Summer Reads

What books will you be reading this summer?

 The end is finally near!  Now you will have some time to read books for fun!  What will you read?  I am a big fan of summer for all the reasons everyone else loves summer – the weather, amusement parks, barbecues, family trips.  But one of the main reasons I love summer is because I can spend an entire Wednesday afternoon reading.   I can already hear what you are thinking, “Of course you would say that Ms. Williams, you’re a librarian.” I know, I know…but I know I’m not the only one out there that feels this way.  So, below is a list of some of the books I am going to try this summer.  Why not add a few of your own book choices in the comments section that you may read while at  the beach, patio or under a sunny tree.

Mockingjay: The Final Book of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

“Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.” – Product Description

Still Life by Louise Penny

“Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of investigators are called in to investigate a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal, and discover that the death was not a careless hunting accident, but something much more sinister.”- Library Catalog

 

A Game of Thrones  (Book 1 from the Series: Song of Ice and Fire) by George R.R. Martin

“Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the forces of good and evil prepare for trouble in the land of Winterfell where summers can last for decades and winters a lifetime.” – Library Catalog

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

“Lauded for his sensitive memoir (My Own Country) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel.” – Publisher’s Weekly