Do you ever wonder what your librarians are reading, or do
you want some suggestions before leaving for the summer break? Well wonder no more! Listed below is the list I’ve complied of
what we are reading:
Pat Barrett is reading Chiefs by Stuart Woods. Chiefs is the first novel in the Will Lee
series and you can find it in our library! PS3573 .O642 C57 1981
Stacey Davis suggests reading In
Wilderness by Diane Thomas. Here’s what Stacey has to say about it,
“It is a dark and intense story by a Georgia author and it is set in Georgia’s
Appalachian Mountains during the 1960’s. I really enjoyed reading the book in
one weekend and decided to write a Facebook post to the author to thank her for
my personal copy and to tell her how much I loved it. The author reported
back to me that she is in the process of writing a sequel to the book which I
plan to read when it is published!” You can find it on our McNaughton shelf
PS3620 .H627 I5 2015.
Terry Kay, a famous LaGrange
College alumni, praised the book on Amazon. Here’s what he said:
“Diane Thomas’s In Wilderness is a
mesmerizing literary ballet, a dazzling dance of language revealing a story of
fear and fragility, madness and passion, and hauntingly performed by two of the
most memorable characters to appear in recent American literature. This is a
great, great read.”—Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog and
The Book of Marie.
Joe Marciniak is currently reading Managing Copyright in
Higher Education: A Guidebook by Donna Ferullo (Z642 .G47 2014) and The
Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker (HD31 .D7672 2008).
Dr. Arthur Robinson recently finished The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals by Dan Dietz (Lewis Library call number ML1711.8 .N3 D518 2015).
He also said, "I’m re-reading a detective story, Love Lies Bleeding, by my favorite mystery author, Edmund Crispin, whose novels are funny as well as fairly plotted. The library has a copy of Love Lies Bleeding (PR6025 .O466 L68 1981); I also recommend Crispin’s The Long Divorce (PR6025 .O46 L6 1990)."
David Wiggins is reading Agatha Christie’s The Hollow. Here’s one of the quotes he picked out to
share from the book:
"'We are only, as she knows, moderately fond of caramel custard.
There would be something very gross, just after the death of a friend, in
eating one's favourite pudding. But caramel custard is so easy — slippery if
you know what I mean — and then one leaves a little on one's plate.'"
If you want to read a Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie,
the Lewis Library has many to choose from. Have you heard of Murder on the
Orient Express? That’s a Hercule Poirot mystery! PR6005 .H66 M975 1960
Felecia Moore, our evening and weekend assistant, is reading Instinct:
The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive by T.D. Jakes. We have this book in
our McNaughton collection, as well. BV4598.3 .J359 2014
Charlene Baxter is reading Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher! She said that it is definitely "a chuckle book" and is full of funny moments.
Lindsey Lowry says, “To get out of my reading
funk, I am attempting to finish Down
and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. So far so good, but
it’s depressing, as by design, of course. You can’t argue with Orwell’s writing
style though. I love a concise writer.”
Love Orwell? We have plenty
of his books in our collection including Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal
Farm, Burmese Days, and others.
The other book I’m reading
is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I’m a big fan of epic fantasy, and Rothfuss
is likened to some of the great fantasy authors like Tolkien and Robert
Jordan. Though we don’t have any books
by Rothfuss, we do own several of Tolkien.
Start off with The Fellowship of the Ring. PR6039 .O32 L6 2002B PT. 1
I want to know, what are
you reading?
This post was written by our circulation manager, April McArdle.
