2020 SRC: Week 10 Popularity Contest (Final Week!)

[Alexandra]

Happy Monday all, and welcome to our final week of this year's Summer Reading Challenge!

To all of our finishers, please email albanyreads@albanypubliclibrary.org to let staff know your size t-shirt and what location you'd like to schedule an appointment for curbside/walk-up pick up for (Delaware, Bach, or Pine Hills). Starting the week of September 7th, you will be contacted to set up a curbside appointment to pick up your t-shirt!

If you aren't sure if you have finished, or want to know how close you are to finishing, please add a comment and I'll let you know! Know that you have until September 4th to put in all of your books read this summer.

On to our final curated reading list for summer 2020! This week we have put together Buzz Books of the Summer. Most of these titles can be found on Overdrive or Hoopla! Happy last week of reading!

The Guest List - Lucky Foley
Pretty Things - Janelle Brown
These Women - Ivy Pochoda
A Good Marriage - Kimberly McCreight
The Vanishing Half - Britt Bennett
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
If It Bleeds - Stephen King
Devolution - Max Brooks
Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi
The Glass Hotel - Emily St John
The Last Flight - Julie Clark

[Alicia]

Hello! Since my last post (not sure when that was) I’ve finished:
The wedding party by Jasmine Guillory
The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

I’m not sure how many books I am at total.

[Alicia]

A few books I've read in the last few days include Haunted Hudson Valley: Ghosts and Strange Pheonmena of New York's Sleepy Hollow Country to prepare for a trip to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, listening to A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team which was beautiful and empowering, and The Storyteller because Jodi Picoult it always popular (as are ghost stories)!

[Mirkat]

I think I forgot to report that I completed Why We're Polarized yesterday. I recommend it highly.

[Alexandra]

I recorded all the books listed above!

@Alicia P - you are at 14 books read, and have completed our Summer Reading Challenge! Great job! Please email albanyreads@albanypubliclibrary.org with your tshirt size, and which branch you would like to pick up your shirt from (Delaware, Bach, and Pine Hills).

[Rich]

For Week 10 I read Sharpe's Gold by Bernard Cornwell, 9th in the series, focused around the destruction of Almeida.

[Alexandra]

@ Rich, I recorded your book! You are at 10 books read, congratulations! Please email albanyreads@albanypubliclibrary.org with your tshirt size and which branch you'd like to pick it up from (Delaware, Bach, or Pine Hills).

[Jody]

I read "Nothing to See Here" by Kevin Wilson a few months ago. This was a really fun read! I read "the Family Fang" a couple of years ago and loved his take on a family performance artists with parents who didn't understand where life, art, and family needed stronger boundaries. In his new book, Wilson shows us the normal side of oddly-abled ( I couldn't come up with an appropriate term for those who burst into flame when they are feeling emotions) children by sharing their conversations with the grown-up assigned to care for them. Their earnest conversations were my favorite part of the book and were a delicious contrast with the adults around them.

[Jen]

Just finished Afterlife by Julia Alvarez.

[Rose]

Just finished Adnan’s Story: the Search for Truth & Justice after Serial. It was EXHAUSTIVE and long, but I enjoyed it (mostly).

[Kate]

Great work! I have added your books.

[Mirkat]

I think I forgot to post that I finished Such a Fun Age yesterday. I look forward to discussing it in the Fiction book club on 9/16.

Abi, do you recommend the book about Adnan?

[Kate]

Mirkat wrote: "I think I forgot to post that I finished Such a Fun Age yesterday. I look forward to discussing it in the Fiction book club on 9/16.

Abi, do you recommend the book about Adnan?"

@ Mirkat I have added your book!