet. Such is the premise of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab as Addie lives over 300 years in this amazing novel traversing major historical moments.
Thirteen Doorways, wolves behind them all by Laura Ruby explores the end of the Depression and the early days of World War II in Chicago through the eyes of Frankie and her sister Tori, orphans in the eyes of the land.
Next week the library will have Libratory for elementary students on Wednesday from 11 – noon and Big Play for the 10 and under crowd on Friday from 10:30 – noon.
The library will be closed on Thursday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth. Regular library hours are Monday – Wednesday 10 am – 8 pm and Thursday and Friday 10 am – 6pm.