@ Your Library
Happy Labor Day weekend! May your weekend be free of labor and full of time with family and friends before the new school year starts. I hope everyone has found time to establish a reading habit of reading at least 15 minutes a day (if not, it’s never too late to start).
The 2025 Library Reading Challenge includes reading a standalone title, a book that isn’t part of a series. There are lots of books that fit this bill, here are just a few. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is an amazing historical, magical fiction story. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin spans three decades in the lives of two friends who are video game designers with wild success at age 25.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is as the title says, a novelization of the life of Geishas and a world that is no more. Another historical fiction, this time in Europe is Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys about the SS Wilhelm Gustloff and four individuals who make their way to the boat for escape. The following two books are classics and historical in that they were written a long time ago. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
More contemporary standalone titles include Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty which of course is now a TV show, Funny Story by Emily Henry is a romantic comedy about a children’s librarian while Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson is about an up-and-coming young songwriter on the run from a past that threatens everything she ever wanted. While The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen is about the secrets small town harbor. You are encouraged to read whatever you want, whatever sounds interesting and that you would like to read. We are just trying to offer suggestions and help us all expand our horizons and read daily.
And magazine reading is reading. Graphic novels are reading. Reading to learn works too. So read whatever interests you and keeps you coming back. And even listening to audiobooks is reading as far as your brain is concerned. If you have kids and listen to audiobooks, make sure they know when you are listening to audiobooks, they need to know that you are reading, more kids are thinking that reading is just something they will do for school so they don’t see the value is learning to do it well. Reading is a very important part of brain development and anyone capable of learning it needs to. Let your kids see you reading, and encourage them to read outside of school. Visit the library for ideas of what to read.
The library will be closed on Monday, September 1. Winter hours will begin on Tuesday, September 2. Winter hours are Monday – Wednesday 10am – 8pm, Thursday – Friday 10am – 6pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm. Start the school year right with time each day reading.