Summer starts early with the Adult Summer Reading Game. Menus go out this week, so I hope you've started reading. My read of the week has been The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. It was an Alex Award winner, and a lovely rural story with a humourous undertone. I recommend it.
What have you been reading this week?
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Hi Tastefull Librarian.
I have been busy reviewing some of my
Non-Reference reads.
This week I read "A wedding in December" by Anita Shreve. A wedding brings together a group of high schools friends, 27 years later, for a weekend that will change their lives. It's a mix of happiness, sorrow, lost loves and a tragedy from their past.
My long standing tradition is to begin each summer reading season with an Agatha Christie. Some years it's an old favourite but this year it's one I've never read before.
"Ordeal by Innocence" is a cold case mystery. Two years ago, Jack died in prison sentenced to death for the murder of his adoptive mother, his only alibi the stranger he took a ride from the night of the murder. Despite an exhaustive search,the stranger is never found.
Dr. Calgary arrives back in Britain after a two year Antarctic mission and realizes that he was that stranger, so he sets out to clear Jack's name.
But if Jack wasn't guilty, that means someone in his family is a killer and suspicion falls on the innocent as well.
It's Christie's ability to illustrate a character or hide a clue in a simple description or line of dialogue that mark her books as timeless.
I'm on to the confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer. This is a meaty work for summer reading, but is a well written story about a man who ages in reverse - think about how odd that would be...
Recommended.
I just finished "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson. It is a family drama set in a small fictional community in Northern Ontario. The story is about a family of 4 children who are orphaned. It follows them through to adulthood. Filled with tragedy and misunderstandings, as seen through the eyes of a child. If you enjoy it, then read her novel "The other side of the bridge". It's a great read too.
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