As summer approaches, I thought I would pull together a list of titles for your summer reads and being a librarian, I thought I would focus on titles with a literary or book theme. I'll chose titles both that I have read and not read, titles that are both new and older, but all the titles are available from the library collection - both hard copy and virtual.
Enjoy the list and enjoy the summer! Happy reading.
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. (2014)
"A middle-aged bookseller mourning his lost wife, a feisty publisher’s rep, and a charmingly precocious abandoned child come together on a small island off the New England coast in this utterly delightful novel of love and second chances".
The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl (2015)
"Near the end of the nineteenth century, two bookaneers--literary pirates seeking authors' manuscripts to steal--are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete for Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade."
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon. (2004)
"A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written".
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (2012)
"The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on".
Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler (forthcoming June 2015)
Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, finds a mysterious book that holds the key to a curse that has haunted a family of traveling circus performers for generations.
Barb Philp
This column was published in Thunder Bay Seniors
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