Windsor’s Comments (group member since Dec 08, 2017)

Windsor’s comments from the Windsor Library Reading Challenge group.

We'll be at the library ready to help you find a good one.

A wide open topic with plenty of great reads.

We all have at least one!

Okay, readers, head to the starting line! All the discussion topics have been posted. We can't wait to hear from you!

There's plenty to choose from here! Some are more surprising than others. Like Arrival with Amy Adams was based on a short story? Yup, it sure was. What will you choose?

The Goodreads Choice Awards ballot for Debut Author 2018 is chock full of goodness. Check it out here.

A little whimsy for your challenge this year! Here are a few favorites that our Head of Children's Services, Shana, is loving right now.

I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield Morrison
Square Marc Burnett and Jon Klassen
Islandborn by Junot Diaz

How great is it that the library offers access to free ebooks through THREE different apps??

Overdrive is our flagship collection of digital materials and it contains the most popular items.

Hoopla offers instant access to its entire collection with immediate downloads.

RB Digital is generously provided by the Connecticut State Library.

Lastly, you are welcome to use Gutenberg.org, a free, online collection of over 75,000 digital books that fall under public domain, which means they are free from copyright restrictions.

This is the only category that we specify fiction over nonfiction. There's no limit on how back you can go for time period either! How current is the time period that would still be considered "historical fiction"? Is a book set in the 1980s "historical"?

That's a fantastic suggestion! And I'm a fan of trying any books that's considered a "favorite" of the person who suggests it.

Fiction or non-fiction will do. What books can you think of to help our fellow readers?

Can you think of any off the top of your head?

This can be fiction or nonfiction and include a whole variety of topics. We look forward to seeing what you pick.

One of Andrea's favorite food books is On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta and she highly recommends it for anyone with an interest in food and travel!

We're only talking one story, not a collection, so feel free to choose at your leisure. Some of our favorite short story collections are Tenth of December and Let it Snow.

Ask us about what we loved reading recently! Here are some from Andrea:

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
The Immortalists
Homegoing

The library keeps tabs on these two lists from USAToday and the New York Times, but you are welcome to choose from any bestsellers list:

USA Today
New York Times

We'd love to know how and where you find the titles you choose and any other hidden gems of info!

FYI: The Winter Olympics will be happening from February 9 to 25, 2018 and the World Cup will be this summer. There are some great sports to be covered in lots of different choices.

Music is our Summer Reading theme this year, but you can read this one at any time!