Hot reads for summer
Summer can be a time of lazy days spent on the deck, camping amongst the trees, or poolside, paging through a good literary escape.
Wherever your reading gets done, and no matter what type of book draws you in, there’s something for you out this summer.
“The Woman Upstairs” is the newest from Claire Messud. About a schoolteacher who compromised her dreams to be an artist years ago, this already much-discussed story deals with desiring a life beyond your own. Dealing with anger, and of opportunity lost and gained, this is not to be missed.
Neil Gaiman’s “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” is another wonderful work from a master storyteller. In this fairytale of a novel, a man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral and finds memories of an impossible and dangerous forgotten past flooding back.
“The Shining Girls,” by Lauren Beukes, is a suspenseful, addictive, original page-turner that is done very little justice by simply stating that it’s about a time-travelling serial killer. This book is seriously scary and very well done.
“The Interestings,” by Meg Wolitzer, is headed to become one of the most popular books of the summer.
In the summer of 1974, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Wolitzer follows these characters into middle age, where their bond remains powerful though so much else has changed.
If you’re looking for romance, Kristin Higgins and “The Best Man” delivers a woman humiliated and left at the altar returning home years later to find that the man who pushed her fiancé to come out of the closet on their wedding day is also a man who can kiss very well indeed.
There are some great books by fan favourites out this summer.
“And the Mountains Echoed” is from the acclaimed Khaled Hosseini, author of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and “The Kite Runner.”
Dan Brown’s latest, “Inferno,” brings fans back in touch with Robert Langdon as he embarks on another adventure.
“Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls” is a new collection of essays from humorist David Sedaris.
Daniel Silva delivers another spectacular thriller with “The English Girl.”
Come visit us at the library to tell us what you’re reading and to find something new to curl up with on the beach, in your backyard or wherever this summer finds you.