Libraries Rock - End of Summer Reading Party

[New Providence]

Thanks for coming to the library's Summer Reading Party last night! It was an enjoyable evening talking books with our Adult Summer Reading participants. Here are the books that we talked about reading (or wanting to read). Click a book cover for details.



Judy: Educated
Karen: From the Corner of the Oval
Sangeeta: Fear
Marilyn: Circe, The Song of Achilles
Betty: The Burning Maze. But start with The Lightning Thief
Karen: The Little Stranger, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Judy: Nine Women, One Dress
Karen: Before We Were Yours
Marilyn: Love Anthony, Left Neglected, Every Note Played
Sangeeta: The Orphan's Tale, We Were the Lucky Ones, Killers of the Flower Moon
Cathy: Beautiful Days: stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Ellen: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Helene: The Taster
Sangeeta: The Invention of Nature, The Unexpected Truth About Animals, Born a Crime, 10% Happier, Hunger, Radium Girls
Lisa: Madame Tussaud

Please comment below I left any titles out, or if you'd like to add to the list. Happy summer, and enjoy your Random House books! And congratulations to the winner of this summer's grand prize, a gift certificate to NP Fuel!

[Judy]

Thank you Ellen for putting the event together and sending this great list of books.

[Marilyn]

Thanks, Ellen. I enjoyed the event and thanks for posting the titles.

[Helene]

New Providence wrote: "Thanks for coming to the library's Summer Reading Party last night! It was an enjoyable evening talking books with our Adult Summer Reading participants. Here are the books that we talked about rea..."

Thank you Ellen for organizing this fun evening and the beautiful books I got to take home.
Here is another book for your list: 'The Taster' by V.S. Alexander

[Sangeeta]

hi
thanks for the party and putting the list together Ellen and Lisa and for the take home book and gift !

these were "good reads " too:

the invention of nature by andrea wulf
the truth about animals by lucy cooke
born a crime by trevor noah
10% happier by dan harris
hunger by roxane gay
radium girls kate moore

[New Providence]

We'll be talking about Hunger on 9/25 @ 7:30 so please stop by. I am still reading Madame Tussaud, my summer historical fiction escapist book. Enjoyable although since it's about Marie Antoinette and the whole Versailles gang, we know it will not end well. Looking forward to getting back to non-fiction shortly.

[Sangeeta]

for those of you who read and loved "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"



FYI, Neftlix premiere of the (made for Netflix) move with Lily James this friday !! :-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP9eD...

[Sangeeta]

i look forward to the sept 25 book club discussion of "Hunger ! "

very powerful book.

[Marilyn]

Sangeeta:
I'm looking forward to watching "Guernsey...." later!

Who is the author of "Hunger" and what is it about? Where are you discussing it? Sounds like you liked the book....

[Sangeeta]

Tuesday Sept 25 7:30 pm at the New Providence Library

it's a tuesday evening (non-fiction group that Lisa started last year)



by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.22 · Rating details · 39,563 Ratings · 5,572 Reviews


From Roxane Gay, the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her own past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

[Marilyn]

Thanks for the info.

[Helene]

This sounds like a really interesting book. It is going on my 'to read' list, even though I might not make it to the book club.

[Sangeeta]

it was very moving. i listened to it, and it was narrated by the author, which made it particularly so.

[Karen]

Ermagherd everyone! I’m kind of freaking out!

http://morristownbooks.org/2018-authors/

[Sangeeta]

Yes ! I went the past few years.